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 (00:47):
Hey, we’re live one. Let’s make a comic book where we’re making a comic book with a different artist for every single panel. And we’ve got three artists in tonight, and one of them’s not an artist. So, we’ll <laugh>, say hello to Ben Sullivan, Daniel Watts, and Aaron M Hey. Hello.

Edmund Kearsley (01:09):
Hmm.

Edmund Kearsley (01:10):
Thanks for coming in, fellas. Yeah, thank you. Thanks for having us.

Ben Sullivan (01:13):
Having us.

Edmund Kearsley (01:15):
So we are gonna, um, you, you are gonna be drawing a panel and you’re gonna be following on from last week with, uh, Rob Shery, who had Walter, what are you doing back here? Followed by Jenny Macintosh. It was a long time ago, but you left as the dwell was calling you. And then Chris Wood has finished it off with, I had to try so hard to make sure this is wasn’t my villain origin story. <laugh>, that’s blank. And said, yeah, it’s still a flashback. So, right. That was action from last week. Yeah. And now we’re gonna figure out, um, which layout you guys are gonna be using. If you’re gonna, I’ll put my, uh, thing up. Yep. Okay. We’re gonna play everyone’s favourite game show the wheel of layout spin up. Aha. And halfway Keeps doing that. <laugh> because they’re big. Uh, hey. Right. Big That one circles. Yeah. Remove that from the thing for next week. So you guys, now you know which of the layouts you are using. Now we’re gonna have to go to the, the hand of choosing to <laugh>. Pick the order. And, uh, we’ll go, uh, we’ll have, uh, Dan, you pick a number one to three. Uh, I got two. Two, two is three. Whoa, whoa. So you’ll be going last.

Aaron Mak (03:08):
Can we rig it? Can we rig the, the, the <laugh>

Edmund Kearsley (03:12):
<laugh>? Well, let’s see. We’ll get Aaron to choose next.

Aaron Mak (03:19):
Oh, this is horrible. I can’t pick the X Can I For <inaudible>. <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (03:24):
That’s true.

Aaron Mak (03:26):
Alrighty. Lucky number three.

Edmund Kearsley (03:28):
Three. That’s gonna be one. Three is two. Oh,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (03:34):
Ben’s first,

Edmund Kearsley (03:35):
Right then is first. Ah, okay.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (03:40):
Just so we are clear on the layout. I hope I got this right. Is this the one Ben, uh, ed?

Edmund Kearsley (03:44):
Yep. Yep. Cool. That’s the one. Oh, that’s the one. Yeah, I’ve got the wrong one. Uh, that’s, so this one we’ve got a eight centimetre by 15.3 centimetre rectangle. Oh, right. To start off with Ben. Alright. Should I get cracking? Yes,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (04:00):
Go for it buddy.

Edmund Kearsley (04:01):
Alright. Get your drawing. So, uh, we’ll have, um, sis have a look at the comments.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (04:09):
Yep. That’s what I’m up to. Now we’ve got some called Ed. I don’t know who that would be going. Woo. About three hours ago,

Edmund Kearsley (04:16):
<laugh>,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (04:17):
He got the first comment in and we’ve got, uh, Nick May, uh, he’s been a bit, um, a bit racist. I guess he’s saying hello to the artist, but not the, not artist I guess. <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (04:30):
Wow. It’s just,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (04:31):
Yeah. So yeah, a bit Artist or artist, I don’t know what the word is. Artist. Yeah.

Edmund Kearsley (04:38):
<laugh>.

Aaron Mak (04:38):
Judge me. Uh, this is the one time I’ll say judge me on my race and not on my artistic ability. <laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (04:46):
And Robbie says hello to the artist and the non-art.

Edmund Kearsley (04:51):
Hey. Hello to Robbie and thanks for the comments. Me and Nick. Me

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (04:56):
<laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (04:59):
So who’s going? So Ben’s drawing. So, um, uh, is this okay? Should I do the, the size or double the size you think? Does it matter?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (05:09):
Probably

Edmund Kearsley (05:09):
Doesn’t matter, right? It’s up to you. Yeah, because that’s the print size. So yeah. Draw when its smaller. Yeah. Um, you are number three. So, uh, there’s this 7.9 across the bottom and 14.80, 14.8. Okay, good. Oh yeah, this

Aaron Mak (05:37):
Is gonna end up being like a sandwich that’s made with such like, beautiful French bag, you know, the finest hosting all the land. And in the middle is just like off pastrami <laugh>.

Ben Sullivan (05:58):
Um, oh, Laura Smith says New page. Get Keen. There you go. Yeah.

Edmund Kearsley (06:05):
So Aaron, tell us about, um, your comic book, how you got into it, the story of why you like comic books.

Aaron Mak (06:18):
Um, okay, so from the beginning, um, we’ve got two comics and I work with this guy over here. The real, the real artist <laugh>. Uh, we, we work together to make, um, so one is God’s Among Men, which is, um, we started work all the way back in 2021, and that’s gonna be coming out in April on Kickstarter. And we’re gonna take it a supernova with the little man sis in the box, man,

Edmund Kearsley (06:48):
<laugh>

Aaron Mak (06:49):
Man in the Box. Um, and the other one is called Anna, and that was like a, um, um, it’s band merchandise, but we also wanted it to be a story that could stand on its own two feet. Um, I forgot the other two. What were the other two questions?

Ben Sullivan (07:04):
<laugh>. <laugh>. Yeah.

Edmund Kearsley (07:06):
So how did you get into comics?

Aaron Mak (07:08):
Oh, um, so during lockdown I was like, I needed a new addiction. And then obviously the internet and, you know, I thought that was a pretty healthy addiction to go on a Facebook. And there were all these groups and I started buying comic books by the gallons, the right unit of measurements, <laugh>.

Ben Sullivan (07:28):
So yes,

Aaron Mak (07:30):
By the Pounds. Yeah. I started buying them, started getting really into it. And then that was kind of this thing where we were sitting on a couple of stories and we said, oh, that was one store in particular. We said, why don’t do it in the comic format? And it, you know, has shaped out to be something really. And if it wasn’t for, I have to keep mentioning Ben here, and you’re gonna see tonight why I’m not the artist on the project and why Ben, you know, really

Ben Sullivan (07:55):
<laugh>

Aaron Mak (07:56):
Took

Daniel Watts (07:56):
Word. I watched a little video, I watched your little video on that, and that was pretty funny. <laugh>. Yeah. Yeah. Your thumbnails to, to Ben. I learned a lot from those thumbnails. <laugh>. Yeah, that’s right. Go. They’re lucky to get there.

Aaron Mak (08:11):
I’ll bring it that far. And then Ben takes it into the, the, the sphere of like, oh, okay, this is like legit, you know, <laugh>

Ben Sullivan (08:18):
<laugh>.

Aaron Mak (08:21):
But yeah, no, been, um, it’s been a fun, a fun journey and really love the sort of visual storytelling possibilities of comics and it’s, yeah, it makes me feel educated that I can read, but there’s pictures <laugh>, so that’s really, that’s really nice. It’s a nice feeling.

Edmund Kearsley (08:43):
It is.

Ben Sullivan (08:44):
<laugh>

Edmund Kearsley (08:47):
<laugh>. Well, uh, we’ll go over to Dan and, uh, tell us what you’ve been working on recently.

Daniel Watts (08:54):
Um, oh, just been finding, yeah, like, uh, like Aaron, I’ve been looking on, uh, Instagram a lot more lately and just finding other, finding other comics from overseas and, and, uh, other create creators of things, toys and, and things and just, just trying to do different things at the moment. I’ve done a couple of, uh, co comic covers for, uh, one, just one Canadian guy and that was, yeah, just trying to change it up and meet, meet new people around the world too. That’s kind of a kind of good thing to do while you’re on, when you can use Instagram and Facebook and stuff like that. So, so yeah, just been a little bit of, uh, just working on one more, uh, toy packaging, which has been really great. So Cool. Very lucky to be able to do that again. Yeah. Been passed on, which is awesome. So that’s kind of like little goals that I’ve always wanted to do and it’s kind of just starting to happen for me, which has been great. So if it leads to more, that’s awesome, but if not, it’s, I’m glad I’ve been able to be a part of doing a couple of, couple of cool projects and Kickstarters. Yeah. Not my Kickstarters, but I’ve just joined in with other people, other creators and people doing their own Kickstarters, Kickstarter. Sarah,

Ben Sullivan (10:11):
What was the time? What Toy Lane was that?

Daniel Watts (10:14):
Um, I’ve worked for, um, a fandom Star killer. I’ve got one. Can you those Cool.

Ben Sullivan (10:23):
Oh, awesome. Yeah,

Daniel Watts (10:26):
I got to do, I’ll just turn know how to turn this around.

Ben Sullivan (10:31):
Um, <laugh> <laugh>. Oh, cool. He’s hung up. Press, I bet you there was copyright. Yeah, there was copyright on that. Thanks back. Oh, you alright, hang on. We deal with text in any way we like here.

Daniel Watts (10:57):
Oh, it won’t, won’t show it. Yeah. Oh, no,

Ben Sullivan (11:00):
<laugh>, you might have pressed something. That’s all.

Daniel Watts (11:04):
Oh, okay. Your name’s

Ben Sullivan (11:06):
Into your

Daniel Watts (11:08):
I Oh, well, there you go.

Ben Sullivan (11:13):
Oh, cool. That’s, that’s,

Daniel Watts (11:15):
Yeah, so that’s it there.

Ben Sullivan (11:16):
Oh, wow. I’ll bring you up actually so people can see it properly. Yeah,

Daniel Watts (11:23):
That looks right. So these are, wow. That’s amazing. Yeah, I was stuck. Yeah, thank you. Oh, cool.

Ben Sullivan (11:28):
I’ve got, I

Daniel Watts (11:29):
Got to, I digitally coloured these as well, which were, which was great just to, for the experience as well. So he gave me, he gave me the template, he gave me the template for me to make sure that I was working in the right area, and I just printed that out and, um,

Ben Sullivan (11:47):
Show

Daniel Watts (11:47):
These, the original, these original works here. Oh, nice.

Ben Sullivan (11:51):
Oh,

Daniel Watts (11:54):
It’s the original. These are a three, I’d done the original drawings. A three size on

Edmund Kearsley (12:00):
That is sweet.

Daniel Watts (12:02):
Oh, thanks. Yeah, that’s great. Good fun to, and just, yeah, just to see it printed and manufactured with a toy, which is better <laugh>. So these Yeah, the, the packaging on these are, are really great. So you can actually, you pop them, you can actually just pop them open and you’re not damaging the card or anything. Oh, oh, yeah, yeah. So the, uh, Peter just a p

Edmund Kearsley (12:27):
Not put it on.

Daniel Watts (12:29):
That’s right. Yeah. So Peter Grohl can, he can just, whoever artist or whatever, um, image graphic he wants to use, he can just put the new card in, which is excellent.

Edmund Kearsley (12:40):
That’s awesome. So

Daniel Watts (12:42):
Yeah, he can go to Killer Peter Grohl and Killer, uh, boot. Yeah. Killer Bootlegs is his, um, Instagram and things like that. And Super seven, he’s manufactured by Super seven, uh, toy Line, which is pretty sweet. Yeah. So that, and then, um, the other, the other project I’ve been able to work with is the Stroke Force Alpha.

Edmund Kearsley (13:06):
Ah, yeah.

Daniel Watts (13:08):
Oh, I’m, I’m a big DI Joe, big DI Joe fan. So <laugh>, this was, um, little bit of a, about as close as I’m gonna get to work, do anything like DI Joe. So these turned out really nice.

Edmund Kearsley (13:20):
Yeah, that’s awesome.

Daniel Watts (13:23):
Excellent. That’s what I’ve kind of been, yeah. Oh, thanks. Yeah, they, that’s what I’ve kind of been luckily enough to be working on and yeah, some other projects, but they’re all kind of still up in, up in the air and still getting, getting worked on, so,

Edmund Kearsley (13:38):
Yeah. Cool. That’s very cool.

Daniel Watts (13:44):
Yeah. Thanks, <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (13:51):
So the, the artist who’s drawn Radical Four, uh, did a bunch of the Strikeforce Alpha stuff. George Vega, he

Daniel Watts (14:01):
Did a Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. There’s

Edmund Kearsley (14:02):
A lot of the designs and stuff. Oh

Daniel Watts (14:05):
Yes, that’s right. Yeah. Well, I only, I kind of was searching through Kickstarter and I was just, I just typed in action figures and I thought, oh, see, ’cause I, I’d seen a couple of people posting saying that they’re getting all these like, awesome toy lines and they’re pretty decent price when you, when you back the Kickstarter in the first, the first, um, backing, so I just typed in action figures and then I saw Strikeforce Alpha and they’re like a O-ring, the original, like a GI, Joe O-ring figurine. So I just, um, I just done a, I’d done the fan art, I just done that. I’d done the Ninja. Um, I’ve done that one. So first, the original illustration, that one, and I just sent, I found them and then I found their Facebook page, and then I just approached them very nicely and said, I’ve kind of done the, I’ve done the illustration and then, um, approached them and showed them the drawing, the finished drawing.

(15:00)
So I wasn’t just like showing them a really bad drawing or a sketch of anything. I finished the drawing and just thought the worst that will happen is I’ll be able to just post it on my Instagram and Facebook and maybe help promote that the product. So, and then he, they were really happy with it, so they ended up using it, um, just as a poster at first. They were gonna just add that as a poster for the Kickstarter, just one of the, um, yeah. Campaign things to, to reach a goal. And then it went on, went on for a while. That’s when kind of covid and everything happened. So that kind of put all their production of the toy line like way behind. Yeah. Unfortunately for them, but they look, they, they still had a lot of people, a lot of people were complaining, but a lot of people stuck with it. And I just stuck with them as well. And I just purchased a decent amount of the figurines from the Kickstarter, and then, yeah, then they actually used the artwork, which I didn’t know they were gonna do, and but, but they obviously talked to me about it. And then yeah, I was blown away, but they were gonna use it. And then he, they commissioned me to do the second one, which was the, the, uh, the one

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (16:09):
There. Oh, cool.

Daniel Watts (16:12):
Yeah. So that yeah. Turned out great. So I was very lucky to just, to be a, a fan and then yeah, get, get on board to the Kickstarter and be a part of it, which was awesome.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (16:24):
Yeah, that’s sweet. That’s really cool. Yeah,

Daniel Watts (16:27):
They look great. <laugh>. Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (16:29):
I was gonna say, um, Nick May says they look great as well, Daniel, so Yeah. Oh, on the comments. Yeah.

Daniel Watts (16:36):
Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (16:38):
And, um, it’s just beauty of the internet. Yeah. <laugh>. Yeah. I’m just looking at the stats here and we haven’t, we have more, um, female watches for some reason. It could be the almost shirtless Aaron, maybe it’s what it is. Thing needs. It

Edmund Kearsley (17:03):
Says take your top off.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (17:05):
Yeah, that’s, that’s what they, our entire audience <laugh>. Yeah. It’s a niche. You have to, you have to find your niche, right? You have to find your niche. Yes. <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (17:19):
Speaking of niches, uh, Ben, how’s your panel going?

Ben Sullivan (17:24):
I think I, I’ve got something sh sh I need to show you, I suppose. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>. Yeah. Alright, <laugh>. So what I’m gonna do here is what’s her name, mother is gonna say, I’m, we’re still in flashback mode, I suppose. Are we?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (17:40):
That’s a few.

Ben Sullivan (17:42):
Yeah, sure. I think we’re still in flashback mode, but who, sorry? Dan, is it you next or is it you? Aaron?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (17:48):
Aaron. It’s me, Aaron.

Ben Sullivan (17:49):
Aaron Aaron. Yeah. I was thinking, I guess he could, she’s gonna get, be giving him something for his journey because here we’ve got, the last page was flashback and he’s off on his journey that will lead us to, and she’s gonna be giving him something that’ll happen on his way. And I might do something that may help her. Uh, I wonder if this will work. Just gimme one sec. May not see it. Uh uh, no, it’s not gonna work

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (18:21):
Because that’s fun to do that to people.

Ben Sullivan (18:25):
<laugh>. So, yeah, he’s getting, he’s getting him something that’ll help him on his way if that, ah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (18:33):
There you go, Aaron.

Ben Sullivan (18:35):
So Aaron’s gotta figure out what it is that

Aaron Mak (18:38):
Will help me on my way.

Ben Sullivan (18:39):
<laugh>, I could draw something that’ll, uh, yeah, I could draw something that would tell you what it is, but I don’t know if I should push it that far. I’ll just do it. I’ll do it. I’ll do it. Nah, it doesn’t make sense. Um,

Aaron Mak (18:53):
Are we, um, are we putting words into the lettering?

Ben Sullivan (18:57):
Uh, if you don’t wanna do it, I can do it for you afterwards. Alright. Okay. Tell

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (19:02):
What the words are. Yeah. Yeah.

Aaron Mak (19:05):
Nice. Alright.

Ben Sullivan (19:06):
Um, yeah, I’ll get you to put mine in later. <laugh>. I don’t know if that’s gonna be all right. Okay. Oh, uh, ooh, <laugh>, uh, I, I don’t think I’m gonna be out to help you really, Aaron? I’m sort of angling towards something, but I’m not sure if I should tell you what I’m angling towards and otherwise

Aaron Mak (19:26):
Sort of, and just let me,

Ben Sullivan (19:28):
I think so. Just

Aaron Mak (19:29):
Let the child out into the world. No guidance, no supervision.

Ben Sullivan (19:34):
Putting it on your shoulders. <laugh>. So there it is. I’ll link that up.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (19:39):
Just a thing. <laugh>,

Ben Sullivan (19:41):
It was in a bag, right? Because see how he’s carrying that thing on his back? They had the bendle window. What did they call those

Aaron Mak (19:46):
Things?

Ben Sullivan (19:47):
It’s ale. So it’s that bag. It’s probably got a chicken thing on there I suppose too. And it’s on a stick, but that’s what she’s given him before his journey does that. Right? I like that. Yep. So it’s been a long time since the left mission. I had to try so hard to make sure this wasn’t my villain origin story. I, yeah, blank. Yeah. Still a flashback and yeah. Still doing flashback because she’s given him something and I, I know what that is, but I can’t tell you what it is because then I’d be telling you too much. <laugh>.

Aaron Mak (20:23):
The thing is, the reason why people like, you know, Lego is because Lego gives you step by step instructions. You know, people talk about creative, nobody. We just wanna laid out for us

Ben Sullivan (20:38):
What draw next.

Aaron Mak (20:40):
I think I’ve got something you do. So if you don’t, I’ll do my damnest.

Edmund Kearsley (20:47):
Go. Go Aaron. Go Aaron. I like the sound of that <laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (20:53):
And, uh, Nick May is things are heating up.

Edmund Kearsley (20:56):
Oh yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (20:57):
You think he’s talking more about the shirtlessness? Maybe <laugh> or, or about the art? I’m not sure really.

Aaron Mak (21:05):
Look, if all, if all goes well and I, I start to freak out and panic, then you just see the shit come off and <laugh>, maybe not <laugh>. And

Edmund Kearsley (21:14):
That’s your decoy <laugh>.

Aaron Mak (21:17):
Exactly. It’s my smoke bomb.

Edmund Kearsley (21:19):
You know, they can also pretend Dan’s naked ’cause you can’t see his clothes.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (21:23):
Ah, <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (21:28):
Yeah.

Aaron Mak (21:29):
From the get go from the beginning of this, I was like, oh, cool. It’s like a nudist convention. Everyone’s naked.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (21:35):
<laugh>. Well, I never get up, so we won’t. I’ve got the comic shirt on. I didn’t say anything else. <laugh>.

Aaron Mak (21:44):
I do worry when Sis comes down to Melbourne that I’ll get to see and I’ll go like, wow. So it turns out you just never wear pants.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (21:51):
<laugh>

Aaron Mak (21:56):
I’ll make, I’ll make for a fun convention.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (22:02):
Yes. It’s being escorted out the door. <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (22:05):
It’s, or he’s got three tiny little legs

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (22:09):
Mention laugh.

Edmund Kearsley (22:10):
And he’s standing on his chair right now and he tiny little legs. And that’s why you never seen him because he already is standing. He was standing the whole

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (22:19):
Time standing on my chair with my tiny legs. <laugh>.

Aaron Mak (22:24):
I just realised I’ve been talking too much. I should be drawing.

Edmund Kearsley (22:26):
Yeah, you need to go.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (22:28):
Yeah. Come on. <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (22:33):
Dan’s waiting for his prompt. Yeah, I need to, I need to know what’s happening, <laugh>. Okay.

Aaron Mak (22:40):
I basically decided to pass the bark

Edmund Kearsley (22:44):
Of not

Aaron Mak (22:45):
Not deciding what is in the thing. So basically in summary, I’m gonna do a shot from the inside of the bag of, uh, Walter looking in. And then the words kind of fill in a little bit, but maybe it’s better. It’s like, um, what’s that movie? It’s like seven, right? Maybe it’s better not to show what’s in the bag. And then it becomes this really eventful. Yeah. So I’m basically avoiding it. <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (23:12):
That’s pretty clever. That’s good. That’s clever cartoon.

Aaron Mak (23:15):
I’ll come up with any excuse to get out of doing more work.

Edmund Kearsley (23:19):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (23:22):
That’s what I did with mine. I had a dragon eat the yellow dragon so I didn’t have to deal with the dragon <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (23:29):
So you drew two dragons to not have to draw one

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (23:34):
<laugh>. I just didn’t wanna have to deal with the dragon interacting with blank because I’m like, oh, I could never do that. I know I can another dragon eat that. Dragon that, that’s easy. We’ve got a year baby from Nick May again. It could be about the art, could be about the Shirtlessness you never told Nick. Nice. Um, gday from York. Looking forward to seeing today’s page. Ah, con

Edmund Kearsley (24:02):
That con

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (24:03):
Yeah. He was on, um, the international, um, episode, right? Yeah. Our, our Australian in the uk.

Edmund Kearsley (24:10):
He did, he was the one that did the craziness with the

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (24:15):
Mother,

Edmund Kearsley (24:16):
The cyborgs and the mothers and stuff.

Aaron Mak (24:20):
There’s so many, there’s so many curve balls in this thing. Like I was trying to follow through it and I was like, it’s just zing Zang z

Ben Sullivan (24:29):
<laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (24:31):
It’s usually the, the, the last panel, whoever’s got the last panel usually throws something up for the next week’s artist to deal with.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (24:41):
Yeah. Oh, we’ve got Andrew Law who was also on the show. Was it last week or week before?

Edmund Kearsley (24:47):
Um,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (24:49):
I’m losing track. Oh, okay.

Edmund Kearsley (24:52):
We did that cool one there.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (24:54):
Yeah. The crying one. Cool.

Ben Sullivan (24:56):
Oh,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (24:56):
Um, he’s saying it’s a McGuffin. I dunno what that means. McIn. McGuffin. Is that a, is that a reference to some sort of pop culture? I’m not familiar with

Ben Sullivan (25:07):
As a device or a story? The writing

Edmund Kearsley (25:09):
Term for I think that everyone’s after in the story, but it does, it’s not a, doesn’t really matter what it is.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (25:17):
Oh, okay. It’s a technical term. That’s why I don’t know. It, it’s a, it’s something that means something important. So

Aaron Mak (25:27):
It, it, the McGuffin in films is meant to be like a, it’s like a way to write, to basically make sure that you’ve got a device that just writes you out of any problem.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (25:37):
Oh.

Aaron Mak (25:38):
So you just create a thing and they’re like, oh, it’s a magical McGuffin. And then you go, oh, we’ve written ourselves into a corner. And you’re like, oh, but the McGuffin can teleport us outta here. <laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (25:49):
Nice.

Aaron Mak (25:51):
Say it’s a, it’s a dirty trick, but you know what, like,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (25:56):
It works

Aaron Mak (25:58):
If it works.

Edmund Kearsley (26:00):
<laugh>. So we’ve heard Aaron and Dan’s origin stories. Ben, tell us why you got into comics.

Ben Sullivan (26:11):
Oh, um,

(26:14)
I got a, uh, I was, I got a job, uh, eight years ago, uh, which was like a kind of advertising job, but it was, it turned out to be a comic and that kind of got me started with that. I, I guess I just, uh, I tried it before, but um, I did not know where to be, you know, start, um, you know, start one. But doing that job, I was sort of forced to figure it out and I figured it out and then just went, kept going <laugh> and still going <laugh>. Uh, yeah, after that I went to, uh, a comic on to show Little Folio around and I met dk, uh, Darren Kozel there and he got the, gave me the first, um, kind of first job I suppose. Oh, nice. Uh, his old, yeah, his old, um, comic, uh, uh, decay. Yeah. Decay. Yeah. With decay. <laugh>. Yeah. Yeah. Ah,

Aaron Mak (27:15):
Nice. Yeah. Is that intentional?

Ben Sullivan (27:18):
Yes, <laugh>. Uh, yeah and haven’t stopped.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (27:27):
Excellent. That’s awesome.

Edmund Kearsley (27:29):
Did you read comics when you were a kid or anything?

Ben Sullivan (27:31):
Just asterisk. I was mad at Asterisk. Yeah. Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (27:35):
Oh yeah.

Ben Sullivan (27:37):
Oh, we’re gonna talk about that <laugh>. Woo. Oh yeah, no, um, every one of them I had the game book. I wonder if I’ve still got it. I had the game book as well. I think there’s three game books. Uh oh, okay. Oh, I had everything. Um, obsessive about ’em. Yeah. Yeah. I’ve read them to my son and to my daughter as well. So I’ve probably read each one of them, uh, a lot. <laugh> a few times over <laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (28:09):
Excellent comics. We reading over and over that. Excellent.

Ben Sullivan (28:12):
Oh yeah.

Edmund Kearsley (28:13):
So in the eighties, the Asterisk and Tintin was just about there. Only the comics you’d find in library.

Ben Sullivan (28:18):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was my high, my

Daniel Watts (28:21):
School was only, that’s all I could really find was Tin Tin and Asterisk. So that was, I was happy about that. It was amazing. Yeah. Amazing storytelling. Yeah.

Ben Sullivan (28:30):
Oh yeah,

Edmund Kearsley (28:31):
They’re beautiful artwork in in both those.

Ben Sullivan (28:34):
Oh God.

Aaron Mak (28:35):
And they’ve got different content when you’re older too. Like, there’s so many things I went back to as an, as a slight, like a grown man child and I was like, wow, this is actually like, you know, a little bit dirty. It’s, it’s stuff that the kid might not get.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (28:50):
<laugh>.

Ben Sullivan (28:50):
Totally. Yeah. Yeah.

Edmund Kearsley (29:02):
So sis we’ve got a, a Kickstarter or a pre-K Kickstarter running for blank at the moment.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:10):
Yeah. Someone’s excited about it behind me. I dunno if you can hear that. Um, <laugh>, yes, we’ve got a pre-launch page, which is meant to change every day, but I’ve been ridiculously busy for the last week, so I haven’t been doing that each day. So sorry about that. To the other artists. I will start putting your art up. Um, it’s a pre-launch, page four. This comic. Um, it’s a all PDF, um, Kickstarter and it will have many, many rewards. Um,

Edmund Kearsley (29:40):
What’s address for it?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:42):
Oh, it’s, um, blank. Oh, I think I put it in the thing. So let me check in the, um, brand banners. Um, we’ve got so many banners get lost, so it’s blank.com x studio that’ll get you there. Hit that notify button. You wanna, you don’t wanna miss out on the beginning of it because we are doing three levels of, um, early burdens. I could, that’s the only word I can think of. Um, so if you’re in the first 12 hours, it doesn’t tell you on here unfortunately, but if you’re in the first 12 hours, you will, um, get, um, a whole bunch of number ones from rie. Um, cool. So that’s pretty cool. Um, you’re in the first 24 hours, so, um, you’ll also get a, um, wordsmith, uh, PDF the full graphic novel. Um, and then, let’s see if I can remember the, if you’re in the first 48 hours, you’ll get a, uh, SRUs, uh, one plus a story from SRU two that’s not available because two’s not ready yet.

(30:54)
Um, unfortunately I can’t write all that on the pre-launch page ’cause you’re given those many letters that you can see there and after that it, it doesn’t let you type anymore. Um, so yeah, so, um, I will be putting something together to sort of promote it a bit bit better, explain what’s going on so people know that it’s really important to get in there early if you want all the goodies, um, all our goodies, most of them by getting there early, not by getting stretch goals. So there are stretch goals, but I won’t go into them. You can see them when you go into campaign. Um, but the getting in early is where you get all good stuff. And if you’re in the first 12 hours, you don’t just get what I said. Then you also get the 24 hour and the 48 hour stuff as well. So, ’cause you were in those as well. So lots of goodies, lots of good stuff. Lots of awesome comics as well. They’re all great. Um, so AB are full to miss them.

Edmund Kearsley (31:51):
They’re all PDFs too, so you don’t have to worry about

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (31:53):
Yeah, they’re pdf. Sorry, I should probably note that they’re all PDFs. So it’s, uh, very cheap. Uh, money, money, um, conservative

Aaron Mak (32:05):
Money. Good.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (32:07):
Yeah. So, um, uh, there’s also an elevated price for the first couple of days. The, the, the, um, PDFs are $2 and then after that they go up to their normal price.

Edmund Kearsley (32:22):
Alright, Adam, let’s have a look. Sorry to interrupt.

Aaron Mak (32:26):
Oh, okay. <laugh>. Alright, I’ve gone this far. I figured once I started to, um, draw the thing, um, I don’t know what’s the, oh,

Edmund Kearsley (32:39):
I can see.

Aaron Mak (32:40):
Okay, there you go. Yeah. Aha.

Edmund Kearsley (32:43):
Oh, nice.

Aaron Mak (32:44):
So if I can at least basically shook away from responsibility by just, you know, and then I just kind of, I’m just gonna put shadows and some criss crosses. You know

Edmund Kearsley (32:59):
It all

Aaron Mak (32:59):
Out. Yeah. Oh, I’ve got a question. Are we inking these as well?

Edmund Kearsley (33:06):
Yeah, you don’t have to, but you,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (33:08):
It’d be great if you could.

Aaron Mak (33:10):
I can’t send them over a ben to get it done for me. Like, why, you know, there were other things that I’ve done that looked better but have taken like weeks. So this is it.

Ben Sullivan (33:28):
Some great stuff, Aaron.

Edmund Kearsley (33:30):
Yeah, but you saw,

Aaron Mak (33:32):
You saw how long, um, it took me

Edmund Kearsley (33:36):
<laugh>. So Dan, you can, uh, get started on your one now. Oh, okay. Yeah. Great. Alright. Yeah. Are you happy for just to watch the drawing or do you want to? Yeah, would you rather that, I don’t know. That’d be excellent. Yeah. Okay. We can

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (33:51):
Watch. That’d be amazing.

Edmund Kearsley (33:54):
Sorry

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (33:55):
If we could watch that. It would be amazing. But that’s only if your, your, um, setup

Edmund Kearsley (33:59):
Works. Yeah, I’m happy to do that. I don’t wanna see my face. <laugh>. <laugh>, can you see that? That’s all right. Hey,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (34:09):
Yeah. I can boost it up to see it as well. More if we wanna randomly bring up. Alright,

Edmund Kearsley (34:13):
Cool.

Ben Sullivan (34:14):
Yeah, it’s a more interesting idea. I wish I could do, uh, don’t think I could do the same. Oh, well, mm-hmm. Really set up.

Edmund Kearsley (34:24):
We can, uh,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (34:25):
Really excited about the blank comic.

Edmund Kearsley (34:28):
Give us a look at how your panels going if you want.

Aaron Mak (34:31):
Oh,

Ben Sullivan (34:32):
Mine.

Edmund Kearsley (34:32):
Yeah,

Ben Sullivan (34:33):
Yeah, yeah. Oh, I’m going into the

Edmund Kearsley (34:35):
Inking. Whoa.

Ben Sullivan (34:37):
Yeah. Oh, in. I’m sort of giving away what my, Dan if it, if it helps at all.

Edmund Kearsley (34:44):
Uh, sorry, what’s in the,

Ben Sullivan (34:45):
Um, in the bag. Does that help?

Edmund Kearsley (34:49):
Yeah, no, no. I’m gonna, I’m gonna put what’s in the bag.

Ben Sullivan (34:52):
Oh yeah, yeah, I thought so.

Edmund Kearsley (34:55):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (34:58):
Now what I can do is I can do a different layout so we can see Dan better. So don’t get don’t get worried there. Um, ed, I’ve just gotta do this. So this works. Oh, I love the little pre sketches. That’s awesome. <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (35:20):
Yeah, the

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (35:20):
Warmups,

Edmund Kearsley (35:22):
Right? Bit of warming up. Yeah, it’s, I haven’t drawn today so it’s needed a warm up <laugh>.

Aaron Mak (35:29):
You can see the difference between the pros and the guy was just like, you know, oh, I’ll just grab a pencil and forget. I forgot my eraser. So, you know, what you see is what you get.

Ben Sullivan (35:40):
<laugh>

Edmund Kearsley (35:41):
Just don’t make any mistakes and you won’t need it.

Ben Sullivan (35:44):
Ah, yeah. I mean that’s what they told me like in school. And

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (35:54):
So, um, we’ve got some comments here. We’ve got Danny Nolans coming in with, um, this comic will take the nt uh, grade to a whole new level <laugh>. And Dave is giving us a good evening. Everybody late, Dave. I’m not, I’m not happy with this. Come on, get it together. You know what time it’s on <laugh> just with you Dave. We love you. So, so Dan, are you deciding what’s actually in the bag? Are you Daniel? Yeah.

Ben Sullivan (36:37):
Yep.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (36:38):
Awesome.

Ben Sullivan (36:40):
<laugh> <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (36:42):
Now I’m, now I’m sitting here watching you draw and I’ll forget that I’m on the show because all I care about is finding out what’s in that bag. <laugh>. We got cold creatures saying love watching the process. So that’s always, that’s cool.

Edmund Kearsley (36:59):
Thank you. Cold creature is, uh, drink and draw tomorrow.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (37:06):
Uh, yes, there is a drink and draw tomorrow. Uh oh. Wow. That’s what I didn’t post today. Anyone watching the drink and draw theme for tomorrow that I haven’t posted yet and I should have posted about two or three days ago? Uh, is sitcoms. Sitcoms. So draw someone from a sitcom and it is wide open. They were talking last fortnight about everything from friends to Seinfeld all the way to Mash and um, uh, happy days. So go crazy, draw some crazy stuff. I’ll put that link up after the show actually. And, um, I’ll, um, put the banner up so everyone can see it. And you, there’s something else to do today, <laugh>, like I was saying before the show, I’ve had a very crazy day, so Yeah.

Edmund Kearsley (37:55):
But, so let’s make the comic books exclusive.

Ben Sullivan (37:59):
If what’s on the show, who comes up with the themes for, uh, drink and draw?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:04):
Who thinks of them?

Ben Sullivan (38:05):
Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:06):
Uh, usually sped Z

Ben Sullivan (38:08):
Oh, okay.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:09):
Some we do it as a group. Uh, occasionally if no one can think anything, I’ll throw something out there. But the last couple of week fortnights have been sped z

Ben Sullivan (38:18):
Ah, ah, I can see that. <laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:26):
<laugh> Andrew law’s got some ideas about what’s in the bag. I think that’s what he is talking about. Uh, minties. Fantas Jaffes. What is it? <laugh>

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

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:43):
And cold creatures saying. Interesting. Uh, not too sure That’s about the art. Our conversation drink and draw sp spie is interesting. Yeah. Nice.

Aaron Mak (38:58):
O obviously the Shirtlessness

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:01):
<laugh>. Ah, of course. Interesting. So interesting that the single is still on. That’s probably what they’re saying.

Ben Sullivan (39:12):
So engrossed

Aaron Mak (39:13):
In my activity, you know, you can’t, I, I’ve, this is the I’ve ever been is when you put the pressure on and you say, go do some fricking work. And I’m like, Hmm.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:23):
<laugh>. Oh, cold creature says she was talking about this. A he or she, sorry, was talking about the theme for tomorrow.

Edmund Kearsley (39:33):
There you go.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:37):
Yeah.

Edmund Kearsley (39:43):
I think the most interesting thing about this show is the, the pressure that the guests have put under to, to make up something on the fly.

Ben Sullivan (39:51):
Yeah. It is pressure. That’s very hard.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:55):
<laugh> I

Ben Sullivan (39:55):
Noticed also as simple as this character is, there’s a lot going on. You gotta sort of pay attention to, isn’t there?

Edmund Kearsley (40:05):
There’s a couple little

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (40:07):
Thanks.

Ben Sullivan (40:09):
So he is always got three fingers. Yeah.

Edmund Kearsley (40:12):
Not always, but the, when I first joined me did,

Ben Sullivan (40:16):
Oh yeah. Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (40:18):
Then you got thumb <laugh>.

Ben Sullivan (40:20):
So it does vary bit, I suppose. Yeah. Oh no, that’s it.

Aaron Mak (40:27):
The continuity supervisor on this project will be losing their fricking mind.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (40:37):
Uh, yeah, it’s a lot of fun.

Ben Sullivan (40:41):
Uh,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (40:44):
Oh, I hate that. I can’t zoom in.

Edmund Kearsley (40:45):
Yeah. I wanna, let’s have a zoom in. Can you zoom in with your, with your camera there, Dan?

Ben Sullivan (40:51):
Yep.

Edmund Kearsley (40:58):
Said a little clown,

Ben Sullivan (41:01):
Little robot. Another robot. Another

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:03):
Robot. Another

Ben Sullivan (41:04):
Robot coming outta the bag. Excellent. Oh, right

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:17):
For a second there. I thought it was the eyeball creature. I’m going, oh, we going full circle.

Edmund Kearsley (41:21):
I, I thought it was,

Ben Sullivan (41:24):
That’s exactly what I was angling towards because character

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:31):
Gonna love it.

Ben Sullivan (41:33):
<laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:34):
Cold creature says. That’s so cute. She loves the little robot <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (41:40):
That’s good.

Ben Sullivan (41:42):
Oh, you can push outside the um, uh, the box. Yeah, you can.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:48):
Yeah. Yeah. People have done all the

Ben Sullivan (41:50):
Time done that. Just

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:51):
Stay inside the pink line.

Edmund Kearsley (41:55):
Yeah. The, the pink, the

Ben Sullivan (41:55):
Pink line. Yes, yes, yes.

Edmund Kearsley (41:58):
And also you guys, the, the red bit on your one is gonna be cut off.

Ben Sullivan (42:03):
That’s

Edmund Kearsley (42:04):
Yes. So the overlapping

Ben Sullivan (42:05):
What’s in front?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:07):
Oh, the overlapping.

Edmund Kearsley (42:11):
Just trying to make up different, uh, variations of the three panel page.

Ben Sullivan (42:16):
Yeah. Right.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:18):
Yeah. It’s a good thing Ed organised this. It’d be the same thing every week as me,

Edmund Kearsley (42:22):
Which are also square

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:24):
Draw <laugh>

Edmund Kearsley (42:26):
And to make them rectangles. And, uh, so they’re not real funny shapes, so they’re not too hard for people drawing traditional to recreate them on their page.

Ben Sullivan (42:37):
Oh,

Edmund Kearsley (42:37):
Good point. There’s a lot of stuff we had to think about.

Ben Sullivan (42:40):
There’s some tough diagonal ones in here. Oh, triangle. One on page with Shaden.

Edmund Kearsley (42:44):
Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>. So they were all digital so they could draw straight onto the, onto the thing.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:54):
Man. Robbie, come on. I can’t pronounce that.

Edmund Kearsley (42:58):
Let me have a look.

Ben Sullivan (43:00):
I’ve got

Edmund Kearsley (43:01):
Robot a question. Patricia Al.

Aaron Mak (43:06):
Hey Ben. What are you doing for, um, words? I mean, mother is that,

Ben Sullivan (43:12):
Can, can I do need to put something in, but can we put the balloons in post or do we have them here? Yeah,

Edmund Kearsley (43:19):
No, you can do it however you want. If you wanna draw ’em by hand or,

Ben Sullivan (43:24):
Well, I might put them in later if it’s okay to do them afterwards. ’cause I’ve just drawn through and I don’t know how big, I’m not exactly sure what I’m gonna say here either. Uh

Aaron Mak (43:33):
Oh, wow.

Ben Sullivan (43:35):
But here, there, um, so the balloon’s there, I’m cutting into it on the head, but yeah. Um, okay. Alright.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (43:47):
Oh, that’s cool.

Edmund Kearsley (43:52):
Do you have an idea of what, what you’re gonna have for your dialogue?

Aaron Mak (43:58):
Who me?

Edmund Kearsley (44:00):
Hey, you are Ben or

Ben Sullivan (44:02):
Oh, me, sorry. I sort do, I think I’ve just gotta have the saying here is something to help you with your journey and we’re still in flashback line, I suppose. Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (44:20):
I think the little robot is a, is an awesome cue to come outta the flashback.

Aaron Mak (44:25):
Mm,

Ben Sullivan (44:26):
Yeah, yeah, that’s right.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (44:31):
I just broke the first rule of being a host. God damnit

Daniel Watts (44:36):
<laugh>. Yeah. I was kind of leading towards that to go to step out of the flashback and it’s like, this guy’s kind of just said, I finally have you, or I’ve got you or something. I don’t know.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (44:51):
So you are allowed to say that I’m not meant to lead this story.

Edmund Kearsley (44:56):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (44:59):
Yeah. Looks like Ed’s looking for a new cohost this week.

Edmund Kearsley (45:02):
<laugh>

Daniel Watts (45:03):
<laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (45:04):
Ciz just can’t stop trying to push the story in one way or another.

Edmund Kearsley (45:11):
I nearly did it last week. There was <laugh> a lot of ideas going around. So Ben’s saying, here is something to help you on your journey. It’s still in flashback mode. And so Aaron, what’s your one gonna say?

Aaron Mak (45:28):
Uh, WIP work in progress. <laugh>. I’ve got the first

Edmund Kearsley (45:34):
Sentence. <laugh>. I’m gonna,

Aaron Mak (45:36):
I’m gonna hold off on the ink. I’m gonna get the words down because that’s my comfort zone. And then I’m gonna go back and attempt to ink, you know? Yeah. Oh, sorry. Lost for words. I just said words in my strong suit. And then

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (45:53):
<laugh>. Just remember, if, if you don’t wanna do the, the, the actual text, ed can put that in. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>, um, in Photoshop, whatever he uses afterwards.

Aaron Mak (46:01):
Yeah. I’ll, I’ll do the words on the side so you can see what it says. And then, um, go from there.

Edmund Kearsley (46:09):
Sweet. And Dan. Dan. Thank you Dan. Yeah, no worries. Are you gonna have dialogue in your one, Dan?

Daniel Watts (46:18):
Yeah, just something small from the robot, I think.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (46:22):
Oh, cool. Finally

Daniel Watts (46:23):
I have you or something like that. Yeah.

Edmund Kearsley (46:26):
<laugh> <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (46:30):
Oh, Russian stacking dolls. See, you should have just said that, Robbie, because I can pronounce that.

Edmund Kearsley (46:36):
Mm.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (46:39):
Ah, Kerry knows the word as well. Damn it. <laugh>.

Aaron Mak (46:44):
What’s the word?

Edmund Kearsley (46:45):
They’re maka.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (46:46):
You’re not watching, you can’t see the word. Everyone knows it. Great, great.

Aaron Mak (46:54):
Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (46:54):
Everyone knows gibberish is my first language. English is my second language, so just leave me alone. <laugh>. It’s, it’s hard studying the second language.

Aaron Mak (47:09):
Nice. <laugh>

Edmund Kearsley (47:11):
<laugh> needs a new

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (47:14):
Project. Oh, okay. Yeah. Now Cares is on the, um, new co-host needed

Edmund Kearsley (47:21):
Train. I can speak English Ed

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (47:30):
Sounds like there’s a party outside about the blank comic. Um,

Edmund Kearsley (47:34):
Should get them to draw a panel. <laugh>,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (47:42):
They, they’re a bit Yahoo. I think they might be drunk

Edmund Kearsley (47:46):
On a Thursday. That

Aaron Mak (47:50):
There’s these uni night

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (47:51):
<laugh> Welcome Tobel as it’s called <laugh>.

Daniel Watts (48:06):
Okay.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:10):
That’s looking awesome, Daniel.

Edmund Kearsley (48:12):
Mm. Oh gee. Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:15):
I’m still loving little warmup sketches as well.

Edmund Kearsley (48:19):
<laugh> <laugh>. Yeah. I’ll do some more and we can, we can use it for whatever you like, if you’re, if you’re interested. Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:25):
Oh, that’d be awesome.

Edmund Kearsley (48:27):
Yeah.

Edmund Kearsley (48:39):
Okay.

Edmund Kearsley (48:40):
So next week will be our second life show for this season. And then they’re putting penultimate episode of Let’s make a comic book Season one. So do you know who ties it up? Who finishes the story? We do. It’s a big secret. And if we told

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:06):
You we’d have to kill you,

Edmund Kearsley (49:08):
<laugh>,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:09):
I really like you, um, so I don’t wanna have to kill you <laugh>,

Edmund Kearsley (49:14):
But then that

Aaron Mak (49:14):
Means you have to come over here and then we can catch you in the cage. And then we’re like, all right, we got,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:21):
We

Edmund Kearsley (49:21):
Gotta voice.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:29):
Ah, cold creature. Okay. Yeah. Chuck them in the back of the comic. I love books that have that show. The sketch work, uh, that is going to happen. There will be a blank comic and then there’ll be the blank with Bonus Comic, um, in the, um, Kickstarter. So for a few extra bucks you can get all the extras, all the sketches, the pinups and so forth.

Edmund Kearsley (49:54):
Oh yeah, I got there. I forgot to scan these, but, so these are the was working on when are they yours there? Yeah. When, when me and Si were on a call and trying to figure out what the, the character would be.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (50:14):
Oh, that’s cool.

Edmund Kearsley (50:15):
If there’s gonna be a robot or a monster’s trying to do something that’d be really easy to draw. Yeah, that’s great. And then you see there’s a prototype blank. Yeah. Nice. Very good. It’s a bit more detailed

Ben Sullivan (50:30):
Too. Oh, <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (50:36):
And that’s all I have, but CSO took that and cleaned it up and designed blank.

Ben Sullivan (50:50):
Um,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (50:55):
I just realised what I totally forgot to do this episode.

Edmund Kearsley (50:59):
Is it the, the things down the bottom?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (51:02):
Yeah. <laugh>. I just looked up the top of Daniel’s, um, illustration there and what it says and I went, oh, I was meant to actually advertise that <laugh>. I don’t know if it’d be worth it for the last 10 minutes. <laugh> my apologies, gents. I didn’t do my job tonight.

Aaron Mak (51:26):
Fire. Oh, great.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (51:28):
Another reason. Yeah, another reason to fire me. Oh, great.

Edmund Kearsley (51:31):
I’m kicking gold,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (51:32):
So nice. I’m gonna stuff it up tonight. Awesome. Cold creature. Yep. Get in there, get in there quick and you’ll get the bonus one as well as all those goodies you get for being in quick. Um, there’s the Ry pack has, um, RIE Vex, um,

Ben Sullivan (51:55):
Oh, great.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (51:56):
<inaudible>. Um, I’m gonna forget something here.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (52:00):
Um,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (52:03):
I think Toby and the Magic Pencil one is in there, so that’s pretty cool.

Ben Sullivan (52:07):
Fantastic.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (52:08):
And a mystery one. Yeah, that’s a, that’s a great one. I haven’t been told.

Ben Sullivan (52:12):
Oh, that’s great. That’s great. Are they all issue ones? Si

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (52:18):
Uh, yep. All issue ones.

Ben Sullivan (52:20):
Ah, so Rick issue one as well.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (52:24):
Yeah.

Ben Sullivan (52:24):
Oh, fantastic.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (52:26):
<crosstalk>. Yeah, all PDFs. I’ve, ed keeps reminding me to say that so people aren’t expecting comics, so Yeah. Physical comics, I should say. They’re still comics. They’re just PDFs. So, um, it’s number ones of all, all of all of those titles.

Ben Sullivan (52:42):
Ah, fantastic.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (52:44):
And the first wordsmith if you’re in there after that. Nice. So that’s pretty cool.

Ben Sullivan (52:49):
Ah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (52:50):
Wordsmith is a lot of fun actually. I really enjoy that book. sks done a really good job on it. Well, the writing of it, he didn’t draw it. <laugh>

Ben Sullivan (53:02):
Excellent. Sure do. Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (53:14):
And then there’s the Ben Sullivan gift for the people in the first 28 hours you get a Cirus one.

Ben Sullivan (53:21):
Ah, right, right. Great.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (53:23):
First story for Cirus is, yeah. So yeah.

Ben Sullivan (53:27):
Ah, excellent. Excellent. Yeah. Dan, Dan, are you doing a background?

Daniel Watts (53:35):
Uh, I was thinking about it, but it wasn’t really referenced to anything in the background was there? Or, or have you got something? No,

Ben Sullivan (53:43):
Yeah, I’m kind of stumped actually. Um, because I’m not sure where this, oh, wait, I do know where this is. Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (53:49):
This is underground, isn’t it? Or does he look in the bag once he’s up top?

Ben Sullivan (53:54):
Is there,

Edmund Kearsley (53:54):
This is a flashback, so

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (53:57):
Yeah, it could be anywhere, couldn’t it? It’s a flashback.

Edmund Kearsley (53:59):
It’s in a, we’ve got some fantasy cityscapes in the background.

Ben Sullivan (54:04):
It’s a cityscape, isn’t it? Yeah, yeah,

Edmund Kearsley (54:06):
Yeah. There’s um, oh yeah, Tim WANs at the Little City.

Ben Sullivan (54:13):
Oh, that’s the top one,

Daniel Watts (54:15):
Okay. Ah, yeah.

Ben Sullivan (54:19):
Oh, all right. Um,

Edmund Kearsley (54:26):
But as they say, when in doubt black it out. <laugh>

Daniel Watts (54:30):
<laugh>. Yeah, that’s right.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (54:32):
I like that one.

Ben Sullivan (54:35):
<laugh>

Aaron Mak (54:36):
Question for Daniel, did you decide, Daniel, did you decide what words you were going put on your, is this a robot coming out of,

Daniel Watts (54:47):
I think just like I have you, like he’s a, maybe like he’s a, he’s a bounty hunter or something, or he is just a, another robot chasing him or something. I don’t know. That’s all I’m thinking of. I like Bounty Hunter, so maybe a Bounty Hunter Road <inaudible>,

Aaron Mak (55:03):
Because believe it or not, I, I spend that long just trying to write the words and I was trying to make it really sweet and sappy

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (55:10):
<laugh>,

Daniel Watts (55:11):
But well, there’s, there’s not much space. So that, that way it can open up for the next,

Aaron Mak (55:16):
It’s open ended. Okay. Well I’ll, I’ll read out what I wrote and of course I have to be extra. So, um, this title, this is, um, like speech coming from Mother. I don’t know if mother has a name, but mother says from Off panel, the world above is cold and harsh. We had to make you, so if you were to survive your mission, but a cold facade is no shield for a hard, as warm and pure as yours. So for you, my son, I gift you companionship and then the robot jumps out

Daniel Watts (55:46):
And

Edmund Kearsley (55:46):
Then tag him instantly. So

Aaron Mak (55:49):
Right. So that’s, that’s

Daniel Watts (55:50):
Anybody

Edmund Kearsley (55:52):
That fits with the theme of the rest of the book, though. As soon as does someone something it

Daniel Watts (55:57):
<laugh>. Yeah.

Aaron Mak (55:58):
It’s, what’s the word? Like a red herring. Like, you’re like, oh, that’s sweet. And then it’s like, boom, robot gonna kill you. Oh

Edmund Kearsley (56:05):
Yeah. I like that. Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (56:08):
Leave it. Yeah. It’s like the, uh, one panel romance didn’t last long. They were getting a bit friendly and then the Knife came out the next time, <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (56:21):
And that was also the, it was Diamond Bill introduced, they turned into a little robot, and then the next page, <laugh>, he starts trying to bit him and shooting a

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (56:33):
Monster robot attacking him. <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (56:37):
And then we’ve got the, once he went into the ground, I’m, it’s a shame no one wanted to go on with the, the eyeball apocalypse thing, but Oh, is that leaves? That’s amazing. Yeah. Yeah. <laugh>, there’s a clever way out though, to put him on the ground, but as soon as he, he goes underground and these guys see him. And So death to the surface dweller.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:00):
Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:00):
<laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (57:03):
This being in the, in the wars. Old, old blankie,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:07):
Constantly <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (57:15):
So good fun.

Aaron Mak (57:19):
I, I, I will admit, as I started, um, the, the fun definitely started to creep in where I’m like, all right, I’m getting less, um, nno about the whole, you know, <laugh>, um, I literally just was like, I don’t know how to ink. So I just grabbed my pen and started drawing on it and I’m like, well, I guess we’re in the deep end now. <laugh>. Oh, you’re in.

Ben Sullivan (57:41):
Great.

Aaron Mak (57:42):
I’m gonna

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:43):
Give, that’s how I ink.

Edmund Kearsley (57:44):
Yeah, that’s what inking is.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:47):
Just jump in there. I’ve got inking pens here somewhere. Well, I don’t know if they’re proper inking pens. I think they’re graphics for, um, tech drawing. That’s what I use to ink my, um, my um, pencil up. I must put them in a cupboard or draw because I’ve been doing everything digital weekly.

Aaron Mak (58:08):
What? Whatever like improper tool there is to be using. I’m using it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:13):
Nice. Excellent. They’ll add some character to the page. I like it.

Aaron Mak (58:17):
Yeah. Real unconventional. You know,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:20):
<laugh>,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:33):
You are almost there, ed, that time of the night and I’ve got nothing prepared because I didn’t ask everyone what their thing was. <laugh>. Oh

Edmund Kearsley (58:39):
God. Wow.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:41):
I am having one of those nights,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:43):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:45):
Oh, I don’t even have that browser open. Jesus. Okay, let’s see if I can find everyone. <laugh>. I know, I think, um, ’cause I’m guessing Aaron’s is just gonna be photos and so forth. Not really art

Aaron Mak (59:08):
Of what? Oh, Instagram. Well, if you pull up, uh, Sunation comics that has all of Ben’s beautiful

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (59:15):
Ben stuff. Yes. Yeah. Good

Edmund Kearsley (59:18):
Trick. Good trick.

Aaron Mak (59:18):
That’s it.

Edmund Kearsley (59:19):
Little too far.

Aaron Mak (59:21):
Yeah, Ben a

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (59:26):
Lovely,

Aaron Mak (59:28):
That’s not the right term.

Edmund Kearsley (59:29):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (59:39):
Go.

Edmund Kearsley (59:44):
So while si is getting that stuff organised, if you guys wanna take a picture of your panel and send it to sis in the Messenger

Aaron Mak (59:58):
Now.

Edmund Kearsley (59:59):
Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:00):
Yeah. What you’re up to now. It’s just like a, a give the audience a rough idea what it’s gonna look like.

Aaron Mak (01:00:06):
Okay. Progress.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:07):
Okay. That is not the page I wanna be on. Um,

Edmund Kearsley (01:00:12):
And then while they’re doing that, we can have a look@thecom.shop website where you can get all the Australian comic books and all the um, uh, when you buy stuff from here. This helps support all the comics stuff, all the, the Kickstarters and the, this show like paying for the, the software that we’re using and all the other shows. The drink and draw and chinwag and, um, shade’s One and all that other cool stuff. So we can have a look. That one’s my comic book. And a lot of these people have been on the, um, on the show that Sean Creek on, um, Dana King, Nick Cleary, uh, Rob O’Connor have all contributed panels to the blank comic book. There’s a mystery pack.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:01:28):
Yeah. The mystery pack has been, um, bought by a few people. Now I get to randomly pick comics from the shop and, uh, the mystery pack people get whatever I give them.

Edmund Kearsley (01:01:40):
It’s $30 worth or $30 you pay for $60 worth of comics.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:01:45):
Correct. So it hurts the hip pocket, but everyone gets to experience something new about Australian comics. Hurts my hip pocket, not yours.

Edmund Kearsley (01:01:57):
Who did that presents cover there? That one looks cool.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:02:00):
Uh, that’s Dave Dye, I think.

Edmund Kearsley (01:02:02):
Ah, that’s fine. We’ve got,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:02:08):
Uh, Ben, you haven’t got Facebook, so you probably wanna send yours by email.

Edmund Kearsley (01:02:13):
Oh, I actually just te texted it to you. Does that help? Uh,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:02:17):
I’ll text. I hang out. I’ll see if I can possible it out.

Ben Sullivan (01:02:22):
Does that work?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:02:25):
Um, that’s right. Wrong phone. Almost

Ben Sullivan (01:02:29):
Finished too. Uh,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:02:32):
Yeah, I haven’t got anything.

Ben Sullivan (01:02:34):
Oh, uh, what I Oh no. Shoot. Um,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:02:44):
Wrong. Shane <laugh>

Ben Sullivan (01:02:46):
<laugh>. Uh, no, no, not wrong. Shane <laugh>. Oh my,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:02:55):
Yeah, I haven’t, I haven’t got any texts. Sorry.

Ben Sullivan (01:02:57):
No, no. It hasn’t gone through. Shane. Just, uh

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:00):
Oh, they’re still uploading.

Ben Sullivan (01:03:01):
Yeah, I think so. Okay, cool. Can I just send it to, hang on. Uh,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:08):
If you can do it through the email, that’ll be fine. I can get that. Oh,

Ben Sullivan (01:03:11):
I’ll, I’ll do that Shane. Yeah. Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:13):
It might be, might be quicker because I’ll have to fiddle around to get it onto something that, to get to add. Of course.

Ben Sullivan (01:03:18):
That’s, that’s true. Yeah. Uh,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:22):
<laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (01:03:27):
I like that’s stuff that never happened. That’s a good title. Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:33):
To you Shane on Messenger.

Ben Sullivan (01:03:35):
That’s all.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:35):
Alright, cool. Thanks.

Aaron Mak (01:03:38):
I think you got mine right? Yep.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:40):
Cool. Yeah, I got yours. Sorry, I should let people know that I’ve got this <laugh> so they’re not sitting there going, you’ve sent it and Shane say like, why hasn’t he sent it?

Aaron Mak (01:03:51):
We don’t all speak your second language

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:54):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:55):
I think you do.

Aaron Mak (01:03:57):
Yeah, I think I do.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:59):
It’s my first that you don’t speak

Aaron Mak (01:04:01):
Dribble. It’s Chinese, isn’t it?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:04:04):
<laugh>? No, my first is Dribble, <laugh> Dribble and Nonsense.

Ben Sullivan (01:04:15):
What’s the best

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:04:16):
Interchangeable languages?

Edmund Kearsley (01:04:21):
Well, I’ve reached the bottom of the internet.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:04:24):
<laugh>. I don’t think that shows everything either, or. Ah, maybe it only shows what’s in stock. ’cause I’ve got over a hundred titles all up in the shop. But this doesn’t show you if they’re not in stock.

Edmund Kearsley (01:04:46):
There’s that citrus,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:04:50):
Citrus perceptions. Yep.

Edmund Kearsley (01:04:51):
10% off you guys. I’ve got a panel in that, that book

Ben Sullivan (01:04:58):
As well.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:05:00):
Oh, you have too? I forgot about, um, how, uh, Peter did that to his story. So there’s a lot of people in that book actually.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:05:09):
Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>.

Ben Sullivan (01:05:13):
Oh, I shouldn’t have done that.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:05:22):
Um,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:05:23):
How do I get it to go away from that?

Edmund Kearsley (01:05:32):
How we going? I’ve got two Just waiting for Ben’s.

Ben Sullivan (01:05:38):
Sorry. Uh, right. Um, yes,

Aaron Mak (01:05:42):
I beat Ben at something. <laugh>.

Ben Sullivan (01:05:46):
I think that might be a easy one. Aaron <laugh>, uh,

Edmund Kearsley (01:06:00):
That detective budget book’s good too.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:06:03):
Yeah.

Edmund Kearsley (01:06:04):
And Amazing Tales. Oh, and Susan Dug at the multiverse.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:06:09):
Oh, there’s only about, um, 10 of them left, I think.

Edmund Kearsley (01:06:12):
Ooh,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:06:13):
Woo.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:06:15):
And that’s a, that’s

Edmund Kearsley (01:06:16):
Kind of like, um, this show, but every page is by someone different.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:06:20):
Yeah, it’s, yeah, exactly. Instead of every panel. It’s every page. That’s gonna be a hell of a, um, a credits page on, on blank. <laugh> magnifying glass not included.

Ben Sullivan (01:06:47):
Ah,

Edmund Kearsley (01:06:50):
Watch Dan.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:06:56):
You can do a Ben, we believe in you.

Ben Sullivan (01:06:59):
I, I’ve just got a weird way to have to do this. Uh, Aaron <laugh>. Yeah,

Aaron Mak (01:07:05):
Send it to me. I’ll send

Ben Sullivan (01:07:06):
It. Thank you. Thank you. <laugh>. Haven’t,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:07:13):
That’s weird. It’s not coming through to me. I’m still

Ben Sullivan (01:07:16):
Got No, I chose. Oh no, it’s on my end.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:07:19):
Oh, it’s your end. Okay.

Ben Sullivan (01:07:20):
Yeah. Um, I haven’t sent the phone, the email up on this phone either. Um

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:07:26):
Oh, okay.

Ben Sullivan (01:07:27):
Go. So that’s probably the best way to do it.

Aaron Mak (01:07:31):
Amazing. Okay, let me save it. Is

Ben Sullivan (01:07:33):
That what Darren,

Aaron Mak (01:07:34):
I got it.

Ben Sullivan (01:07:36):
<laugh>, thanks so much.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:07:38):
Technology

Ben Sullivan (01:07:39):
Possibly do. Yes. Technology. What a world.

Aaron Mak (01:07:42):
I look at what Ben’s done and I’m like, that’s why I have to, I have to get all like, you know, a bit pompous with the, um, the text because otherwise my people Okay, I’ll send it to you now, Mrs. You

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:07:54):
Have it?

Aaron Mak (01:07:55):
You should have it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:07:57):
I do. Oh, wow. Okay, cool. Um, this is for Mr. Ley.

Edmund Kearsley (01:08:10):
Yeah. Got it.

Ben Sullivan (01:08:12):
Um, sorry to make that so hard. <laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:08:15):
<crosstalk>, but I just realised I haven’t shared my page either. Um, not my page, my screen, uh, share. Just watch Daniel for a little bit more people. It is a good, good to watch. So it doesn’t matter that I’m taking my time.

Aaron Mak (01:08:35):
Yeah. Wow. Look at that man. This this fanciful ink work going on.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:08:44):
I think that’ll force the screen to change. Yes, it did. How it does that, that’s a bit of a glitch. It shouldn’t, shouldn’t force.

Ben Sullivan (01:08:53):
Oh wow.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:08:54):
We got, we’ve got the two in one page. We’ve got this, um, Aaron and Ben in one Instagram.

Aaron Mak (01:09:03):
Yes. The two, the two for one deal.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:09:06):
Oh, look at that. There’s some more artwork

Ben Sullivan (01:09:11):
There.

Aaron Mak (01:09:12):
That was a fun day of filming.

Ben Sullivan (01:09:14):
It was, yeah. Yeah. That was fun.

Aaron Mak (01:09:17):
We gotta to see Sassy Ben Sullivan <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:09:23):
There we go.

Ben Sullivan (01:09:24):
Forced to <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:09:25):
Nice. Oh, it’s a video. Oops. I didn’t realise that.

Aaron Mak (01:09:30):
<laugh> Yes. We, we found them Videos have been very, um, beneficial in recent times. You know what with the, the current generation and attention spans.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:09:40):
Yes. I gotta learn to make more videos to be honest. I like this. You’re showing band members with the pictures. Oh, that’s,

Ben Sullivan (01:09:47):
I haven’t seen that. Yeah.

Aaron Mak (01:09:50):
Oh, I thought you’ve seen that band. Yeah, like, because there was something that

Ben Sullivan (01:09:54):
With the band. Yeah.

Aaron Mak (01:09:57):
Yeah. Like we, um,

Ben Sullivan (01:09:59):
And Anna, that whole idea

Aaron Mak (01:10:01):
To do the comic came from after we shot the first music video. Um, and I remember saying to Josh, who was my brother and co-creator of God’s Among Man and the Ana comic, and I was like, like, you guys look like freaking superheroes. And you know, one thing led to, and then we went to Ben and we said, Hey Ben, put a pin in God’s among man for a moment. We got this crazy new thing we gotta do. And then was like, okay,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:10:28):
I love the Cats. That’s awesome.

Aaron Mak (01:10:30):
<laugh> cats are awesome. Who doesn’t love cats? They get

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:10:33):
Their own. They get their own. That’s awesome. That’s great. There we go. You

Aaron Mak (01:10:36):
Know, actually I’ll, I’ll give a nice little, um, teaser, but the Cats, um, when we finally get around to issue one, which will be very soon, um, they’re gonna be special cats with powers. Ooh. Who doesn’t love special cats?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:10:52):
With super cats.

Ben Sullivan (01:10:53):
Yeah. Yeah. Super Cats.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:11:02):
And,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:11:05):
Ooh, I, oh, look at that.

Aaron Mak (01:11:10):
Yeah, you get to see the process from Pencils, the inks. Do you see why I’m like, why are you getting me? And then you’ve got Ben <laugh>, Ben’s and you wanna put between me and Daniel? Like, come on guys. <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:11:33):
I think it worked out very well, to be honest.

Daniel Watts (01:11:36):
Yeah, yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:11:40):
Oh, we’re at the bottom. So we’ll just cruise through here and we’re back at the top. So now let’s look at Dan’s wonderful stuff. Now why does it do that? Woo. These the people you may know.

Aaron Mak (01:12:04):
Oh yes, Dan, I did the creepy thing and I saw your Instagram so I added you straight away. ’cause I was like,

Daniel Watts (01:12:09):
Oh, thanks. Yeah, I’ll, I’ll follow you as well. That’d be great.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:12:12):
Oh, there’s the toys cool.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:12:14):
Oh wow. Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:12:16):
Uh, little people.

Daniel Watts (01:12:19):
Ah, yep. That’s my little ones. They’re my world at the moment. <laugh> or always.

Aaron Mak (01:12:29):
I love that. That’s awesome, Dan.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:12:31):
Gee.

Daniel Watts (01:12:32):
Ooh, thanks. Lots of, lots of fan art is Yeah. Most of it. I’m trying to get back to more original stuff of my own, but yeah, it’s Are they your character sketches there? Yeah. Everything on there is my, my work. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yep. Yeah. I, I like, I was spending some time just nice playing around, drawing while we’re watching tv. Just draw, um Oh cool. ORs and things like that and, and then robots and space characters and just fill a page of different characters. That’s kind of a nice, um, oh, is that nice thing to do to keep, keep drawing, keep your hand flowing.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:13:15):
<laugh>. Yeah. That makes sense.

Daniel Watts (01:13:16):
Use the imagination when you don’t have the time.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:13:22):
Oof.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:13:25):
Okay. I gotta see what this is.

Daniel Watts (01:13:29):
Oh yeah, that’s, um, wow. You see that? Yeah. Mozzarella, that’s the latest one of the covers. I just got to do a variant cover for, um, mozzarella. That’s, uh, Canadian comic book.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:13:43):
Oh, cool.

Daniel Watts (01:13:44):
Yeah. Hang hangman comics. It’s called Check them out. They’re, they’re really, it’s great. Cool. Like the, like the old horror kind of a horror feel. Yeah.

(01:13:56)
Never, never Arnold. Get him on Instagram. And I love his art, his art kind of, uh, we have a kind of familiar, uh, same type of feel of our artwork. So I followed his work and spoke to him a couple of times and yeah, we became friends on swapped. I swapped a couple of comics for his comics and yeah, it’s been good. Oh, nice. Yeah, I’ve done a couple of, just a couple of fan art sketches for him and then, then I asked, oh, then he asked to be a, if I would like to do something for the next, the issue issue too. So I, I got to do that cover, which turned out great. I was blown away. Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:14:36):
That’s awesome. Oh yeah, there’s the, the, um, backing boards of the toys. Yeah. Cool.

Daniel Watts (01:14:44):
Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:14:46):
Or backboards or whatever you call it. Oh, nice. No, to ai. Lovely

Daniel Watts (01:14:53):
<laugh>. Isn’t that going insane? Isn’t that all the ai?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:14:57):
Oh yeah. Was that a glow in the dark cosmic Gul warrior? Yeah, that’s,

Daniel Watts (01:15:05):
That was the first, um, toy packaging I’d done for, um, for Peter Peter Grow for Phantom Star Killer. That

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:15:13):
Was Oh,

Daniel Watts (01:15:13):
Okay. Original one. I did. Yeah. That was a couple of years ago. Now you can go to his, um, Instagram and he’s got a full, you can buy any of his figurines and things like that direct from him

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:15:30):
And Oh, that’s pretty cool.

Daniel Watts (01:15:32):
Yeah, he’s, he’s a very clever guy. <laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:15:41):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:15:43):
Oh, cool.

Daniel Watts (01:15:44):
Wow.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:15:47):
That’s really cool. I like that.

Daniel Watts (01:15:49):
Yeah, that was the commission I got. I got

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:15:51):
The size, the giant size, um, X-Men.

Daniel Watts (01:15:55):
Yeah. Ho the Ninja Turtles. Ho and then Doney. Yeah. Homage to that.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:16:01):
Yeah. That’s really cool. <laugh>.

Daniel Watts (01:16:03):
I did the original, did the original drawings on that were for or on, um, just a blank cover comic. So I then I just scanned it in and digitally coloured.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:16:13):
Oh, cool.

Daniel Watts (01:16:15):
Yeah. Yeah. So that was a commission for, for a guy from the state, which was Yeah, which was great. Nice.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:16:22):
Oh yeah. Is that the, the actual May, uh, the comic there.

Daniel Watts (01:16:27):
That’s the one. Yeah. Yep.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:16:29):
Yeah. Cool.

Daniel Watts (01:16:31):
Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:16:33):
Oh, bit of man. Can’t go wrong there.

Daniel Watts (01:16:36):
No. <laugh>. Yeah. There a couple of commissions there. Yep.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:16:41):
How you going, ed? I’m done. All done. Okay. We’ll stop stalking. Um, Daniel, Daniel <laugh>.

Daniel Watts (01:16:49):
No worries. Fantastic stuff Daniel. Amazing. Yeah. Oh, thank you. Thanks. Really amazing. Awesome. Really nice.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:16:58):
Get to the top. I think I scrolled longer than I thought I did.

Daniel Watts (01:17:02):
Yes. Further.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:17:03):
There we go.

Ben Sullivan (01:17:09):
Oops.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:17:11):
Awesome. We go. Um, what have I done? Oh, that’s right ’cause we were watching and we shall bring it up.

Ben Sullivan (01:17:20):
Ah, there it is. That alright? Yeah.

Edmund Kearsley (01:17:25):
Page So far

Ben Sullivan (01:17:28):
It is it too late to,

Aaron Mak (01:17:30):
To say I’ve done more <laugh>

Edmund Kearsley (01:17:33):
To do what?

Aaron Mak (01:17:34):
To say. I’ve done more

Ben Sullivan (01:17:36):
Since then. <laugh>. Oh. Oh no. Oh no. Isn’t

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:17:40):
This isn’t the finish.

Edmund Kearsley (01:17:41):
That’ll be for next week. When we showed the, the

Ben Sullivan (01:17:45):
Okay panel.

Edmund Kearsley (01:17:46):
So we’ve got, uh, Ben’s one up the top with, uh, the mum handing blank, the, the thing. And she’s saying, here is something to help you on your journey. And it’s, uh, still in flashback mode. And we got Aaron’s blank looking into the bag and it says, the world is cold and harsh. We had to make you so if you were to survive your mission, but a cold facade is no shield for a heart as warm and pure as yours. So if you, my son, I gift you companionship and it’s like, it got you bitch.

Ben Sullivan (01:18:24):
That’s good. <laugh>.

Aaron Mak (01:18:30):
This is like the worst mom ever, like <inaudible>. And then there’s a rocket robot shoots you in the face. <laugh>

Edmund Kearsley (01:18:41):
The, the laser site’s pointed right at him.

Ben Sullivan (01:18:44):
This is a toxic <laugh>

Edmund Kearsley (01:18:47):
Now it’s a good panel.

Ben Sullivan (01:18:50):
That’s great.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:18:51):
That’s a great page guys. <laugh>

Edmund Kearsley (01:18:53):
Great pages for to see all panel.

Aaron Mak (01:18:58):
Thank you to Daniel and Ben for carrying, carrying the team.

Ben Sullivan (01:19:02):
No, you said the, you said the story. Good. Inking.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:19:07):
Yeah. That’s really good. Aaron. Oh, sorry.

Aaron Mak (01:19:10):
I like to think the inks are getting better. I, I I, I kind of only I knew what inking was in theory and you know, I’d see in Ben’s and I’m like, all right, let’s, let’s try and do a little summon summon like that.

Ben Sullivan (01:19:23):
<laugh>. Nice.

Edmund Kearsley (01:19:28):
Alrighty. That’ll do us for tonight.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:19:32):
Yep. I will.

Edmund Kearsley (01:19:33):
To thank Ben and Aaron and Dan for showing up.

Ben Sullivan (01:19:39):
Oh yeah, that’s it. Geez.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:19:43):
Thank you. That’s looking really good Aaron.

Ben Sullivan (01:19:45):
Yeah,

Aaron Mak (01:19:46):
Thank you. The pleasure, pleasure. Makes Diamonds <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (01:19:53):
Um, but thank everyone in the chat. Is there any last chats there?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:19:58):
It looks like there is actually I just went into the other page and it’s telling me there’s another chat. Another Oh, great work everyone from Dave Dye. There you go.

Ben Sullivan (01:20:06):
Hey, great day Dave.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:20:08):
Looks so good from Cold Creature. I just missed that as well. Yeah,

Edmund Kearsley (01:20:12):
Thank you Cold creature and thanks Siz for

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:20:18):
Stuffing

Edmund Kearsley (01:20:18):
Everything up. Organising the show, pressing the buttons. Thanks

Ben Sullivan (01:20:23):
For inviting

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:20:23):
Me along the wrong buttons. Organising the wrong Oh, what? This isn’t drink and draw. What, where am I? <laugh>? Um, uh, I’ll just throw in there everyone remember to like the video, subscribe to the channel if you’re on YouTube. If you’re not on YouTube, get to YouTube and like the channel, uh, subscribe to the channel. I mean, that would be awesome. It helps us produce more of these wonderful videos for everyone.

Edmund Kearsley (01:20:48):
And the blank Kickstarter

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:20:50):
The blank, Kickstarter

Edmund Kearsley (01:20:52):
The address,

Ben Sullivan (01:20:54):
And if you get it and you’re not happy with this,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:20:59):
I’ll leave it on the screen as we go out blank.com, X studio when this is finished, that’s where it goes. So yeah, we’re making a PDF of all this. Um, and uh, I dunno if I should say that in a few months it’ll be a actual comic as well, so it will be, and we’ll too late. I’ve said it now, so there you go. It

Ben Sullivan (01:21:24):
Will be <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:21:28):
I’ve got another comment. A thumbs up from Cold Creature. Excellent.

Ben Sullivan (01:21:31):
Hey,

Edmund Kearsley (01:21:33):
All righty. So next week is the ultimate episode, so come back then to see a whole new bunch of artists making a whole new page. And I think that’s it. Thanks for showing up guys, and we’ll see you later.

Ben Sullivan (01:21:52):
Yep. Thanks. Thanks Shane. You guys

Edmund Kearsley (01:21:55):
Nice to meet you all.

Ben Sullivan (01:21:57):
You too. See you later.