Happy Berfday Nathan! (one week late)

Or maybe we're just idiots? We here at the Bridge finally paid birthday tribute to Draw-Bridge exile Nathan "Power Out" Schreiber yesterday, almost a full week after the actual anniversary of his birth. All except for me, who was away yesterday, so here I am posting my birthday tribute to the Schreib a full-on week late. Yay me, I win!

For those unfamiliar with what I've drawn here, This is Russ, a clock-obsessed supporting character from Nathan's Xeric grant-winning Power Out Comic. The day after a massive power out knocks out all electricity on the East Coast, Russ, who looks forward all year to giving a speech about the role his hometown played in the invention of standardized time, posits a theory that since the power has stopped, perhaps all time has stopped as well. It's at this point during his speech that Nathan's sock-challenged lead Justin wakes up from having passed out.

It's too bad that a power outage doesn't really stop time, as at least then I'd have a better excuse for this late celebration of Nathan's special day. Well, if there had actually been a power outage, I might've. Guess I'm just an idiot.

Nathan Schreiber - Feliz Compleanos

I drew her slightly older looking...almost legal. Hope you had a happy one Nathan.

Power Out! Nathan schreiber's late birthday

It's Nathan schreiber's late birthday post!

Before Nathan left Brooklyn to roam the American back roads hunting down
crack dealers and bringing in their severed right hands so he could collect the posted
50 dollar bounty, he roamed the New York streets as the hero know as
"The Cast!" A tragic accident involving a vacuum cleaner and under the
counter hoover attachments broke Nathans arm in six places, and bruised
his upper thigh. After that tragic twist of fate he began to hunt down rogue
robots in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn. Smashing their heads in with
his his power cast and trade mark cry of "POWER OUT!" Thus, he made Brooklyn
safe for older cartoonists.

In his spare time Nathan reads Doctor Who fan fiction (mostly involving the
teen companion Adric) and collects Judy Garland "Bear doodles."

Happy Birthday Nathan.
We salute you!

Zombie Power Out

Cast some cast members of Power Out as Night of the Living Dead style zombies. I like using wash, anything that looks good when you're sloppy rocks

Cavlin and Hobbes

I didn't post something yesterday because I've been dedicating my time in Santa Fe to feverishly working to finish that giant albatross Power Out. I assumed I didn't have time yesterday because I've already fallen behind my schedule of completing (pencils/inks/letters/colors/format) five pages a week. Big mistake! I spent two hours trying to draw two figures walking. Granted, it was a deceptively complex drawing but I have to remember that doing these warmup sketches actually makes me faster. Don't have anything clever to say about Calvin and Hobbes, but I liked the strip. Once again, I'm continuing in the clean line / Clowes-esque style...

from black and blue to black and red

I've started making new pages of Power Out so I might be using my Drawbridge warmup sketches to get back into the swing of things - it's been a while since I've drawn these characters and there's some things I need to "relearn." Justin doesn't look quite right here, too short, he should look a little more delicate.

Interesting look with the red instead of the blue.