Then and Now
May 17th, 2006Xaviar Xerexes over at Comixpedia has a regular feature wherein he compares cartoonists’ early work with their more recent stuff, as a way to show how the art of webcomics evolves over time. I really dig this feature, as it shows that even people at the top of the game today started out as pathetic suckasses and I feel less bad about my own art.
As for my art, while Monkey Law is probably too young a strip to merit this kind of critical treatment, I did think it would be fun to whip up a comparison of a couple of similar shots from ML’s first year and today… here’s Monkey Angst in a bar:





