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

Edmund Kearsley (00:46):
Hey, welcome, welcome back to Let’s Make a Comic book. It’s the show where we make a comic book with a different artist for every single panel. And today’s show, we’ve got two artists. It’s gonna be a two panel page. So let’s uh, say hello to the artist. We’ve got Andrew Law. Good day,

Edmund Kearsley (01:11):
<laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (01:11):
Hello. Thanks.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:12):
So Kevin Andrew,

Edmund Kearsley (01:14):
And we’ve got Toby Blanchard as well.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:17):
Howdy, howdy.

Edmund Kearsley (01:20):
All right. So we’re gonna do something new for this episode. ’cause normally we would have the hand of choosing to select the panels, but we’re gonna try something different. So if Sis puts me up to full screen. Full screen,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:37):
Yep.

Edmund Kearsley (01:39):
And we can play everybody’s favourite game. Show the will of layouts. And this is gonna decide, uh, which one it is. So I’m gonna click it and it’s making noises. But you guys probably can’t hear it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:55):
Unfortunately not. Oh, we’re not doing any layout. Which one’s it saying

Edmund Kearsley (02:01):
That one?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (02:02):
Oh, that one. Cool.

Edmund Kearsley (02:12):
That’s a nice easy one for you guys. <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (02:15):
Cool. <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (02:19):
Now I’m gonna put the link into the thing down there.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (02:23):
I like this. Let’s work for me. Nice.

Edmund Kearsley (02:26):
Yep, I’ll see that. And now we’re gonna do, so we’ve got that sorted out. Now we’re gonna do the who goes first?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (02:35):
Oh, I’ll bring you back up and,

Edmund Kearsley (02:36):
Yeah. So we’ll go with, uh, Andrew to choose out of, uh, the classic deaf the Family Robin dies, or the brand new one De and the family Robin Lives, which they just put out, which was the, ’cause they did two versions of the book. Very.

Andrew Law (02:59):
I had have to be the one that he dies,

Edmund Kearsley (03:02):
Robin dies. And that is number one. So you’re going first.

Andrew Law (03:07):
Yay,

Toby Blanchard (03:08):
<laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (03:10):
Go back to the normal screen and we’ll have a look at last week’s page so you could see what you’re doing while you download the, uh, thingy. So last week we had Matt Scofield did Think again, and we got blank. There was big, uh, guns coming out of his chest. And, and there’s the underground fish. People says, you, you bought a space gun to a rock fight. This means conflict. And then we’ve got, um, that was by Jean Whitlock. And then we’ve got Concrete Horse’s panel, which is where Andrew will be following on from where, uh, blanks going. Crazy energised chest laser initiating. And it’s got power circuits are overloading. And we’ve got the memory banks activating. So have you eaten your brussel sprouts blankie. And then we’ve got a cross-section and we can see under his robot head, there’s a skull in there, a cybernetic skull. And you say Mother, so you can make of that what you will.

Andrew Law (04:22):
Oh yeah. <laugh>.

Toby Blanchard (04:26):
I gotta Good twist. Good twist

Andrew Law (04:29):
As a story.

Edmund Kearsley (04:31):
It’s a crazy one. And the on the panel, the, the bit that’s in red will be, it’s like overlapped by the second panel

Andrew Law (04:40):
That, how do you feel about Reccon?

Toby Blanchard (04:42):
<laugh>?

Edmund Kearsley (04:43):
What’s up? It’s up to you. That’s the beauty of the show. You could do whatever you want.

Andrew Law (04:49):
Uh, it’s cool. Um, yeah, it, it was a good twist. Like I really wasn’t expecting that. I, I was watching, watching this afternoon going, wow, I’d hate to be the fir person following up after that. <laugh> <laugh>. Mm.

Toby Blanchard (05:14):
Cool. So the first panel goes over, the second panel,

Edmund Kearsley (05:19):
Um, goes vice

Toby Blanchard (05:20):
Versa.

Edmund Kearsley (05:21):
Yeah, the second one goes over. So your one, you get the full panel, Andrews gets cut off a little bit.

Andrew Law (05:27):
Okay. So mine’s underneath here. Yeah. Okay.

Edmund Kearsley (05:32):
So we’ll let, uh, Andrew get a, some time to get his panel started and we’ll have a chat with Toby. Mm-Hmm.

Toby Blanchard (05:42):
<affirmative>.

Edmund Kearsley (05:43):
So Toby, tell us about, um, your artwork and comics and

Toby Blanchard (05:51):
Things of that. Well, <laugh>, things of that nature. Um, well, I, I got into the comic scene back in the nineties with a thing called the Yule Club. Ooh. Which was a get, does that ring a bell for anybody?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (06:07):
Yeah. Um, the Yule Club still exists.

Toby Blanchard (06:10):
Oh, you’re kidding me.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (06:12):
Really? Nope, it’s online now. Oh. And they meet every Thursday.

Toby Blanchard (06:18):
Every Thursday? Yeah. Oh my gosh. Well, we’ll have to give some details. You should be watching

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (06:24):
This show, <laugh>.

Toby Blanchard (06:26):
Oh, that’s, that’s wonderful. ’cause I’d love to catch up with her. Yeah. See who is, who’s still about. But yeah, this is back in the nineties with, um, issue one Comics and Cyber Swine. And, um, I remember those, all that kind of jazz back in the day. Um, and so I was just merely a, a hanger on. And then, yeah, I did a couple of, um, mini comics. One called To Jam, which was an anthology with, um, Toby Neil. Dunno if he’s still an artist. I hope he is. Um, yeah. And for the last, then I became a bartender and 20 years got chopped out of my life. Um, wow. And well, you know, I was drunk. I can’t remember it. <laugh>. Um, but then I That’s a spirit. Yeah. Lots of spirits, in fact. But, um, then I came back to things and last couple of years I’ve just been doing a lot of d and d kind of stuff, uh, for independent publishers, you know, drawing monsters, that kind of thing. Cool. Oh, cool. And, uh, going to tafe, doing graphic design and, uh, visual art. So I’m afraid that a lot of my, uh, my background wrapped up in that quick little

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (08:02):
<laugh>.

Toby Blanchard (08:03):
What

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (08:04):
Did we, oh, sorry.

Toby Blanchard (08:06):
Uh, what was to Jam

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (08:08):
Was,

Toby Blanchard (08:09):
It was an anthology comic. ’cause it was me and Toby Neil that started it. So we thought jamming Toby and Toby together. Get your toe jam. We actually found out after the first issue, ’cause it was just one of those little, my girlfriend at the time worked at a Kinko’s, I think it was called back in the Day. Kinko’s. Yeah. So I, I got all the photocopying done there. So it was just a little mini folded comic, um, anthology with me, Toby Neil. Oh, I can’t even remember the names of the others at the moment. I, and, um, and yeah, it was, it was great fun. But we found out that there was another comic, I think in New Zealand called to Jam. Uh, there was a proper, you know, coloured comic and with publishers and everything <laugh>. And so we, uh, <laugh>, we called the second comic, uh, not to jam. And then, uh, the third, the third issue was never was Toe Jam, <laugh>. Um, and I think we, I think we only did three issues, three or four issues. Oh, that’s

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (09:12):
Awesome.

Toby Blanchard (09:13):
Yeah, it was lots of fun. Very stressful, but lots of fun. And, uh, I think

(09:21)
It was the two thousands, or the 2001 Comic-Con. Um, I, my girlfriend and I at the time, uh, ran the independent comic book, IE mini comics, uh, booth. And I was just thinking about it. We did this, we did the one panel comic book over the two days of the, of the ComicCon. I’ve yet to be able to find it. I’d love, I would love to show you guys. So when I do find the comic that we made, it was not only just cartoonists, but just people that came to the con would come in and do a square. Um, the story was bonkers <laugh>. You’d occasionally get people who, no, you’d occasionally get people who didn’t know what the premise was and just draw something and then the next person would try and reef it back into a story. And it was hilarious. There was lots of, meanwhile, <laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (10:29):
<laugh>. Cool. Well, um, Toby, you have a awesome to see Toby on here. Comment from Alex Ma.

Toby Blanchard (10:41):
Oh, lovely. Ring a bell.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (10:43):
Yep. Cool. I was wondering if how long ago it was, so if it would ring a bell or sloppy tunes as he calls himself.

Toby Blanchard (10:50):
Right. Yes. That, that makes sense.

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

Edmund Kearsley (10:57):
Alex is famous for the one panel romance on

Toby Blanchard (11:01):
Episode

Edmund Kearsley (11:01):
Three, I believe.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (11:03):
Yeah. We’ve got one panel where there was a romance between the world, the creature that he kills. So, but for one panel, they liked each other. <laugh> just one panel. <laugh>, he tried to turn it that way. The next artist turned it the other way.

Edmund Kearsley (11:26):
Uh, should we have a look at what Andrew’s drawing?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (11:29):
Oh yeah. Um, I’ll bring up the crack screen. Ooh,

Edmund Kearsley (11:37):
Ooh. What’s going on here?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (11:40):
Oh, I like it.

Andrew Law (11:42):
So I might have him sort of like, because the, the twist was a big twist. Sort of just have him reflect. Like he goes down on his knees and it’s like a bit teary that he actually, you know, he is remembering something is his mom. Well, if it is his mom or not, but you know, I’ll let Toby decide. Do have to go with that <laugh>.

Toby Blanchard (12:06):
Yeah.

Andrew Law (12:08):
But, um, yeah, just like you reading the comic through today, like he starts off with amnesia, doesn’t he?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (12:17):
Yeah, yeah,

Toby Blanchard (12:18):
Yeah.

Andrew Law (12:20):
So to remember something, it’s really shook him up, I’m guessing. I

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (12:26):
Like it.

Andrew Law (12:28):
Um, and if he is, if like the panel before, if he is one of the one of these under underworld dwellers, um, he’d have some emotion to him, wouldn’t he?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (12:43):
Of course. Makes total sense.

Toby Blanchard (12:47):
One would have.

Andrew Law (12:49):
I think so.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (12:50):
I was gonna say, is that enough for,

Andrew Law (12:51):
It could be a Terminator

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (12:52):
To go off now.

Edmund Kearsley (12:53):
There’s, that should be enough. I’d say.

Toby Blanchard (12:56):
Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (12:56):
We reckon

Andrew Law (12:56):
Toby be just,

Toby Blanchard (12:59):
I reckon why not?

Andrew Law (13:01):
Could, could be the Terminator in disguise.

Edmund Kearsley (13:05):
An infiltrator unit. Unit

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (13:08):
<laugh>.

Andrew Law (13:10):
Yeah. Imagine, imagine that on Schwarzenegger turning up and going, mummy,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (13:14):
<laugh> <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (13:18):
It’s like if, uh, if he was John Connor,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (13:24):
Did

Andrew Law (13:24):
They kill John Connor in one other movies?

Edmund Kearsley (13:28):
I dunno.

Toby Blanchard (13:30):
A couple times haven’t

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (13:31):
To be honest.

Edmund Kearsley (13:32):
I’ve seen them, but I can’t remember any of em. After two,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (13:39):
I saw previews of something where there’s a robot that calls itself John Connor. And I’m like, how many of these have I missed?

Andrew Law (13:46):
Yeah. And the last one

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (13:49):
Was a few. I just didn’t know how many.

Andrew Law (13:52):
All I can remember is the last one’s a second, a second version of the third one.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (13:57):
Oh,

Andrew Law (13:58):
They’re supposed to be

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (14:00):
<laugh>.

Andrew Law (14:01):
They, they, they, they rec reccon.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (14:04):
Oh,

Andrew Law (14:04):
Okay. Like this, like this coming

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (14:07):
<laugh> <laugh>

Toby Blanchard (14:10):
Essentially. The Terminator series is just all recon, isn’t it? I mean,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (14:15):
Well, I guess

Toby Blanchard (14:16):
This is essentially all it comes

Edmund Kearsley (14:19):
Conceptually

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (14:20):
Changing and they change it back and then they change it, and then they change it back.

Andrew Law (14:24):
It’s a money maker. They don’t want to let go of

Toby Blanchard (14:27):
<laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (14:32):
Cool. It might be that thing where they have to put out a movie every so often to keep the licence or something.

Toby Blanchard (14:39):
Well, that’s what they were doing with, um, fantastic Four for all these years. Oh. They had to keep taking out, um, making a movie every, it was, it’s some weird arbitrary number of years and days. Um, otherwise they’ll lose the movie rights to those characters. So that’s why there’s that 19 86 1 that nobody’s ever seen. There’s only still shots from it

Edmund Kearsley (15:08):
That’s on YouTube.

Toby Blanchard (15:10):
Oh, is it? Oh, the whole thing. Oh, I’ll have to, I’m pretty sure I’ve heard It’s horrific. I’d love to see it. <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (15:16):
It’s actually pretty good if if they put it out, it would’ve been a, I reckon it would’ve been a huge movie back in the day.

Toby Blanchard (15:23):
Wow. Okay.

Andrew Law (15:25):
Yeah. I just watched The Blast last one that they did. ’cause it was free on some streaming <laugh>. It was Alright. And then the end just went What, what <laugh>

Toby Blanchard (15:39):
<laugh> it just, I I heard words that it, it was, the director was really going in the direction of Body Horror for the Fantastic four. And, and if he was, if they’d let him go down that corridor, it would’ve actually been quite an amazing movie, but probably not a superhero movie. <laugh>

Andrew Law (16:03):
The ending scene. Somebody’s, somebody’s gone in like the, like the studio execs have gone Nah, take that out and try and make sense of what you got left. Yeah.

Toby Blanchard (16:18):
Has anybody seen Would Never Happen, Andrew?

Edmund Kearsley (16:23):
Oh, was that Toby?

Toby Blanchard (16:24):
I was just saying, has anybody seen the infamous Madame Web yet? No. It’s getting so much flack. It’s <laugh>. Oh really? It’s, the numbers are starting to tick up. I mean, it’s still an absolute flop, but the numbers are actually starting to tick up because it’s been told that it’s so bad that people are going, oh, I’ve gotta see this <laugh> to see how bad it’s, it’s actually starting to get bums on seats now because of it, which I think is hilarious.

Andrew Law (16:55):
I, I just wanna see it because, um, like goes a big Spiderman fan in the, um, early nineties and all the different Spider Women designs. I liked them and I wanted to see how they do them. Um, uh, not that I remember much of it, but yeah, I just, the whole different, uh, costume designs, you know, I was curious how they’re actually gonna pull them off.

Toby Blanchard (17:27):
Well, apparently all the bits with the other Spider women are all short flash forwards, not flashbacks, flash forwards. Because Madame Webb is seeing the future and trying to She’s psychic because she said

Andrew Law (17:44):
And stopping it happen.

Toby Blanchard (17:46):
Yeah. <laugh> and preventing

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (17:48):
It or not preventing it or something.

Andrew Law (17:51):
Yeah. They they’re gonna be spider women. No, they’re not. They’re gonna be spider women. No, they’re not <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (18:00):
Well, we got a comment from Jackie Tran. Uh, he says, hello, sausage, sizzle and gang. Thanks Jackie. You’re a cracker.

Edmund Kearsley (18:09):
Jackie shows up to every show.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (18:11):
Every show. Yes. This, um, sausage sizzle name you keep giving me is gonna stick <laugh> <laugh>. I’m a bit worried about that.

Edmund Kearsley (18:25):
Or it might be Siz House. Certainly.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (18:28):
Or it could be an excuse to raise Comex to raise some money at a local Bunnings. Who knows. Oh yeah. <laugh>.

Andrew Law (18:36):
Well, you gotta get in line. All the schools. Book them out.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (18:39):
<laugh>

Andrew Law (18:45):
The trick is going to be how to put a motion into square Eyes.

Edmund Kearsley (18:51):
It isn’t. You can, um, you could do the Eric Lawson Spider-Man eyes and just do whatever <laugh> He, he’s, there was, um, where was it? Yeah. Said that one. Tim Kwan made him Wink

Andrew Law (19:09):
<laugh>. Yeah. So

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (19:11):
<laugh>,

Edmund Kearsley (19:13):
It’s a bit of a free for all, but

Andrew Law (19:17):
It’s, it’s just, um,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (19:20):
That’s really good

Andrew Law (19:21):
Giving, expecting Dr. Who to show up. And it’s like the cyber men stories line. They always creeped me out. When I was younger, the bloody cyber men

Edmund Kearsley (19:33):
Was scary

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (19:35):
In the

Andrew Law (19:35):
Eighties. I didn’t mind all the other monsters. It was just the cyber men.

Edmund Kearsley (19:39):
I was scared of all of them.

Andrew Law (19:45):
I, I remember just being scared of the, the, the theme song when I was little. My brother used to love watching it and that song. See you later. Run off big fan now.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (20:04):
And, uh, Nick May says, all sizzle, no sausage. Wait, that came out wrong. <laugh>.

Andrew Law (20:10):
So, so does the onions go on first or the sauce <laugh>?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (20:17):
Is it sizzled and sausage or is it sizzle on the sausage? And where does the onion go in all that

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (20:25):
<laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (20:27):
Oh dear. And we’ve got, looking forward to seeing this finished page and what happens to poor old blank. Next. Looking at what I’m seeing so far from Andrew liking, sorry, <laugh>. Ready? I gotta put my glasses on. Sorry about that. I’m making up words from the blurs I see in front of me. I go, yeah, that’s looking. Oh, there we go. Yeah. Liking, definitely liking

Toby Blanchard (20:54):
<laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (20:55):
Yep.

Toby Blanchard (20:56):
<laugh>,

Edmund Kearsley (20:57):
Here’s that.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (20:57):
I was kind

Andrew Law (20:58):
Of disa I’ve kind of disappointed because I liked the big gun in the, the previous page came outta his chest. But it’s the, the whole I enjoy thing when he goes, um, I used to love that word movie and though I goes, Paul Alien. Alien and all the guns and weapons comes flying out. That’s,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (21:22):
I love

Andrew Law (21:22):
That movie. Um, until, until my son watched it three times a week for about two six months <laugh>. And he had to hide the, the video

Edmund Kearsley (21:31):
<laugh>.

Toby Blanchard (21:34):
I had that with Trolls one.

Andrew Law (21:37):
Oh God. <laugh>.

Toby Blanchard (21:38):
Yeah. To the point where I was actually singing along to the soundtrack in the car for a while there. <laugh> got, got me worried.

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

Andrew Law (21:53):
Yeah. It, it happens. Kids

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (21:57):
<laugh>. See I’d be that weird parent. He’d sit down and watch an extra couple of times after the kid had gone to bed.

Toby Blanchard (22:03):
<laugh>. Yeah.

Andrew Law (22:05):
Uh, we used to have the one, um, my youngest used to, um, watch cars used to call Lightning McQueen, wiping the Cream <laugh>.

Toby Blanchard (22:16):
Um,

Andrew Law (22:18):
Um, I can watch movie over and over again. Something about it. <laugh>.

Toby Blanchard (22:24):
That’s awesome. I <laugh> I do love that joke of, I’ve seen it in a couple of different forms, but mostly in like little, just one shot comic panels <laugh> where one of the cars turns to another one and goes, why do we have doors? <laugh>

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

Toby Blanchard (22:46):
It’s just the existential dread of cars.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (22:51):
Yeah. I like it. This is looking really good.

Edmund Kearsley (23:01):
Hmm.

Toby Blanchard (23:02):
Looking beautiful.

Edmund Kearsley (23:15):
Should we have a look at, um, Toby’s page panel?

Toby Blanchard (23:20):
Yep. I have no idea what I’m doing.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (23:23):
<laugh> awesome.

Edmund Kearsley (23:26):
Oh.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (23:28):
Oh cool.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (23:31):
That

Andrew Law (23:31):
Looks cool.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (23:34):
I love it. I love it.

Toby Blanchard (23:37):
I gotta keep referring back to find out what she was wearing.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (23:43):
Uh, you’ll find that probably different panels would be slightly different anyway. <laugh>, so you just make a combination. <laugh>.

Toby Blanchard (23:51):
That’s it. We’ll just, I’ll wait on that was out the fish ears. There’s fish ears.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (23:57):
There’s fish ears.

Toby Blanchard (23:59):
Not the fish have it ears. It depends

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (24:01):
Which one you look at. Yeah.

Andrew Law (24:03):
10.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (24:06):
Maybe only the males have fish ears. <laugh>.

Toby Blanchard (24:12):
I’m gonna go back to the fish ears with just a little bit of little hint of fish ears.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (24:17):
Nice compromise. I like it.

Toby Blanchard (24:21):
Yeah. <laugh>

Andrew Law (24:29):
Un un underground amphibians.

Toby Blanchard (24:33):
And see <laugh>,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (24:38):
That’s wicked. Ah, Robbie’s on. And she’s saying I had an animation overload with Lion King Toy Story Finding Nemo Monsters Inc. <laugh>. And that she did the same to her family with Wizard, the Oz Wizard of Oz. So yeah,

Andrew Law (24:59):
Yeah,

Toby Blanchard (25:00):
Yeah. We’ve all been, um, my one as a kid was, um, the original Muppet movie.

Andrew Law (25:06):
Oh yes.

Toby Blanchard (25:08):
I watched it so many times. The videotape showing my age. Beta Max

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (25:16):
<laugh>. Oh, beta. Nice.

Toby Blanchard (25:17):
Fancy, um, was worn down at both ends. So the, the opening credits and the closing credits were all like <laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (25:27):
<laugh>. That’s awesome. Which, which is that the one where they see the fork in the road? Because that’s, I remember

Andrew Law (25:37):
Van

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (25:38):
Left the same thing. Then

Toby Blanchard (25:39):
<laugh>

Andrew Law (25:40):
Fuzzy van left the road. Mc Frog wrote.

Toby Blanchard (25:44):
Did you hear that? Somebody bought the fork? I think it’s in a town now. Somewhere in America.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (25:49):
Oh, no way.

Toby Blanchard (25:51):
Yeah, they couldn’t put it in road unfortunately. But it is in somebody’s yard, which I think is great. That’s

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (25:56):
Awesome.

Andrew Law (25:59):
Uh, um, I tried to watch the New Muppet, the, um, the band from the first movie I tried to watch. The and the Disney Plus. Uh, the Muppets were great. The, all the humans they had in the show were horrible except for teaching Chong. Um, they were stuck in a basement for a couple of decades. Um, still off their heads <laugh>. Um, but the music, the music on that first one was great.

Toby Blanchard (26:35):
Oh yeah. I still sometimes hung, I’m moving right along. Yes.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (26:42):
Okay. Yeah. I I won’t do it now because, you know, Disney now owns the, I just had it going through my head as soon as you said Muppets. So <laugh>, which, which brought me to the fork in the road. So yeah. <laugh> we’re all showing our age. I love it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I had the, um, soundtrack as well on cassette tape. Love that. That was worn down. Like nobody’s business <laugh>. Many, many a time. I had to get that pencil in there and wind it back in <laugh>.

Andrew Law (27:15):
Oh yeah. And a few tapes. I had to sticky tape deck together and then Oh, I

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (27:22):
Remember, yeah, I remember doing that too, like sticking it back to the end. ’cause it’d come off the bit that joined it to the wheel.

Andrew Law (27:29):
Yeah. Yeah. It quite a snapped a couple in. They had a tape player used to stop halfway through and snap the, the tape right in the middle of your favourite songs on the album that you spend all your money. Oh, no.

Edmund Kearsley (27:46):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (27:49):
I guess I was lucky it was always at the end or the beginning.

Andrew Law (27:54):
I used to love that at the start of a new tape.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (28:06):
Not sure if I bought all my tapes. That’s it. Shane, bring it into piracy. Um, because the next door neighbour had this really cool contraction, which had two tape decks in it. I was like, wow. Yeah. <laugh>.

Andrew Law (28:19):
Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (28:21):
Ended in Amstrad games being dubbed.

Andrew Law (28:27):
Oh yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (28:28):
’cause the old Amstrad was, um, was it AMT Tape deck? Was it Tape deck? Yeah. Commodore 64.

Edmund Kearsley (28:35):
Commodore 64 did have a tape player.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (28:37):
Yeah. Maybe that’s what I’m thinking of. I’m very old.

Andrew Law (28:45):
Um, what was it, what was it? There was a top 40 on with Casey. Somebody on

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (28:52):
Casey. Casey

Andrew Law (28:53):
Every Saturday night

Edmund Kearsley (28:56):
Here was, uh,

Andrew Law (28:57):
Shay record. All the top songs off that.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:00):
Yeah. Oh, well there’s always the waiting at the radio for good songs. <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (29:08):
And my thing was Taping Rage. And you,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:12):
There’s

Edmund Kearsley (29:12):
A similar cast on Triple J. So you, you press record once the song started and then see if it was good. And if it wasn’t, you would rewind it back to the start of the last song we recorded and then wait for the next song. <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:25):
Love it. When,

Andrew Law (29:26):
When we, we had, uh, we had blackouts here, uh, was it the other week, one of my friends had fallen asleep watching a, B, C. And when the power came back on at three in the morning, it came on with Rage <laugh>, because I didn’t even know it was still around, but like, it just woke the whole family up in the middle of the night. <laugh>

Toby Blanchard (29:48):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:56):
Yeah. I didn’t realise that was still going. I, yeah. I don’t watch TV though. So not anymore.

Andrew Law (30:03):
Many people,

Toby Blanchard (30:04):
For some reason, the other night we put on a, what do you call it? Normal tv, um, <laugh>. And it pretty, it’s just so weird to watch an ad. It’s, I just found that bizarre. Well, who’s this? Hello. I’m <laugh>. You’re disappearing.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (30:28):
Okay.

Toby Blanchard (30:28):
<laugh> Magic. Let’s go now. It’s, it’s a virtual first. Have a chip. Okay. I’m gonna have a chip first. Yes, it’s spicy. Thank you. They’re, they’re good though. Okay. Spicy and good. I’ll, I’ll have it in a minute. Okay. Okay. Bye. <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (30:45):
I love it.

Toby Blanchard (30:49):
He’s just got back from a play date, so, ah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (30:52):
Cool.

Toby Blanchard (30:52):
He’s, he’s all hyped up at eight o eight 30 at night, so that’s gonna be fun getting him to sleep. Timing

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (30:59):
<laugh>.

Toby Blanchard (31:04):
But yeah, it was just so weird to watch a normal ad. It just seems so bizarrely fake <laugh>. Hmm.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (31:15):
Did you like look for the skip button? <laugh>?

Toby Blanchard (31:18):
Yeah. <laugh>. Yeah, definitely did. <laugh>,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (31:25):
No, YouTube. I don’t wanna watch this ad. <laugh>

Andrew Law (31:30):
Can I make the skip button any smaller? I just,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (31:35):
I love it. And giving him a name.

Toby Blanchard (31:38):
What do we reckon folks?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (31:40):
I love it. <laugh>.

Andrew Law (31:43):
Walter.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (31:45):
Walter. Is that you, Walter? Oh, that’s awesome.

Andrew Law (31:56):
Now I really know. Want to know what’s on the next page? <laugh>?

Toby Blanchard (32:01):
Yeah. Yeah. Well you’ll definitely have me tuned in next week. <laugh>. Yeah.

Edmund Kearsley (32:08):
So this is one of those times when you, I’ve got a, an idea, but I can’t say it ’cause you don’t wanna influence

Toby Blanchard (32:14):
The next person. <laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (32:17):
Can’t sway the artist.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (32:19):
<laugh>,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (32:24):
Uh, according to sloppy tunes slash Alex Major, uh, Nick said it right. So there probably there wasn’t a mistake. Apparently it is sizzle. No sausage. <laugh>. Thank you Alex. Thanks for that much Appreciated. I’ll remember you

Andrew Law (32:52):
No comment. <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (32:54):
I know someone who won’t get a link to, um, drink and draw next fortnight. That’s all I’m saying. <laugh>.

Toby Blanchard (33:07):
And sorry if there’s a bit too much of the old spinning, but it’s just the

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (33:13):
Way I’ve Oh no, that’s, we get that every, we get that every night whenever we have digitals on spinning. Zooming on, zooming. It’s all good.

Andrew Law (33:24):
<laugh>.

Toby Blanchard (33:26):
I’m trying to get outta my habit of zooming in too much. Sorry, say again. Yeah.

Andrew Law (33:32):
Uh, I, I was, I was watching some watercolour artists the other day and you know, those things that you put in the middle of a, a dinner table to spin around with food on Helac easel on that and takes his paper to that. So he just spins that while he is painting. I’m like, <laugh>,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (33:51):
That’s

Andrew Law (33:51):
A brilliant idea.

Toby Blanchard (33:52):
That is brilliant.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (33:55):
I saw those com fan bang computers Do it. I can do it too. <laugh>. So let’s have a look. I’m watching at beginning.

Edmund Kearsley (34:11):
Yeah, me too. Say, let’s have a look at what Andrew’s doing.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (34:15):
Oh yeah,

Toby Blanchard (34:16):
Please

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (34:16):
Do. Picked on. Um, picked on Toby Long enough.

Andrew Law (34:21):
<laugh>.

Toby Blanchard (34:24):
Oh, he’s got the Kirby crackles. Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (34:27):
I

Andrew Law (34:28):
Just continuing it just from the,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (34:31):
Yeah, from the,

Andrew Law (34:32):
The gun going back in. Oh yeah. The

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (34:33):
Gun

Andrew Law (34:34):
Back into the chest.

Toby Blanchard (34:36):
I’ve never been able to do the K Kirbys for a while.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (34:40):
I love it.

Andrew Law (34:42):
I don’t think I’ve ever tried <laugh>, um, circles. The one thing I love digital is when you need to do a circle, you just go and hold it. <laugh>, it’s brilliant.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (35:01):
Oh, wow. Whatcha using

Andrew Law (35:04):
Procreate? Procreate is the thing where you, you just hold it and it goes circle where you tap the screen and it goes, um, this.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (35:14):
Wow. Didn’t know that.

Toby Blanchard (35:14):
Is that a circle?

Andrew Law (35:16):
Same thing with, um, squares. It would just straighten it for you.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (35:22):
Awesome.

Andrew Law (35:23):
Um, and the other day, the other day, I’ve been using this for about six years now. The other day I discovered that, um, now I gotta find it again. We were doing, um, discover. Yeah, discover the drawing guide, the drawing guide, edit drawing guide, um, oh, perspective. And you, you make your perspective loans like that. Right. Nice. That’s that, that’s nice. This is even better. And in your layers you can click on drawing assist and when you draw, it all sticks to the,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (36:17):
The Oh,

Toby Blanchard (36:18):
No way. Oh wow. Eclipse Studio has another perspective as well. Oh, course.

Andrew Law (36:32):
Uh, it’s, it’s amazing what they do.

Toby Blanchard (36:36):
That one looks really cool. I like that. Hmm. I’m so averse to drawing backgrounds that would really help. <laugh> <laugh>.

Andrew Law (36:49):
Um, I drawing backgrounds, but, um, I like drawing a lot of fantasy stuff with dragons and fantasy world. So I’m not drawing cities <laugh>, you know, mountains and, and, and jungles and ruins and stuff is a lot easier to make something look run down than, you know, drawing Spiderman going through a city. I don’t ever want to do that. <laugh>.

Toby Blanchard (37:23):
No. I’ve always found it bizarre that a comic book artist who knows that he’s gonna be drawing something over and over and over again, hit on Spiderman’s costume and went Yeah. <laugh>. Like all those lines, all those intricate frigging spiderweb lines. And they thought, yeah, I’m gonna do this. Every panel <laugh>, I’m I’m sure that Yeah,

Andrew Law (37:53):
But you,

Toby Blanchard (37:54):
He was just a concept artist. <laugh>. And then you, and then he passes it over to the guy who has to do the comic and goes and they go, are you kidding me? <laugh> Uh,

Andrew Law (38:05):
You, you have a look at particular Spider-Man artists and, and between the two eyes, the amount of lines on the forehead, some have three, some have five, most have five and some have nine. And you just go, you’re just making work for yourself.

Toby Blanchard (38:23):
You just, you’re just showing off now, pal

Andrew Law (38:28):
<laugh>. This is, this is why with, uh, Todd McFarland came out with the black costume. You know that?

Toby Blanchard (38:36):
Yeah, yeah. I mean,

Andrew Law (38:38):
Sure. I don’t wanna draw these load every

Toby Blanchard (38:41):
<laugh>. Although then he then went and made the web so much more tricky. <laugh> instead of a white line. Well

Andrew Law (38:50):
He had spare time, did he?

Toby Blanchard (38:52):
Well that’s it. He had spare time. Now that the super

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:54):
Is black <laugh>. Oh dear.

Edmund Kearsley (39:05):
Is there any comments or,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:07):
Um, what’s going on? Nothing since May. Uh, major time. God <laugh>. It’s been one of those days. Um, <laugh>. Alex <inaudible> said that Nick was right.

Edmund Kearsley (39:22):
Um, so let’s ask the chat. Who’s your favourite Spider-Man artist.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:27):
Oh, nice.

Toby Blanchard (39:29):
Oh, that’s a good question.

Andrew Law (39:32):
I like

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:33):
With drawing. Drawing. So they’re not commenting like me. I’m not talking. I’m now but not as much as I should. Um,

Andrew Law (39:45):
In ramus, like I read this of recent,

Edmund Kearsley (39:54):
What about you sis?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:56):
<laugh>. Nick May’s answer is me as in himself. <laugh>? Yeah.

Toby Blanchard (40:04):
Fair. Cool. Which

Andrew Law (40:05):
Issue was that?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (40:11):
Bootleg number? <laugh>. Oh dear.

Edmund Kearsley (40:25):
I could see Nick major in Spider-Man. Be a good fit for his style.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (40:31):
Come on Nick. Stick your Spider-Man. Pictures up. <laugh>. Prove your point. Okay. Oops. Copying too much. Okay, <laugh>. So I’ve just gone another screen. I’m watching you guys anymore. I dunno what’s going on. Sorry, I’m just trying to sort something out on social media, which unfortunately is on the same browser. Couldn’t think of the word then.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:17):
<laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:18):
B browser. It’s not. Let me copy and paste.

Toby Blanchard (41:27):
Remember to occasionally do a, um, a layer check, Andrew.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:34):
Oh yeah. La I got done. I’ve learned about LA just recently. Oh, no way you can. That’s Oh, it’s not getting it right though.

Andrew Law (41:46):
<laugh>. Yeah. I quite often come up with Lake instead of inks and it will not spell colour with a u I’m really annoyed. <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:57):
Oh, that would be annoying. Um, Eric Larson’s run was good. Good. An answer. Oh, <laugh>. Nick May says he’s got issues. So I don’t know if that’s referring to the Spider-Man or, yeah,

Edmund Kearsley (42:17):
I don’t think it is.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:20):
Walter, what a great name for Cyborg. For Cyborg. That’s from fourth Monkey.

Edmund Kearsley (42:29):
Speaking of Walter, let’s have a look at how Toby’s getting along.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:36):
Upside down. Ms. Jane.

Andrew Law (42:39):
Upside down.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:40):
I really, sorry, I’m watching again. And my, my hand was nowhere near my mouse. <laugh>. I just tried to train screens with the, um, power socket.

Andrew Law (43:00):
You have teeth

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (43:02):
<laugh>

Andrew Law (43:04):
Kind of. It’s different every drawing, isn’t it?

Edmund Kearsley (43:12):
Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (43:15):
This is so cool.

Andrew Law (43:17):
Wine has tea.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (43:18):
Walter, maybe I to change the Kickstarter now to Walter instead of blank.

Edmund Kearsley (43:23):
I was thinking that hell, these guys have got two. And tell us about the Kickstarter is

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (43:42):
Okay. Yep. Um, it’s just in pre-launch stage. I’ll bring it up on the screen for a second. Not much to show ’cause it’s just a pre-launch. Where’s my screen? There we go. So I’ve made a short link to it. It is blank as in the word not leaving a space, just putting it out there. blank.com. X do studio. And that’ll take you to this little wonderful little page where there is usually a button down the bottom there that says, uh, notify me on launch. I think it is. Um, I’ve already pressed it so it just says saved for me. If it says saved for you, don’t press it again. Just saying <laugh>, then you’ll unsave it. And that’ll be, that won’t be good for me. That’ll be bad news. So please don’t do that. Um, well actually, yeah, I can unsave it and show you what the button looks like. Notify me on launch. I was right. Cool. I will now get emails. Ooh, one of the first backers. Um, we’re doing some specials for the people who come in early. There is a comic giveaway for whoever comes in and my notes, uh, nowhere to be seen. So, but if you come in the first 12 hours, you get a book, I forget which one it is. You come in the first 24 hours and, and make a pledge. You get another book. And um, if you come in 48 hours, you get a cirus and a extra story, which will only be available there. A extra Cirus story, uh, that’s not in the comic.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (45:29):
And

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (45:29):
These are PDFs. And these are all PDFs. Sorry. This is a PDF only campaign. So nice and cheap for everyone on a budget. Nice and cheap for anyone who’s overseas and doesn’t want to pay. Ridiculous postage Australia. Lovely. Australia has whatever tries to send out of Australia or even into Australia. Everything costs a fortune ’cause there is a lot of water between us and everyone else. <laugh>. Um, so yeah. Stupid water. Yeah. Damn water. I gotta learn to swim so I can take it to people myself. Um,

Andrew Law (46:01):
I’ve been doing, uh, backing a lot of them at PDF slightly, especially my friends overseas.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (46:08):
Yeah,

Andrew Law (46:08):
You just can’t afford one comic and it’s gonna cost me $60, you know, I’ll just read the pdf.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (46:19):
Yeah. So this will be pdf, but

Andrew Law (46:19):
I like the support.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (46:22):
Everyone gets a pdf. DF doesn’t feel unfair. <laugh>,

Andrew Law (46:26):
<laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (46:27):
PDFs for all. Um, there is a lot of reward levels in this. Um, blank is in every single one of them. And as in the blank comic. And uh, there is all sorts. There is the Comex Pack, there is the, um, friends of Comex, which includes comics from <inaudible>. Um, then you’ve got a psycho janist thrown a few comics in there. Uh, we’ve got some from Sate. Have I got that right? Sk um, oh, now I’m not remembering. I can’t see it anymore because I’m logged into a different account. Um, there’s lots, lots that, that’s all I can remember. Lots of PDFs, lots of packs, depending on what you want. And there is one mega pack, which is everything available in every other level. Get all the PDFs, uh, um, great for anyone overseas. ’cause they’re all Australian comics. So, um, great for anyone here who wants to start their collection on Australian comics and find out what it’s all about. And it all starts with blank. Who is now Walter <laugh>.

Toby Blanchard (47:46):
So

Andrew Law (47:47):
What’s his surname?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (47:50):
<laugh>. That’s for,

Toby Blanchard (47:51):
Oh, that’s, that’s for somebody else to <laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (47:56):
Canna

Andrew Law (47:58):
Of the underground Amphibians Lizard people. Blank lizard.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:08):
Blank Lizard.

Andrew Law (48:09):
Walter Lizard.

Toby Blanchard (48:15):
I was gonna ask you Shane as well with, um, would you like an animation of black?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:26):
Yes, I would love that. <laugh>.

Toby Blanchard (48:29):
I’ll probably be able to knock that up in a, a weekend.

Edmund Kearsley (48:34):
That’d be sick.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:35):
That would be absolutely awesome.

Toby Blanchard (48:39):
I had a commission. Now

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:40):
You’ve got two people willing to have your children <laugh>. So not just your wife.

Toby Blanchard (48:46):
<laugh>. I had to do a, um, an animation for a commission, uh, last year. Okay. And believe it or not, it was a robot that looked not unlike Blank <laugh>. Oh,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:59):
Awesome.

Toby Blanchard (49:01):
Not any copyright issues, but it just means that I know how to animate him quite well.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:07):
That’s really cool. Oh, you want me to take me off the screen and go back to one of the artists? Yes. Let’s see. Who should we go to? Oh, blank Top Pants. They were pencilled before.

Toby Blanchard (49:28):
Oh, look at that.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:29):
It’s looking good. No, I just realised I can, I am sort of in control of all this. I can write a banner that has that link in it.

Toby Blanchard (49:36):
<laugh>,

Edmund Kearsley (49:39):
You could drop it in the chat too. Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:43):
Things I’m learning today.

Edmund Kearsley (49:45):
Then you can click on it. Those eyes look really cool.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:50):
Yeah, they are.

Andrew Law (49:53):
I dead as much emotion as I could into

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:59):
It worked. It’s

Edmund Kearsley (50:00):
Really good. Yeah,

Toby Blanchard (50:01):
Definitely.

Andrew Law (50:07):
Hmm. Without drawing eyebrows on him. <laugh>, um, uh, what movie was it? It was that, what was that horse movie? Um, had Brian Adams singing all the songs for, um, animated Spirit or something like that. Um, it was a Dreamworks movie years ago and it had a, um, in on the DVD we got for the kids, um, brilliant movie. Um, but, um, they had how to draw horses and they had animators just, you know, show you how they draw horses. Horses don’t have eyebrows, but they do in the cartoon. <laugh> <laugh> because you just need that extra, extra emphasis of, um, emotion. Um, uh, but yeah, they also, they also showed you how to animate a horse, uh, the Gallup, which is an incredibly difficult thing to do. Um, I’m not gonna ever try it, but, you know, <laugh>, I did help with my drawing of the figures of horses.

Edmund Kearsley (51:23):
Yeah. Horses are horrible to draw. There’s so many, the jots and stuff on there. Weird lakes. And

Toby Blanchard (51:31):
Well, before the advent of photography, there was a big bet on about whether horses, hooves are ever all off the ground at one time. And I think that some huge amount, like 500 pound to any anybody could prove. And then somebody took some photos, <laugh> <laugh> with the first camera. Easy Money. <laugh>. Well, the camera took be expensive back then. Well, yeah. Hmm. So are you working on anything at the moment, Andrew?

Andrew Law (52:26):
Um, I’ve got, um, I am about 10 pages of art that I need to finish off. Um, and I have my first comic in since 2014. <laugh>.

Toby Blanchard (52:42):
Nice. Um,

Andrew Law (52:44):
Um, uh, I’ve got some of the art here actually. I think I pretty loaded it.

Toby Blanchard (52:55):
Oh, that’s cool. Oh, beautiful. Great

Andrew Law (52:58):
Colour. Um, yeah. Um,

Toby Blanchard (53:06):
Oh my gosh.

Andrew Law (53:07):
Lot, lot of dragons. And I’ve, I I spent the last two, two years, three years, and during the pandemic spending, knowing that I couldn’t get out to conventions or anything, so I thought I would just work on learning colours instead of, and it’s really helped in my line work as well. But, um, uh, it’s, it is a 46 page, um, book. So I set in the fantasy world, um, kind of, I haven’t worked out the elevator pitch yet.

Toby Blanchard (53:44):
<laugh>,

Andrew Law (53:45):
Um, dragons, thieves, wizards, um, magic, that sort of thing.

Toby Blanchard (53:53):
It’s looking beautiful. Looks great.

Andrew Law (53:58):
I really love how the level, I’ve got to the colour because colour, I avoided it for the 25 years. Yeah. <laugh>. And I just thought, well, you know, it actually helps when you start colouring in like the, um, helps you figure work and know what you’re missing. You know, the amount of times they just used to colour things in black just because I couldn’t work it out. And once you add colour in, I’m just like, oh, okay. Yeah. I’m gonna have to actually up the game with the lime work.

Toby Blanchard (54:32):
Yeah.

Andrew Law (54:33):
But, um, it’s getting there. I I, um, I’ve just spent the last week or two working on the fourth draught of the script ’cause I’m not a writer. Um, and I’ve got some writer friends helping me out, um, trying to focus the story. Um, and 46 pages I think I’m coming in at. Um, and I should be able to kickstart it by June, hopefully. Um, oh,

Toby Blanchard (54:59):
Sweet.

Andrew Law (55:00):
Wonderful. Hopefully. Um, yeah, it’s been my first book in years. I did an art book, um, uh, about five years ago just for my, um, art pieces that I was selling at conventions and stuff, dragons and stuff. Um, um, and that, so I kickstarted that and that, that that was successful. Kickstarter, I didn’t factor in shipping as well as I should have, um, <laugh>. Um, and that was before what it costs these days. Um, and I think, and you know, it, it is really, it is really rewarding when you, you are sending it off to places like Germany and France and Saudi Arabia and Canada and, you know, it’s amazing how connected the world is these days and where you can get your books to, you know, uh, I think it, I think, think $45 at five years ago cost to Germany. I, I shudder to think what it is now. Wow.

Toby Blanchard (56:05):
God, it’s ridiculous. I,

Andrew Law (56:09):
Um, a a as a test, I thought I would, um, just try and find the farthest place to send it to Iceland just to put in the post, uh, the Australia Post to see how much it would cost and it cost more to send it to Germany than it did to Iceland, so.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (56:31):
Oh

Andrew Law (56:32):
Wow. It was weird. It was really weird. Very bizarre. I think Iceland was about $10 cheaper at the time. It was weird. I dunno if there’s a comic shop in Iceland.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (56:43):
<laugh> <laugh>.

Andrew Law (56:48):
Um, but yeah. Um, yeah, hopefully by June. This is a rough, a rough, um, timeline.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (56:57):
I’ll

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (56:57):
Keep my ear peeled.

Andrew Law (57:02):
Um, well I keep posting a whole heap of on social media, but my social media account has stalled. I think for the last four years I’ve been sitting around the high 800 follower back. It just stopped

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:21):
<laugh>.

Andrew Law (57:23):
And it goes up and it goes down, it goes up and it goes down. It’s just weird how social media works these days. Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:29):
Yeah.

Andrew Law (57:35):
But yeah. Um, it’s all on my website, Andrew lord art.com. Shame of this. Plug, plug.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:42):
<laugh> <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:45):
Yeah, I’ve got it up here. I’m gonna bring it up later. We can have a look. Cool.

Andrew Law (57:50):
Bananas.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:51):
Whispers of revenge. I hope that’s the main one. Um, ended up

Andrew Law (58:00):
On

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:00):
Age Good.

Andrew Law (58:02):
Uh, the,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:08):
We’ll go over and haunt.

Andrew Law (58:08):
Yeah. Whispers of revenge. There’s a couple, I’ve got a couple of Instagram ones. I was just trying to see whether some would test whether, you know, by how social media work doesn’t really <laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:27):
Your algorithm changes constantly. Unfortunately.

Andrew Law (58:31):
Uh, apparently now you have to post everything in a

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:34):
Video reasons. Yeah. Or everything

Andrew Law (58:37):
Has to be a video.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:40):
Um, yeah, I think that’s still a thing. That was a thing a few years ago. I’m pretty sure. I don’t know if Facebook figured that out or not, that people were putting pictures in, into videos just so they could get ranked higher.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (59:01):
You reckon

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (59:01):
It’s about that time,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (59:02):
Sis?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (59:04):
Oh God, I wasn’t watching the time. Yes, I think it is <laugh>. Um, see I’m just enthralled by all the art and the chat and everything. I forget to watch the time. So guys, pencils down. No, no, that’s not how it works. <laugh>. Um, just then what you’ve, you’ve got, um, to just my messenger will be enough. We only want a low res version of the picture, just enough to show the, the peeps who are watching what the thing looks like when it’s put together.

Edmund Kearsley (59:31):
Put me to full screen

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (59:34):
And I will bring up while I’m talking about it, while you guys are doing the sending bits and the so forth. This is the comic shop.

Edmund Kearsley (59:47):
Yeah. So this is where you get all your Australian comic books and a lot of people who’ve been on the show have got books in there in here. That’s Rob O’Connor who’s been on it looks like a sped cover. Nick Cleary. It’s Ryan Bella. There’s my one. So this helps support the, uh, the comic studio, all the shows. Is it David Di

Toby Blanchard (01:00:26):
Is the p and g. Okay guys?

Edmund Kearsley (01:00:28):
Yep.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:29):
Yeah, yeah, sure.

Edmund Kearsley (01:00:32):
Got that laser. Re that’s uh, Deshawn silver, who did the first ever panel for. Let’s make a comic

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:38):
Book. Yeah. Anne

Edmund Kearsley (01:00:41):
Chaka. This is on recently.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:44):
Everyone send out their thoughts to, uh, Duchenne. He’s in a bit of pain and sick at the moment from kidney stones.

Edmund Kearsley (01:00:52):
Yeah. Oh, I had that. That’s

Andrew Law (01:00:53):
Terrible. Oh, ouch.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:56):
Yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s what he said it was. But he is not feeling well. He was meant to be on drink and draw last night. Actually. That’s why we had a, a gap. But he, um, he couldn’t do it. Poor fella.

Edmund Kearsley (01:01:09):
And kidney stones are horrible.

Toby Blanchard (01:01:14):
Yes. I’ve never heard good things about them.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:01:17):
<laugh>,

Andrew Law (01:01:20):
There were some gallstones and gallstones was enough.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:01:24):
Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>.

Edmund Kearsley (01:01:29):
Okay. I’ve got both the things now.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:01:31):
Stones in general sound horrible.

Toby Blanchard (01:01:34):
Well, yeah. Any stones inside you? I can’t, can’t see as uh, as being a good thing. No. <laugh>. Oh,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:01:46):
Okay. My turn. Let’s put my screen up on the, well Ed puts that together. We shall look at,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:01:58):
Um,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:01:59):
Can’t quite read that. Hang on. Is that slay? Hell? M

Andrew Law (01:02:04):
Slay he Yeah. Slay. Yeah. Slay hem. The word I made up. Word I made up when I was 17 for a metal band.

Edmund Kearsley (01:02:16):
I was gonna say

Andrew Law (01:02:17):
Anyway,

Toby Blanchard (01:02:18):
<laugh>. It does sound like a metal band now that you say it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:02:21):
It does. Now you say it. Yeah.

Toby Blanchard (01:02:23):
<laugh>.

Andrew Law (01:02:25):
Everybody else in the band didn’t like it.

Toby Blanchard (01:02:28):
<laugh>. This

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:02:30):
Is very cool. Well, I don’t know what you learned about colours, but that looks wicked.

Andrew Law (01:02:44):
Uh, I think, I think it’s, I just to spend a lot of time avoiding it really helped <laugh>. Yeah. Look at that. Um, I dunno,

Toby Blanchard (01:02:57):
I’m, I’m still in that stage of colouring everything, which is, I mean, like colouring everything, a different colour, every piece of clothing, everything, you know, and I’ve, this is, you know, showing that I’ve got a really try and go for that washes of colour and, and

Andrew Law (01:03:17):
I, I found, um, what’s her name? Uh, uh, what’s, I’m think I’m thinking, thinking, hang on.

(01:03:33)
Um, Carl Kers the, um, comic artist. Um, he, he did a book named Isla, uh, I-S-O-L-A and his art, the artist, he got the colour it, um, her name is Ms. Sack, Ms. Ak, um, M-S-A-S-S-Y-K. And she put out a How to colour the ISR book found on Gum Road for like 10 doors. Um, and, and the colour putting colours in was just, um, put in your base colours and then have a, a layer of, layer of a blue over for your shadows on a layer of a, um, an overlay of a, the yellows or oranges for your, um, for your, uh, li lights. The, the lighting source. And it really, yeah. Finally it clicked, you know. Um,

Toby Blanchard (01:04:44):
Sorry, ed, I just realised I hadn’t put white in my background. Did you want me to redo that? I’ve already done it. Ah, you rock. Thank you. Sorry. It’s okay. Could you spell that name again? The, the colorist.

Andrew Law (01:04:59):
Um, MI think I’ve got the link somewhere. MSA

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:05:07):
Have you got a book there or something that you can show?

Andrew Law (01:05:10):
SSYK. Um,

Toby Blanchard (01:05:17):
I

Andrew Law (01:05:17):
Find the link and she’s got an Instagram thing. Um, and about two or three years ago she put out a book called Colouring is, I think it was.

Toby Blanchard (01:05:34):
Yeah,

Andrew Law (01:05:35):
ICER is a beautiful, um, graphic novel. Um, very fantasy. Fantasy based. Yeah. Um,

Toby Blanchard (01:05:44):
<laugh>, it’s my, my Instagram. I hardly ever go on it. So <laugh>, I’m having a look at my own stuff now. Yeah. Oh. Oh. Back in the day when I did Ink Toba, I had to give it up. It was bad for me. I’m so stressed about it. <laugh>. They’re fun to do, but Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:06:07):
Yeah. I give you much, wouldn’t it?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:06:13):
Um,

Andrew Law (01:06:16):
Copy. Yeah, I’ll put the link in the chat for you in the Oh, thank you. Video chat. Um, if it helps, you know, um, some of the concepts were hard to get my head around at the beginning, but, um, yeah, I think it’s $10, $10, which is, it’s pretty good for a, like a colouring.

Toby Blanchard (01:06:48):
Yeah, no, that’s

Andrew Law (01:06:49):
Great. How to, how to colour and the, and the colours in that, in the graphic novel. Um, they’re just, they’re they’re,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:07:06):
And I’ll bring you,

Andrew Law (01:07:07):
They’re quite brilliant. They’re quite brilliant sort of colours. Um,

Toby Blanchard (01:07:14):
And is that great mood colour as well?

Andrew Law (01:07:18):
Yeah. Um, oh, there was one page. It was absolutely brilliant. Like she does Yeah, she does moods really well. She overlays like the colours. Oh,

Toby Blanchard (01:07:29):
Oh wow. Oh, that’s, and

Andrew Law (01:07:32):
Carl Co is really kicking off like he’s been doing the Batman. He did Batman. Uh, he’s been doing some Batman comics. He was known for online abdominal abdominal Charles, um, words.

Toby Blanchard (01:07:53):
<laugh>. I think I get where you’re coming from though.

Andrew Law (01:07:58):
Yeah. Um,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:08:00):
Don’t ask me to say it.

Toby Blanchard (01:08:05):
Yeah, I’ll definitely look into that book. <laugh>.

Andrew Law (01:08:08):
Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:08:08):
I like that. Kidney stone’s a God’s way of letting, you know, drink more water.

Andrew Law (01:08:12):
Mm-Hmm.

Toby Blanchard (01:08:13):
<affirmative>. I think I had water back in 2003. Does that count?

Andrew Law (01:08:20):
Ah, if you e if you ever get gallstones and gallstone pain straight away, drink some hot, hot water. Right. It will flush through the pain for in about five 10 minutes. Like, it will, it will. It’ll a lot of people just say, oh, painkillers. Painkillers. No, just you need to hot water. And my mom used to say lemon in it as well to help. But like when you’re at work and you queue over with also pain, hot water. See, drink it quickly. Quickly. So ladies

Toby Blanchard (01:08:54):
And gentlemen, come for the drawing. Stay for the medical advice.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:08:58):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:09:01):
I like it. A new slogan. What medical hence we come up with next week. I love it.

Toby Blanchard (01:09:08):
So how did we come out?

Edmund Kearsley (01:09:10):
Let’s have a look.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:09:12):
Yeah. Are you doing on your screen or? Yeah.

Andrew Law (01:09:15):
Dun dun dun

Toby Blanchard (01:09:18):
<laugh>.

Andrew Law (01:09:19):
Oh, awesome.

Edmund Kearsley (01:09:20):
There we go. That’s, look at that. That’s a good looking

Andrew Law (01:09:22):
Page. That’s a good eye line.

Toby Blanchard (01:09:25):
<laugh>. Hmm. Oh yeah, I didn’t think of that.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:09:28):
Yeah.

Edmund Kearsley (01:09:28):
It’s funny how the, the, the panel to panel motion works with everyone can’t really see where they’re doing it in relation to people, but there’s a lot of great movement through the panels. So it’s turned out really good. <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:09:45):
Nick May saying looks great.

Toby Blanchard (01:09:49):
Thank you. Should

Andrew Law (01:09:50):
Write mother or something in the word balloon or something.

Edmund Kearsley (01:09:54):
You can add a, a word balloon

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:09:58):
<laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:10:00):
Where the stories gone all of a sudden. This is great.

Edmund Kearsley (01:10:04):
Great face.

Andrew Law (01:10:07):
You’ve gotten past the action into the emotional hook <laugh>.

Toby Blanchard (01:10:11):
Yeah, that’s it.

Edmund Kearsley (01:10:14):
So that was tonight’s page.

Toby Blanchard (01:10:17):
Lovely. Those guys. I’ve got a dash off.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:10:22):
Oh, okay.

Toby Blanchard (01:10:24):
I’ve got, uh, yeah, but I shall get the rest of that hatched out and to you over the next day or two and I’ll work on the, um, on the animation.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:10:35):
Oh, that is wicked. Thank you so much,

Toby Blanchard (01:10:36):
Much. Yeah. You can pop at the start of videos if you want to.

Edmund Kearsley (01:10:40):
Yeah. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>.

Toby Blanchard (01:10:41):
Cool. Cool. That’d

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:10:42):
Be sick. Awesome. <affirmative>

Toby Blanchard (01:10:44):
All

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:10:46):
<laugh>. There’s a little red. Oh, you’re sharing the screen so you won’t be able to see it. You have to stop sharing your screen

Toby Blanchard (01:10:52):
All

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:11:03):
And I’m here now.

Edmund Kearsley (01:11:04):
Yay. Then you dropped down.

Andrew Law (01:11:08):
Cool. Your turn. I’m watching.

Edmund Kearsley (01:11:12):
So that’ll wrap up the show. Well thank Andrew for coming along and drawing an excellent panel.

Andrew Law (01:11:20):
Thank you for putting up with me.

Edmund Kearsley (01:11:22):
Oh, it was our pleasure. And Toby, who’s run off but also drew a great panel.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:11:29):
That was a good

Edmund Kearsley (01:11:29):
Time. It was brilliant. Everyone in the chat for chatting.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:11:33):
Yes.

Edmund Kearsley (01:11:34):
Uh, like, comment and subscribe if you haven’t already.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:11:38):
Yep. Liking and subscribing. Very important people. It helps us with the algorithm.

Edmund Kearsley (01:11:44):
Excellent.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:11:45):
Thank you, you sir. Thanks to

Edmund Kearsley (01:11:46):
Sis for making it all happen and ll be back Oh, on Thursday?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:11:55):
Yeah, we’re back on Thursday. I, as as, as long as everything works out, the universe doesn’t come against us again. I don’t know. I don’t know. Did you see the video where I explained to everyone, the universe coming together and destroying the show?

Edmund Kearsley (01:12:09):
Yeah. Sorry that,

Andrew Law (01:12:10):
That three, that three minutes of silence.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:12:13):
Oh yeah, that one. I’ve deleted that one. It’s still on Facebook but it’s gone on YouTube. But me pointing and doing finger things and everyone’s going and no one’s saying that your microphone’s not working. Like no one meant to know. Oh well that was a bit of fun. Sorry, I need to go. Sorry for

Andrew Law (01:12:34):
Bringing that up

Edmund Kearsley (01:12:36):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:12:39):
All good, all good. Um, yeah, so I’d like to subscribe. Thank you everyone and check out the blank.com x that’s why I went to that window to make it even bigger. There we go. Check out the blank.com X studio, we’ll take you to the Kickstarter and um, just hit that notify button. We’d love to, we’d love for you to get notified when it actually goes live, which will be soonish. So yeah, get in there now because those rewards for who, who, um, what’s it called? Pledges in the first So many hours are pretty wicked. So yeah. And I think that’s the show.

Andrew Law (01:13:24):
Alright, come. How

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:13:24):
We gonna do

Edmund Kearsley (01:13:27):
And play us out? Si.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:13:29):
Okay. Night all.