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New website coming

Brock Beauchamp
April 27, 2011

I’ve become disenchanted with the current site over the past two months and now I’m doing something about it. When I first started this comic site, I put together what I thought was the closest thing to a finalized product I could imagine. It wasn’t nearly good enough and I spent the next month tweaking it until I had the information I wanted on the site, presented in a manner that everyone could easily navigate. By the time I was finished, the template was nothing like I started and there were design flaws that continued to bother me for several... View Article

Investigatin’

Brock Beauchamp
April 25, 2011

It’s another Monday morning, which means if I haven’t been slacking over the past week, a new page of Variables gets posted. Here’s page nine and we’re back to Isabel and Candice while they investigate the next break-in and deal with another snotty white Atlanta suburbanite. One of the things I liked least about the first several pages of Variables was the lack of interesting facial expressions. I never wanted this book to become too cartoony but many of the expressions on previous pages just fell flat. They were boring. In this page, I tried to loosen that up a... View Article

Another bathroom!

Brock Beauchamp
April 22, 2011

It seemed that just a few pages ago, we were looking at someone’s bathroom. After a brief interlude with Blake and his father, I couldn’t resist so we’re back at a NEW bathroom scene! At great as that sounds, it only lasts one page so don’t get too excited. This is the first page I’ve done from start to finish since I took the small hiatus and that break seems to have helped. The pencils are better, the backgrounds are better, and the characters are MUCH better. I’m pretty happy with it and I’m excited to see it colored and... View Article

New computer stuff

Brock Beauchamp
April 20, 2011

First off, thanks to my girlfriend Rachel for filling in with last week’s blog entry! She’s an avid sci-fi & fantasy reader and will probably chime in from time to time with a book review or another sort of blog-type thingy on top of helping me write and edit Variables behind the scenes. A few months ago, I decided if I was going to go full-steam ahead with this comic, I was going to need a new home workspace for the digital side of things. I vacillated between waiting for a new iMac, buying a Mini as a stop-gap, or... View Article

Hospital page two

Brock Beauchamp
April 18, 2011

Here’s the next page of Variables! In this page, you begin to see Blake’s frustration with what happened in the woods and that he realizes something very strange has been happening to him. His father is just relieved to see him and naturally, wants to get the hell back home and out of the hospital. Next up, we’re jumping back to Candice and Isabel so this is the last we’ll see of Blake for a few weeks. With that said, I’m approaching the halfway point with the first issue. It seems like this has been going on forever but it’s... View Article

The Windup Girl

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April 13, 2011

Woo-hoo guest blogger here! I read a lot of books, and especially a lot of sci-fi and fantasy, and then I have a lot of thoughts about them.  Which I am excited to share with the world via this exciting gig of periodic guest-blogging! I recently chose The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi for my sci-fi book club. Trying to pronounce or spell that last name would ordinarily be enough to put me off the book, but it was hailed as one of the top 20 sci-fi books of 2010 and I’ll read anything with a post-apocalyptic feel.  It was... View Article