Voice Over (00:08):
Let’s make a comic book, but let’s make it a little bit different. Instead of one person or a team making the whole book, we’re gonna have every panel made by a different cartoonist. We are gonna do one page per episode. So the number of guests is the number of panels on the page. So now you’re probably wondering, what’s this comic book gonna be about? Well, lemme tell you. It’s gonna be about a robot. This robot whose name is blank. What happens next? Nobody knows, but it’s gonna be fun finding out.

Edmund Kearsley (00:48):
Hello and welcome to another episode of Let’s Make a comic book where we make a comic book with a different artist for every single panel. Excuse me. And today we’ve got three new artists, uh, ready to do some Arting, and we’ve got Jenny Macintosh, Chris Wood, and David Shiria here. Hello everyone. Hello.

David Schembri (01:13):
Hello. Hey, how we going?

Edmund Kearsley (01:15):
And we’ve got Pressing the Buttons and me, ed Kiley as your host to, we still haven’t figured out exactly how to format the show. So we’re going to start off tonight by having a look at last week’s, uh, page. So we had a two panel page with Andrew Law and Toby Blanchard with, um, blank, having an emotional moment saying, mother and the Subterranean Fish Woman saying, Walter, there’s a big twist in the story. Hmm.

Chris Wood (02:02):
Yeah. That’s a great twist.

Jenny Mackintosh (02:04):
Emotional.

Edmund Kearsley (02:06):
And so, um, let’s do, we’ll go to the wheel of, um, panels. Oh yeah. Main layout. The Wheel of layouts. It’s, so now it’s time for everyone’s favourite game. Show the Wheel. Wheel,

David Schembri (02:25):
The Wheel of Destiny.

Chris Wood (02:28):
I’m excited to see what the layout will be.

Jenny Mackintosh (02:30):
Yeah, me? You.

Edmund Kearsley (02:34):
Do you want me to bring it up, siz? Or,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (02:37):
Oh yeah, sorry.

Edmund Kearsley (02:38):
<laugh>. There we go. Rum roll. Let’s go. I’m gonna click it.

Chris Wood (02:47):
Oh, we spinning. And

Edmund Kearsley (02:48):
It’s spinning around and around.

David Schembri (02:51):
Oh, it’s gone on blank again. Like last episodes.

Chris Wood (02:53):
<laugh> Pack.

Edmund Kearsley (02:59):
<laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (03:00):
Oh,

Chris Wood (03:01):
Cool. I like it.

Edmund Kearsley (03:02):
All right. I

Edmund Kearsley (03:03):
Love that one.

Edmund Kearsley (03:06):
It’s a nice simple one. Mm-Hmm, <affirmative>. So, um, now we go back to there. We’ll pick the order of who goes in what order. Chris and David. So if you put me back to full screen sis, we can have Jenny go first with the hand of choosing

Edmund Kearsley (03:31):
<laugh>

Jenny Mackintosh (03:35):
Pressure. Okay. Number three.

Edmund Kearsley (03:38):
Number three is number two. So you’ll be going in the number two spot. And then Chris.

Chris Wood (03:50):
Oh, okay. This is a tough one because I’m also choosing for David. Uh, let’s go, I’ll go two.

Edmund Kearsley (03:57):
Two is three

Edmund Kearsley (04:00):
Last.

Edmund Kearsley (04:02):
So David is first. And now go back to the normal screen. Uh, he says, wants to have a look at the comments and I’ll send the guys the thing in the chat. Yep.

Edmund Kearsley (04:18):
Okay, great.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (04:19):
We’ve got two comments going. Oh, sorry. Yep. Two comments going on. I’ve got your things down there as well. I hope they’re all right. Check them while I’m doing this. Your, um, Instagrams, um, okay, so we’ve got Nick May, he’s gone. Hey, all blank lovers draw like you’ve never drawn before or like you’ve never drawn before. Uh, I can’t remember where the emphasis should be. Uh, hopefully I did the emphasis on the right words there. Uh, Nick, uh, be great. He says, um, and Good Evening to All by Peter Lang. So, yeah.

Edmund Kearsley (04:52):
So you guys, the thing is in the private chat, the, the link to download the

Edmund Kearsley (04:58):
Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (05:02):
And, um, two, the people watching, and I know it’s more than two people ’cause I can see that. Um, <laugh> tell us, um, what, what can we talk about? Let’s what? Oh no, that we don’t wanna sway the story. That was a bad, just thought I had then. Um,

Edmund Kearsley (05:22):
Uh,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (05:23):
What is your favourite comic? We’ll just go with a basic question.

Edmund Kearsley (05:30):
Ooh,

Jenny Mackintosh (05:32):
This is the, the big one. Well,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (05:36):
At the moment I, I’ll throw that in there at the moment. So you, you’re not tossing attorney about its years of comment collecting

Jenny Mackintosh (05:46):
Because, um, he, if it does berserk is what I’ve been reading.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (06:01):
I keep hearing that name.

Jenny Mackintosh (06:03):
It’s so

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (06:04):
Good. I gotta, I gotta get my hands on one because I keep hearing so many people. Tell me how great that is.

Jenny Mackintosh (06:09):
It’s so good. It’s what inspired Dark Soul and El Ring Blood. Cool. It’s so cool. And the artist is incredible. Uh, Quin, yeah. Wonderful artist. He unfortunately passed away a few years ago, so he a continuing story with, uh, whose best friend who wants to carry the legacy on. So I’m excited to see what they doing next if they do anything. That’s just the word on the street. <laugh>,

David Schembri (06:42):
Just the word on the

Jenny Mackintosh (06:43):
Street. My word for it.

David Schembri (06:46):
<laugh>.

Jenny Mackintosh (06:47):
That’s me.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (06:48):
We’ve got a good evening. Everyone from Dave Di as well. Thanks Dave.

David Schembri (06:53):
Hey, Dave.

Edmund Kearsley (06:54):
Big you know Dave. Um, David, do you have the, the panels?

David Schembri (06:59):
Uh, yes I do. Yes. Yes. Um, got them, got them right here.

Edmund Kearsley (07:03):
Excellent. So if you wanna start Oh

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (07:04):
Wow.

David Schembri (07:07):
I’m a bit, I’m a bit, uh, I’m traditional, like when I do my comic stuff, so then I go digital later.

Jenny Mackintosh (07:15):
Yeah, me too.

David Schembri (07:16):
Plan. There’s always a plan, but that’s the plan. It goes to, it goes the way, were you

Chris Wood (07:24):
Always traditional or, and then slowly put digital in or Yeah. Where you digital

David Schembri (07:30):
Or, yeah, it’s the way I’ve always worked. I just always start at the drawing table and, um, or in this case the, uh, the, the computer table <laugh>, and then I, um, then I go <laugh>. Then I, uh, I I get the, I get the art the way I want it. I ink it up, um, then I scan it, then I go and digitise colours and effects and all that sort of thing. Mm-Hmm. Um, that’s, I just found that, that’s just the way I’m, I’m comfortable, um, to, to work at the moment. But, uh, you know, that might change and evolve later on. But at the moment I really love just, uh, you know, just getting the, getting the, you know, the, the little pace out and just working out the, the pencil sketches and playing with different things and, and that’s, uh, yeah, that’s just, yeah, it’s the way I feel the most comfortable.

Chris Wood (08:16):
Yeah. Cool.

David Schembri (08:17):
Cool. Yeah. How about you guys?

Edmund Kearsley (08:20):
We’ll let David get started on his, uh, yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (08:23):
We first panel buddy.

David Schembri (08:25):
Okay. Um, we’ll have a chat to, alright, so you don’t mind, I just take it in something and then you guys just follow on for that? That that’s, um, yeah, that one we, uh,

Jenny Mackintosh (08:36):
Yeah,

David Schembri (08:37):
I, but yeah, I guess I’ve got the gist of that from the episodes I’ve watched previously, which is, which are really great. I, I was having a lot of fun watching now watching that.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (08:46):
Been a lot of fun doing this as

David Schembri (08:47):
Well. I’ve, on previous, all the previous panels and the comics is fantastic. What, what I’ve read now, and it’s, um, please, uh, go ahead and talk

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (08:59):
<laugh>. I was just gonna,

David Schembri (09:02):
I think I forgot how to draw

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (09:05):
<laugh>. Well, Danny Nolan says, hi Dave. Good to see you. Make it to the big screen.

David Schembri (09:10):
Hey Danny. Hey Danny. Uh, Danny’s awesome. Uh, I remember having the, um, having a trade day with him, uh, at Alternate Worlds. It was, uh, that was great fun. Cool. His, yeah, I’ve got, I think I’ve got most of his work here. Um, excellent writer, um, and, and artist that just, yeah, his, his writing was fantastic. Um, in the, all the conversations.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (09:31):
He had a fun on the show as well, so,

David Schembri (09:33):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. No, he, he great. Yeah. His pen was cool. Um,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (09:38):
Um, we’ve got Nick May asking a question of, well, the other two artists ’cause we’ll let David get into his drawing.

David Schembri (09:45):
Um,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (09:46):
Do you artists prefer drawing seated or lying in bed?

Jenny Mackintosh (09:50):
Seated <laugh>.

Chris Wood (09:52):
<laugh>,

Jenny Mackintosh (09:54):
That’s, that depends. It’s on the mood as

Chris Wood (09:56):
Well. Lying in bed. I don’t think I’ve ever tried that. <laugh>. Um, well that’s how we move

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (10:01):
Those all the time.

David Schembri (10:03):
Hmm.

Chris Wood (10:03):
Oh really? I couldn’t do that. No, I, I do a lot of

David Schembri (10:07):
Sleeping in bed.

Chris Wood (10:10):
Yeah. I need to have a proper setup. Like I, I’m not in it right now because I’m not, I’m at someone else’s house, my girlfriend’s house. But, um, yeah, if I don’t have my desk specifically, they’re at height at my chair for long periods. Like I, you know, get really worn down, like wrist wise and like shoulder. So yeah, I’m pretty particular, I would love to draw in bed. That’d be amazing. But, um, <laugh>, yeah, maybe I should try it. I’ll try it for five minutes and then

Jenny Mackintosh (10:37):
Experiment.

Chris Wood (10:39):
Yeah.

Jenny Mackintosh (10:40):
Uh, the only way I can see myself drawing in bed is if just feeling emotional. I’m listening to whatever emo music I’ve got playing <laugh>. I just have my <inaudible> coincidentally next to me and I just feel like I need to get the emotions out. <laugh>, that’s when I would draw on bed. But if I’m drawing the work, that’s when I have to be seated and have to have that focus and be in the zone. So I guess that’s the element of pleasure with play with work

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (11:10):
<laugh> and

Jenny Mackintosh (11:11):
I guess how I go about it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (11:15):
Well, um, good question. David. Dave, Dave Dye brings up a good question here. Is David standing?

Jenny Mackintosh (11:24):
Great question.

David Schembri (11:25):
Yes, yes. I’m standing. I’m standing. So you’ve

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (11:28):
Got a third option to the question to the, to the original question. Then you’ve got seated, you’ve got lying down, and now we’ve got standing

David Schembri (11:36):
And also standing. This is a standing workstation, so you can see it goes down and it goes up. Ah, nice. Amazing. So I can seated if I wanna, but I prefer to be standing. Um, actually this is where I don’t normally do my comic work. I do my comic work over there on my drawing table. I don’t know, you could sort of see it, uh, over there. There it is there.

Chris Wood (12:00):
So that’s

David Schembri (12:00):
Where I do, that’s where I do all my work. But purposes of tonight, um, I’ll be at the, uh, I guess at the business station. This is where I normally do my work all day. Um, but yeah, standing is, but, but yeah, when I’m doing comics, I’m usually seated down there.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (12:17):
Oh yeah.

David Schembri (12:18):
Not in bed though. I inspiration. Write them different.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (12:26):
Well, there is one thing I’m glad this show hasn’t done to date. I, I can’t remember. I think it was Peter Wilson. We did a show where we started, we started the interview, we started talking for a while, and then we realised we weren’t on air yet.

Chris Wood (12:41):
<laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (12:42):
It hadn’t clicked over. We’d pressed the button, but it hadn’t clicked over. One of us looked up about this time, it was about 12 minutes into the, into the show, and we’ve gone, that’s not kicking over. What are we live <laugh>.

Chris Wood (12:58):
So

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (12:59):
I’m glad we haven’t done that yet.

Chris Wood (13:02):
There’s still time.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (13:04):
There’s still time. Yeah. True.

Chris Wood (13:08):
All right. Yeah, I’ve always wanted to draw standing actually. Um, so I’m gonna have to give that a go as well. Um, well I’m doing so I worry like I’m sitting down really great. Too long of the day. Yeah, yeah, right. I’ve heard that a lot. Yeah. I worry that I sit down too much <laugh>. Um, so yeah, I might have to give that a go as well. I’ll try lying standing again. Yes. See where

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (13:28):
Line down sounds difficult. I don’t know how Nick does that because do, do you hold the thing above you? I, I’d get saw hold in a iPad above me.

Chris Wood (13:38):
He put it on your knees?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (13:40):
Yeah. Oh.

Chris Wood (13:41):
Oh, wow.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (13:42):
I’m just thinking saw Nick. That makes sense.

Chris Wood (13:48):
That makes sense.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (13:50):
Well, Nick was in a lot of pain for a while back then, so maybe, maybe his little system doesn’t work so well.

Chris Wood (13:57):
<laugh>,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (14:00):
Um, Dave do says he works standing up a lot these days.

Chris Wood (14:03):
Mm-Hmm.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (14:04):
<affirmative> cool. He, his desk is quite high from memory.

Chris Wood (14:12):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (14:14):
I don’t think it’s a fancy up and down one though. <laugh>, is it Dave? Is it a fancy button press and it goes up and down? Yeah. Yeah.

David Schembri (14:22):
It’s got the button thing. And it really, I really like during the work days when I’m doing my designing and stuff, I rarely do the, um, I rarely sit down unless I’m really, I don’t know. And just I’m really, if I’m really beat, I’ll, I’ll get into the sitting position. But that’s normally at the end of the day and I’ve gotta be careful because I’ve got tables on either side with stuff on them, like characters and caricatures. And if I forget about those, the desks will go down and literally crush everything and

Chris Wood (14:49):
Go, what’s that? Oh no,

David Schembri (14:53):
I know. I’ve got a, I’ve got a, uh, well I’ve got a stuffed pickled Rick on the side and I thought, what happened to him? And he’s sitting in a cup and he’s flung the cup and it’s flung over the other side of the room and

Chris Wood (15:04):
Oh goodness.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (15:07):
Okay. So we’ve got Nick explaining what he does. Uh, he rests the iPad on his guts <laugh> and, um, supports it with his left hand and draws with his. Right. That doesn’t sound fun. And, and Andrew, who was on the, was that last No, yeah, last week that he’s one. He, that panel. Yeah. Um, Andrew Law is saying drawing with an iPad in bed is dangerous because if you drift off to sleep, it hits you in the head. Ah, yes. He’s the way I do it as well. Oh, Ronnie. Hi Ronnie. Um, he says Good day, afternoon, bros.

Chris Wood (15:52):
Howdy.

Edmund Kearsley (15:53):
Hey Ronnie. Hello.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (15:55):
Ronnie running Boy Comics. Um, yeah, I remember him coming up once or twice before I,

Edmund Kearsley (16:10):
Okay.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (16:10):
So I’ve probably interrupted David too many times and he’s not quite at a stage where we can find out way he is up to. So I’ll try not to. Good day to all of you. Thank you. Thank you, Ronnie. Um, no fancy thing. I have drafting table that’s too low, so I have to Oh, put it on top of a box. Okay. Very fancy. Alright. Put it on top of a box and then the drawing board is on top of the box. Okay.

Chris Wood (16:47):
Yeah. I’ve got a desk that goes up and down, but it doesn’t have a button. It’s got like a hand crank, like, you know, there’s all old like cars. Oh, get out and like crank the very like, steam funky. But yeah. That’s awesome. It’s pretty cool. Yeah. Very fun.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (17:06):
Oh, here’s a good question. Justin Randalls just asked Ben, tell us about your graphic novel you’re working on.

Jenny Mackintosh (17:14):
Geez, <laugh> on the spot. Thank you Justin. Uh, shout out to Justin. Um, yeah, on the spot I am doing graphic novel slash manga. I’m keeping very secretive because I’m one of those people. If I speak it out to existence, I just won’t do it. <laugh>, it’s happening. Ah.

Chris Wood (17:37):
Oh, that’s too late

Jenny Mackintosh (17:39):
<laugh>. I dunno what it’s, it’s like I’ve got the fulfilment of whatever it is. So anyway, next artwork. So this one is top secret, um, but I will share it is inspired by <inaudible>. I probably shared this before. Anyway, um, back in 2020, that’s before Covid happened. I went to pole dancing just to start my first lessons there and find a way, just something different than the gym. Um, and I went with a friend, um, and I was just so taken aback by the studio and the, the, the strength of these athletes doing pole dancing exercises. And I, I just enjoyed my first lesson so much. So I went back every week and, um, for me it was fulfilling because it was doing a whole new skill, right? Because I’ve been drawing my whole life and I love drawing and I wanted to try something different, start like a newbie and start fresh.

(18:39)
And it’s really challenging to start a whole new thing as a whole newbie and accept where you’re at really, especially when you feel like you are doing well in your previous field. So I’ve learned a lot of lessons through doing pole dancing and uh, this graphic novel’s going to encompass all of those elements of endurance and, um, flexibility and just, it follows a character who needs to go from A to B. That’s just what I’m gonna say. Um, and I’m just really excited to incorporate pole dancing into like a combat sort of thing. So it’s gonna be inspired by Elden ring Dark Souls and Blood Born. There’s gonna be Armoured Dudes and Babes <laugh> and My Monsters. Um, so I’m like drafting out the first chapter at the moment and it’s really exciting because I’ve had to go back and figure out what really inspires me as an artist and what inspires me.

(19:42)
And my horror is, uh, the traditional seventies and eighties horror artworks on paperbacks for novels. Oh, excellent. It’s such a really craft that’s so undermined. And I just felt, especially with the Goosebumps covers, for example, they came out in the nineties, but I never read The Goosebumps ’cause it was so scary. That’s why I went into horror. But anyway, I love that style and I wanna incorporate that into a graphic novel sense, but have the elements of manga, because I grew up reading Manga. That’s my thing. Comics are cool and I really appreciate it, but manga, like Bezerk is where it’s at for me. ’cause I enjoy reading backwards and the culture of it. So that’s the root of my back at the moment. So yeah, if you have any questions, let me know because I don’t know what, what else I can share. It’s top secret. <laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (20:37):
Not so Secret, top Secret App programme. Yes. I love it.

Jenny Mackintosh (20:42):
<laugh>. It’s, it’s happening that way coming soon.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (20:46):
See, I’m the other way around. If I put it out there to the world, I feel pressure that I’ve gotta do it now. So if I don’t, if I’m not sure, I’ll keep it secret that way if I don’t do it, no one else knows that I didn’t do it. <laugh>. So I work the opposite. I work the opposite. That’s interesting. I’m like, once I put out the world, I’m like, oh crap, now I’ve gotta do this. I told everyone I’m gonna do this <laugh>.

David Schembri (21:11):
Yeah. Does it work out the sa it was it work out the next day, you think? Did I, did I? Oh my God, is that what I did? I told everyone I was gonna

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (21:18):
Do. Yeah. I told everyone now I’ve start working on this. Oh my damn.

Jenny Mackintosh (21:22):
I can’t handle that either. So I avoid that completely. Just <inaudible>. So <laugh>. See, because there is that pressure to now do it and it, it takes the fun out of it for some people.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (21:35):
Oh yeah, true.

Jenny Mackintosh (21:37):
And like, I need to keep things fun for myself, which is really difficult. ’cause um, I live in a paradox of my job being the best job in the world and I really love what I do, but I focus on the work elements of the job. So I don’t do the fun parts with like being the artist and drawing. I’m focusing on other parts of it. So, um,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (22:01):
Okay. I’m

Jenny Mackintosh (22:02):
Excited that doing the Secret Project is keeping me anchored to doing art regardless of where I’m at in real life. Because real life gets busy. Yo <laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (22:13):
<laugh>

Jenny Mackintosh (22:14):
Extra work life happens. So if you have something like, you’re like tinkering in the background, do it. I, I, yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (22:23):
So, um, happy

Jenny Mackintosh (22:25):
To create something

David Schembri (22:27):
That’s such a good philosophy.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (22:29):
That’s good advice. Yeah.

Edmund Kearsley (22:32):
David, how’s your panel coming along?

David Schembri (22:34):
Um, I think it looks really good.

Edmund Kearsley (22:38):
Oh, can we have a look?

David Schembri (22:39):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (22:39):
Awesome. Awesome.

David Schembri (22:40):
Um, now, okay, now that it’s hand drawn, um, how do I do, do you just want me to just show it up? I

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (22:48):
Mean, you can call it up to the screen if you want.

David Schembri (22:49):
All I can do. Um, it’s just, it’s just, I’m just getting the, um, the rough, but you’ll get the idea and I think, I think if you

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (22:56):
See it, that’s the main thing. Just, we just want the idea.

David Schembri (23:00):
It’s just got one half of it, but there look, it’s a try and see if I can shoot the camera here. If you can see a little bit what’s happening. Oh,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (23:09):
Nice. Oh, nice. Love it. And embrace

David Schembri (23:14):
<laugh>.

Jenny Mackintosh (23:14):
Embrace Speak, embrace.

David Schembri (23:18):
Are they

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (23:18):
Saying anything?

David Schembri (23:20):
Um, I, I think yes, there will be a speech bubble there. Um, still trying to figure out what she’s gonna say. Um, I’m assuming know it’s the, the, the mother. So I’m just going to, um, get a, uh, uh, am I allowed to say what I’m thinking she should say? Or was, um, first to say you’re back home, but, uh, actually I think I wanted to say, why are you back home? Why you come back? That’s a good question. Might be, um, I don’t know, add a bit more, uh, bit more of, I don’t know, this massive spice. Yeah. Um, yeah, that’s it. Yeah. So that should be enough for Jenny to start on your panel. Ready to rock and roll? Go Jenny.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (24:15):
So I’ll Pastor Chris now,

David Schembri (24:18):
Have

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (24:18):
You got anything that we should know about any secret projects, non-SEC projects?

Chris Wood (24:24):
Uh, yeah, so I’ve got a couple of projects on the go. Ooh, me. So I’m doing the second half of Coffee Table. Uh, okay. So we, me and Ki Alexander, uh, have been working on the book for a while. Um, you know, it’s spare time and we premiere it, uh, a limited edition like black and white, um, version at P Caf, which is a Perth comic arts festival. And that went down really well. Um, yeah, um, PCA Perth Comic Arts Festival. It’s midyear, I believe. I don’t know the exact dates. Um, think it’s around, it’s,

David Schembri (25:04):
Yeah.

Chris Wood (25:05):
Um, I love

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (25:07):
Perth over there then.

Chris Wood (25:09):
Uh, but yeah, really well run festival. So I had a really good time there. Um, committee were all really great. Anyway, we, we had a good, um, sort of a response. Um, so we put it aside for a little while, but now I’m back working on it, um, which is really exciting. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>, I’m also starting to work on Dream Walker with, uh, Scott Wilson and Molly Hunt with Geal, um, oh, cool. First Nations female superhero, um,

David Schembri (25:40):
That’s a good

Chris Wood (25:41):
Name. Must been brewing for a while, uh, which is really cool. Um, and they’re just amazing. Like that whole indigenous project is incredible. Yeah. And, um, you know, I’m First Nations heritage as well, so the idea of like, yeah, if I had read a book like that when I was a kid, it would’ve been amazing. Um, and yeah, I mean, what they did with Dark Heart was incredible. I know issues coming out soon. Um, and yeah, so there’s those two projects which are gonna kick into full gear this year. And then at the moment I’m also doing like, commercial work. So I have an agency now. I’m doing like commercial like illustration. Um, I just can’t talk about too much, but, uh, I’m like the comic book guy with them. So like <laugh>, I’m doing a real cool project where it’s like, um, kind of comic bookie, which is really cool.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (26:42):
I dunno how much I’ll be able to show that. But, um, yeah, it’s cool seeing comics in other scenarios. Um, I wasn’t expecting it like a comic type job through like a commercial business. Uh, but yeah, I think it’s a really good like, communication talk, so it’s feeling like you’ve used in other ways. Uh, but yeah, that’s me. Um, yeah, excited about those projects for sure. Cool. Sounds awesome. Well, we’ve got Andrew Laws just jumped in here and said PAFs on Saturday, Sunday, July 27th and 28th. Legend. Yeah. Thanks. Really good. Yeah, I really enjoyed, uh, my time. I volunteered a couple years ago as well, and that was a really good experience. Um, but yeah. Awesome, awesome time. Cool. And we’ve got quite a few comments here from Omni Bow. Um, it’s not let’s make a comic book. It’s let’s make a fricking epic, one of a kind masterpiece. So that’s very nice. He gets it. I love it. We might, I’ll uh, I’ll let, uh, ed change the, uh, heading up there. Um, I’m not really good. The graphic, very small font to fit all that. Um, and then he’s saying how many people are watching and to like, like, and subscribe. Thanks for putting that out there, Omni. And, um, he’s asking about the artwork on Jenny’s arms. I didn’t even notice that.

Jenny Mackintosh (28:14):
Oh, tattoo is right.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (28:20):
Oh yeah, I see it now. Wow. Oh, okay. Huge on the other side. Yep. Cool.

Jenny Mackintosh (28:28):
Yeah. Well this one was my first one. I’ll do a zoom. Whoa.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (28:33):
Oh yeah, that’s cool.

Jenny Mackintosh (28:35):
It’s my cat smudge.

David Schembri (28:36):
Oh, that’s cute.

Jenny Mackintosh (28:38):
Cat. I <laugh>. Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (28:45):
Oh, cool. Nice.

Jenny Mackintosh (28:47):
Thank you. Um, had to be my first one with my cat. Have a few now. Um, <laugh>. Thank you. That’s very nice. Um, I’m stuck with this panel. Can we get a little like, update so I can see like

David Schembri (29:13):
Update from me?

Jenny Mackintosh (29:15):
Yes, please.

David Schembri (29:16):
Oh, but I haven’t done that much. Just, um, <laugh>,

Jenny Mackintosh (29:20):
I just need to refresh my memory. You’ve done

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:21):
Plenty.

Jenny Mackintosh (29:23):
Oh, excellent. Okay. Thank you.

David Schembri (29:27):
Okay. But yeah, if you wanna see it, just ask anytime it No problem. I’m, I’m pretty,

Jenny Mackintosh (29:36):
Yeah, same. I haven’t got anything yet, so don’t ask

Chris Wood (29:41):
<laugh>.

David Schembri (29:43):
Okay. Reveal

Chris Wood (29:45):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:49):
Uh, awesome.

David Schembri (29:51):
Yeah, I think she’s, I think she’s gonna be more inclining, uh, more I think she’s gonna be saying, uh, why have you come back, Walter? Or Walter, why have you returned? Or something like that.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (30:01):
Oh yeah. Cool.

Chris Wood (30:02):
Well, that Oh, cool. Cool.

David Schembri (30:07):
But if you have another idea that you’d prefer to, prefer to have me pop in the, in the speech bubble, just let me know.

Chris Wood (30:15):
Yeah. Tell you what, I do love three panel pages.

Edmund Kearsley (30:23):
Say again, Chris.

Chris Wood (30:25):
Uh, I was just saying I do love three panel pages, um, over like nine panel pages. It’s a lot easier, I think, to, to work on

Edmund Kearsley (30:40):
A bit more real estate. Yeah,

Chris Wood (30:41):
Yeah, yeah. For sure.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (30:44):
I know three lines ones were a little annoying. I’m just gonna complain about that every episode, by the way, ed <laugh>

Chris Wood (30:50):
<laugh>,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (30:56):
Whose idea was to put that in there.

Chris Wood (30:57):
Yeah, that’s good. Oh yeah,

Edmund Kearsley (30:59):
They did a good job with that one.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (31:01):
They did a good job. Yes.

Edmund Kearsley (31:05):
So I really liked the long thin panels too.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (31:09):
Really?

Edmund Kearsley (31:10):
Yeah, because you can get a lot of up and down movement as you see.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (31:18):
Sorry, I’m just laughing at the comment.

Chris Wood (31:20):
Sorry. <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (31:22):
See how sp he’s got him shooting right up from the

Chris Wood (31:25):
Yeah,

Edmund Kearsley (31:26):
That’s cool. Background into the foreground.

David Schembri (31:28):
That’s

Edmund Kearsley (31:28):
Fantastic. A lot of stuff you can do with it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (31:30):
Yeah, I guess. I don’t know all that stuff. I don’t know all that stuff. I just know lines make picture.

Chris Wood (31:38):
Uh, that’s basically it.

Edmund Kearsley (31:40):
That’s about it. Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (31:41):
I know all the technical stuff. Like, um, this is a pencil. Um, so we’ve got a comment here from Omni Bow. He says he should say, um, blank. Why have you come back? And more importantly, have you read Splitting Sides?

David Schembri (31:57):
<laugh>. <laugh>. I love it.

Chris Wood (32:02):
<laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (32:04):
And tell us about splitting sides.

David Schembri (32:08):
Oh, um, yeah, well look, it, it was a, um, it was an exercise I’ve been wanting to do for many for, for, for a long time. Uh, I’m a big, uh, I’m a horror writer, um, before I was a comic, uh, creator. So, um, I love my horror. Um, I love reading horror.

Chris Wood (32:30):
I also artist.

David Schembri (32:32):
Yeah. Well that, yeah, when you said horse, are we, this is cool <laugh>.

Chris Wood (32:37):
Sorry to interrupt.

David Schembri (32:39):
No, no, no, no, no. Not at all. It’s, uh, it’s, uh, <laugh>. Yeah. I, I think I’m, I’m more of a reader of horror than I am of a, of a, of a viewer. Um, in terms of horror movies, I’m, I’m, I’m, I guess horror movies. I need to, I need a lot to get me to jump in a film, but I love reading horror. But one of my, one of my favourite horror films, because I don’t have many favourite horror films, is Creep Show. Um, uh, and so that is one of my favourite all time films. And, uh, I love the whole comic, uh, theme behind that film. And I’ve always, and what, what I really love about it is that it’s a comedy horror. And so it it’s really in your face horror, uh, if you Yeah. You know what, if you’ve seen it, you know what I mean?

(33:25)
And yeah. Um, and I just, I just love the quirkiness of it. And, and when I see a film that does it well, that one I think really does it. And so when I, when I, when I thought about drawing up a, a comic story, comedy was always coming into it. And I wanted to just sort of do my own voice with it. And that’s where splitting sides came in. I actually had a, uh, a comedy, a story that I’d comic up and did all the art for and colourized it didn’t actually know what I was gonna do with it at the time. It was a sci-fi horror, uh, uh, uh, six page I think it was. Um, and then I, uh, had another idea and then I thought, well, I’ll combine them two, the two and create a, uh, crap. My first issue of a comic, which is something I’ve been wanting to do since I was a teenager.

(34:14)
Um, and so, um, I, I had a festival I was gonna attend with my horror books and, but I didn’t have anything new to release, so I thought, well, well, I’ll release a comic on the, on the event, which was only two months away. And I thought, oh, how hard could it be <laugh>? And then I spent two months, um, uh, driving myself nuts, getting this thing ready. And it came together. It really came together. It looked beautiful. I got it out there. It had a great festival day. It really, it did, it did well, it sold well. Um, and I had some good mates come up to me, um, some horror friends, and they just said, yeah, how’d you, you know, how’d you do it? And I thought, I, I, I must hate myself ’cause I gave myself two months to do this thing <laugh>.

(34:54)
Um, and so, but, but that’s where it started. I just really wanted to do a humorous horror, uh, uh, uh, comic book. And I came up with several story ideas and just settled on the ones that I, I, I used for, uh, for that issue. And then, and felt very strongly that I wanted to continue the trend and keep making more, more of a series and create splitting sides. So I just felt that it’d be something fun for people to, to, to have a gander at some very quirky, very, you know, bloody art. Um, but with a, a nice comedy twist to it. Have a bit of fun with the theme. And that’s, and that’s, uh, yeah, that’s where it’s where it all came from, really. So I hope that answers your question,

Edmund Kearsley (35:38):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (35:39):
Definitely.

Jenny Mackintosh (35:42):
That’s really good.

Edmund Kearsley (35:44):
Has, uh, Jenny, how’s your panel coming along? Can we have a look or,

Jenny Mackintosh (35:48):
Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (35:49):
You shy. No. Cool. <laugh>,

Edmund Kearsley (35:52):
It’s

Jenny Mackintosh (35:53):
Things are happening. Put that, put it that way. Things are moving, things are things drawn.

Edmund Kearsley (36:01):
Tell us what’s going on.

Jenny Mackintosh (36:05):
See the

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (36:06):
Down the bottom.

David Schembri (36:15):
Very cool. The starting of something awesome.

Jenny Mackintosh (36:21):
I’m trying to do like a, a traumatic flashback to Oh,

David Schembri (36:27):
Oh,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (36:27):
Nice.

Jenny Mackintosh (36:28):
In the first place.

Edmund Kearsley (36:31):
Nice.

Jenny Mackintosh (36:32):
I’ve got Wal, uh, what’s the mother’s name? Is it just mother at this point?

David Schembri (36:36):
Yeah, yeah. But hey, it’s, uh, up for, um,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (36:43):
Up to

David Schembri (36:43):
You. You can

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (36:46):
Chris.

David Schembri (36:47):
Chris, do I see a vein popping on the side of your head there about what you’re gonna do next? <laugh>?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (36:54):
No, no. Oh, that’s good. You guys have set me up really well, actually, so.

David Schembri (36:59):
Oh, good. Well that’s good.

Jenny Mackintosh (37:01):
It’s a flashback. The why blank left leaving the surf like they’re under the surface, right? So perhaps blank went on a mission for the, the people on the ground.

David Schembri (37:13):
Hey, now you’re talking,

Edmund Kearsley (37:27):
Is that enough for you to, um, start with Chris or do you No.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (37:32):
Yeah. Yeah. I think that should be enough to start.

Edmund Kearsley (37:36):
Excellent.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (37:36):
Um, so yeah, he’s going, is the flashback, uh, blank, sort of like going off on a mission. Gotcha.

Jenny Mackintosh (37:59):
It needs to be dramatic. This is,

Edmund Kearsley (38:01):
This is

Jenny Mackintosh (38:03):
A pivotal moment in the story.

Edmund Kearsley (38:06):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:13):
That was a fun conversation. Mm. I had my thing on mute the whole time.

Edmund Kearsley (38:18):
<laugh>,

David Schembri (38:20):
You remind me. No, you remind me of me when I was, when I was left in charge to video something at a birthday party. And guess who forget to hit the record button.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:31):
<laugh>.

David Schembri (38:33):
I really didn’t have anything to, I’m just gone. Um, yeah, <laugh>, that just happened.

Edmund Kearsley (38:43):
Sorry. That happened. <laugh>,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:50):
I sure Nothing I said was important.

David Schembri (38:51):
I was so desperate that I tried to get everyone to reenact the whole thing.

Edmund Kearsley (38:55):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:57):
That’s

David Schembri (39:00):
Just to put it, I lost the crowd. Lost the crowd. Didn’t work after that.

Edmund Kearsley (39:06):
Bring out the second kick.

David Schembri (39:07):
Yep, that’s right.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:13):
Uh, cool.

Edmund Kearsley (39:17):
Okay.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:18):
Well I just wanna show off a picture that David sent me. So I’ll just figure out what button I need to push. That’s me.

David Schembri (39:27):
Hey, there you are.

Edmund Kearsley (39:30):
Oh cool. That’s nice. Whoa, that is so cool.

David Schembri (39:35):
Oh, cool. Thanks for that.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:37):
Oh no, thank you. It sits here. My pleasure to look at all the time now. Just stay on the bench there. <laugh>, um, bookstand or whatever that thing is that I’ve got it on

David Schembri (39:50):
Means a lot that you, that you keep it, keep it around. No thanks for that man.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:55):
No, it’s awesome. My pleasure. I

David Schembri (39:56):
Love it. My pleasure. I love doing those. I, yeah, I do. Um, those little sketches for anyone that just sort of approaches me wanting to grab a comic off me, I’ll give them a thank you. A thank you drawing. And, um, in the mail is a bit of a, you know, it’s just as a nod and yeah, thanks very much and

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (40:23):
Very happy. I purchased the comic and I got that <laugh>.

David Schembri (40:26):
Oh, glad you enjoyed it, man.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (40:28):
Mm, great fun. Well, you know what I mean, <laugh>.

David Schembri (40:33):
Yeah. Moment of truth. Trying time to get the ink out. Bravery test

Edmund Kearsley (40:49):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (40:54):
What do you ink with?

David Schembri (40:57):
Uh, just really simple. Um, just really simple outline pens, um, and then some thicker, um, I use some thicker sharpies for, for the thicker, uh, any thicker sort of solid blacks. Um, but then, um, if I’m covering a lot of area, I’ll get the ink pod out with a brush and I’ll, I’ll use the brush. Um, yeah, so it, it just all depends, but yeah, mainly just the outline. Outline fine liners. I find it. Yeah, just do the job, you know, just not, just keep it simple.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:37):
Oh, cat’s going crazy.

David Schembri (41:39):
<laugh>, what do you have? Is there a specific time that your cats go nuts? ’cause I certainly have a, a time. Yes,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:47):
Yes. It’s very time. I dunno if I’m allowed to say this or not, but it’s like between peeing and pooping <laugh>, then he’ll run around the house like a crazy cat and then he’ll poop. <laugh>

David Schembri (42:03):
I’ve got How many cats do you have? Apparently he

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:05):
Just done both. So just done both. He didn’t do the normal tradition. He did both then meant cray cray, <laugh>

Edmund Kearsley (42:10):
How

David Schembri (42:11):
First then one.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:12):
Oh, and he just tried to get into the wardrobe. He’s trying to mess, mess with my head. He’s doing everything out of order. <laugh>

David Schembri (42:20):
Just say I’m not predictable. <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:24):
Usually he is.

David Schembri (42:29):
So you got, so how many cats do you have?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:32):
Just the one.

David Schembri (42:33):
Oh, okay. Just

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:34):
Doug. Doug is enough. Doug is enough.

David Schembri (42:37):
One little tray. That’s great.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:41):
Yeah. Yeah. Craig just said he is like having 10 <laugh>.

David Schembri (42:47):
Yeah, it could feel like that sometimes.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:48):
It’s a nut bag. It’s an absolute nut bag. He’s got this thing, which I, I’ve never heard of a cat doing this before. So if your cats, if anyone here has a cat and it does the same thing, please tell me. So I know I’m not alone. Will not eat,

David Schembri (43:04):
Share your

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (43:04):
Story. Unless I’m watching him.

David Schembri (43:06):
He’ll not. What? He won’t, he’ll

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (43:08):
Not eat unless we’re watching. He’ll come in me out and me out and me out and meow. So we get up and watch him.

David Schembri (43:14):
Really?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (43:14):
We can’t eat unless we’re watching him.

David Schembri (43:16):
Really? No. Well our cats Our cats tell me to get lost when they get their food.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (43:21):
Yeah. No, no.

David Schembri (43:23):
Just they’re intimidated I think. I don’t know. Well that’s, well that’s interesting. They just want to want you to watch him. He wants you to watch, you know,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (43:32):
He wants

David Schembri (43:32):
An audience,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (43:33):
He wants an audience. He wants an audience. I think he’s just trying to compete. He, he’s trying to be the craziest person in the house rather than me.

David Schembri (43:40):
<laugh>. Okay.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (43:45):
Yes. I think I brought that up on another one of the shows as well. I’ll probably bring it up a lot, ed. I apologise <laugh>, but it drives me mental, it drives me mental <laugh>. Especially when he wants to eat in the middle of the night.

David Schembri (43:58):
Oh, no, no. I’ve got a cat that doesn’t settle at night, so he has to go into a room. He has to, he is confined to the laundry. Um, know at nighttime. Um, because yeah, at night he just decides it’s time to, you know, stroll around the house and meo and jump on cupboards in the bedroom and knock things off and just doesn’t settle.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (44:28):
I’m so glad he doesn’t do the knocking things off tables and covers things.

Edmund Kearsley (44:32):
<laugh>. My cat doesn’t do that. It, it’s funny for about <laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (44:50):
Where I read that. So either this is broken or we’ve had no new comments for a while, but we have more viewers. Go figure.

Edmund Kearsley (44:56):
Oh, that’s good. Keep watching.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (45:00):
They’re shy. Maybe shy people.

Edmund Kearsley (45:04):
Since we’ve got some more people here. What did you tell us about the, um, blank Kickstarter?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (45:12):
Ooh, yes, I can do that. I’ll even bring it up on the screen so I can point out what you need to press <laugh>, because I love to just really, you know, dumb things down for no good reason. Hmm. No, we wanna go full screen. Goodbye everyone.

Edmund Kearsley (45:32):
<laugh> <inaudible> with this. This is

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (45:35):
Emotional. That didn’t make any difference. Oh, it’s doing that damn thing when that rolls down all the time. Okay, so blank. This comic that you are seeing made right now, um, it is becoming a real comic and we’re starting, we’ve, we’ve launched the pre-launch page. I love saying that launching the pre-launch, um, page for the blank comic. And that’s also another thing I like saying that we are making a blank comic. Um, I’m very easily amused. It seems <laugh>, um,

Edmund Kearsley (46:07):
<laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (46:10):
At the moment on the screen you can see that is Sean Craig’s art. Mm-Hmm <affirmative>. Um, each day I’ll be changing the um, panel that you see on the campaign to another random artist. So it’s not an order. So it is, you won’t be able to read this as you go each day. It’ll just be random. Um, if you wanna read it, that’s where you get the comic. Um, so yeah, so we we’re at the pre-launch stage. So if you can go to this page, which is blank.com, x.studio, that’ll take you to this page here and just click that, notify me on launch. Um, the re the good reason for that is one, there’s early bird specialists so you can get the point cheaper by being early two. There’s early bird bonuses and what that means is the earlier you get in, the more things you get. Um, so if you’re in the first 12 hours, you get a whole bundle of comics. If you’re in the first 24 hours, you get that bun, you, sorry you missed out on that bundle. But you get, uh, trade as a PDF, sorry, I should probably, um,

(47:18)
Qualify that, um, qualify, quantify whatever. Um, and then in the first 48 hours, we’ll, uh, just for, you know, coming along, we’ll give something and um, then it’s normal Kickstarter from there onwards. So you’ve gotta get in early. And the best way to get in early is to hit that notify me on launch button and it will email you as soon as this thing launches. Okay, I will now remove that from screen.

Edmund Kearsley (47:52):
That’s the one layout. There you go. And that’s where PDFs for those all that stuff is PDFs.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:02):
Oh yeah, it’s a PDF only campaign. Sorry Ed, I forgot to say that

Edmund Kearsley (48:06):
We’ll be doing a physical book later in the year.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:09):
Yeah, later in the year. This is to raise funds and raise awareness more than anything else. Um, for the show and for the comic. Um, PDFs are quite cheap, so this won’t make an awful lot of money, but it will help us get some stock for the shop, some special additions. And then the real fund will be later this year when we do a proper full-blown Kickstarter, which this kickstart will kind of help pay for, if that makes any sense at all.

Edmund Kearsley (48:48):
Hmm.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:54):
Because anyone who knows Siz really well, he likes to experiment and try new things and see how they work. And if they don’t work not to do them again, <laugh>, well hopefully I learn not to do them again. Sometimes I would still do them again. Sometimes I gotta do things wrong way three or four times before I realise, oh, that’s the wrong way.

Edmund Kearsley (49:28):
And

Edmund Kearsley (49:30):
Let’s have a look at, uh, Jenny’s panels going along.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:34):
Yeah. Oh cool.

Edmund Kearsley (49:39):
Awesome.

Edmund Kearsley (49:40):
Get some structure.

Edmund Kearsley (49:47):
Okay.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:47):
Yeah.

Edmund Kearsley (49:48):
And you guys don’t have to finish the panel tonight Show as well.

Jenny Mackintosh (49:53):
Oh, okay.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:54):
Yeah, you don’t have to finish it during the show

Jenny Mackintosh (49:57):
From work. <laugh>

Edmund Kearsley (49:59):
<laugh>,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (50:00):
You just gotta do enough for the next artist to know what to do and then anything else is a bonus. And then you can finish it

Jenny Mackintosh (50:11):
Gonna be like, it’s been such a long time, or it’s been x amount of years, or something like that, like since you left. So that helps twist kind of just dropped it out really loose detail. And then on a separate layout of go and zoom in and add more detail. There’s no point detailing something if it doesn’t work and spending all that time detailing something if it doesn’t work. So you’ve got a thumbnail at first, see if it works. And then you spend all that time detailing <laugh>. Mm-Hmm,

Edmund Kearsley (51:11):
<affirmative>.

Chris Wood (51:12):
Yes. Hold on.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (51:14):
Cool. A new lesson for me, <laugh>. I just go straight to the detail and go, ah, this doesn’t work.

Jenny Mackintosh (51:23):
What happens to the best of us? Like, you get so into it, it’s like, I wanna see where this goes and then you realise it’s not going anywhere. <laugh>, from my experience,

Chris Wood (51:41):
I can almost show mine.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (51:44):
Okay.

Chris Wood (51:46):
Mine’s like a flashback, but from blank’s perspective, so kind of like,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (51:52):
Oh, nice. Oh, cool.

Chris Wood (51:56):
Let’s see if it works there before we <laugh> celebrate. Um, okay,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (52:08):
Let me know if email’s easier and I’ll I’ll open up my email.

Chris Wood (52:11):
Probably messengers. Okay. Okay,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (52:14):
Cool. See now I wanna know what she’s saying. <laugh>, put me on the edge of my seat, Jenny.

Jenny Mackintosh (52:35):
Okay, look, I’m doing a thing of focusing on the detail now. So <laugh>,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (52:54):
I’ve got another comment here from Andrew Law. He says, detail everything and then black it all out later when it doesn’t work. Mm-Hmm. <laugh> black it out. <laugh>.

Jenny Mackintosh (53:19):
Um, uh, it’s an epic quest to save their people.

Edmund Kearsley (53:45):
<laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (53:57):
Blank don’t foul us. This is getting a bit exciting though ’cause we’re, we’re, we’re almost, we’re only couple of pages away from the end. Mm

Jenny Mackintosh (54:12):
Ooh,

Chris Wood (54:13):
That’s exciting. How many pages do you reckon it’s gonna be?

Edmund Kearsley (54:17):
20?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (54:19):
20? It’s all mapped out. Well, not the story. The the sequence. The story. An absolute mystery every week. Mystery. I secretly have it all worked out beforehand. I’m still surprised that some of the, that people was thought of. It’s like how did you, what what, what did that come into your head? <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (55:06):
And one of the reasons why we’ve got the number of panels is the number of artists per page is ’cause when we’re all trying to figure out how to just have the show work, it’s like if it’s not structured in some sort of way, then a page could take weeks of episodes just to make one page.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (55:28):
Mm

Chris Wood (55:28):
Oh yeah. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>.

Edmund Kearsley (55:32):
So we made it like this.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (55:37):
Such a modest man. He made it like this. I was a spectator.

Edmund Kearsley (55:42):
It was the royal we

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (55:45):
The royal we. Yes. Nice. I had nothing to contribute. I was just like, oh, good idea Ed

Edmund Kearsley (55:53):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (55:54):
<laugh>. Got it. Chris, just in case you were wondering,

Chris Wood (56:03):
You did get it. Yeah, sorry.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (56:04):
There it is it Oh fantastic.

Edmund Kearsley (56:08):
Ooh,

Edmund Kearsley (56:12):
<laugh>.

Chris Wood (56:13):
He’s got like the little stick with the handkerchief. Subjective flashback from blank. Maybe feeling sorry for himself,

Edmund Kearsley (56:22):
But he’s hobos bindle.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (56:24):
<laugh>. That’s right.

Edmund Kearsley (56:28):
That’s a nice drawing too.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (56:29):
Yeah, that is.

Jenny Mackintosh (56:30):
I’ll go back to the handkerchief stick. How about that?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (56:33):
Oh yeah, that’d be awesome. Thank you. I didn’t wanna make more work

Jenny Mackintosh (56:37):
Continuation otherwise

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (56:39):
Continuity. I love. No, I love it.

David Schembri (56:42):
Yeah, try the continuity is a bit tricky with the mum, but uh, I’m just sort of grabbing picture I like from certain, uh, uh, elements and just grab, put it into, into my version.

Jenny Mackintosh (56:58):
You could draw a handkerchief with like food falling out of it. <laugh>

Edmund Kearsley (57:01):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:02):
Oh yeah. Some like crumbs in the background, which is cracking. Well that eats. Does he eat? Yeah, there’s a panel where he’s eating an egg.

Edmund Kearsley (57:16):
Oh yeah. Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:17):
That’s, that’s amazing.

Edmund Kearsley (57:20):
He does.

Jenny Mackintosh (57:24):
Or is it food or is it <inaudible>? What’s in the inventory?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:28):
<laugh>, he’s

Jenny Mackintosh (57:37):
A weapon inside <laugh>. Um,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:47):
I love that. I love this whole other people’s panels evolve according to other people’s panels during the show. It’s so cool. Oh, absolutely. Like, um, what was the one where um, Logan French drew a bone and a knife in the ground so that they could be used in the, in the future panels.

Edmund Kearsley (58:09):
Whoa,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:09):
<laugh> that’s awesome.

Edmund Kearsley (58:14):
Because Alex drove holding a bone and then uh, Peter Lawson drew with the,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:21):
The

Edmund Kearsley (58:21):
Knife picking the knife. So so

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:24):
The first panel? Yeah.

Edmund Kearsley (58:30):
Good times. It seems so long ago. Episode two

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:40):
<laugh>.

Jenny Mackintosh (58:44):
Oh, that’s what happens when you tap the wrong thing. It zooms all the way up.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:50):
<laugh>. Oh wow. Dramatic zoom in

Jenny Mackintosh (58:56):
One tap and you zoomed out. It’s just how it is being a digital artist.

Edmund Kearsley (59:02):
<laugh>.

Jenny Mackintosh (59:04):
Um, cool. Well I’m kind of happy with that draught now we’re gonna group it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (59:15):
So with my drawing, I find, um, using the, the um, iPad, you tap it and it changes the pencil from to an eraser. I had tremors so I’m continuously changing the pen to an eraser. So why isn’t a drawing? Hang on. Why did just take away some drawing? Ah, it’s an erase again.

Jenny Mackintosh (59:37):
Guess I swore I drew that. That’s what the looks like. I looking at previous panel just to get the profile right. You

Edmund Kearsley (59:54):
Do you reckon it’s about that time sis?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (59:57):
Oh yeah, you are watching the time and I’m not glad one of us is <laugh>. It’s about that time. This is where everyone sends in what they’ve got and Ed puts it together to show what it looks like as a page.

Jenny Mackintosh (01:00:09):
Alright, well

Edmund Kearsley (01:00:12):
They

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:12):
Don’t have to be high re or anything just yeah, just

Edmund Kearsley (01:00:17):
Could just send in a snap a pic for David of his

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:21):
Yeah. Yeah. I can give you a scanner

Edmund Kearsley (01:00:23):
Rooney.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:24):
Um,

Edmund Kearsley (01:00:25):
And uh,

Jenny Mackintosh (01:00:30):
I had a screenshot this.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:32):
Yeah. And then you can just finish it afterwards at your own leisure. So yeah. Cool. And then we’ll put it together as a real page once we’ve got all the finished art. Yeah. So,

Edmund Kearsley (01:00:48):
And then can have a look at the comic shop while you guys are sending those into his.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:53):
Sure. You can send my messenger too, just so you know,

Edmund Kearsley (01:00:56):
Into your messenger.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:58):
Yeah, that’ll be fine. The easiest way for me to get ’em and get ’em to Ed.

Jenny Mackintosh (01:01:03):
Alright, cool.

Edmund Kearsley (01:01:04):
Easy everyone at home. The comics shop is the official comics shop to buy all the Australian comic books and it all goes to help the, uh, the cartoonists and the, the writers and artists and also to help, uh, fund all the comic stuff. So all the shows, all the comic studio, uh, books and the other shows like a drink and draw. That one’s mine, <laugh> the people at home. That’s Dave Di was in the chat before.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:01:47):
Yep. A few of his there. Uh, something I should add for anyone who is sending in books for this, you can send in physical and you can send in digital. The store can do both. So there are some of those are digital only some of the comments in there, um, where people sent me the files and I sell them for them on their behalf.

Edmund Kearsley (01:02:07):
Cool. Rub Kona and Nick Cleary both are on the show and there’s the official hats that me and <inaudible> are wearing. You can get your own.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:02:23):
Yeah, you can get your own. I’ve got a lot of them. <laugh>. I’m looking at the box next to me that’s full,

Edmund Kearsley (01:02:31):
Like got, looks like a Neil, uh, Neil Blandon drawing who was on the show as well. There’s, uh, SPIE did a good panel that was um, uh, Brad Daniels did, it’s his book. He did a good panel.

Edmund Kearsley (01:02:53):
Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:02:55):
Yeah. It’s funny that a lot of people from the shop. Another thing I should note while I’m here is also, um, there has been some confusion that the shop is only for people in the close Comex community. Uh, that is not the case. It is a shop for Australian indie comics. Uh, if you are Australian and you’ve got a indie comic that you wanna sell, let me know. Um, there’s a bit of a process. It’s on the website, what you need to do and then yeah, if everything goes fine it’ll be in the shop.

Edmund Kearsley (01:03:36):
Um, Dana King, I’ve got two.

Edmund Kearsley (01:03:45):
Shane I just sent mine through to you mate. See if that works.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:48):
Yeah, cool. Yeah, I’ve got, yeah, sorry. I should, I should let you guys know that I’ve got it so you’re not like getting it through

Edmund Kearsley (01:03:55):
<laugh>. Sorry it took me a little while. I just had to tidy up a tiny couple.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:04:00):
Shane just sitting there waiting and waiting. Not saying anything.

Edmund Kearsley (01:04:03):
<laugh>. Thanks.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:04:08):
Just so you know, I’ve got everyone’s <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (01:04:12):
Thank

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:04:12):
You. Hopefully I just forward them to Ed and not back to yourself.

Edmund Kearsley (01:04:16):
<laugh> and yeah, I’ve got three so

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:04:22):
Can take. Yeah, I’ve got three. Oh, phew. I was a bit worried. I sent Jenny back to Jenny. So while you do that, I’m gonna go with my screen.

Edmund Kearsley (01:04:38):
Um, stage.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:04:42):
There’s that blank comic again. Oh, wouldn’t that be awesome to have? Yeah. Ooh, down. Okay, cool. Um, but in the meantime, let’s look at some Instagrams of the people who have joined us tonight. So this is Jenny’s Instagram.

Edmund Kearsley (01:05:01):
Very

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:05:01):
Spooky.

Edmund Kearsley (01:05:03):
Whoa. Oh that’s great. Right? Awesome. So cool. Thank you

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:05:09):
Very much. There’s Jenny doing the splits, which is the scariest thing on the entire page. <laugh>

Edmund Kearsley (01:05:16):
Agreed.

Jenny Mackintosh (01:05:17):
It looks

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:05:18):
It looks painful. <laugh>. I can do that but I don’t wanna <laugh>.

Jenny Mackintosh (01:05:32):
Thank you. I love, I I love the contrast of innocent, uh, things with drastic horror. Good bits. So, um, I’ve taken the minority characters and you know, just fight them I guess. Why not?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:05:50):
Yeah, yeah, definitely. Why not? I think I got that pink one for my birthday.

Jenny Mackintosh (01:05:57):
Genre horror, body horror and horror you’ll see of that great artist I love very much. Yeah, this is a gallery for you.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:06:20):
What time is it? Sit Fast. Oh, I like that one. That’s the um, drink and drawer. Oh, hang on. Was that the one from the drink and drawer?

Jenny Mackintosh (01:06:32):
No, that on you

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:06:33):
Did that character. That’s what it was. That’s what I’m thinking of. Vampire.

Edmund Kearsley (01:06:39):
Oh

Jenny Mackintosh (01:06:39):
No.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:06:43):
Yeah,

Jenny Mackintosh (01:06:47):
Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:06:50):
Now I’ll just scroll out quickly, get a quick look.

Edmund Kearsley (01:06:55):
<laugh>.

Jenny Mackintosh (01:06:57):
Yeah, thank you. Feel free to follow my account if you wanna see more work from me. It’s Jenny.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:07:05):
Yep. It’s in that bottom. The thing, scrolling on the bottom of the screen there has everyone’s Instagrams for anyone who hasn’t noticed it, who’s watching

Jenny Mackintosh (01:07:18):
Btw. If you feel like buying some prints and supporting a local artist, I will say thank you and sign them. I send them off to their homes so feel free to check that out if you have time.

Edmund Kearsley (01:07:30):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:07:33):
Cool. Now we’ll roll over to Chris Wood. Got some cool picks going on. Is this for the latest project or just picks? Hang on. Nice. Sorry, <laugh>. Oh there’s um, gimme a second. It’s just load little commentary there. A little bit of lag. As soon as it comes to me, I start liking. That’s amazing. Yeah. That’s cool.

David Schembri (01:08:29):
What beautiful stuff.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:08:38):
Oh, I remember that. Drink a drawer. Cool. Well I, I get a bit excited looking at everyone’s art and I just seem to do this for too long and I usually will get to watch Ed in the background going, come on sis.

David Schembri (01:08:58):
<laugh>,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:08:59):
I’m finished. So we’ll look at David’s. Oh yours is more of a

David Schembri (01:09:07):
Yeah, good at maybe scroll down a tiny bit if you want to see more comic stuff. ’cause that’s a lot of, that’s based on my professional, uh, my studio, my graphic design stuff. Um, so that’s what I do day, day by day and all that sort of thing. I’ve got some comic things happening there and I was trying to um, just promote the splitting sides a bit more and then, you know, you got a bit more stuff there as I was developing the first issue. Um, and yeah, still more business stuff after that. And then some more spinning sides and artwork and stuff starts sort of creeping up the mix. Yeah. Bit of a mix there.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:09:49):
Well, I’ll scroll back up to the top and then we’ll go back to Ed who has got the picture.

Jenny Mackintosh (01:10:04):
Oh cool. Okay.

David Schembri (01:10:06):
Oh wow. Alright.

Edmund Kearsley (01:10:08):
That’s how the page has coming together. Let’s have a look.

David Schembri (01:10:14):
Uh, yeah, I’ve got a lot of work to do yet. <laugh>, <laugh>, but it’s coming together.

Edmund Kearsley (01:10:20):
It’s looking really good.

David Schembri (01:10:22):
No, thank you. That’s

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:10:22):
Awesome.

Edmund Kearsley (01:10:25):
To get the, the mum giving him a shake. Say, what are you doing back

David Schembri (01:10:31):
<laugh>? Where’s my radio?

Edmund Kearsley (01:10:38):
You get the really nice framing from the light coming through the hole and these characters are waving goodbye looks like.

Jenny Mackintosh (01:10:47):
Yeah, I, I was trying do a at first and I thought it doesn’t make sense so I’m readjust that. Um, <laugh>. But yeah, I want it to be dramatic so that’s why I went for lighting.

Edmund Kearsley (01:11:02):
That’s

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:11:03):
Yeah, pays off.

Edmund Kearsley (01:11:04):
Looks good. It’s been so long since you left for your mission. And then the last one I had to try so hard to make sure this wasn’t my villain origin story and that’s blank saying that and so yeah, it’s still a flashback <laugh>. You could see the, that bit there, the whole, so that came together really nice.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:11:33):
Yeah. That’s awesome.

Jenny Mackintosh (01:11:36):
Great work team.

David Schembri (01:11:37):
Yes. Yeah, work. Yeah. Joe Team <laugh> team.

Jenny Mackintosh (01:11:44):
Um,

Edmund Kearsley (01:11:47):
Hey scissors, double on Chris’s spot.

David Schembri (01:11:51):
Hey. Down at him. Didn’t

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:11:54):
Even see that doing

David Schembri (01:11:55):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:11:58):
You’re

David Schembri (01:11:58):
Now blank.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:12:00):
Walter, his name’s Walter now we found out. Oh,

David Schembri (01:12:03):
Walter. Yeah, true. Walter,

Jenny Mackintosh (01:12:07):
Walter blank. Like a kind of a New York accent live on the ground. Maybe

David Schembri (01:12:17):
<laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:12:22):
Andrew Law says chat function settings. I’m thinking he’s talking about me and my pen. Oh sorry.

Edmund Kearsley (01:12:31):
No.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:12:32):
Um, but Nick May is sweet looking page.

Edmund Kearsley (01:12:37):
Awesome. Nick May is correct.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:12:40):
Very correct.

Edmund Kearsley (01:12:44):
Well that wraps up another great show, another excellent page. And thank all the artists for coming on the show and helping us and lending their drawing talent.

Jenny Mackintosh (01:12:58):
Thank you for having us.

David Schembri (01:13:00):
Yeah, no pleasure. It’s been a lot of fun. Yeah, sorry I was just, I was still still drawing. I got out, I got stuff to do now. <laugh>. It’s been a lot of fun. A lot of fun. Yeah. Yeah,

Edmund Kearsley (01:13:14):
It was good show. And thanks to all the people in the chat for all the comments. And don’t forget to like, comment and subscribe to the YouTube channel

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:13:25):
What he said.

David Schembri (01:13:27):
Yep. Um,

Edmund Kearsley (01:13:29):
Thanks Toy for making it all happen,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:13:34):
Sorta of make it all happen wrong. Um,

David Schembri (01:13:39):
<laugh>,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:13:40):
My pleasure. Thank you everyone. Oh, technical difficul. Yeah, I was pressing the wrong button. Thank you <laugh>. Thank you all. Thanks for coming tonight.

David Schembri (01:13:49):
Thank you.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:13:49):
You thanks for awesome. Thank you for everyone watching. Thank, thank

David Schembri (01:13:52):
You. Thank you

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:13:53):
For hosting an awesome show and um, good night to everyone.

David Schembri (01:13:57):
Alright, good night. Stay safe. See ya.