Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (00:00):
It’s very live already. There we go.

Edmund Kearsley (00:03):
<laugh>. Hello everyone. Welcome to season two of let’s Make Comic Book. And for this episode, instead of making a page, we’re gonna make the new character or the the new comic that we’re gonna make. And to help us do this, we’ve got Nick May. Hello, welcome to the show.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (00:32):
Hello

Edmund Kearsley (00:33):
<laugh>. Got Alex, major

Alex Major (00:37):
<laugh>. Uh, hello. I came

Edmund Kearsley (00:40):
Peter, uh, Peter Wilson as well.

Alex Major (00:45):
Can make the little apple pencils wobble. Hey, look at this. We’re all using Apple pencils. Ah, look at that. We’re all, most in Apple shells.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (00:52):
Give us free stuff. I nothing.

Alex Major (00:55):
You have an Apple pencil there? Si. Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (00:58):
It’s like over there somewhere.

Alex Major (01:00):
It’s the

Edmund Kearsley (01:00):
Bloody, bloody sea.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:01):
Yeah,

Alex Major (01:02):
Bloody sea.

Peter Wilson (01:02):
Well, there goes the sponsorship. Thanks. Si.

Alex Major (01:06):
The apple doesn’t throw money at us.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:08):
<laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (01:11):
Okay. Woohoo.

Alex Major (01:14):
Hello Gary. Thanks for the support, Kerry.

Edmund Kearsley (01:19):
All right, so I’m gonna show everyone, this is the, the kind of template that we’ve made. So we’ve got the, the head, the body, and the legs. So you guys will be getting, uh, a part each to draw are and to choose who goes where. We’re gonna be using the hand of choosing Chuck me up on full screens.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:48):
Oh, yep. Sorry.

Edmund Kearsley (01:52):
So we’re gonna start with Nick. May you get to choose.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (02:00):
I would choose number four. Edmond.

Edmund Kearsley (02:04):
Number four is,

Alex Major (02:05):
Are you sure? Oh, or too late.

Edmund Kearsley (02:07):
So number three. So you’ve got the legs, <laugh>, and then we’ll go to two. Alex, you get to choose one. Ah,

Alex Major (02:16):
I’m gonna choose 23.

Edmund Kearsley (02:18):
23. Two, two

Alex Major (02:20):
Mean two

Edmund Kearsley (02:21):
<laugh> always you get there. This is the new one, which is a C, which is the choose option. So you get to choose Ooh, between one or two. So you don’t wanna go first or second?

Alex Major (02:34):
Uh, I’ll do the head.

Edmund Kearsley (02:36):
You wanna go first? Yeah. So then that leaves, Pete’s got the body,

Alex Major (02:43):
So I gotta draw the hand first. Let’s say, I’m going to download this one and then send it off to my good notes.

Edmund Kearsley (02:55):
Hey Richard. Richard and three Nick.

Alex Major (03:03):
Cool. So, um, I’m gonna have to send off, I think when I’m done with the head for somebody to start doing the body right. As soon as possible.

Edmund Kearsley (03:11):
Yeah. So once you’ve done your thing, if you do it on the, the smaller one, then just draw away the, the neck will be

Alex Major (03:18):
Mm-Hmm,

Edmund Kearsley (03:20):
<affirmative> Cool. Like roughly on the, on the big sheet. And then we can, um, so Pete can have a rough idea of where to put the, uh, to start the, the top of the body.

Alex Major (03:37):
Cool. All. I can go to this one.

Edmund Kearsley (03:42):
And so the, um, people watching at home, we’re gonna need your guys help to help us name this character.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (03:49):
Yes, that’s right.

Edmund Kearsley (03:50):
And we’re gonna need, um, ideas for a setting for the, uh, for the new book. Like if it’s gonna be a post apocalypse or a fantasy or, um, something along those lines.

Alex Major (04:08):
<laugh>. So how do we do, so I go, so I just draw a ahead or something and then, um, pass it on? Or do we have a, um, is somebody from the audience throwing in an idea for, to go through before we start? So you

Edmund Kearsley (04:26):
Just, um, yeah, just draw the head and then you can, um, give Pete the, the, the little prompt so he can know where to start the, the body from.

Alex Major (04:37):
Cool. Cool. And I’ll just send that to, to Pete. All right. Is that right? I send that to Pete or

Edmund Kearsley (04:44):
If that’s easier.

Alex Major (04:45):
Yeah, I can send it to you. Yeah, I’ll send it to you on the, on the Facebook Messenger. I don’t want to advertise <laugh> company, but just so you know where to expect it. <laugh>.

Peter Wilson (04:57):
Yep. Alright, cool.

Alex Major (04:59):
Cool. No worries.

Peter Wilson (05:01):
I’ll start sort of just a rough idea and then I can tweak it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (05:04):
Tweak it. Nice.

Alex Major (05:06):
Cool.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (05:08):
Here we go.

Alex Major (05:10):
Cool.

Peter Wilson (05:14):
You gonna super over Sydney Alex?

Alex Major (05:16):
I will, I will be there. I’ll be there. I’ll be square. Um, I’m not gonna go there in the round fashion. <laugh>. Um, uh, yeah, but I think I’m gonna, I think I’m gonna go, um, last time I went like, I think a little bit early in the morning and I think I got all I wanted, uh, with three hours to spare. So I think I might come in a little bit later. I’m not gonna be with the crowds. I think I’ll just show up at about 11 or 12. Yeah. And then, uh, I’ll walk around. Is uh, COMEX going to have something there like for the audience to go in there and go like, I have money to give comics, but I wanna do it in person. Is anything of that ilk happening?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (06:00):
Yes. Uh, Duchenne has a table that he is sharing with us. He’ll have some of the tacular versions of the comics and I don’t know who’s helping him. So that’s really organised of me. <laugh> good on you. Dhan. Yeah. Unless he’s doing it by himself, then he’s the man.

Peter Wilson (06:26):
Max Rodder or Stella Land’s fame will be there.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (06:29):
Yeah. Ah, that’s right.

Alex Major (06:30):
And, and, um, and bad on yous for not knowing who’s gonna be there with, you know.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (06:36):
Nah,

Alex Major (06:37):
<inaudible>, uh, um, doesn’t

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (06:38):
Matter. As long as there’s people there, anyone can sell it as long as I get the money.

Alex Major (06:44):
Just so you know, for the measurements. So you know vaguely where to put the neck.

Peter Wilson (06:51):
I can work with that.

Alex Major (06:52):
And I gave you like a little bit of an overlap so that way you can be a little bit more flexible on the design. So it’ll be easier to connect.

Peter Wilson (07:00):
Oh, you’re a treasure.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (07:02):
Wow.

Edmund Kearsley (07:05):
So we’ve got some, uh, some suggestions coming through from Danny Nolan.

Alex Major (07:11):
Oh,

Edmund Kearsley (07:12):
So you got the setting under the ocean or an undersea city? Like bios, shocks, rapture.

Alex Major (07:17):
Ooh. Oh, okay.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (07:20):
Wonder Water is cool.

Edmund Kearsley (07:23):
And we’ve got the, the name is Mouse.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (07:27):
Mouse Mo. Thanks Danny. Thanks Danny for that one. What’s the

Alex Major (07:32):
Name? Marsh.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (07:33):
I might vote against that one ’cause I don’t wanna have to say that for an entire season. <laugh>.

Alex Major (07:38):
But what if the S is silent and it’s just called Mouth?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (07:42):
Oh, well I can live with that.

Alex Major (07:44):
Yeah. And then we know how to pronounce it, but other people are gonna be struggling with it and then people go like, why did I even put a silent S in it? This is so stupid. And they were like, it’s just, um, you know, it’s just basically an artistic complaint about the English language. We have too many silent letters just because the French have it, we don’t need to to copy it.

Peter Wilson (08:06):
That that’s how that’s all gonna go. Is it?

Alex Major (08:09):
Yeah, that’s pretty much where I’m at. It’s, well,

Peter Wilson (08:11):
Thanks for the spoiler alert. <laugh>,

Alex Major (08:15):
Ah, sugar. Sorry, I almost said a Naugh word. And I don’t want to, I don’t wanna demonetize comics.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (08:23):
I think you already have, so that’s all good.

Alex Major (08:25):
Oh, okay. Sweet.

Peter Wilson (08:28):
In that case.

Alex Major (08:30):
So yeah, I’m not gonna, I’m not gonna risk it. I don’t wanna upset anybody.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (08:36):
<laugh>. Good, good, good. You’ll upset the boss. That’ll get you in trouble.

Edmund Kearsley (08:41):
Mm. So we’ve got a suggestion from Richard. Uh, been listening to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Radio plays. And we can take this character to the many corners of space.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (08:53):
Oh,

Peter Wilson (08:54):
Space is good

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (08:55):
Thinking Rico

Edmund Kearsley (08:57):
Space is easier to draw than underwater. Too

Peter Wilson (08:59):
True. <laugh>

Alex Major (09:02):
What one’s black. The other one Black with stars in it. And then the other one just blue with like little ripples. You know, I don’t need to draw corals everywhere. Like I’ve been to the, I’ve been to the ocean before. There’s not that many corals. Unless you’re in the Great Bay Reef, then you’re full of corals. But they’re also, all the bleaching is helping out with the colouring. ’cause it’s all easy to colour now it’s just grey

Peter Wilson (09:26):
<laugh>. I knew some good would come of that.

Alex Major (09:28):
I know. I’m just saying if there’s a good in everything, you can’t always see the negatives. <laugh>. Uh, I mean, I’d rather a colourful thing, but you know, I use fossil fuels.

Peter Wilson (09:41):
Next time I see a bunch of protesters, I’ll be like, did you consider the cartoonists now much better off

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (09:47):
<laugh>

Alex Major (09:49):
Than never. Think of the cartoonists is, I’m pretty sure now that you mention it, I’m pretty sure that all that AI stuff is created by a bunch of tree hugging hippies.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (09:58):
<laugh>

Alex Major (10:01):
Cartoonist

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (10:01):
Going,

Alex Major (10:02):
Sorry. Are you, I dunno, it’s South Park reference. It’s not my, it’s not my joke

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (10:09):
Because South Park get us demonetized. <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (10:12):
I’m sure they could. No, that would

Peter Wilson (10:13):
Be ironic.

Alex Major (10:14):
They don’t, they don’t use Sure they could. Yeah. Oh, they do use non, uh, well if we copy. Oh yeah, they could. Ah, man, I’m just trouble. Why do you have me on the show?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (10:22):
I was wondering the same thing.

Edmund Kearsley (10:24):
I’ve been kind of questioning it myself. <laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (10:28):
<laugh>, uh,

Edmund Kearsley (10:30):
Just jokes.

Alex Major (10:33):
Okay.

Edmund Kearsley (10:34):
So for anyone who’s just joined us, we are making the new character and we need a, a name for the character and a setting for the comic book in which the character shall inhabit. Once created setting

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (10:51):
Better word than I use

Edmund Kearsley (10:52):
Talented gentleman. The setting

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (10:54):
As setting that what I should have said, I said environment. I just, I went with the big word that I can’t spell instead of setting, which would’ve been so much easier.

Edmund Kearsley (11:05):
Don’t mention the environment in front of Alex. He doesn’t

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (11:07):
Like it. Yeah, I know. He just goes off <laugh>.

Alex Major (11:11):
No, I like the environment. <laugh>. I like

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (11:15):
What you said.

Edmund Kearsley (11:16):
I

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (11:19):
Dump the ocean.

Alex Major (11:25):
The the positives about coral bleaching is that if you use that as a setting, you don’t need to worry about the colours much when you’re drawing

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (11:32):
<laugh> <laugh>.

Alex Major (11:33):
I didn’t say that that was a good thing. I’m just saying of all the bad things, well, at least there’s that.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (11:37):
So you’re doubling down.

Alex Major (11:40):
I, I’d rather have the burden of colouring in corals when I’m drawing the underwater scenes. But you know, like, this sucks that you know, that the corals are disappearing, but at least it’s easier to colour. So you, you gotta find the positive and the negative. Nick

Peter Wilson (11:56):
Being, you’re basically Captain Planet villain at this point.

Alex Major (11:59):
No, I’m, I’m, I’m, I’m basically a glass half full person. While all you guys, all guys are a bunch of negative people.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (12:06):
Glass half full environmental destruction.

Alex Major (12:11):
I’m not doing the destruction. I’m living in the destruction and I’m trying to be, make the best of a bad situation. <laugh>, I know

Peter Wilson (12:19):
If you’re complicit, are you any better?

Alex Major (12:22):
Sorry. Yeah, because I’m just complicit. I’m easily, uh, I’m easily orders good with the other stuff as well. Like when things go well, I’m not gonna be in the way of that either. So <laugh>, you know, oh dear. I’m not the problem or the solution. I’m just in the way.

Edmund Kearsley (12:40):
<laugh>,

Peter Wilson (12:43):
You could all be our own critics.

Alex Major (12:45):
Yeah. Oh,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (12:46):
Lovely.

Alex Major (12:48):
Alright. Is there a deadline on, on this or what’s

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (12:50):
Going on, Peter? And can you could send anything to me?

Peter Wilson (12:53):
Yep, yep.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (12:55):
No, you get to sit there.

Edmund Kearsley (12:57):
Gee, you can wait

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (12:58):
Down. Nick. Come on. It’s what you got. Sorry Nick.

Peter Wilson (13:01):
I’ll send you something now

Alex Major (13:04):
So we can’t. Gorgeous,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (13:06):
Gorgeous.

Alex Major (13:06):
So, so basically right now we don’t discuss the story or the character. We’re just drawing random things, right?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (13:13):
Yeah, correct.

Alex Major (13:14):
Okay, cool. No worries.

Edmund Kearsley (13:15):
And then we’ll see what happens. And if it’s a bad idea, it’s

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (13:19):
Fault name and, oh, sorry.

Alex Major (13:21):
Well, was this, was this si was this your idea?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (13:25):
Me? No, I have nothing to do with this. I’m just the guy who sits in the corner and presses buttons badly.

Edmund Kearsley (13:30):
We’ll, uh, we’ll blame him for letting me do it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (13:34):
<laugh>. Yes. I, I encouraged. That’s all I did. That’s all I did. Ed came to me with an idea and I said, hell yeah.

Alex Major (13:46):
Were you sure with that or was it more like Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. Whatever. See you Friday <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (13:51):
It’s more like, do I have to do anything? No, good. Let’s do it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (13:54):
Yeah, I’m all for it.

Edmund Kearsley (14:02):
It’s a good message from Sped city. It’s a Alex major says that a nuclear apocalypse would be good ’cause there’d be less people to draw.

Alex Major (14:10):
Ah, see this is where sp is wrong because there’d be a lot of people

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (14:15):
Much less, less coral.

Alex Major (14:16):
Yeah. The coral stuff is okay, but the problem is that the people won’t be disappearing. There’ll be just a bunch of corpses. And I don’t know if you’ve seen like a half dec Kang body, but there’s a lot of detail to draw in there, <laugh>. And so to be honest, that is not a, you know, just, it just means that the annoying people don’t speak. The positive. Isn’t an

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (14:38):
Glass half empty now, what’s going

Alex Major (14:40):
On? No, because there is a positive, the bank, people who I owe money to will also be dead and I won’t have to be worried to pay them back. So I’m not saying that there something pro-nuclear

Peter Wilson (14:51):
Winter, God

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (14:53):
<laugh>.

Alex Major (14:54):
Oh, look, Sydney’s very cold right now. I can’t imagine. Um, the nuclear winter being much worse.

Peter Wilson (15:01):
Yeah, I’ll give you that. It is bloody cold.

Alex Major (15:03):
Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (15:05):
Yeah. Oh dear.

Alex Major (15:08):
I know there’s some people in Siberia go like, what? Because all that, all those, all those comics fans from Coveros, they’re going like, oh, it’s fucking Aussies. I mean, sorry. Bloody Aussies.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (15:21):
There you go. Here. Yeah. Prehistoric and Gronk.

Alex Major (15:26):
Oh yeah. Doesn’t Gronk exist? Oh, CRO exists. CRO is from the Emperor’s new groove.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (15:34):
Really? There’s Gronk. Did you work on that?

Alex Major (15:38):
Sorry. No, I didn’t, sadly. But I thought it was an, I got to see the premiere for it and um, I thought it was an amazing movie. It’s like one of my favourite Disney movies of all time because it’s really a Warner Brothers movie.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (15:52):
<laugh> <laugh>.

Alex Major (15:55):
I mean, it’s, it’s not, but it, it moves like a Warner Brothers movie.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (16:00):
Oh, hang on <laugh>.

Peter Wilson (16:07):
I sent you the guide to the legs Nick, on Instagram.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (16:12):
All right, thank you kindly.

Peter Wilson (16:14):
That helps you out.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (16:18):
So you guys like all know each other and stuff?

Alex Major (16:22):
No. Who are you?

Peter Wilson (16:23):
You look vaguely familiar.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (16:25):
Who are you talking to? <laugh>. <laugh>.

Alex Major (16:30):
Well, I, I remember when I first met Pete for the first time, it was a wonderful day, supernova. And, um, I remember Rob and everybody who met him before was like, I can’t believe how tall Peter was. Oh yeah. And then I met him and he is like, he is a just normal height. Like it’s tall but like a normal tall, like I was expecting, like I was expecting like Andre the Giant or something.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (16:56):
<laugh>.

Peter Wilson (16:56):
Well, don’t destroy.

Alex Major (16:58):
Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (16:58):
Yeah. Now you’ve done it <laugh>. Yeah.

Alex Major (17:01):
So don’t be so I’m just, I basic, I’m just trying to tell the audience not to be intimidated or scared to go like, oh, I don’t wanna meet scary tall people. And I’m like, no. He is a, he is a friendly dude. Friendly, normal sized human.

Peter Wilson (17:13):
Be a little scared. <laugh>. I like the power.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (17:17):
<laugh>.

Alex Major (17:19):
Okay, cool. Well no worries.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (17:23):
Gronk sounds like a lead to a heavy rock caveman band. I’m gonna stuff that up.

Peter Wilson (17:29):
That would’ve been a cool character.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (17:32):
Goodness.

Peter Wilson (17:33):
Let’s put a pin in that one.

Alex Major (17:37):
So now we, we are talking underwater looking in space and previous historic

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (17:43):
Seems to be the option. I should write these down. Or, um, there’s your, for the post, uh, nuclear apocalypse that’s

Alex Major (17:53):
Gave <laugh>, that’s thing.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (17:57):
But he said Alex said, and he wouldn’t lie.

Edmund Kearsley (18:01):
Space and prehistoric. So how are we gonna choose the thing? I didn’t think about that.

Alex Major (18:12):
What? Choose what? <laugh>

Edmund Kearsley (18:13):
The setting and the vote.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (18:16):
I was gonna say give it a vote at the end. Alright.

Alex Major (18:18):
Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (18:20):
Yeah. And it would just be a rough vote. So no one count the numbers. We will just go by feel. That feels like the most people said that one. That’s how we

Edmund Kearsley (18:29):
We’ll go by a applause level.

Alex Major (18:31):
So nobody’s uh, so anybody like suggesting the Balkans?

Edmund Kearsley (18:39):
Oh, we got Gronk. So you’ve got Mouse of Mo and Gronk.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (18:46):
Gronk. Yeah. Is there any other names yet?

Edmund Kearsley (18:49):
Yeah, give some names. Everyone.

Alex Major (18:52):
Yeah. Also like, um, it’s gonna be, IIII made the, the head uh, gender neutral. So whatever names you guys give it, be creative. I know that people are gonna be like, Ooh. ’cause like I, we haven’t coloured it in. I think if I coloured it in, you could probably give it gender, but without, um, colour. I think you can still, you know, think whatever you want to think.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (19:21):
Yes. Black and white by the way. Just saying. Oh, that’s good.

Alex Major (19:24):
Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (19:26):
So good luck colouring that in.

Alex Major (19:27):
Well, he might be on the cover, right?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (19:30):
Oh, well that’s true. Or

Alex Major (19:31):
She, she, they, yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (19:35):
I believe they is the more friendly term. <laugh>.

Alex Major (19:40):
Well, you don’t know what species or, or is it, is it human or Yeah, true. True, true. Or is it blank to

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (19:45):
The robot after all?

Alex Major (19:47):
Yeah. So, geez, not trying to be rude just happened to be by accident on <inaudible>. Sorry. <laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (19:57):
Very unlike you, I’m not used to this.

Alex Major (19:59):
It just was what

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (20:01):
Surprise.

Alex Major (20:04):
Mm.

Peter Wilson (20:07):
I don’t know if you’ve answered this before, ed. Is there a particular inspiration for this style of comic that made you wanna do it?

Edmund Kearsley (20:16):
Um, there’s the, um, I forget the name of it now, but there is the, the, uh, American cartoonist did a big one. There was, uh, a jam comic like this with every panel with a different artist. It’s kind inspired by that. And um, also the

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (20:44):
Exquisite coop there. Is that what you mean?

Edmund Kearsley (20:46):
Yeah. Is that what the name of the book was?

Nick May (20:50):
I think it was, it was something like that. Yeah.

Edmund Kearsley (20:53):
This

Nick May (20:53):
Style or that’s just, yeah,

Edmund Kearsley (20:55):
This style of making a, like a drawing is called an exquisite corps where you usually have everyone in the same room and you fold the paper.

Alex Major (21:02):
Yeah. Oh yeah, I know that one. So show

Edmund Kearsley (21:04):
Everyone’s style up as kids.

Alex Major (21:07):
I used to do that for English lessons when I was in, um, Asia, someplace Korea or China. I dunno where I did it. Um, uh, used to have them write stories like that because I, I remember we did this in, uh, for like drawing stuff as well. And then I have that then they would just write little sentences and they were just, nothing would make sense.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (21:29):
<laugh> <laugh>.

Alex Major (21:32):
And I think, I think they ended up forgetting more English than they knew before they met me.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (21:37):
<laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (21:39):
So when you do it in a story, it’s, it’s called a narrative corpse.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (21:43):
That’s it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (21:48):
And we’ve got Rico asking or richo. Sorry. I always say Rico. I dunno why I do that. Um, how’s everyone’s Thursday today? So not a different Thursday. Today’s Thursday.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (22:02):
Busy, but good food.

Nick May (22:05):
Yeah, very

Alex Major (22:05):
Busy. I’m supposed to be at a drinking draw ’cause I, but I thought it was on on Wednesday and I showed up in the city yesterday and then my mate was like, it’s on tomorrow. And I’m like, no it’s not. I’m in the city now. Why we caught up for drinks. But I was like, oh well that’s so stupid.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (22:21):
<laugh>.

Alex Major (22:23):
I was like, I could have, could have. Uh, anyways, doesn’t matter. Um, I had this planned before.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (22:32):
Priorities. Good to see. They’re

Nick May (22:33):
In the right place. Team man, Alex. That’s what I’ve always loved about you.

Alex Major (22:38):
Yeah, I just like you for your looks.

Nick May (22:41):
<laugh>. Well, you obviously don’t like me very much, so that’s sort of hurtful.

Alex Major (22:46):
Oh, come on, <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (22:50):
Good one, Alex.

Alex Major (22:51):
Oh geez. Now I made everything uncomfortable. Thanks

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (22:54):
<laugh>

Nick May (22:56):
Again.

Alex Major (23:00):
Uh, oh. I think I’m almost done with my character. Excellent. I don’t wanna, I don’t wanna overwork it ’cause I know a lot of people are gonna draw it, so. Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (23:08):
I know what you mean.

Alex Major (23:09):
So, um, ’cause one thing about character design, I saw a lot of, like, people that do stuff, um, they just keep adding and adding bits and then people gonna keep forgetting parts. So I’m trying to try to keep it simple. Although I think it’s maybe a little too complex. But anyways, I think the important thing is I think that no matter what style people draw, draw this character in. I reckon you’ll still know what it is from the head part anyway.

Edmund Kearsley (23:38):
Cool. If you wanna send that to me through the messenger.

Alex Major (23:44):
Okay. Can do that. Just a second. It’s just black and white, right?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (23:48):
Yeah.

Alex Major (23:49):
Okay, cool. I’ll do that. Uh,

Edmund Kearsley (23:54):
So at the end, once everyone’s sent me their, uh, drawings, I’m going to try and do a sketch of the character and see how Okay.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (24:04):
Combine it together. Sweet. I’d do it, but it’d make it too simple. That’s just making it easy for people.

Peter Wilson (24:11):
I wanna see the siz cut. Don’t

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (24:12):
Want that.

Edmund Kearsley (24:13):
Yeah. Well you’re gonna have to draw it when you do your panel on the show. So

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (24:18):
You simplify it, Alex, simplify it. Take out

Alex Major (24:23):
It’s, it’s in just a circle, sis. Yes.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (24:27):
Just a circle. I love it. Took you that long to draw circle. That’s awesome.

Alex Major (24:34):
Damn. You’re stupid at this. I was gonna say something else, but I’m like, oh no, I’m on, I’m in. I’m being recorded.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (24:41):
<laugh> sure are

Edmund Kearsley (24:44):
Not just by us.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (24:46):
Yeah, by

Alex Major (24:47):
Many people. Oh yeah. The the Chinese government. Oh, those guys.

Edmund Kearsley (24:53):
Chinese government.

Alex Major (24:55):
And go. They’ve got

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (24:57):
You on their radar.

Alex Major (24:58):
Oh they do? Okay, cool. I sent you a jpeg and a PNG.

Edmund Kearsley (25:06):
Nice.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (25:07):
Oh, fancy.

Peter Wilson (25:11):
I’ll have something shortly.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (25:22):
Gonna say this would be a good part to talk to Alex. ’cause he’s finished. But I don’t wanna be cancelled, so I dunno what to do. <laugh>.

Alex Major (25:28):
Well, talk to me. Talk to me <laugh>. Tell me what you really thinks.

Edmund Kearsley (25:35):
Let’s get some more suggestions in as well for some names. Oh yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (25:39):
Come on. People. Suggestions. Come on.

Edmund Kearsley (25:41):
Audience name and settings.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (25:44):
Setting, even though I said environment in the email I just sent out, it’s settings. I dunno if I spell environment right. So,

Alex Major (25:50):
Well, and is there anything you like, is there anything that’s comes out to you go like, oh yeah, I reckon this will work. I try to make it, I I think what I gave you will work underwater and in space and in prehistoric times and in a neo futuristic city. And in a garden or a farm.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (26:12):
Very specific.

Peter Wilson (26:17):
I look forward to seeing your fish. Cow, astronaut, human <laugh> with no specific gender. <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (26:32):
All right, I’ve got to change my thing. So talk amongst yourselves as they figure this out.

Alex Major (26:40):
Oh, Nick, do you reckon Ed’s listening to us? <laugh>

Nick May (26:43):
<laugh>. Doubtful. Cool. You can say whatever you want. Alex.

Alex Major (26:48):
I missed the globe.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (26:49):
Um, Nick

Nick May (26:51):
<laugh>. <laugh>.

Peter Wilson (26:53):
Yeah. Easy now. <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (26:59):
Oh, we, I believe this is Nathan. Sorry if it’s not. Oh, hey guys.

Peter Wilson (27:04):
Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (27:07):
Now give us, give us some, give us some settings and give us some names. People in the audience that is, I’m not talking to the, the artists here. I’m talking to you who are watching.

Alex Major (27:17):
Says I have a, I I I have a unrelated question that’s kind of related. Uh, okay. Have we settled down? Is it, is it, is it Wolverine or, um, iron Man we drawing it’s Wolverine right on drink and draw uh,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (27:30):
Next drink and draw next week. Yes.

Alex Major (27:32):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So people watching are gonna contribute to the drink and draw. Uh, can get going on their Wolverine stuff. Can get a head start. Do it now. You know, you don’t need to do it during the show. That’s, some people don’t do

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (27:46):
It during this one. You wanna watch.

Nick May (27:48):
It’s a community service announcement. Alex, if I’ve ever heard one so sweet of you.

Alex Major (27:53):
But I don’t need to watch. You just need to make sure that it’s streaming. Right? That’s the important part. The watching part is nice, but they just need to meet the YouTube needs to think people are watching the reality just Oh,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (28:11):
Oh. Wage war on ai. Oh, that’s

Peter Wilson (28:13):
Pretty cool. I like that. Yeah.

Alex Major (28:15):
Where was this before we started drawing <laugh> because like I didn’t do, uh, pixelate. I could’ve used a Pixelated app. I could’ve used PKI to put together something.

Peter Wilson (28:27):
That’d be a good name. The Pixel later.

Alex Major (28:30):
I think it’s an isn’t app. I don’t know. It’s old. Oh no, it’s Pixel made up. Pixel made.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (28:37):
Maureen, or both? I don’t know how both works.

Edmund Kearsley (28:42):
Dwayne,

Alex Major (28:43):
Maureen, Dane, Reen.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (28:45):
I, yes.

Edmund Kearsley (28:49):
I got,

Alex Major (28:51):
We should call it. Maybe, uh, can’t, uh, can’t contribute. I already contributed ahead,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (28:56):
Correct.

Nick May (28:57):
Come on Alex.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (28:59):
Come on Nick.

Edmund Kearsley (29:01):
Come on Pete. Sorry. <laugh>.

Alex Major (29:08):
Oh well anyways, I’m still gonna endorse my Woolie’s. Carrots. Alright.

Edmund Kearsley (29:14):
<laugh>.

Alex Major (29:15):
Uh, I don’t know why I’m,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:17):
That’s we want that’s

Peter Wilson (29:19):
There.

Alex Major (29:20):
Okay. You know what I ICO is watching the League podcast. Less popular than ours has, has, has like 30% of the views that we get and they have like a lawnmower company sponsoring them.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:33):
A lawnmower?

Alex Major (29:34):
Yeah, some lawnmower company sponsoring. They, they some Rugby league podcast she’s watching. Oh. And like, oh, it’s good because I get to learn about the game and I get to practise English because, um, for people listening, my partner’s Japanese and she’s trying to fit into Australian society. So we all now Rugby League fans. We like the Parramatta eels. Nice. Oh, the name is both or is it both?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (30:00):
Maybe

Edmund Kearsley (30:01):
Rufus

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (30:03):
And Jamie’s saying that, that Sprite idea of reminding him of Tron. Yeah.

Alex Major (30:10):
By Sprite do they mean like a, like a p and g for a, a game or like a little fairy character?

Edmund Kearsley (30:16):
I think like the video game character.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (30:19):
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking as well. Computer Sprite. Yeah, it says computer Sprite in the name.

Peter Wilson (30:25):
I like that

Alex Major (30:26):
Computer fairy

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (30:27):
Comment.

Alex Major (30:28):
Like a Commodore 64 with like little wings and a face and a wand.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (30:36):
Was your head all pixelated? Did you do it right?

Alex Major (30:40):
Nick was pixelated before but then his internet got better.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (30:44):
That’s how he does his best work. <laugh>,

Alex Major (30:49):
I mean, you know, big ups for uh, Nick May’s internet doing its job today. Yeah,

Edmund Kearsley (30:54):
It’s been great.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (30:55):
Yeah. Yeah. It’s impressive, right?

Edmund Kearsley (30:57):
The show,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (30:58):
Right?

Alex Major (31:00):
No, it wasn’t good at the beginning but when it mattered it kicked in and it’s doing a good job.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (31:04):
Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>.

Peter Wilson (31:05):
Okay. I think mine’s done. I’ll send it through.

Edmund Kearsley (31:08):
Oh, very exciting. It gets some, uh, some more names for the character and some setting ideas from the, from the chat.

Alex Major (31:20):
Do you reckon that the final name and setting maybe after this people see the character, will that work? Or we wanna give the name before they see, I dunno maybe anybody watching it? How do you feel about it? Leave us a type of message angrily into this thing going like, no,

Edmund Kearsley (31:38):
Tell Alex why he is wrong.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (31:40):
Yeah. <laugh> Ed. I’m sure you are gonna be fine Resizing stuff, right?

Edmund Kearsley (31:50):
Yeah.

Alex Major (31:52):
Yeah. He is got Clip Studio. He knows how how it works doesn’t need and do it all without Adobe taking his data.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (32:01):
<laugh>

Edmund Kearsley (32:03):
And my Money

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (32:04):
<laugh> and money’s the bigger one I’d be more worried about.

Alex Major (32:09):
No, I don’t know. Did you guys, I don’t know. Like it’s all over my internet. Apparently everybody’s unsubscribing to Adobe and I was like, I didn’t even know anybody who subscribes to it. I just know companies use it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (32:19):
Mm.

Alex Major (32:21):
Like I use it at work, but it wouldn’t touch it at home.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (32:24):
<laugh> just in more names.

Alex Major (32:26):
Mutual and Maxima.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (32:29):
Nice.

Peter Wilson (32:31):
I like that. We’ve got some good ones coming through.

Alex Major (32:36):
Uh, what about lad? Just call it lads.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (32:40):
<laugh>

Edmund Kearsley (32:44):
Bro. Jam Zello.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (32:47):
Oh, you just saw that. Did you

Alex Major (32:50):
Bro Jam. Oh, that’s my, oh, that’s my name. Backwards. <laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (32:55):
<laugh>.

Peter Wilson (32:56):
Where can I send it to you?

Edmund Kearsley (32:57):
I didn’t get that. Um, send it through Facebook. Yeah. Got the retro through Bros in the, in the house there. Um, old buddies of mine.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (33:08):
Oh, nice. <laugh> <laugh>. So it could be a bit to read that.

Alex Major (33:18):
Oh yeah. Is it N 64? Retro. I what? Be just like a Nest or like an Atari joystick. I was

Edmund Kearsley (33:26):
The Dan 64. It’s got the the three

Alex Major (33:28):
Strokes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. Uh, yeah, it is old. It’s 20 something years old. It’s retro. I’m just old and not ready to move on. <laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (33:41):
Nice.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (33:48):
<laugh>. We’ve got a fan of Retro Bros.

Alex Major (33:52):
Yeah, there you go. Retro Bros. But that’s, that’s a team, not a, not a character.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (33:57):
Yeah. No, no. Retro Bros were the people who gave us, uh, the idea.

Alex Major (34:00):
Oh, okay.

Edmund Kearsley (34:02):
But it’s also a, their YouTube show where they do, um, Nintendo 64, Mario Kart challenges and stuff.

Alex Major (34:09):
Oh cool. I like that. Uh, I really like the N 64 Mario Kart. I played a lot when I was supposed to look for a job.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (34:24):
Oh, ed, well done.

Alex Major (34:28):
Oh, nice.

Peter Wilson (34:30):
You won’t regret it.

Alex Major (34:32):
We also have a drink and draw. That’s pretty good. Watch that too. And then, um, there’s a lead does a good chit chat show too. Get on that too. Cannot not promote Lee. Sorry.

Peter Wilson (34:44):
True, true.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (34:47):
And the Wednesday show and the, the other Friday show.

Alex Major (34:50):
Oh shit. There’s a lot of shows. Yeah. Watch ’em All. There is a

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (34:53):
Pig I noticed this week when every day had one.

Edmund Kearsley (35:00):
Did you send your thing through Pete,

Peter Wilson (35:02):
Right? Yeah.

Nick May (35:08):
Sizzle. I think I’ve sent, uh, I’ve emailed something to you, but my internet is of course unreliable at the moment. So hopefully it’s going through. It failed a few times. Okay.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (35:19):
I’ll just keep pressing the refresh button until it comes through. Oops, that’s not the refresh button. Oh, we’ve got someone going down the road here. I

Nick May (35:51):
Might try again.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (35:53):
You are gonna say I’ve got nothing. So if it is coming through, it’s coming through very slowly.

Nick May (35:59):
Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (36:02):
Did you do do studio by the way? Just checking.

Nick May (36:06):
Yeah, baby.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (36:07):
Okay, good.

Nick May (36:19):
I am just send, I’m just sending a jpeg I hope.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (36:24):
Sweet

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (36:25):
<laugh>

Nick May (36:28):
Because I know how much everybody loves JPEGs.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (36:33):
I

Alex Major (36:33):
Love, I love uh, compressed JPEGs JP that are 12 kilobytes. Those are the best because you’ve got the pixelation that makes no sense.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (36:43):
<laugh>.

Nick May (36:54):
I’m having trouble.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (36:59):
Ah, it’s internet. Okay.

Alex Major (37:01):
Oh yeah, while we all waiting, I was just gonna promote, uh, because you know, uh, our pace is all the big bucks. Um, uh, I got sketch party in two weeks, so any Sydney people please come. We had it, um, on Sketch party, uh, at at sketch party, Sydney on Instagram, all the info and um, every Wednesday, first Wednesday of every month in the, in Surrey Hills at the Carrington Hotel. Last time was pretty good. We had a pretty good turnout. And the, the bar’s very nice. We stick up all the artwork on the, he lets us stick us up all the artwork on the wall as well. Oh nice. Oh cool. And also like, just like the people that come in there, they’re all really cool as well. I got awesome drawings. So if you just wanna be inspired by other people, it’s really amazing. You just can take a look at all the work.

Nick May (37:52):
Just in case this doesn’t work, I’ve just No, I tried to send it to you via Instagram. Okay. But my, sorry, my internet is doing circles. Oh,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:07):
I’m amazed. You’re still showing on the screen. Your computer mustn’t be having issues with the internet.

Nick May (38:16):
Yeah, I think maybe it’s my iPad. Here go um, <laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:23):
You go Alex.

Alex Major (38:25):
I will be referred. I will totally. Ah, awesome dude. Please come. We’re at the, uh, yeah, uh, um, the Carrington Hotel in Sur Hills. It’s like a little bit further down from the next street down from Crown Street. Um, yeah, it’s, yeah, it’s a cool night. Um, check out on the, um, page on Sketch party Sydney. And you can see all the stuff that we’ve done there. It’s got all the info. Can’t wait to see more people. We had a lot of people from animation last time. Um, nobody from comics showed up. So shame on all of you. I’m calling is all out Boo boo. Comic people and not wanting to be social, be like animation people. Go out a little and draw.

Edmund Kearsley (39:04):
Mm-Hmm.

Peter Wilson (39:05):
Which, which F type do you prefer? It

Nick May (39:07):
<laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (39:08):
Which, what?

Nick May (39:08):
Surely Comics people are are a lot more introverted than that.

Peter Wilson (39:15):
I’m gonna resend mine,

Edmund Kearsley (39:17):
But I’ve already got it.

Peter Wilson (39:19):
Yeah, yeah. I’m just fixing up one of the hands.

Edmund Kearsley (39:23):
Oh, okay.

Peter Wilson (39:26):
It was a little bit amateur. And I am a professional.

Edmund Kearsley (39:35):
I am a professional amateur.

Peter Wilson (39:38):
That’s right. Um, jpeg will do. Is that all right for now?

Edmund Kearsley (39:42):
Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:44):
As Lee says,

Edmund Kearsley (39:46):
Love a good jpeg <laugh>.

Alex Major (39:49):
I thought he said Unity’s community or something like that.

Edmund Kearsley (39:52):
He says, well

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:53):
Tonight it’s

Peter Wilson (39:55):
Not good. Peter. Finish lettering my pages. God damnit

Edmund Kearsley (39:59):
<laugh>.

Peter Wilson (40:00):
No, he’s actually

Alex Major (40:01):
Very passion. I’ll be honest between us guys, just I’m, I’m more of a p and g guy. I prefer p and Gs ’cause they, ’cause I, I like my alphas. I didn’t say I like my PNGs. Like I like my

Nick May (40:15):
Name. You do strike me as more of an alpha

Edmund Kearsley (40:17):
<laugh>.

Alex Major (40:19):
Yeah. I’m tough

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (40:24):
And scary buddy.

Alex Major (40:28):
Yeah, no man. With two cats. You know what to say about men with two cats. That guy has two cats.

Edmund Kearsley (40:34):
Yeah. <laugh>.

Alex Major (40:42):
My cats are there. What is it? Jimmy?

Edmund Kearsley (40:44):
How’s your thing going? Nick?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (40:48):
Looks like you’re having a bit of troubles. Well,

Nick May (40:51):
I’m, I’m having trouble. It’s, I’ve sent it to you, uh, via Instagram ed, but it’s saying that it’s sending, um,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:04):
<laugh>.

Nick May (41:06):
We’ll see what happens. Um, do you have a fax number? <laugh>?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:12):
Uh, I’ll wait for those emails as well. See what comes through first.

Edmund Kearsley (41:17):
I got

Alex Major (41:17):
Something. Nixon in Japan.

Peter Wilson (41:18):
That’s me, ed.

Edmund Kearsley (41:29):
All right. I got Pete’s new one. I’m gonna stitch in. Oh, I got a photo from Hey. All right. I’ve got all the bits.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:41):
Oh,

Edmund Kearsley (41:42):
Do you guys, um, do something while I do this?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:50):
Cool. I guess that’s on me. <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (41:53):
Go see sir.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:54):
Uh, I’ll come on More comments. People gimme something to read to pronounce incorrectly and mis word and just test out my dyslexia. That’s all I’m saying. We got more names. Get some,

Edmund Kearsley (42:09):
Get some more names and settings.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:12):
Yeah, we need more settings. Jesus.

Peter Wilson (42:16):
It’d be cool if it was like a shrunk down tiny character and the world was just like someone’s desk or bed or something.

Edmund Kearsley (42:26):
Like a micron situation.

Peter Wilson (42:28):
Likeman style.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:30):
I like it.

Edmund Kearsley (42:32):
I’ll put that down. What would you say those a like a micro?

Peter Wilson (42:39):
Yeah, like a micro verse.

Edmund Kearsley (42:40):
Micro

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:41):
Verse. Yeah.

Edmund Kearsley (42:43):
I’m sure we’ll remember what that meant.

Peter Wilson (42:46):
<laugh>,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:56):
Come on. Peeps. Okay. Oh, retro bro. You don’t know what we’re drawing. We are drawing the, uh, bits and pieces of the character for the new series, for the new season, I should say. Um, last season we did a character called Blank who was a robot. And we did what’s pretty much, it’s called a jam comic, isn’t it? Yeah. Yeah. And this will be the same. Uh, but what we’ve, what Ed’s decided to do is, um, do a bit of a jam design, I guess you’d call it, where we’ve got three artists who’ve come in and drawn bits of the character and he’s putting it together as we speak. So yeah. I hope that makes sense. Hope that made sense.

Nick May (43:39):
So technically at the moment, um, some of us are not drawing anything. I guess it’s just Ed really.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (43:46):
Ed Yeah. You

Edmund Kearsley (43:48):
Doing a bit of, um, something or other?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (43:55):
Inking isn’t the other name for that phrase.

Nick May (43:58):
Do you editing? I hope

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (44:00):
<laugh>. Oh dear. Come on. Did I upset any inkers? I’m trying to go down the Alex major path here and upset people. <laugh> work

Alex Major (44:16):
Doesn’t,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (44:17):
I do doesn’t, I don’t

Nick May (44:18):
Think Alex has ever upset anyone except for environmentalists,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (44:22):
<laugh>

Alex Major (44:23):
And family members.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (44:25):
<laugh>

Alex Major (44:29):
And people who used to be labelled as friends. But now they, they’ve said disassociated from that <laugh>.

Nick May (44:37):
Alex. If it was that easy, they’re not very good friends.

Alex Major (44:41):
<laugh>

Nick May (44:42):
Anymore

Alex Major (44:43):
Or I was just, or or I said something really horrible or did said slash did something horrible.

Nick May (44:49):
Yeah, but that’s just a test. Mm.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (44:54):
Got a question. Uh, these guys all drew on digital of some sort. I believe iPads for most all digital.

Alex Major (45:01):
Yeah. Yeah. We all did iPads and everybody did procreate. I thought I was gonna go with another app ’cause I have like 50 other drawing apps. I thought it was gonna be special, but then I was like, I always go back to procreate.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (45:12):
So procreate Apple sponsorship come this way,

Alex Major (45:18):
You know, again, the one good thing about Procreate, it’s Australian, so you’re supporting Homegrown, but it’s

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (45:24):
Also,

Alex Major (45:25):
But I didn’t know that it’s from Hobart. It’s from Hobart. So that’s kind of, ugh, that’s kind of like, you know, but yeah, it’s a Tasmanian company.

Nick May (45:32):
Be another country. Yeah. It’s basically

Alex Major (45:35):
A country. Well I that it’s kind of like, yeah, <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (45:39):
Oh, sorry, I just answer Retro Bros here. That was actually done on purpose so that we don’t see the character in its pieces so that we, so we get to see the character as a whole at the end of the show. So we do.

Nick May (45:51):
And also

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (45:52):
What’s going on? Usually we do

Nick May (45:54):
<crosstalk>. Yeah. Because I can’t, uh, work out how technology works. So that would be impossible.

Alex Major (46:00):
Oh. Personally, I just didn’t want anybody to show off how the work process is because I just typed it up on my iPad. That’s all. I’m just using, uh, Dali or Stable Diffusion.

Nick May (46:11):
<laugh>.

Alex Major (46:13):
I’m joking.

Nick May (46:13):
Glad I’m not the only one. Alex

Alex Major (46:15):
<laugh>. <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (46:17):
Good luck getting one of those programmes to do what you actually want it to do.

Alex Major (46:20):
Uh, that’s what I need luck.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (46:23):
That’s why you have graphic designers.

Alex Major (46:26):
You know what I was playing around with chat GPT because, um, just at, at work we had to start pitching stuff and um, chat. GPT got tired of me and said, just hire suggested me to hire a graphic designer to visualise it for me. <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (46:42):
That’s awesome.

Nick May (46:43):
That’s how you know chat. GPT is really a person. Yes. <laugh> a person call centre trying to answer as many things as possible.

Alex Major (46:58):
It’s going to be a, um, a graphic novel I believe. So. It’s going to be an epic. Like I was going through, uh, I was going through upcoming comics with the uh, uh, guys from Aussie verse and there was some books there that costed at $177. And I was like, that’s a lot of money for a comic book. Turns out that comic book has 600 plus pages. And I’m like, oh, okay. Well that, that justifies it. So that’s a big point. <laugh>. So yeah, so that’s what we are going for a 600 plus page book. So we can start charging $176. So that way we’ll keep more than that. That

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (47:35):
<crosstalk>. And that’s us dollars too. Um, yeah, that’s okay. You, you didn’t know it was a robot so he suggested or she, sorry, I shouldn’t assume. Um, a magical or natural world this time.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (47:48):
This Yeah, good point. Branch out. We could just,

Nick May (47:55):
I guess it depends on what we’ve all drawn. Yeah. Oh, well, does it? No, maybe it doesn’t. Maybe the, the magic of the narrative is how our character fits into this, um, new environment.

Alex Major (48:08):
We could just set it in somebody’s apartment and there’s just nothing happens.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:12):
Exactly.

Alex Major (48:19):
It’s just three friends in a wacky neighbour down New York.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:35):
Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:35):
Oh cool.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:37):
That would be cool.

Alex Major (48:38):
Yeah. I think that’s the thing was that we didn’t have much ideas coming in through. So it looks like what we drew at what people are suggesting are not the same

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:49):
<laugh>. Yeah. Throw

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:55):
Anyway.

Nick May (48:56):
The fish legs that I have drawn, um, might make it difficult to walk around a farm. But anyway.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:02):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:03):
What? No. Converse. I’m very upset now.

Nick May (49:08):
Yeah, that’s a

Alex Major (49:09):
Departure. Me too. What’s going on, Nick?

Nick May (49:12):
Oh God. I’m not giving, I’m not giving them away. Come on <laugh>.

Alex Major (49:16):
Nick.

Alex Major (49:17):
I don’t know what to say.

Nick May (49:19):
The summer

Nick May (49:19):
In Melbourne. So thong.

Nick May (49:24):
It’s a big ri Ooh,

Nick May (49:27):
Drum roll

Nick May (49:28):
Drum.

Alex Major (49:30):
Oh, we reeling the character. Nice.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:33):
Yep. Yep.

Alex Major (49:34):
Let’s see.

Edmund Kearsley (49:39):
You gonna do it? Si.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:40):
Oh, I thought you were sorry. I I

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:42):
Have hand.

Alex Major (49:43):
I’m excited.

Nick May (49:44):
Hang up.

Peter Wilson (49:46):
Woo.

Alex Major (49:49):
That

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:50):
That’s awesome. Sweet.

Alex Major (49:54):
I like the robo sandals. Cool, cool. Did you know, did you uh, Nick, did you know what the head was gonna

Nick May (50:02):
Be? Yeah. Yeah. You told me the other day.

Nick May (50:05):
I’m wasn’t so, I I’m the odd one out.

Nick May (50:08):
No, I had no idea.

Alex Major (50:11):
But I think the legs and the hips joint pretty well.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (50:16):
Loving the thongs.

Edmund Kearsley (50:19):
<laugh> and the Dr. Dream legs. Yeah.

Nick May (50:27):
Nice.

Alex Major (50:28):
Oh, but the character’s wearing a skirt. You don’t know if the character inside the head is a girl

Nick May (50:35):
Or an ancient Roman

Alex Major (50:37):
Or an ancient Roman <laugh>. I think it’s more of like an character because that’s what I think where those animals come from.

Nick May (50:46):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (50:49):
I am not looking forward to drawing that <laugh>.

Alex Major (50:53):
It’s <laugh>.

Alex Major (50:56):
<laugh>. Yeah, it is. Looks like it’s going to be a complicated drawing, but, Hmm.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (51:03):
Oh, this one’s easier. I like this one. I can do this one <laugh> blank paper. I’m good at that. I can stare at that for hours. Wondering what to draw.

Edmund Kearsley (51:13):
Oops. Okay, so I, we’re gonna do, try and get my thing to work.

Nick May (51:24):
If you need me to give you any tech support, ed, I’m always here for you.

Edmund Kearsley (51:28):
<laugh>. Okay.

Nick May (51:31):
Sorry. I’m going through a tunnel.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (51:34):
<laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (51:38):
Um, oh, you can’t see the, I have the, the thing up in the, in a little window here, but it’s not showing up on the tv. So you guys, um, I’ll start drawing it and let’s get some, um, let’s, uh, some more names and

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (52:09):
Oh yeah, more names. So we’ve got something to vote on

Nick May (52:12):
Now that we can have the

Alex Major (52:13):
Yeah, now that the people have seen the character, you can give it a name. Now

Edmund Kearsley (52:17):
What I’ll do, I’ve got an idea. Everyone,

Alex Major (52:19):
I think people have gone quiet. Go like that Didn’t make sense. Why is there a cat in there and a skirt, robot,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (52:26):
A cat. Okay, cool. I just thought it was some magical creature.

Alex Major (52:33):
No, it’s just a cat. No, except instead of having, uh, it’s a care cat because he is got a heart on his belly. Like a care Cats are

Nick May (52:42):
Magical creatures.

Alex Major (52:44):
Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (52:45):
Magical care catt. I love

Alex Major (52:47):
It. Yeah, but we don’t need to call it a care catt. We can just, you know, I dunno. Call it something else. Hot

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (52:52):
Cat. How’s that hot cat?

Alex Major (52:54):
Um, I, I reckon says let’s leave it for the audience. Let them, let them decide. We’ve cat. I think we’ve already

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (53:02):
Kit

Alex Major (53:04):
The, I think, I think the three of us here have already made enough bad decisions. So <laugh>, uh, I’m gonna,

Edmund Kearsley (53:13):
So I’ve added it to the thing. Theres, I like threatening.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (53:20):
What have you added? What, where?

Edmund Kearsley (53:22):
In the overlays.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (53:25):
Oh, I wasn’t looking now I was looking. Any comments? Woo.

Edmund Kearsley (53:31):
So there you go. That’s what we came up with. I might try and make it a bit squatter.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (53:40):
See, I can’t move this around so I could move it to the side of what you are drawing. Well, can we, can I download that? No, I cannot.

Nick May (53:57):
Uh, if you hide, like Ed’s uh, is obviously beautiful, but just keep it up on the screen for a few seconds. So all the humans watching can, um,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (54:07):
See the original design. Yes. Can

Nick May (54:09):
See the, the design and come up with the name. Yeah. And the, and the environment.

Alex Major (54:16):
Yeah. I still think it could be a, a, a little character. It can still be like a little anise character in a farm. Escaping.

Edmund Kearsley (54:24):
Wait, the way the characters books. It could, it could work with any kind of setting.

Alex Major (54:30):
Yeah, please.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (54:32):
Bearcat, please. Nice. Actually, funnily enough, um, <inaudible> that’s probably going to develop throughout the jam Comic Comic Jam. Which way did you say

Edmund Kearsley (54:46):
Jam Comic.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (54:47):
Yeah. Yum Jam.

Edmund Kearsley (54:48):
And that’s what we find out as we do the, the book and every panel of the book has a different artist.

Alex Major (54:55):
So basically there is um, uh, there is no planning and backstory right now that’s going to evolve over the show. Yep. And I think just people just coming in, leaving messages and opinions and stuff is gonna help form and everybody else can be part of the show and then, and the story. And then after the season two’s finished, they’ll be very correct to go like, Hey wait, why do I have to pay for this thing that I was helping him contribute?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (55:24):
<laugh> <laugh>. They won’t be questioning that. They’ll be, they’ll be questioning. Why is it so cheap?

Peter Wilson (55:30):
That’s it.

Nick May (55:30):
See, why is it less than a 600 page comic book?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (55:34):
<laugh>.

Alex Major (55:36):
Wow. 1 76.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (55:40):
76 and 95 cents. So

Nick May (55:46):
Us,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (55:47):
Us. Yes.

Alex Major (55:49):
Actually I was looking at Australian prices before. So

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (55:53):
<laugh>.

Alex Major (55:55):
Oh well my cat’s worried about it. He’s got food. No, ’cause he got food. Eat it.

Nick May (56:00):
Maybe he needs a care cat.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (56:02):
Yeah, maybe he’s like Doug. It needs to be watched and monitored while he eats.

Peter Wilson (56:07):
What, what if the cat is like a junkyard cat and he is made the body out of like an old animatronic with my torso. Oh, robot Legs.

Nick May (56:20):
Its name. Neville.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (56:23):
I like this. Put Neville on the list.

Alex Major (56:28):
I don’t know. I reckon he is. His name’s Anthony.

Peter Wilson (56:32):
Anthony’s encased himself in the bubble ’cause of the smell.

Alex Major (56:35):
Well it can’t be uh uh See you could call him Anthony Spark and that way it’s kind of a reference to Tony Stark, but it’s not

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (56:45):
Because it’s

Alex Major (56:46):
Anthony.

Nick May (56:47):
I don’t get it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (56:49):
First we destroy,

Alex Major (56:51):
I try to come off like a comic book nerd, but I really can’t do it. <laugh>,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (56:57):
Explain that marketing.

Alex Major (57:01):
Sorry, I have to explain this to marketing. Oh, no,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:04):
No. Explain what the, the joke was.

Alex Major (57:07):
Oh, the joke. That wasn’t really, uh, I was trying to be a, the, the joke, the effort here was that um, Tony is short for Anthony.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:16):
Is it? Yeah. No way.

Alex Major (57:20):
Well there you go. Yeah. And then

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:22):
This is, this is more educational than art.

Alex Major (57:25):
And then instead of Star, we just call him Spark because he is got like a spark in his head. He is got lots of ideas and then he is building stuff up and then we just go. And then from then on we just go onto Peter’s idea of all the

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:38):
On a rampage.

Alex Major (57:40):
What sorry? Ramp

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:42):
Heaps of names. Richard Dean. I like Richard Dean and Cat.

Alex Major (57:45):
And Cat. I do like Richard Dean. What’s the reference to? I just like it that it’s a name I recognise.

Peter Wilson (57:51):
I like trad cat.

Nick May (57:52):
MacGyver.

Alex Major (57:54):
What? This trad cat. Ah, that doesn’t, that’s not bad. Trad Cat sounds good because like he could be just fixing plumbing in people’s houses. <laugh>,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:02):
<laugh>.

Peter Wilson (58:04):
You could rework my belt to be like a tool man’s belt.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:06):
Yeah. Nice. That is cool.

Peter Wilson (58:15):
Yeah, we’re cooking.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:20):
Oh, okay. Richard Dean Anderson. AKA. Oh, wrong they all moved. Poor

Peter Wilson (58:25):
Cat also very Oh,

Alex Major (58:26):
MacGyver is that, what is that the actor though or the character in MacGyver?

Nick May (58:32):
I think the characters’ called MacGyver And the actor’s name is AKA

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:38):
<laugh>.

Peter Wilson (58:43):
Well call the Cat has a good ring to it. I like

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:45):
Call a cat that also

Peter Wilson (58:48):
The, that

Alex Major (58:49):
Sounds like, it sounds like a sex thing but that’s not why you wanna call a cat though.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:54):
It didn’t until you, there you go.

Nick May (58:58):
Well done. Alex

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (59:00):
<laugh>.

Alex Major (59:01):
Uh, Steamboat Kitty. I like that too because it’s Steamboat Willie. It’s a Disney restaurant. I

Nick May (59:09):
Dunno if you’re allowed to say that. Alex.

Alex Major (59:13):
What? Steam really is, um,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (59:14):
Thing. Oh

Nick May (59:15):
Okay. Come on.

Alex Major (59:16):
It’s not copyright anymore.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (59:18):
<laugh>.

Alex Major (59:19):
It’s not copyright anymore. And I don’t know what you’re thinking about Willie, but it’s just a short

Nick May (59:23):
Oh, Alex

Edmund Kearsley (59:25):
<laugh>. He just doesn’t stop.

Alex Major (59:27):
No,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (59:27):
I think this might be a vote. Is that a vote That saying tra Cat is their vote?

Peter Wilson (59:33):
Yeah. Is

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (59:34):
That what you’re doing? Jay?

Edmund Kearsley (59:36):
Explain

Nick May (59:37):
Yourself. It’s a vote.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (59:38):
Sizzle Na <laugh>. Oh dear. You

Peter Wilson (59:42):
Trade Cat. You can use Call Cat against that one. You can call like Tra Cat in Call Cat like those old cartoons.

Nick May (59:55):
Yeah.

Peter Wilson (59:58):
You know, it’s always like Felix the cat in. I’m glad someone picked up on my gloves.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:07):
There’s gonna be a Siz. I dunno if I want it to be a bubble head. Cat.

Edmund Kearsley (01:00:11):
<laugh>. Why not

Peter Wilson (01:00:13):
Sizzle

Nick May (01:00:14):
Picky. Steamboat. Willies bloody free for everyone. Surely Sizzle N is open for everything as well. <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:24):
Well if if it’s voted in then it’s what’s happening I guess.

Nick May (01:00:29):
Come on. Public Vote

Peter Wilson (01:00:32):
Sizzle is a good Citrus Enemy name.

Alex Major (01:00:35):
Yeah it is. Here’s my reference. It’s called the Cat. He is like, that’s not what I look like at all. I hate you <laugh>.

Peter Wilson (01:00:43):
I can’t even pick up my cat. You’re lucky she rip me to shred. Well

Alex Major (01:00:46):
He doesn’t wanna be picked up. I You guys can hear him?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:49):
I can hear that. He doesn’t wanna be picked

Alex Major (01:00:50):
Up. Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:52):
Oh, we’ve got another Tra Cat vote.

Peter Wilson (01:00:55):
Okay.

Alex Major (01:00:56):
Oh nice.

Edmund Kearsley (01:00:57):
So there’s my, my pencils. So now I’ll just do it. Beautiful

Nick May (01:01:03):
Edmond

Edmund Kearsley (01:01:04):
Quick Ink job. Well we figure out this name nonsense.

Alex Major (01:01:13):
So it looks like trad Cat’s winning. Now

Nick May (01:01:16):
Tradie Cat is awesome, but I would love it if it had a name and that was name Dash Tradie Cat or the Tradie Cat or whatever.

Peter Wilson (01:01:26):
Tra

Nick May (01:01:27):
Cat sounds like Fie Cat and all of that sort of stuff. It’s, it’s, oh

Peter Wilson (01:01:31):
Yeah, there’s,

Alex Major (01:01:34):
It looks like a lot of people like Tra Cat Barrack. We just kind, I

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:01:37):
I dunno if I wanna go with this one. <laugh> like announcing, that was

Nick May (01:01:43):
My nickname in high school.

Alex Major (01:01:46):
Uh, nice.

Edmund Kearsley (01:01:50):
Whoa. What did,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:01:53):
Well maybe Ka Norris the tradie cat.

Alex Major (01:01:57):
<laugh> Kitty Kat Norris. Kit Ka. Willie Kat. Fix it. Chuck Ty. Chuck Chuck Kitty. Ka Norris.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:02:11):
Come on. Votes. Let’s get some votes. I’ll like this idea of a name with Tradie cat. The,

Peter Wilson (01:02:15):
The name of the series Tradie Cat So Fast seems to be winning, but the actual name for the character.

Alex Major (01:02:21):
But, but it can still be a tra cat in space. Just so people not he can be a tradesman in any situation. Even like, um, even underwater. Even underwater. I wanna

Nick May (01:02:31):
See him in Danny Nolan’s post-apocalyptic Undersea Paradise

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:02:37):
<laugh>

Alex Major (01:02:37):
Dying Trade Kitty

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:02:45):
Raise a cute little name. Bitsy Bitsy is a good name.

Peter Wilson (01:02:53):
Nice and simple. I like it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:02:54):
Yeah. Hi. Hang on, I gotta download this. I

Alex Major (01:02:58):
Mean I was also thinking when I was drawing that thinking a little bit, I was a little bit inspired by Crane from Turtles ’cause like a little brain <laugh> and he like a big fat body. So it’s a little bit of crane and the and fu heads.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:14):
Oh yeah.

Alex Major (01:03:17):
And also he can be anywhere. Like, I don’t know why he has a, he’s inside that little shield if it’s a, um, on earth.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:26):
But

Nick May (01:03:26):
Because he is like John Travolta in The Boy in the Bubble.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:31):
Yeah,

Alex Major (01:03:31):
Yeah, yeah. I don’t remember that show Fu I just remember, I just remember Welcome back Kata.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:39):
Interesting reference.

Nick May (01:03:39):
Well they’re both basically the same thing.

Alex Major (01:03:43):
<laugh>. And he was also in, um, oh look, he’s talking. He was in that one too. Oh. He’s in all the classics.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:51):
Okay, back to the comments. So I was just downloading an image I was given Felix, come on. That’s not very original.

Peter Wilson (01:03:59):
Might as well call him. Lawsuit. <laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:04:01):
Lawsuit. <laugh>

Alex Major (01:04:05):
Sizzle. A lawsuit. Sizzle. Are we already, um, trad Cat already has fan art by the way.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:04:15):
Yeah. Yeah. Have you seen it? Have you?

Alex Major (01:04:17):
Yeah, I’ve seen some out from Mr. Dye. Have you seen it?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:04:22):
No. Hang on. I would just that amazing. But he went with ci. Yeah. <laugh>. So good. Look at that. Look at

Alex Major (01:04:32):
The, look at the jpeg quality.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:04:35):
<laugh>.

Nick May (01:04:38):
That’s why we love JPEGs. Alex.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:04:42):
We do indeed. Um, I’ll put the other one back up. Oh. Helps you press the right button. Oh. As the tube comes out the back of the collar. <laugh>. I like that.

Peter Wilson (01:05:15):
Have we, you you seem to be determined that it’s a guy Alex, this cat? No,

Alex Major (01:05:20):
No, no. It can be boy or girl. I don’t care.

Peter Wilson (01:05:22):
Maybe lady. The tradie cat

Alex Major (01:05:25):
That

Alex Major (01:05:25):
Yeah. I think isn’t <crosstalk>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:05:27):
That’s why I’m going for Bitsy. I’m liking Bitsy. Yeah. I like

Peter Wilson (01:05:32):
Bitsy the tradie guys. Cool. That’s very cute.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:05:37):
It’s a cat with a love heart. You, you gotta go. Cute.

Peter Wilson (01:05:39):
That’s true. That is true.

Edmund Kearsley (01:05:44):
I’m sure when we start making the comic book, it’s just gonna be fighting the whole time.

Alex Major (01:05:48):
Yeah. <laugh>

Alex Major (01:05:50):
Not on my panel.

Nick May (01:05:51):
Yeah. Alex is know <laugh>

Alex Major (01:05:56):
Or just committing sexual harassment. One or the other.

Nick May (01:05:59):
<laugh>. Sorry. I dunno if I’m allowed to laugh at that. <laugh>.

Alex Major (01:06:07):
You are, you’re old enough. On the other hand, Peter’s young, he should be offended.

Peter Wilson (01:06:14):
I’m I’m cancelling you right now.

Nick May (01:06:17):
<laugh> as can speak. It’s not the best.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:06:20):
Writing an email to the council. Council. Cancel. Oh, I can’t even say the word.

Peter Wilson (01:06:25):
You should prepare a thing for Comex. Alex has never been an employee of Comex <laugh> as a contractor, we are always up to review

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:06:38):
Za I think. Is that how you pronounce that? Za? Okay. We’re, we’re at that spot. I think this is a good time to start voting.

Alex Major (01:06:57):
Hmm.

Alex Major (01:06:59):
Have, have you, has anybody pitched settings yet outside the three of us here? I know there were some settings before

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:07:04):
On Yeah, there was some settings. There were early on

Alex Major (01:07:06):
Show

Edmund Kearsley (01:07:07):
Underwater space prehistory, the um, video game character fighting AI and micro verse. And then for names we’ve got Eth Gronk, Ru Janz, Dwayne, Maureen, both Blatt, neutral Maxima, care Cat, Neville, Richard, Dean, was it Kaon? Caller Cat treaty Cat, Steamboat Kitty and whatever came in after I stopped writing ’em down.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:07:42):
<laugh>

Edmund Kearsley (01:07:43):
Susan

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:07:47):
It the Felix, which we could just rename as Peter said lawsuit. Um, so vote

Edmund Kearsley (01:08:04):
Tra Cat

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:08:05):
One.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:08:05):
I like trad cat. I think we, we’ve um, that got voted a few already. So

Peter Wilson (01:08:11):
Bits see the trading cat. I like

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:08:12):
That. It’s either the tra cat. Yeah. If we don’t get votes, we’re gonna have to decide for you people.

Peter Wilson (01:08:17):
He will, he’s a fascist at heart.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:08:21):
I am

Peter Wilson (01:08:22):
<laugh>.

Alex Major (01:08:25):
I’m not at heart. Just, just a regular dictator. Most

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:08:28):
Of my organs actually are fascist

Alex Major (01:08:31):
That more of a Singapore flavour

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:08:34):
<laugh>

Alex Major (01:08:35):
Because they, they, they have a dictatorship but still people like going there for shopping

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:08:41):
<laugh>

Nick May (01:08:41):
And theme park

Alex Major (01:08:43):
And theme park and a and a Formula One race as well. Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:08:47):
Oh nice. Yeah.

Alex Major (01:08:48):
That’s a model dictatorship. There you go. Singapore,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:08:51):
Dave dies voting for bitsy.

Alex Major (01:08:53):
Yeah.

Peter Wilson (01:08:55):
On you Dave.

Alex Major (01:08:58):
Where do you think David should be set? Do you reckon it should be set in Penrith or space? <laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:09:05):
Pen

Peter Wilson (01:09:06):
Or space? Isn’t that always the way?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:09:09):
Yeah. <laugh>. It’s

Alex Major (01:09:11):
Not that person. Ong,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:09:13):
I hate making this choice.

Alex Major (01:09:16):
No. Singapore’s nice. I’ve been there twice and both times I I thought it was clean.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:09:23):
Damnit I was waiting for you to say spice or something.

Alex Major (01:09:25):
No, it was humid as hell. Like it’s ah, super like humid. Like just, even just contemplating of movement makes you sweat.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:09:37):
Yikes. That’s why I’ve got a space setting for one vote.

Peter Wilson (01:09:41):
Space is popular.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:09:43):
Mm-Hmm.

Nick May (01:09:46):
Except that no one can hear you scream. It always freaks me out

Alex Major (01:09:50):
A bit. Yeah. I have a feeling that’s not very true. The only, I, I reckon if you take off the, the head mask, people will hear you, hear you scream. I give two people ’cause you want the other person to have that helmet off as well. So the sounds ways can your

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:10:06):
Drum, I think it’s pretty accurate actually, Alex, there’s really, there’s like no atmosphere for the sound,

Peter Wilson (01:10:13):
For the, to travel through.

Alex Major (01:10:14):
Yeah, but there’s, there’s some stuff in there. Like it’s just shit bouncing right. Like <laugh>, I don’t know. But

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:10:21):
Maybe, maybe just

Alex Major (01:10:22):
Here. Can can anybody can does it, can anybody get Neil the grass Tyson on this show for like draw to draw panels so he can like I don’t give a shit about his drawings, but I’m thinking maybe he could answer this for us.

Peter Wilson (01:10:33):
I actually met at the Powerhouse Museum, the first Korean woman to go to space.

Alex Major (01:10:39):
Oh yeah. But that’s not Neil the Tyson though.

Peter Wilson (01:10:42):
Well in lieu of him. <laugh>. Yeah. And she said if it’s right next to you, it sounds like it’s coming really far away from underwater

Alex Major (01:10:54):
<laugh>. Oh. So you can’t hear somebody scream in space.

Peter Wilson (01:10:56):
You actually hear it.

Alex Major (01:10:58):
Oh. So you can’t hear somebody’s it’s day go if you’re in

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:11:00):
A Korean lady

Alex Major (01:11:02):
Lady

Peter Wilson (01:11:03):
Prison radio. But that’s about it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:11:05):
Another, another outer space mode.

Alex Major (01:11:08):
Yeah.

Peter Wilson (01:11:10):
Also been trying to

Alex Major (01:11:10):
Watch. Well anyways, thanks Peter for that because that basically says that if you scream loud enough, people can hear you in space. So there you go. Nick <laugh>,

Peter Wilson (01:11:19):
Take that weirdly Scott.

Alex Major (01:11:21):
Yeah, me, that Korean lady who’s been to space and I assume Neil deGrasse Tyson, who also hasn’t been to space just like me.

Peter Wilson (01:11:31):
So what you’re saying is just like Neil deGrasse Tyson

Alex Major (01:11:34):
In the fact, in the sense that we both, neither of us have been to space. It’s

Peter Wilson (01:11:38):
Essentially the same person. <laugh>.

Alex Major (01:11:40):
Yeah. Well in, in that, yeah. We don’t look the same. Like he, he only gross his moustache out. I grew everything out <laugh>.

Peter Wilson (01:11:50):
That’s different. That’s his loss.

Alex Major (01:11:52):
Yeah. He also has a different accent when he speaks.

Peter Wilson (01:11:56):
Yep.

Alex Major (01:11:56):
I dunno if you picked up on that

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:11:59):
<laugh>. Different than his own accent or different than yours.

Alex Major (01:12:04):
<laugh>. Ah, it’s different. I think it’s some kind of American

Peter Wilson (01:12:09):
In,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:12:12):
Come on, peeps more votes. Vote for a name, vote for a setting at this, at this stage we’ve got bitsy and outer space.

Peter Wilson (01:12:25):
Yeah, there.

Alex Major (01:12:28):
See, this is where AI could come in handy. I just look, look, uh, ed made a perfect example. Why I hate ai. You can do a paint bucket and then it just notices like a half a pixel, not joining it, and then it just paints stuff you don’t want it to paint. You know, AI fix that. Don’t try to do drawings, don’t worry about that. Fix these little things. <laugh> spend, like ai programmers. Spend your time on that stuff, not on Pick your jobs.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:12:58):
Looking good, ed. Yeah, so there’s my version.

Peter Wilson (01:13:02):
Nice. <laugh>. I like you can still see our styles through Ed’s work. You can still like Yeah, it’s cool.

Alex Major (01:13:14):
Yeah. It’s, it’s, it looks better when one person draws it.

Peter Wilson (01:13:17):
Oh, it definitely looks better. Like it’s more seamless when Ed does it. But you can still tell who Drew what. Like if I had to guess, I would still know.

Alex Major (01:13:24):
So, Peter, I got a question for you because you come from the land of, uh, doing your comics in Illustrator. Yeah. And now you use procreate on an iPad and this is a new thing for you. Elaborate. Yeah.

Peter Wilson (01:13:36):
I’ve been using it to do the rough stuff of F two. Um, Mm-Hmm. <affirmative> just to get practise with it. ’cause I noticed illustrate on your iPad’s much more clunkier than the version I had been using.

Alex Major (01:13:53):
Oh, is it really?

Peter Wilson (01:13:54):
That’s what I find anyway. Maybe I’m still just getting used to it, but I find it much more fluid and quick. I I really like it. Like it’s in it’s intuitive

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:14:04):
God.

Peter Wilson (01:14:05):
Um, it just, it feels much more casual. Like I’m just sort of sketching, which was a big ’cause I really struggled to do that sort of thing with digital. Digital was always when I was ready to do a finished thing.

Alex Major (01:14:22):
Yeah. I always thought that like, cool, like procreate is pretty much the, was like, because I used to draw foot on my finger when it first came out on the first iPad. Yeah. And I still preferred that like was such a Yeah. ’cause like I hated drawing in Photoshop all the time. I used to use Sketchbook Pro for a while to draw with that digitally, but I was still doing stuff like manually and, uh, procreate was pretty much procreate. And I think Sketchbook Pro on iPad also. It really was the iPad that got me digital. Yeah. So I just, yeah, same, same Nick.

Nick May (01:14:57):
Yeah.

Alex Major (01:14:59):
Um, it’s not like

Nick May (01:15:02):
You talking, but when I was using Sketchbook Pro, I was using one of those, uh, Tys that had the soft rubbery end that would slowly disintegrate the more I drew.

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

Alex Major (01:15:16):
Yeah. They, that, that happens. You can buy, I, I have that on my Remarkable. And I use like a Wacom stylist for that. And then I bought on Amazon this thing where, um, it’s metal. So, and then it doesn’t wear off anymore.

Nick May (01:15:31):
Right.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:15:32):
Where’s

Nick May (01:15:32):
Your screen off? It’s a big hole in your screen.

Alex Major (01:15:34):
No, no, no. My screen’s fine. I’ve been, uh, I I was surprised. I first gotta scratch my screen off, but it’s like a special metal type thingy. Um, I don’t know. It says it’s titanium. I’m like, whatever. But yeah, it hasn’t scratched my screen. I’ve been using it for six months and it’s been great. So

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:15:51):
Atium.

Alex Major (01:15:52):
Yeah. It could be Atium. Yeah. Good. Cool. But I still, I still always go back to procreate an iPad. I try to not be that guy who’s always on procreate, but on.

Peter Wilson (01:16:04):
See that’s how I was getting with Illustrator. I was just wanted to branch out.

Alex Major (01:16:09):
Yeah. ’cause I’m, I’m sorry because I, uh, uh, illustrator, like I know that like a lot of Photoshop people when they go to iPad, they really don’t like going to procreate ’cause they’re like, oh, all my me menus are not there. I, you know, um, I like the fact that it’s uncluttered. I just go straight and draw and then other people are like, oh, I need my menus and my shortcuts. And I’m like, okay. Weirdo.

Peter Wilson (01:16:32):
Yeah. I’ve got Fs is gonna be two stories. So I’m actually tempted to do the second story entirely in Procreate.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:16:39):
Oh, cool.

Peter Wilson (01:16:40):
And not just the rough stuff. ’cause I’ve just been really enjoying it.

Alex Major (01:16:45):
Oh, nice.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:16:49):
And we have here supportive ai but in a very different way.

Peter Wilson (01:16:58):
Oh yeah,

Alex Major (01:16:59):
There you go. Yeah. Yeah. That’s, that’s, that’s been the meme coming, going around this one week. And um, yeah, I don’t know. AI is not doing all my shitty jobs. Like I still have to clean the cat’s poop. Neither the cat or <laugh>. I don’t dunno. You have to do that too, Steve, don’t you?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:17:15):
Yeah, very much so.

Nick May (01:17:18):
Shane finds its quite dangerous though now.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:17:22):
I find It’s quite what? Sorry?

Nick May (01:17:24):
Dangerous,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:17:26):
Dangerous

Nick May (01:17:27):
Being around your cat.

Alex Major (01:17:31):
Um, well

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:17:31):
Yes, this is true. Very dangerous, but it’s okay. It’s okay if I ever fall. I’ve got my nose to cushion the impact.

Nick May (01:17:40):
<laugh>. You’ve got, you’ve got half your nose now.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:17:43):
Well, yeah, I’ve got half my nose now. Yeah.

Alex Major (01:17:45):
Why don’t you use your cat to break your fall?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:17:48):
Uh, that’s probably why I hit the floor so hard. I was trying to dodge the cat.

Alex Major (01:17:53):
Oh.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:17:54):
I was trying to,

Nick May (01:17:57):
It

Peter Wilson (01:17:57):
Was concussed earlier last week. Thanks to his cat.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:18:04):
Yes.

Peter Wilson (01:18:04):
And a nasty fall

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:18:06):
And a very nasty fall and a lot of blood. Who knew your nose bled so much? <laugh>. Sorry.

Nick May (01:18:13):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:18:15):
Yes. I was out of it and almost passing out. So, um, Kerry had to clean up the blood, so that’s not very nice.

Nick May (01:18:22):
Kerry saves the day again,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:18:25):
As always. <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (01:18:32):
All right. So where did we land on her name? What’s the, isn’t

Alex Major (01:18:37):
It, it looks

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:18:38):
Like bitsy one Bitsy the tra cat outer from outer space. Yeah. Being the setting as well.

Edmund Kearsley (01:18:46):
All right. Bitsy the tra cat from Outer space.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:18:50):
Hmm. There was a suggestion making the quote called Trading Cat and the character Bitsy.

Edmund Kearsley (01:19:00):
So we’ve got Bitsy, the trading cat from Outer Space will be the character for season two of let’s make a comic book and we’ll be coming. I love

Peter Wilson (01:19:14):
It together really well.

Edmund Kearsley (01:19:17):
The first episode next week.

Alex Major (01:19:19):
We already got fan out. Well, I have good feelings.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:19:25):
Sorry,

Alex Major (01:19:27):
I just said we already have fan art, so I have uh, good feelings about this.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:19:32):
Yes, true.

Edmund Kearsley (01:19:36):
So since we doing next year, the first episode Next week.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:19:40):
Yep. Next week. Yep.

Edmund Kearsley (01:19:42):
So we’ll be back here, um, at 8:00 PM Australian Eastern Standard Time where we’ll have another three artists and they’ll be making a page.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:19:53):
Making a page

Edmund Kearsley (01:19:54):
For Bitsy. Good

Nick May (01:19:55):
Luck humans.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:19:57):
Same Bitsy time, same Bitsy channel.

Nick May (01:20:01):
<laugh>.

Alex Major (01:20:03):
Are we, are we bidding farewell, or are we just gonna list all the sponsors?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:20:07):
Well, that will be short. Comex. There you go. They your sponsor anything. Oh yeah.

Alex Major (01:20:13):
Um,

Edmund Kearsley (01:20:14):
Sis do you have a email thing for the, if anyone wants to be on this show or any of the other shows?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:20:22):
Uh, yes, there is a page on, oh, I’ve gotta remember what it’s called. Um,

Edmund Kearsley (01:20:26):
You can find that and put a link up on the screen.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:20:30):
Yep.

Edmund Kearsley (01:20:30):
And we’ll have a chat with

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:20:31):
It’s comment show. It’s in the menu there. There’s a application form express interest. And so the actual link I will put up on the screen, that’s not the one I want.

Nick May (01:20:50):
Seamless.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:20:52):
Seamless. It’s like, it’s like <crosstalk> in

Edmund Kearsley (01:20:55):
Rehearsal. Really paid off <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:21:00):
There you go. But you can just put in Comex show and it’s a menu item at the top and um, it’ll take you to the page you want if you spend all that time typing interest.

Edmund Kearsley (01:21:16):
So if you wanna come on to this show and help us make a comic book or recent reads or what else? Is there

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:21:27):
Anything you, you can tick the boxes. Uh, yeah, there’s boxes. There’s boxes to say what you want to be part of.

Edmund Kearsley (01:21:38):
There you go.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:21:39):
And we will try to fit you in whenever we can and when it suits you as well. Of course. Hmm.

Alex Major (01:21:47):
Excellent. But if, and if people wanna sponsor, just to email Shane, we had sponsors before. We had the Sky Roof people sponsor once and I didn’t know what a sky roof was. That was fun.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:21:57):
Oh, that’s right. I forgot about that for one episode.

Alex Major (01:21:59):
Yeah. Yeah. Your company could also have a viral moment like this. All reckon

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:22:04):
<laugh>.

Nick May (01:22:06):
Alex will give you a virus for free if that’s what you want. <laugh>

Alex Major (01:22:10):
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. This, this is a, this is, uh, YouTube shorts and TikTok reality we’re talking

Nick May (01:22:16):
About. Oh yeah. No, I don’t understand what you’re talking about.

Edmund Kearsley (01:22:19):
I don’t want that.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:22:21):
What? Sorry, I’m going through a tunnel. Sorry. I’m just <laugh>.

Alex Major (01:22:25):
I’m just trying to raise money for you there Isle. Come on. Be enthusiastic. Have big companies come over there. Samsung. I know you have money, uh, appropriate, wasn’t it? Yeah, I was like, Hey Samsung. You see, we all use the iPads now imagine this. Send us all um, Samsung’s and uh, we’ll be talking about how great that tablet is, but oh well. Yeah, you can send us money.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:22:46):
Just push that iPad sponsorship out the window. Nice one. <laugh>.

Alex Major (01:22:51):
Well, come on.

Nick May (01:22:54):
Apple. Trump that Samsung.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:22:56):
Yeah. Yeah, that’s a good way to

Alex Major (01:22:58):
Do it. Exactly. Apple. Where we, okay, so I’m guessing there’s gonna be like a, a little bit of a rivalry between those two companies.

Nick May (01:23:04):
Yeah, there should Bidding Wall. Come on. Tim Cook, sign

Alex Major (01:23:07):
Up. I believe it’s the macro

Nick May (01:23:09):
Slash interest.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:23:13):
Thanks Peter.

Peter Wilson (01:23:18):
Has anyone got anything to plug?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:23:22):
Well, we can plug that tomorrow me and Ed are back with some people to talk about comics we’ve read recently and also comics that we’ve recommend and also to talk about something about ourselves. And I’ve got 24 hours to decide what those things are for me.

Peter Wilson (01:23:43):
<laugh>,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:23:44):
I’ve already read mine, <laugh>

Peter Wilson (01:23:47):
Organised.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:23:48):
I just like to read the one from the week before <laugh>. I give it a better spiel. That was horrible

Nick May (01:23:55):
Comics that I’m planning to read.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:23:57):
<laugh>, I I’ve got boxes and boxes of those. I could, I’d be there all night listening those <laugh> <laugh>. Cool. Well, does that look like the show Ed? Say So else, anyone in, does anyone down there want to do anything? Um, does, does Nick have something to say?

Nick May (01:24:22):
Uh, yeah, Nick has a lot to say, but he doesn’t, he doesn’t like to speak off script just in case he says the wrong thing. Um, I, I do wanna say obviously that it’s, uh, <laugh> it was daunting, um, because there was technology involved tonight, but, um, a lot of fun. Uh, so thanks for having me. Uh, and I guess these other two buffoons, uh, as well. It’s been fantastic. <laugh>.

Peter Wilson (01:24:50):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:24:52):
I’m lost Alex. Yeah, you’ve done your little spiel, haven’t you, about that show that you are not sure. Um, meetup.

Alex Major (01:25:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Are you

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:25:03):
Saying this

Alex Major (01:25:03):
On Thursday? It’s Friday, Sydney. It’s every, uh, first Wednesday of every month. Um, we, and it’s in Surrey Hills. It’s at the Carrington Hotel. Um, if you’re um, if you, if you’re around that area, um, they post some of the art that we’ve done so you can just pop in to see other people are doing and then you’ll be like, oh, I wanna be part of that. And then, uh, yeah. And, and also you’ll be hanging out with a bunch of other artists. It’s a very good vibe. It’s uh, it started in LA 12, 13 years ago and it’s now spread around the world a bit. It’s in, well around the world. It’s in San Diego and Nagoya Japan and now Sydney.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:25:40):
That’s around the world.

Alex Major (01:25:41):
Yeah, it’s kind of, yeah, but it’s not in Europe. It’s supposed to be a Paris one and I hope that the Paris guys get their act together so we can have five of them. But

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:25:54):
Yeah, Pete,

Peter Wilson (01:25:56):
Um, I’ve been working on Saddle for Bustle with Lee Chaka.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:26:02):
Woo.

Peter Wilson (01:26:03):
Hold on. Letters and some design stuff and some minor editing, but that’s gonna be dropping soon next month. Um, this is the proof. Oh, <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:26:13):
Sorry, I just realised there’s a picture across the screen.

Nick May (01:26:18):
There you go.

Peter Wilson (01:26:22):
Um, I won’t show too much, but um, we’ve got a couple of little tweaks to do, but we’re on track with that. That came together really quick. So it was really fun to work on and some of Lee’s best work yet, so get on it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:26:38):
That’s awesome. I’m hanging for that one. That’s a good comic battle for Bustle.

Peter Wilson (01:26:42):
Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:26:43):
Agreed.

Peter Wilson (01:26:45):
And if you knew, this is a good jumping on point, so don’t worry about the other issues if you wanna jump on.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:26:51):
Oh,

Alex Major (01:26:51):
Nice. But if you do want the other issues, you go to the comic shop and buy them as well.

Peter Wilson (01:26:57):
Correct.

Alex Major (01:26:58):
Don’t just

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:27:00):
I like that Alex. Nice.

Alex Major (01:27:01):
Yeah. There you go. See I know, I know how to funnel money away. <laugh>. Not really. I don’t know how many sales are coming from this, but

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:27:13):
I just wanna put that one back up. Um, I guess that makes it my turn and then we’ll go up to Ed. Mine is just tomorrow’s show, so I’ve already said my bit. So that’ll be Oh and Saturday show. Don’t miss me trying to draw one 30 Eastern standard Australian Eastern Standard Time. Oh,

Peter Wilson (01:27:33):
Good fun.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:27:35):
Me trying to draw, what is it? Uh, Jean Grey is who I’m trying to draw this time.

Peter Wilson (01:27:41):
Oh cool.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:27:42):
A very particular that I’ve never seen her in, so that’ll be interesting.

Alex Major (01:27:46):
Was that Fmca Jensen in the movie? The X-Men movie?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:27:50):
No, no, the comics. This is from the comics. I cannot draw Real people

Alex Major (01:27:55):
Wanna have a Do you wanna have an effort of trying?

Nick May (01:27:57):
She’s pretty. Wow.

Alex Major (01:27:59):
She was a Bond girl too in Goldeneye, which they made a really bad Nintendo 64 game of

Nick May (01:28:05):
Probably the best game ever. <laugh>

Alex Major (01:28:09):
What?

Nick May (01:28:10):
I’ve never played it obviously. I dunno what I’m talking about. <laugh>.

Alex Major (01:28:17):
I reckon you’re a load load runner, man.

Nick May (01:28:20):
I don’t know what that means, but it sounds

Alex Major (01:28:22):
Like it’s a game for the come six happened

Nick May (01:28:23):
To me in a few years.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:28:25):
<laugh>

Alex Major (01:28:26):
You didn’t play games when you were a kid, like video games.

Nick May (01:28:29):
Yeah. Atari 2,600 mate. I’m slightly older than you.

Alex Major (01:28:34):
I know, but I go Commodore 60 fours that era. Like a little bit later. That much later.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:28:40):
No, I’ve only played one game on those things. Mario Kart. Yeah.

Alex Major (01:28:45):
It’s a good game.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:28:47):
Mm. We’d all get drunk and laugh a lot and crashed. Not good crash. That’s noting there’s a lot of crashing.

Peter Wilson (01:28:55):
That’s the way

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:28:57):
And, and evil moves. You seem to get evil when you’re drunk. <laugh> ed.

Edmund Kearsley (01:29:06):
Yep. Um, my stuff is, I’ve got my comic books Radical and Seaman Angels from Earth, uh, on comics shop. You can find them there and buy them. And, uh, ed Kiley Art on Instagram and Patreon if you wanna check that out and see what I’m up to. And I’ll be on, um, tomorrow night’s show. The recent reads, comics

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:29:37):
Pressing the button because apparently I’m the host.

Edmund Kearsley (01:29:39):
Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:29:41):
Not really because I spend most of the time asking Ed what I’m meant to do. <laugh>. So I’m the trainee host

Edmund Kearsley (01:29:49):
The work experience kid.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:29:51):
Work experience kid. Yeah. That’s it. Turn. Yeah. I like that. <laugh>. Cool. So I guess that’s the show everyone. All right. Um, I would just like to leave it with a, the Comex shop is backup and running <laugh> ’cause it wasn’t for the last week. Um, it is ready to take your orders and I am ready to send them out to you.

Peter Wilson (01:30:18):
Get froze.

Edmund Kearsley (01:30:20):
Yeah. F is great. Get that.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:30:23):
Oh yeah. The shop’s running. I now have to spend tomorrow putting all the new items into the shop. Nice.

Peter Wilson (01:30:29):
When it does, when Shane does that. I froze.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:30:33):
Yes, I froze.

Peter Wilson (01:30:35):
That worked out well.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:30:37):
Cool.

Peter Wilson (01:30:38):
Excellent.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:30:41):
Are we just gonna go out? I think we should farewell some more. A goodbye or are we gonna just go out by me pressing this button? Oh, like this? Oh yeah, that’s it.