0096b — Akkolade gets his new head-angles
Added 2024-11-15 20:00:07 +0000 UTCAs you can see, this script landed on the page in near-final form, with minimal fiddling as it was worked through the strip production process. The bulk of the work this week involved inventing how Bensington Butters and Akkolade (particularly Akkolade) look from multiple angles. This is not what I am good at. At first I feared Akkolade could not be drawn from anything other than the angle at which he has existed for twenty years, but a few anxious experiments finally yielded a lower lip, an extra chin/neck flange, perspective on his very large glasses, and a continuation of his little hairstyle-type thing.
Can anyone tell what Ray was thinking with this logo for The Echelons? I feel like he recently saw a motel lounge's matchbook from the 1960s.
Comments
The final form of Ray's graphic design looks like he'd seen a Star War just beforehand, while the rounder version reminds one of a medium-sprawl golf course. The name "The Echelons" suits both situations.
The Good Poster
2024-11-17 02:45:09 +0000 UTCAh, the Popeye problem I see.
Tom PM
2024-11-16 17:31:17 +0000 UTCAkkolade reminds me of Tenerence Love from the Teen-Girl-Squad-o-verse. Bensington Butters reminds me to schedule more therapy sessions. Ray is always irredeemably Ray.
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
2024-11-16 02:28:09 +0000 UTCThanks! I'm pretty proud of the double chin solution I engineered. It was a good way to connect his face with his hyperthoraxia.
Chris Onstad
2024-11-16 01:15:52 +0000 UTCGreat work on Akkolade's new head angle. Something about the way he looks at that angle is so much more "kitty cat" than when you're looking at him dead on.
Jacquelyn R Walters
2024-11-16 00:17:49 +0000 UTCThat's good, I didn't see that
Chris Onstad
2024-11-15 23:51:20 +0000 UTCI think we have something here fellas. A cultural moment unlike any we had last week
Chris Onstad
2024-11-15 23:50:56 +0000 UTCGood, good
Chris Onstad
2024-11-15 23:50:20 +0000 UTCExactly. 1998?
Chris Onstad
2024-11-15 23:50:10 +0000 UTCYour comment actually astounds me because I was going to say almost the exact same thing and phrase it the exact same way. Mine was going to be: "That logo is every building in Palm Springs (I have never been to Palm Springs)"
Miles McMahon
2024-11-15 22:30:18 +0000 UTCAudi 5000 seems the right vintage of slang for B.B. to still be using
Stavro
2024-11-15 21:57:00 +0000 UTCRay briefly scrolled past an AI-generated landscape concept for tastefully spaced and groomed pine trees meant to provide optimum fire prevention
Ian Stewart
2024-11-15 21:30:37 +0000 UTCI definitely had a '90s memory of Palm Desert in the '60s with the Echelons logo. (I was not in Palm Desert in the 1960s.)
Andrew Rogers
2024-11-15 21:17:31 +0000 UTCechelons logo all flipped horizontally the wrong direction (i mean, at least it would spell an "E")
elton mesquita
2024-11-15 21:05:43 +0000 UTCI was thinking of this sign subconsciously, thank you for bringing it to light.
Chris Onstad
2024-11-15 20:29:21 +0000 UTChaving some hot rice this weekend [[steamed]]
Chris Onstad
2024-11-15 20:28:39 +0000 UTCWorking on a prototype presently[[steamed]]Will be in contact regarding patent rights[[steamed]]Have a nice weekend
Shepton
2024-11-15 20:17:21 +0000 UTCYeah now that you mention it, it does make me think of those spiky retro diner signs, specifically Norms in LA.
Josh Fireland
2024-11-15 20:15:44 +0000 UTCI second this, and suggest it go in the spot of the Return key.
Chris Onstad
2024-11-15 20:15:00 +0000 UTCI think keyboards should start including a shortcut key that just immediately types [[steamed]]
Shepton
2024-11-15 20:10:06 +0000 UTC
