Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (00:02):
It is so radical

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (00:16):
Fight, Pam.

Ed Kearsley (00:44):
Hello and welcome to a very special episode of Let’s Make a Comic book where we normally would make a comic book in front of your very faces with a different artist for every single panel. But today we’re going to be doing a look back at the history of the show, how we started and how it’s going. We’re going to have a look at the first 10 pages that we’ve got done already, and then we’ll see what happens, I suppose.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:25):
Yeah, sounds

Ed Kearsley (01:25):
Good. We’ve got a new intro that I made with the awesome cartoon that Shay did of the fighting game.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:37):
Oh yeah, so

Ed Kearsley (01:37):
Good. It turned out sick. So we’ve got the intro. Let’s talk about the history of Let’s Make a comic book. And this is the first season. The first book that we did with Starring Blank and the genesis of the entire show was when CS asked me if I had any ideas for shows to put on the comics YouTube channel. And I said, how about we do like a jam comic but do it live? And this is what we ended up with. And so the inspiration was kind of from this book, which is called the Narrative Corps, where they, each panel is, I think by a different artist maybe, or the sections of stuff, but they would only get to see the panel or what the artist did just before them. So the stories would go off in all crazy directions and stuff would happen. So I thought that would be a cool idea to do for a live show

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (03:07):
And you were correct,

Ed Kearsley (03:10):
And let me try and find this one. And so I had to design a character and we talked about what type of a thing to do. We decided on a robot and I designed blank. And this is me trying to do a nice and easy and simple design. It’s still kind of complicated though. And then for the first page, I tried to make it put all these elements in for the following artists to get ideas from. See there’s a little blank torso there with big hole in there. There’s dragons flying eyeballs, tote steals and stuff. There’s a little monster there. So I tried to make a post-apocalyptic sci-fi fantasy, kind of throw everything in so there’d be some hooks for the people who were following us to go on with. And we did the 20 pages of that blank and I made a little ash can, and that series turned out so good that we decided to do another one. And that’s where we get to.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (04:44):
And I’ll just read out some comments. That’s my job. We’ve got a Gade comic makers from Jeffrey

Ed Kearsley (04:51):
Gade. Jeffrey, hello

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (04:53):
From Kerry.

Ed Kearsley (04:54):
Hello.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (04:55):
Great intro by Jeffrey. Yes, it’s very

Ed Kearsley (04:58):
Cool. Intro

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (05:00):
Y from Paul Cameron Haw. Did, is that a little face? Yeah, it’s a little face.

Ed Kearsley (05:06):
A smiley face.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (05:08):
Little smiley face. And Robbie said hello as well. Hello Robbie.

Ed Kearsley (05:12):
Hello.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (05:20):
And this is the not so simple design for season two.

Ed Kearsley (05:29):
Yes. So we thought instead of just making up our own character and kicking off the story, we’d get in three artists for the zero issue or episode. And we chose Alex Major, Peter Wilson and Nick May because they have the clean, cartoony kind of styles that would kind of match up. And also they wouldn’t get all crazy intricate and silly. My one

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (06:11):
And in theory would be a easier to draw character in theory.

Ed Kearsley (06:18):
So you you’ve got the nice and simple clean designs.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (06:26):
I havent tried to draw the full bitsy. Actually, I drew the full blank when we first did that, but I haven’t tried to draw this yet because it’s just like, oh, I’ll make a disaster.

Ed Kearsley (06:37):
But that could be a good amateur hour.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (06:40):
Yes, that’s what I can do. Not this weekend, next weekend.

Ed Kearsley (06:48):
There you go. So we got Alex drew the head, the little cat controlling the thing for the top of the robot, and Peter just happened to draw a Mickey Mouse kind of body and overalls. And then Nick made Drew Dr. Doom’s legs in thongs

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (07:16):
And thongs. I love that

Ed Kearsley (07:19):
It said there was an immediate controversy with Alex as there always is. Na, he helps us with anything. Does bitsy have a tail or not? And people thought this bit here was bitsy tail, but it’s actually her arm holding the controller. And then there was this, which is this an exhaust pipe for the robot or is it a scarf around the neck, which I think he was doing so it would mask off when it joined onto the torso, which is a great idea, but people are reading it as an exhaust. I think I did a mockup, so I did it as an exhaust on my one.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (08:08):
And you had a towel.

Ed Kearsley (08:10):
Yeah, so I got it all wrong.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (08:15):
Not wrong. It’s interpretation. It’s all good.

Ed Kearsley (08:17):
Yeah, that’s a better way to say it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (08:24):
Yeah. So we’ve got a Howie Gents from Rob O’Connor, Howie Rob. Hi everyone from Absence Minded, Paul Cameron. Thought it was a sock. There you go.

Ed Kearsley (08:46):
Also, you should add that when we were doing the blank version of Let’s Make a comic book, we were kind of taking a page from the narrative copes book of only showing the artist the previous page before their episode. And then at some point, maybe around the halfway mark by accident or design, we started showing them the entire story so far. And then that led to the story kind of flowed a bit better, but there wasn’t as disjointed and kind of jumpy. People were doing callbacks from earlier pages and bringing back elements and stuff. And the flow of the book works better. We found

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (09:43):
Well between now, it wasn’t by design, it was by accident. I didn’t realise we weren’t meant to be showing any other pages. And I just made a PDF and went, Hey, here’s all the pages before. And it just sort of started happening from then on.

Ed Kearsley (09:58):
We’d call that classics.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (10:01):
I didn’t realise it was a thing to not show them the other pages. I am being abused from the other room.

Ed Kearsley (10:19):
That’s good stuff.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (10:22):
All right.

Ed Kearsley (10:23):
So we had the Zero episode, which led into the first page. Oh we, we got the chat to name Bitsy, which Shay came up with the name for Bitsy and the Retro Bros came up with the treaty cat subtitle, and that’s where we got that. So we had the people helping us. So we actually didn’t do anything for the creation of Bitsy. We got Alex and Pete and Nick to draw our for us and chat to Nemo. But then this is the first page and there’s a crazy level of drawing right out the gate. So we got Chris this amazing drawing at Bitsy. We did the setting too. We let the chat decide the setting.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (11:37):
Oh, that’s right.

Ed Kearsley (11:38):
Yeah. They picked out a space. Space. Yeah. So we’ve got Bitsy doing treaty stuff. There’s that little alien character in the window. And then we had Mel Briggs and the people on the first page decided that you can’t hear stuff out in space. So the speech bubbles were deliberately left empty. That’s a great detail too. The bitsy lifting up a welding mask.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (12:15):
Yeah, it’s awesome.

Ed Kearsley (12:18):
And so Mel introduced, these are space tentacles. It’s a great texture too on the tentacles.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (12:27):
Yeah, he’s done a great job there.

Ed Kearsley (12:30):
And then Laura Smith came in with the tentacle monsters saying something, but you can’t hear it in space and casting a big shadow over bitsy

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (12:47):
That was, and the exhaust pipe not a scarf. Actually, I think all of ’em are exhaust pipes on this page, aren’t they? Yeah,

Ed Kearsley (12:56):
That one definitely is that one. Is that one. Could be.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (13:03):
Could be. Yeah. It’s not quite clear.

Ed Kearsley (13:06):
And we’ve got definite tail here. Can’t see on Mel’s one definite. We’ve got tail and B hole.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (13:16):
Yep.

Ed Kearsley (13:17):
On Laura’s one, which is very classy.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (13:22):
Very. And we’ve got some more comments coming in. We need a horn sound for when the classic S comes up by Robbie. And Sean’s been told excellent choosing of the name and something was a good idea. Paul is saying, I’m not sure when that comment came up. Of course it’s a good idea. Everything’s a good idea. This whole show’s a good idea. Everything about it. The people, we choose everything except putting on it all good ideas.

Ed Kearsley (13:59):
Oh yeah. And there was having the panel, the page layout and the order of who was going to draw. Having that randomised was an idea we had earlier on. And we had the hand of choosing, which had a being very cool. Had a makeover. It was just a normal wooden hand. And how we would choose the order is we’d get three toys or something and have the artist pick from one of them to see the order. And we put a little number on the back. But then we started using the wheel of layouts, which is

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (14:53):
In, we’ve got a good evening, good people from Peter Lane.

Ed Kearsley (14:58):
Hey Peter Lane. Now let’s take a look at page two. This page looks good. Got all the pages. They’re crazy. Good. So we’ve got Stu Thornton with the octopus thing attacking. He’s carrying on the tradition of the wordless speech bubbles. And then Andrew laws showed us the rest of the monster,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (15:39):
Just how big it is.

Ed Kearsley (15:41):
And a really cool space background. There’s little bitsy in the oops. Monster’s, clutches, and then Rosanna lamb with the face-to-face meeting, check out the texture just to make it

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (16:06):
More

Ed Kearsley (16:06):
Scary. I never noticed the dripping bits on here.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (16:15):
Oh

Ed Kearsley (16:15):
Yeah. And I do believe that is a cattail. Get an old puffy from when you get scared and the little bitsy silhouette. Oh, is that a tail there? It

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (16:34):
Looks like tail. Tail,

Ed Kearsley (16:36):
Yeah, because there’s definitely a bit of weight.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (16:40):
I’m going with tail

Ed Kearsley (16:42):
And then

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (16:43):
I think that’s Tail there.

Ed Kearsley (16:46):
Yep.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (16:47):
Alex might be the only person that drew her without a tail.

Ed Kearsley (16:53):
The death of the author. It’s Alex, what’s wrong?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (16:59):
We’ve got a nice sound wave top by Peter Lane and also very nice art thus far as well from Peter Lane.

Ed Kearsley (17:05):
Thank you for both nice comments from Peter. Now we’ve got page three and we got Shadu. Got the big panel. What is that?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (17:26):
What’s

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (17:26):
Wrong?

Ed Kearsley (17:27):
Oh, it’s doubled up there. Just hold on. There we go. Okay. Oh, why is it doing that?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (17:41):
I don’t know. That’s weird. It’s not moving the picture. It’s moving the,

Ed Kearsley (17:50):
It’s all right. It stopped doing it now.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (17:52):
Okay, cool.

Ed Kearsley (17:52):
That’s you get Shaden. Look at that. It’s a reflection in the

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (17:59):
Octopus’s eye, but we’re going to do it anyway. Classic,

Ed Kearsley (18:02):
Classic, classic clips.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (18:04):
Somehow stuffed up Ed’s computer.

Ed Kearsley (18:10):
We’ll go back to look at that face.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (18:13):
Yeah, that’s awesome.

Ed Kearsley (18:17):
That’s a crazy detail. It’s some nice drawing. And then we get the Your toast. And I’m a whale. The octopus is now named D Whale forever. I believe that was the chat added that. And then we’ve got David Shery, but they’re great expression, the little tears. It’s bitsy saying, wait, but we could talk about this a little tease. And Sean is my $20. So we’ve got a reason that they call it the drive for the character to be,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (19:09):
And yet another towel.

Ed Kearsley (19:12):
Motivation is the word I’m trying to say. Look at the detail.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (19:16):
Yeah,

Ed Kearsley (19:18):
There’s plugs and stuff. And wires

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (19:20):
Also an exhaust.

Ed Kearsley (19:21):
Yeah, there’s a definite exhaustion. The colours very mechanical looking too. So we do have another tail could say that’s, should we say that you can’t see it or say no tail. I

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (19:45):
Could say there’s no tail on that one.

Ed Kearsley (19:47):
All right. And that one can’t really tell because you can’t see the bottom half of the cat.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (19:53):
I still get a vibe that it’s got a tail. I’m just saying that, just putting it out there.

Ed Kearsley (19:59):
This is probably the closest to Alex’s design that we’ve got so far here. We’ve got the news. Oops, I’m on the wrong screen.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (20:18):
Oh yeah.

Ed Kearsley (20:24):
And that was, what’s that page three?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (20:29):
We’ve got Nathan saying that he is doing panel layouts while watching the boys. I dunno if he means us or the boys. I don’t know. Watch us. Damn you.

Ed Kearsley (20:42):
We are the boys.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (20:44):
We are the boys apparently. Oh God. It’s got a stupid song in my head. Quick move on before it sticks.

Ed Kearsley (20:57):
So heading into page four, we’ve got me with the top panel. Another thing that we did for this one for season two that’s different than season one was we tried to get three people on every page and very close, but we also had me and Ciz as backups for whenever there was only two people that could make it for that episode. And so we had two people on the bench and we’ve already used us, so yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (21:50):
Didn’t take many pages to have to use this up.

Ed Kearsley (21:55):
We got to page four, that wasn’t too bad. So I got bitsy saying, I got your 20 right here pal. And the little fight stance and the robot arms putting the jukes up and the tentacles. Then who’s this? We got Don ticker. It’s again, where is my 40 bucks that the stakes have been raised.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (22:25):
Yeah,

Ed Kearsley (22:27):
That’s a great drawing too. Look at that.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (22:30):
Yeah,

Ed Kearsley (22:32):
At the detail. And got Nick Cleary.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (22:38):
Don actually inspired my version of the octopus,

Ed Kearsley (22:44):
Not the Hydra symbol.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (22:47):
Well yeah, there’s that as well. Apparently. We’ll talk about that when we get to the page. Shall we,

Ed Kearsley (22:54):
Shall we’ve got Nick Cleary with this crazy looking expression on bit’s face rubbing her hands together. It’s let’s talk payment plan. And there’s the animation, the Greek body language on the robot suit. Very cool. And then we’ve got definite tail.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (23:25):
Definite tail.

Ed Kearsley (23:27):
And then are we going to call that a NoTail or we can

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (23:36):
Call it just for Alex? I’m feeling

Ed Kearsley (23:39):
Nice. That is page four. Now let’s look at page five. I’m just going to mute for a second.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (23:56):
Page five.

Ed Kearsley (23:59):
Page five comes alive. We’ve got Chris wood and he’s, I’m going to make you pay day and night and then whale punts bitsy through a moon and a sun. The idea for that one, that’s a great use of the triangle panel as well.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (24:23):
Yeah.

Ed Kearsley (24:24):
And then Paul Cameron’s come up with that. Is that all you got?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (24:31):
Going back to your stance I guess with, yeah, I got this.

Ed Kearsley (24:40):
It’s a very cute drawing of the cat too.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (24:43):
Yeah,

Ed Kearsley (24:45):
I like this rendition of the neck thing. It looks like, like a bolt. So industrial, great pose with the hands. Hands are hard to say and draw. Well then we got Neil Blandon with his classic manic underground craziness and said Lookie, I really do have it. Shall I put on my crown of thorns? Oh, that was the first time we tried to have prompts to try and spice it up and it kind of didn’t stick. No, it didn’t work as good as we thought it might. But he did a great job and there’s a little deposit and then there’s also the copyright 2024. Nick May,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (25:51):
I didn’t even notice that before so I got some leg in finally.

Ed Kearsley (25:56):
Yeah. Well we should go back and do a leg. We could go back and do a leg count as well to see who’s was getting in the chat and chastising everyone for not drawing the legs. We’ve got them here. That’s a great detail too. That’s awesome. The thongs coming off. But we do have say no tail. Tail and tail.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (26:35):
Danny. Nolan saying this comic is proof writers are redundant, pure genius. Well a lot these artists are writers. Dude.

Ed Kearsley (26:47):
I’d say all of them. They all wrote their panel.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (26:51):
Well that’s true.

Ed Kearsley (26:56):
Alrighty. Page six. Oh, here we go.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (27:01):
Oh, it’s trouble got Hydra. We’ve got bad drawings, we’ve got, we’ve got it all. Hydra

Ed Kearsley (27:13):
Got some unknown artist name of Shane s he’s come in with whale say no cash, pound, flash and the callback to your panel in the blank one.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (27:33):
That’s what it is exactly.

Ed Kearsley (27:36):
The character saying crap. Oh, I’ve lost the book here. I know your one is page seven.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (27:45):
How do you know

Ed Kearsley (27:46):
That? Here we have the crap and then crap. And then Bo doing the

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (27:58):
Barbecue bit of a dialogue. Now I’ve got to remember which one to press. Is it this one? Yes it is. Yay.

Ed Kearsley (28:10):
And this was a definite choice to do the space background grey.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (28:21):
That was a choice because I didn’t want, all my lines are black, so I couldn’t figure out how to make the background black without just totally ruining all my lines. So I went, I’ll make it grey. Yeah, that’ll work. And we’ll never speak of it again. Next panel.

Ed Kearsley (28:37):
You can put a halo around it like this.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (28:40):
That sounds like a lot of effort, but

Ed Kearsley (28:44):
So we’ve got Nick, me, the architect of the bitsy legs. He only drew one and a half in his one. There’s a bit there too, but we’ve got, oh, it’s a callback too. Chris pit com’s character from the very first panel and you got the character in the spaceship saying, wait, bitsy, did you disconnect the denita? Get that face.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:15):
Another look on the face.

Ed Kearsley (29:17):
That’s a great detail too with

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:19):
The control

Ed Kearsley (29:20):
Sticks. And then who we’ve got Robert O’Connor, but as you can see, I’m on a tight schedule. You mind accepting the cache body? Look at that. The reflection

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:42):
Reflection’s. Awesome.

Ed Kearsley (29:47):
And for the tail count, we’ve got one. I would say it’s just one.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:54):
Just that Sz fella. Totally mocking Alex. I only put the towel on there because someone said Alex said there was no tail, so I was like in your face, Alex.

Ed Kearsley (30:10):
All right, what’s that one? It is page six, find my mouse. There he is. I page seven. Wow, look at this.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (30:24):
Oh yeah,

Ed Kearsley (30:27):
You got Justin McNamara with the buddy buddy. We are not buddies.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (30:35):
That’s one hell of an ugly octopus.

Ed Kearsley (30:39):
It’s a crazy demon monster octopus. Oh and then we got Rob Lyle. He comes in with the attempted murder where I was just taking bits. He’s ad off or the protective dome of the robot suit and then Tom tongue with the lower bitsy and then we can see the bombs stuck on the side of whale’s head. This is a great detail. Look at the bitsy. Try to grab onto the controller and the helmet part. And the robot body robot bodies grabbed her, said bitsy to ship. I have repurposed the de need to blow it now. So the action’s heating up and we’ve got a said tail and no-till the exhaust pipe scoffs kind of disappeared I think.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (31:48):
Yeah,

Ed Kearsley (31:50):
Couple pages.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (31:56):
It is evolving.

Ed Kearsley (32:01):
Oh, we’ve got Alex major famous for the one panel romance in the blank series that again got the robots. I mean the whales lighting, the dynamite bundle.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (32:24):
Yeah, I don’t get that part. That was the one panel that confused me. I was like, what are you going for here, Alex?

Ed Kearsley (32:35):
The way I was saying your eyes bitsy saying my bits are bitsy and everyone’s not happy suit

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (32:44):
Getting jealous, broken hearted. I love that.

Ed Kearsley (32:47):
And then we had Dr. Ya with the kaboom the wow, that’s what I call fireworks. The bits back in her suit for that one. Oh, and then Zach George. No, the tentacles flying.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (33:09):
Definitely tail.

Ed Kearsley (33:14):
It’s a great drawing of a cat. Oh, and there’s a engagement ring.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (33:20):
Yeah, that’s right.

Ed Kearsley (33:23):
And then we’ve got the little copies of Bron one, which is Zach’s book floated in space.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (33:30):
Is that a comic set? Yeah, I think it is.

Ed Kearsley (33:32):
Just sure is. And I don’t think you’ll be able to see those when the thing gets printed. Same with the Neil Bland’s copyright notice for the copyright nickname. Oh yeah, that’ll just look like a little blob. I think

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (33:52):
We’ll know what it means. Add everyone watching will know what it means. The little blob is a copyright thing.

Ed Kearsley (34:03):
Page eight, page nine. Here we go. Oh, this is the first two hander.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (34:11):
Yeah, the

Ed Kearsley (34:12):
Person

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (34:13):
Couldn’t make it and we had no more reserves because me and Ed had been used up.

Ed Kearsley (34:20):
Yeah, that’s another thing that we should mention is that, I dunno when we came up with this idea, but the idea is to have every panel by different artist and have no repeats. So we had 53 different artists in the first book and we’ll probably have more than that on this one because we had two single page ones, the start and end with me and Dave,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (35:00):
Two panel ones as well in the other book. We’ve got away with only one so far. Hopefully we can keep it to that and keep doing 3, 3, 3, 3, 3.

Ed Kearsley (35:10):
Yes. So let’s have a look.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (35:14):
Volunteer to join us people.

Ed Kearsley (35:17):
Yes. And we got Adam Gillespie with the ah, my leg. I need to reach it and grabbing that bit of tentacle. We got a leg for Nick, me with that cool spanner. I think that’s her helmet bit there. And then Jonathan Saunders always introduce the flying saucer that’s got her in the jacking and pulling bitsy and the destroyed suit into the UFO or the flying saucer shaped spaceship,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (35:59):
Loving the ring call back with the other panel.

Ed Kearsley (36:06):
I like how he’s drawn the little claw things that hold the diamond into the ring. It’s a good detail. I like the destroyed glove with the robot, the skeleton underneath it. So that’s page nine. And then page 10 where we’re up to, which was last week’s one. We’ve got haw as introduced. This crazy monster,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (36:40):
Crazy monster

Ed Kearsley (36:44):
Inside the spaceship. And again we’ve got tentacles coming out of it. This guy needs a name as well. Poor bitsy. That’s the life of a treaty cat. Always tentacles. That’s a great drawing of a cat. Everyone’s really good at drawing cats.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (37:10):
Yeah. What’s that all about?

Ed Kearsley (37:12):
Cats are my

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (37:12):
Cat sucked.

Ed Kearsley (37:14):
Notoriously hard to draw over. Then we go Ethan Harris with the monster face Closeup. The bitsy. It’s either determined or worried

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (37:30):
Even without the robot body.

Ed Kearsley (37:35):
Bitsy is ready to throw down. And I believe he said the bits you would be saying bring it on or something.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (37:44):
Words

Ed Kearsley (37:44):
To that effect.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (37:46):
Yeah, he wasn’t specific from memory

Ed Kearsley (37:53):
And also no tail on that one.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (37:55):
Also no tail definite talent and one above

Ed Kearsley (38:00):
Definite tail. So that’s where we’re up to that is

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:08):
This has been a very, what’s the best way of saying it? It’s more slow moving or more detail in the story. In this one I think is probably the better way to say it. There’s more capturing everything that’s going on rather than jumping from one scene to another like blank did to a degree. So I’ve found that really cool how the octopus has taken up almost half the book. I need to be 10 to kill. Oh is that what he’s trying to call the creature?

Ed Kearsley (38:46):
That’s good.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:47):
Yes.

Ed Kearsley (38:49):
Write that one down.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:51):
I loves drawing cats but is terrible at it apparently. I don’t think you

Ed Kearsley (38:58):
Are. No, we’ve seen the cartoon.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:03):
Exactly.

Ed Kearsley (39:10):
I think also with a lot of the artist, so file did a page or did a panel in blank. So they came in a bit warmer than their first time round. So they had a bit of a better idea and

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:32):
I agree with that

Ed Kearsley (39:34):
Being more used to the format of having to make up an idea on the spot.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:43):
Sorry, RO has gone awesome story so far and he’s got a cat, a ring and an octopus. That’s the romance Alex was trying to get to happen

Ed Kearsley (39:57):
As usual. The one panel romance don’t last too long.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (40:05):
And just to answer Nathan, yes, what Shay said I had the next day I wasn’t very organised and I was sick as a dog. So that’s why Friday didn’t happen. Oh we got a high all from Dave Di. Hey Dave. And I’ve still not quite got my voice back so I can’t do probable who’s nice. Teamwork

Ed Kearsley (40:33):
Makes the dream work.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (40:43):
Oh yeah. So did we mention that Pete did the logo?

Ed Kearsley (40:48):
Oh yeah. Which is that one?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (40:55):
One at the top. Very cool. So yeah,

Ed Kearsley (40:58):
So Pete got to decide the spelling of Bitsy and put a K for the cat and he did the body. So that was after we did that episode where they designed the bity. He sent me a message and said, do you want me to do a logo for Bitsy the trade cat? And I said, hell yeah dude.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:27):
Yeah, good old.

Ed Kearsley (41:28):
And Peter Wilson offers you to do a logo for you say yes.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:34):
Yes, this is correct. Paul Cameron says logo looks good, it does, looks great is what you should say

(41:44)
Because that’s what I was going to read out because my mind just went there. What else was I going to say? Yeah, definitely worried about this show’s gone a little bit more smoothly except for the occasional classic siz. Ken just laughed at me saying occasional the opposite of occasion. I don’t know. Opposite of occasional the commonly occurring classics. There you go. At least once or twice every show I’m being told. So yeah, I’ve been liking that, that we’re getting into a bit of a rhythm. I like the changes to the wheel of layouts and the hand of choosing which chooses the order now rather than the panel layout. So yeah, imagine three is going to be an even more complicated character, even more amazing art from everyone except Siz

Ed Kearsley (42:56):
Especially. It’d be

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:57):
Awesome. Siz did the most amazing that he could do and it wasn’t so amazing.

Ed Kearsley (43:08):
Did I show the Facebook thing?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (43:11):
Oh, when we first started? No you didn’t.

Ed Kearsley (43:14):
Okay, so this came up on my Facebook today, like this afternoon and so it’s make a comic book. I’ve got a new show starting on Thursday, 8:00 PM It’s from September 19th, 2023. So a year ago. Exactly a year ago when we were just about to launch the first season and look at us now.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (43:49):
Did you notice the double pattern that we had with my drawings? They’re both saying crap and we’re both looking at the back of their head and there’s a monster or creature in front of them. That’s all I can do. That’s my limit. That’s the best I can do. Back of the head monster saying crap, I am going to have to make that a thing now. So I’m going to have to fit that into the third book somehow.

Ed Kearsley (44:19):
Or you could try something

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (44:21):
Different. Oh, I’ve just been told I might not necessarily be in the third book. Wishful thinking that I’ll be allowed in.

Ed Kearsley (44:29):
You’ll be allowed in when running low on. Guess

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (44:35):
I’ll be allowed in if we running low on guess. It’s okay. Oh, what have we got here? I’ve got some comments. Sorry. Oh, Dave saying he’ll be available.

Ed Kearsley (44:51):
Oh good.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (44:54):
Hell yeah, Dave. Oh thanks. Shawnee Show’s never long enough. Definitely got the leave them wanting more down. Didn’t notice the cat was spelled with a K.

Ed Kearsley (45:23):
The leave and wanting more thing. It’s not a deliberate thing, it’s just we’re not very good at doing stuff so

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (45:34):
I

(45:37)
Cool. Well what else is there to say? Blank will be coming out in a Kickstarter soon. I’ve got to redo the one I started because we’re going to print it this time. The original one I set up is just for PDFs. That’s not happening now. So that’ll be coming out. So there will be a Kickstarter to get your own copy of blank. Oh I did then it worked. Oh no, the Ws are back. I’m getting my voice back. Carrie’s in trouble. Yeah, that’s all about this show. I was going to say all the other stuff I wanted to say had nothing to do with this show.

Ed Kearsley (46:24):
So yeah, want to be on this show or recent reads or drink and draw.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (46:35):
Yep.

Ed Kearsley (46:36):
Go to there

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (46:40):
And there’s a form, say which shows you want to be on. Tell us a little about yourself, tell us your name, et cetera. Email’s a good one so I can get back to you. Boom. You’ll be on one of the shows just like that. Recent reads is a really good one. Just saying because you don’t need to be an artist, you don’t need to be a creator even you don’t need to be a writer. You just got to be someone who loves comic books and has read something they liked recently. That’s it. That’s it. And willing to talk about it. So if you just come on and sit there silently, it might not be so cool, but if you’re willing to talk about it, that’d be cool.

Ed Kearsley (47:24):
Yes,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (47:24):
And because I’m shocking at talking about stuff, I will even accept that. It was good. It’ll be a shorter show, but that’s cool. So Eric and Ed,

Ed Kearsley (47:41):
We got more comments.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (47:44):
Oh, I missed them. We got Dave’s back. Oh yes, the voice is coming back You Awesome. See you boys. Good episode.

Ed Kearsley (47:56):
Thanks Paul.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:03):
If you weren’t good, we wouldn’t want more. You want more my drawing more of Ed. Oh, that’s what’s good. Yeah, more Ed. That’s what we need more Ed.

Ed Kearsley (48:20):
Yeah, so we are going to this rock’s. Well done. Thank you Jeffrey. But yeah, we will be coming back with the back half of the bitsy story. So it’s going to be another 10 pages. It’ll be 20 pages all up. What else? I’m going to try and make a few more layouts. It would be nice if we could just have 20 for the book, but if we’re having three people

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:56):
We can repeat layout surely. Yeah,

Ed Kearsley (49:00):
We are definitely going to have to because we’ve only got 12, but just as the conceptually having 20 and then just going through them.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:14):
Ah, yep, I get you. That would be cool. I guess just don’t ask me to draw them or else we could get some complaints. I would put some really random shit in there with no measurements because I wouldn’t know what the measurements are. It was just random. So the traditional will have some fun trying to follow my layouts.

Ed Kearsley (49:37):
Yeah, that’s another thing that we kind of thought of earlier on is when I was making the layouts is to put the measurements of the rectangle. So if someone’s drawing it traditionally, like with pen and paper, that they could make their box the correct size if they couldn’t print it out or whatever.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (50:04):
Well yeah, and last week proved that we can be very quick thinking quick on our feed I guess you could say as a panel was drawn, a mix up on what panel was who’s and so forth. So we quickly swapped everyone around and it still came out awesomely.

Ed Kearsley (50:22):
Yeah, Dan was supposed to be in this panel but he misunderstood and just started drawing that one. So

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (50:32):
Yeah, I actually know what happened there, but we won’t go into it online.

Ed Kearsley (50:37):
Okay.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (50:39):
No, it’s not big conspiracy. It was just the wheel of choosing. No, sorry, the wheel of layouts showed the panel upside down. So the second panel was that shape.

Ed Kearsley (50:58):
Oh, maybe I grabbed the wrong one and sent them the wrong one. But anyway,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (51:04):
Yeah, I think that’s where he got confused. That was the second panel. But then we sent them this file, but of course he had a phone on a thing beside him so he wasn’t really seeing the screen very well. So yeah, still worked out great. Ethan was put on the spot to draw an in-between panel, which was really cool. Something a bit different rather than following on from the last person only and he handled it perfectly.

Ed Kearsley (51:38):
Yes,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (51:43):
Yes. Legend as Ke says.

Ed Kearsley (51:47):
And I do have plans for the third book, which will be at least 10 weeks away, so I’m going to try a new thing for making the character for that one, but we’ll,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (52:07):
Okay,

Ed Kearsley (52:11):
We won’t tell you guys until we’re ready to lodge the thing,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (52:20):
But just to get, don’t feel bad everyone. He hasn’t told me either, so it’s a surprise for all of us and you watch, he won’t tell us until 11 weeks from now. Oh Shane, by the way, this is how we design the character. Can’t tell everyone. Yeah, it’s probably safer that way. I’ll probably tell people I’ll stay up all night. I’ll get all crazy from lack of sleep and I’ll be telling everyone everything.

Ed Kearsley (52:50):
We call that

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (52:52):
Classic seed. Classic seed. Oh I need a bell. Yes, I think there is one in here somewhere.

Ed Kearsley (53:04):
Ba,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (53:10):
There you go. I can do it. The voice is getting better on live on the show and it just cracked and went back to how it was

Ed Kearsley (53:22):
In the new intro. That’s C is voicing the announcer for the fighting game animation by Sean with the fight and pay up.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (53:33):
Yeah, just can I do the intro again for those who got in late?

Ed Kearsley (53:39):
Sure.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (53:40):
So they can see the coolness. That is the new intro

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (53:55):
Fight.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (54:21):
I could have stopped it early, but I didn’t. I wanted to show you the pages again. So yes, very cool. Thank you so much for that animation, Shawnee.

Ed Kearsley (54:43):
So if nothing else, just getting that animation has made the whole experiment worth it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (54:56):
Oh yeah. This has been a whole lot of fun and not as stressful as I’m expecting it to be.

Ed Kearsley (55:05):
That seems to be the, there is a

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (55:07):
Thing of beauty. I agree. I agree.

Ed Kearsley (55:10):
Thank you. Rob. Seems to be the consensus with everyone that comes on is that they thought it would be crazy scary and difficult, but it just ends up being fun to make a conflict. Awesome.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (55:28):
Shay just commented on your additions to her animation.

Ed Kearsley (55:36):
Thanks Sean.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (55:42):
Oh, Nathan gets scared. Oh, don’t get scared. Are you scared because you’re doing a show with Siz or you’re worried about the classic siz moments? Or is it the drawing? I’m scared of the drawing, so I’m sticking to the back of the head with a monster in front. That’s it. That’s what my click or whatever you call it. Cliche. I can’t think of a word. Another classic moment. I know. Speak to English. Oh, his beard doesn’t compare to mine. Oh dear. Terrified of the drawing. No way. Do pixel art instead then if you have to. Since it’s all math apparently there are ways around these things. I’ll get you on here Shawnee. If it’s not season two, it’ll be season three. Yeah, exactly. If sis can do it, anyone can do it.

Ed Kearsley (57:01):
I thought we would be using that one a lot more. We haven’t had to use that much.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:07):
No, it hasn’t been technical difficulties. It’s been classic sis moments

Ed Kearsley (57:12):
Since we’ve only had this for two episodes.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:16):
Think it’s yeah. And already been used more

Ed Kearsley (57:18):
Than this one. It might be because most of the technical difficulties were classic scissors.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:29):
Well that’s probably true. That’s probably true.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:39):
What

Ed Kearsley (57:39):
Else have we got a

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:41):
Kickstarter? I don’t know what a hundred dollars for the book. I don’t understand. Or a hundred dollars for the target. I’m going for the book. Yeah, you’re hooked. A hundred dollars. Woo. I like your way of thinking Jeffrey. I like it. A fan? Yes. Ominous recruiting. I will do sleeve voices to make you draw. Cool. Well I think we’ve explained where we’re up to, talked about how it all came together, the evolution of the show itself, which I’m sure it’ll continue to evolve as we come up with new ideas or people in the audience like yourselves. Give us new ideas or people who are on drawing give us new ideas. As long as the idea is not siz, draw the whole thing. I’m probably all for it.

Ed Kearsley (58:42):
That’s a good idea.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:49):
Ke is saying that would be a nightmare. So it would take me an hour to draw each panel. So that’s a very long running show. What’s that? Three by 20, 60. 60 weeks over a year for me to do a book

Ed Kearsley (59:07):
That’s about normal. It

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (59:08):
Wouldn’t be very good because, because I’m not a writer and I’m not a drawer. I can’t believe I just said drawer because that’s what you put your clothing on. Not very good artist, not very good at English. Be terrible book the story would suck. The art would suck.

Ed Kearsley (59:28):
I have heard that you quite,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (59:30):
They would do a whole one. That’d be awesome. It would be, dare I say it, radical

Ed Kearsley (59:36):
Speaking of if you go to their and buy comics, that helps us who make comics and helps sis to pay for hosting all their websites that he makes for comics and everyone. And this streaming software that we’re using, everything costs money. It does. So go there by comics.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:10):
Yeah. And we’ve got a Howie from Don just as we’re a copy about to go. Howdy. Goodbye. There you go. Nice. Better late than never. This is true. Watch the replay, Don. Get us those numbers. If you haven’t subscribed, subscribe. You have subscribe. Get a friend to subscribe. Get a dozen friends to subscribe if you’re the boss. Yeah, that’s right. If you’re the boss of where you work, threaten everyone that works there that they’ll be sacked if they don’t subscribe. Written warnings, law,

Ed Kearsley (01:00:56):
The thing made it over 500 subscribers.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:01:00):
Yeah, we got 500 on last night. Last night. It was 499 when we went into Lee’s show. That wasn’t last night. That was the night before. God, don’t worry about me. I’m losing track of time. It’s okay. Today’s Thursday. Yeah, it was two days ago. I take it all back. Oops. I haven’t slept since yesterday so I’m getting a little confused on what day it is. I

Ed Kearsley (01:01:36):
It’s two day,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:01:38):
It’s today. Oh, awesome. Easy to remember. Well thanks Shanie.

Ed Kearsley (01:01:48):
Thank you.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:01:50):
This is the brainchild of Ed himself, so I’m very happy to be part of it, but I can’t take credit for too much of it.

Ed Kearsley (01:01:59):
It’s all siz all the time.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:02:06):
I dunno what Ed wants, but after the show he is getting it. On that note, he’s getting dinner. That’s what he wants. He wants dinner. On that note, this would probably be a good time for us to leave after that ridiculously bad joke.

Ed Kearsley (01:02:26):
I’d say so.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:02:27):
Goodnight. Yep. So goodnight all, thank you for watching. Thank you for watching all the previous episodes. Thank you for watching all the episodes that an encounter come up in the future. Thank you to all the artists who have contributed to this book. And the last one. And thank you again to the audience. You guys rock. And thanks for subscribing, just saying because Lee on Tuesday night discovered he hadn’t subscribed, so he gave out a bit of a call out to everyone to go. Well check. Just check in case you haven’t classically we’re going to have to get a new drawing anyway. Hang on, we’ve got a comment. Let’s just check. It’s a waving goodbye. Perfect timing. That will be my chance to end the stream. Good night everyone. Thank you.