MM08

Chapter 1 – Pg 08

Since I gave you a comparison of Allison when she showed up it’s only fair that I do the same for Sean! So here you go!

So his overall design hasn’t changed too drastically. He just kinda looks a bit more crazy now. Plus he has a shirt. But that’s probably gonna come off in future comics!

And here’s another bonus since I’m feeling nice! My BG reference for this page from the real Mush-A-Mush beach!

Anyways enjoy and I’ll see you Friday!

MM10

Chapter 1 – Pg 10

Yay! Another new page! This one took me forever to colour. You could probably easily guess why.

But now finally we’re going to get a change of scenery on Friday! That will be nice!

Also on Friday I think I’ll do up my real first substantial blog post. What will the topic be? I guess you’ll have to come back to find out!

Anyways enjoy the page and see ya on Friday!

MM21

Chapter 1 – Pg 21

So I said I would have a blog post today about the inspiration and creation of Sean, so here it is!

This will be nowhere as in depth as Allison’s was just because Sean only really has one inspiration (That I’m able to think of at this time.)

So he’s mostly based on, but slightly exaggerated, one of my friends that I used to play soccer with in summer. He even has the same name (although spelled differently!) He was always gung-ho about everything, would always be willing to do what was needed for the team or whatever, and was just a pretty darn nice guy.

Also there was something slightly off about him that if you didn’t know him well you might think he’s a little crazy. But he was still an awesome guy.

So how I ended up using him as inspiration went like this: I was trying to create a new guy character and I was very specifically trying to avoid drawing a character that looked like me (cause that’s what everyone said about Travis in One of those days, which I guess they’re pretty much right about that) and I eventually came up with the design of Sean, who just kinda looked like real “Sean.” And I thought “Hey it would be cool to name him after this cool guy I knew. Then the more I worked on it the more I realized how much of his personality was getting into it as well, and that was going to work perfectly against a character like Allison. It’s kinda neat how it worked out.

Anyways if he somehow reads this thanks for being such a good inspiration. You really made Sean become a fun character.

That’s all! Have a great weekend and see you guys Tuesday!

MM22

Chapter 1 – Pg 22

Hey guys sorry for being late with today’s page! My web site person Lissa was able to figure out a work around for the problems that needed fixing before I could start making regular post again myself!  She’s been really awesome in not only putting my pages up but making sure I have a usable website!

Anyways to test out to make sure something works like it’s supposed to here’s some concept art of Sean for you all!

Enjoy the page and concept art. See ya Friday!!

MM23

Chapter 1 – Pg 23

Hey guys this would have been up a bit earlier but I was a bit distracted by rat problems. Thankfully that’s taken care of now so here’s a brand new comic for you!

Also this weekend I am going to be at Hal-Con selling some prints and what not! So if you’re in Halifax and checking out the con come say hi! I’ll probably say hi back!

Anyways enjoy the comic and enjoy your weekend!

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Chapter 1 – Pg 27

Hooray we’re finally to my favourite section of this first chapter! I like it for two reasons:

The first is I think it looks good. Something about nighttime colours and the flashlight work really well together.

And secondly we really get to see Sean and Allison really interact in a fun way. I think you guys will really like it!

Anyways that’s it! Enjoy the comic and have a great weekend!

MM29

Chapter 1 – Pg 29

This is one of my favourite pages of this first chapter. I think Sean is just really funny on this page. Also I think the first three panels would be fun to animate. In the future I really hope I can do an animated chapter of Mush-A-Mush! I’ll try my best to do that!

Hey the Wii-U is coming out on Sunday! That’s pretty exciting! I’m planning on getting one after my next paycheque! When I get one I’ll be sure to write up what I think about it on here! So stay tuned for that!

Not much else to say. Enjoy the comic and enjoy your weekend! On Tuesday I plan on posting some original storyboards that I did when Mush-A-Mush was going to be an animated thing. So look forward to that! See ya then!

MM30

Chapter 1 – Pg 30

Oh man! What is this? Could Sean have been actually telling the truth about this rabbit-squirrel? I guess we’re going to find out soon!

Anyways like I said on Friday, today I will be posting some storyboards from when I had planned to do this first chapter of Mush-A-Mush as an animated short.

These six pages of storyboards actually cover the first six pages of the comic. They’re not exactly the same as the comic and I don’t think they’re as good as the comic has been turning out but I still think they’re interesting. It was fun trying to improve my storyboarding skills. Hopefully I’ll get another chance in the future to do so!

I hope you enjoy these! I plan on posting more in future blog post! Hopefully I’ll have them all posted by the time I finish this first chapter!

Anyways enjoy the comic and I’ll see you guys on Thursday!

MM31

Chapter 1 – Pg 31

I’ve been trying to get a Wii U the last couple of days but have had no luck yet. Perhaps I will have one by this weekend! I will be sure to keep you updated on this news! ;)

No storyboards today cause I’m lazy and Faith’s computer is already off  (which has the scanner connected to it,) but I’ll have a bunch more on Tuesday!

Not much else besides that! So I’m going to go and finish inking the last page of this chapter!

Enjoy the page and have a great weekend!

MM33

Chapter 1 – Pg 33

Yup just an ordinary rabid squirrel!

Anyways here’s concept art I did of this scene WAY BACK in 2008:

Allison’s tone is a bit off in this and it’s kinda ugly looking but it’s awesome that I had some basis for this way back then.

Anyways stay tuned, were getting real close to the end of this chapter! I hope you enjoy it!

Have a great weekend!

MM37

Chapter 1 – Pg 37

Hooray chapter 1 is finished! I hope you all enjoyed it! It was super fun to do and I’m looking forward to starting the next chapter. Speaking of which I’ll have some news on the front page about it, but the main gist of it is that chapter 2 will be starting in February. Check out that front page info for some more details!

I’ve also uploaded the rest of the storyboards. You can check them out after the break. Now that I’ve finished these up I was wondering if you guys had any suggestions for blog posts that you would like to see during chapter 2? I have a couple of ideas but I wouldn’t mind having some more!

Oh yeah! So I finally got myself a Wii U! And I’ve been playing it every night! Nintendoland is pretty amazing and I like a lot of the aspects of the Wii U, especially Miiverse. Also I really like holding the Gamepad. It’s got a nice feel to it. There’s some weird things about it like how slow it is sometime but it doesn’t bother me too much. We had a Nintendoland night last weekend and it was a blast. It’s fun having good solid game to have a bunch of people over and just play for a couple hours. I’ll be sure to give you more updated impressions as I get more games and as there are more system updates!

Anyways I hope everybody has a great holidays! Eat lots of food and do very little! That’s my plan! I’ll see you in February with chapter 2!

And now storyboards:

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CH2MM02

Chapter 2 – Pg 02

We get to start learning a little bit about Allison’s dad today! And here’s even more you can learn about him:

He may be sorta named after someone who runs a certain comic book store around here.

Anyways next week Mush-A-Mush should be returning to two pages a week unless something really major comes up. I’ll let you know for certain next Tuesday!

Enjoy the page and see ya then!

CH2MM05

Chapter 2 – Pg 05

That’s an interesting question Sean. I wonder if you’ll get your answer on the next page? ;)

Anyways things are still moving along! Hopefully I’ll get a chance in the near future to do an actual blog post! Maybe I’ll do a write-up about the X-Files since I’m nearly done watching all of that!

If anybody has any topics for what they would like to see or just questions let me know! I’ll be happy to write something up!

Hope you enjoy the page! See you on Friday!

CH2MM07

Chapter 2 – Pg 07

I wish I wasn’t so busy at work so I could write up more blog posts. There’s stuff I want to do but it’s hard to get around to it. I really need to set some time aside to do one soon. I think I’ll set a goal right now to do at least one big blog post a month! That sounds do-able! So look forward to that starting in April!

I’m pretty excited that there’s two games out this week that I’m really looking forward to playing! Luigi’s Mansion 2 and Bioshock: Infinite! Two pretty different games! But both seem pretty awesome! I’ll let you know how both of those go eventually!

Anyways enjoy the page! See you on Friday!

CH2MM09

Chapter 2 – Pg 09

True fact: I grew up in a Christmas tree lot. Well technically our house was surrounded by a Christmas tree lot, which is owned by my Grandfather. And luckily I only had to help shear them once (I presume I did such a bad job that he didn’t want to ask me again.)

Anyways it’s been a while since I’ve put up any photos of real locations so here are some of the actual Christmas tree lot:SSPX0135

SSPX0136 SSPX0138 SSPX0139 SSPX0140 SSPX0149It was always fun to take trips back into the lot, whether it was by foot, on bike, or on the tractor! Yes you heard me, the tractor. Maybe that will be brought up sometime in the future in the comic! *Wink wink* *Nudge nudge*

Enjoy the page, the photos and I’ll see you back on Friday!

CH2MM11

Chapter 2 – Pg 11

Forgot to upload this last night because I was up late working on work! Speaking of which, unfortunately for at least this week I’ll only be posting the one comic. Just a little bit too swamped with work to get a second one up. Sorry! Hopefully I can get back to the two a week very quickly!

Anyways enjoy the page and see you next week!

CH2MM15

Chapter 2 – Pg 15

I wasn’t lying this week! There’s actually a new comic for Friday! It helped being a much lighter work week! Hopefully I can keep this up. Might be a bit difficult next week with TCAF happening. But I’ll try my best.

And also hopefully I’ll start doing up more blog post. I just need to actually get prepared to do them! I’ll probably get started on that over the weekend!

Anyways that’s all! Enjoy the comic and see you on Tuesday!

CH2MM16

Chapter 2 – Pg 16

How many more times will Sean get dragged away by Allison in Mush-A-Mush? Who knows! Only time will tell!

Anyways this weekend I’m going to TCAF. I’m working hard to have comics for this Friday and next Tuesday while I’m gone but I might only get one done for Tuesday. But never say never! So show up on Friday to see how successful I am.

Besides that everybody should go check out Andrew Power’s new site for his webcomic Aptitude Test! It was made by Lissa (who also made my site!) and she did another great job! So go there once you’re done reading Mush-A-Mush! And then come back once you’re done!

Hope to see you on Friday! Now to sleep!

CH2MM17

Chapter 2 – Pg 17

Posting this before I head off for TCAF but you guys won’t see it till Tuesday!

Sorry about not getting a comic done for Friday. There was just too much to do before we headed out.

Anyways this page was fun to do. And I’m pretty happy with how it turned out.

Hope you enjoy the page! Hopefully I’ll see you on Friday with another page! (If I’m not to tired from TCAF!)

CH2MM18

Chapter 2 – Pg 18

I’m back from TCAF! And nearly over the terrible cough I picked up there!

It was a fun trip to Toronto! It’s just always nice to go up there every once in a while and just take it easy. I like seeing the crowd of TCAF and enjoy hanging at Faith’s table and seeing how popular she is! ;)

Hopefully next year I’ll be selling copies of Mush-A-Mush there which would be awesome!

I didn’t do much shopping there but I got one thing from TCAF and a couple things from around Toronto. Here are some pictures!

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Not a big haul but some good stuff! Hopefully next year I’ll buy some more stuff from TCAF itself.

Anyways that’s all for now! I’ll see you on Friday with another page for certain! Hooray!

CH2MM22

Chapter 2 – Pg 22

Barely got this one done on time! I was gone away Saturday playing golf (which was quite fun) and I usually draw comics on Saturdays so that kinda put me behind! But no worries cause it’s up now!

Although I’m not sure if I’ll be able to get a comic done for Friday yet. Thursday is my birthday so I don’t know if I’ll be working that night but who knows… maybe one will get done!

Anyways if I don’t see you Friday then I’ll definitely see you next Tuesday!

Enjoy the page!