Sketch Wednesday Special: the Sue and Kathryn Extravatacular!
Welcome to the first Sketch Day Wednesday! And it’s a doozy! This may require some back story for why there are SIX SKETCHES to peruse. 😀
A while back I mentioned that I was making a decision to slash about three to four weeks worth of comics in the name of making the story for this chapter flow better. What you are seeing here is part of the comics I decided to cut out. I wanted to close Selkie’s first day with a viewing of her favorite cartoon, but as I got to that part more and more ideas started coming in and before I knew it Sue and Kathryn had ballooned up to an almost month-long diversion from the main story. I love the idea of “watching” Selkie’s cartoon with her, but a month-long diversion from the main story line seemed a bit much. You may recognize two panels of the one Sue and Kathryn strip I fully colored, seeing as I recycled them for last Thursday’s strip. XD The remaining five Sue and Kathryn side-arc strips are linked below.
Side Arc #2, Side Arc #3, Side Arc #4, Side Arc #5, Side Arc #6
Numbers 4 and 5 have some dialog cut off, so here’s the complete speech bubbles:
#4, panel 1: (Sue) The organic market! Best part of living in San Francisco!
#5, panel 2: (Sue) Um… float me a loan, Kitty-Kat?
(Kathryn) I left my pockets in my other ectoplasm.
Most of them are scans of pencils, and my handwriting is ATROCIOUS. So don’t be afraid to ask if any of the other strips need dialogue clarified/deciphered. XD
The vector art for Sue and Kathryn is spectacular! I am completely in love. It looks like an actual TV cartoon. There’s a career choice for you if you ever get tired of webcomicking (wait no don’t do that).
That is just too funny there Dave. I can see why Selkie likes it heheh
Gotta say I both enjoy the cartoon and am quite happy you decided against putting that in the main comic (because, while I enjoy this, I’m much more interested in Selkie herself. This, however, is a neat side-story and such~).
Also, I’ve gotta say that the fact you’ve actually MADE the not-a-‘real’-cartoon she’s watching is another feather in your cap for your endless work towards an involving universe. I love anything where the details of the universe are actually in place.
what I can read I like. Sadly even with my reading glasses on I’m having a tough time making out most of the panels. Can I request a full transcript? I got the gist of most of the Sue and Kathryn panels (and by the way I love the were-elephants) but I couldn’t read most of the panels Selkie and family are in.
Here’s a transcript of the panels with Selkie and Todd in the second strip:
Todd: Oh! When you said “dead”, you meant they’;re zombies or ghosts or something.
Selkie: Yeahs, buts you cant’s call Kathryn a ghosts, she gets mads.
Ands when Kathryn gets mads, she uses psychic powers to makes you do silly dances and poops your pants.
Grandma (Marigold): People mess themselves on this show?!
Selkie: Naws, they don’ts SHOWS its.
thank you thank you thank you
ROFLMAO
Grandma’s reaction is so exactly what my Mom’s reaction would have been. Just perfect.
I would love to watch this cartoon, and the handwriting is just the comic equivalent of me having trouble understanding people, which happens with movies and things! Thanks for the cartoons- it’s six updates on a day you don’t update! I don’t even know how I came to click on this comic, since I didn’t think it was updating today, but I’m glad I did!
Ha! That’s way awesome. I’d like to suggest that you turn that into an actual side comic should you ever find yourself with free time. And by that I mean, seriously. Any free time must be spent producing entertainment for me! I AM THE INTERNET GENERATION, FEED MY ENTITLEMENT COMPLEX! 😉
As someone with far to much free time to spend on the internet, I support this idea.
I love the idea, but I dunno when I’d get free time for a second regular-updating webcomic. Don’t let the six-strips-in-a-day mislead you; I used to be an entire month ahead on Selkie comic before I decided this side-story was getting bloated. XD
It wouldnt need to be a daily kinda thing, I’m sure people would be happy if it was a weekly or bi-weekly thing. I just think it would be a cool insight to the Selkie universe.
I like Sue and Kathryn (especially now that I know which is which LOL), but I want Selkie. No offense meant to the newly hooked Sue and Kathryn junkies – but the best way to get that monkey off your back is MORE SELKIE! ROFL
(Okay, yeah, “monkey on your back” is a real old phrase for an addiction … you’ll have to excuse me, I’m real old too.)
i could go with bi weekly too
Any chance of these being done as a finished sidebar group?
I dunno when I’d find time, to be honest.
That was a fun interlude to finish off Selkie’s first day at home. Cute story line too. I can see why Selkie likes it so much! (And I’m with Sue … his name should be “Ted”.)
Silly fun, and reminds me of early Dresden Codak
This is super fun, and I like it very much, but from a story telling POV, you were right to cut it. Good call.
I think if you have time of course, could you finish the cartoon?
It was epicly worthy.
Kathryn’s utter fascination with gazpacho reminds me of my father’s obsession with soups, gazpacho included.
Sue and Katherine are rather like Eben and Snooch of Two Lumps