I hope you guys dug the guest comic that I did for Jeph. Today is his birthday, and everyone deserves a day off once in a while.

If you are new to HijiNKS Ensue here are the basics: It’s a geek comic. There are 3 main characters. Joel has the hair flip, Josh is the gay bald guy and Eli is the Mexican with the hat. Most of the comics make fun at some aspect of geek pop culture. It’s been described (by me) as “Penny Arcade minus video games, plus everything else.”

If you like SciFi, Movies, Geek TV, Joss Whedon, Star Trek, Technology, Apple or any other geeky pursuits you will probably find something to enjoy here.

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To HE readers: if you are looking for a comic today, please feast your pixel-hungry eyeballs towards today’s Questionable Content. I gave that comic all the extra comic sauce I had and I’m all tapped out until Friday. If you aren’t already reading QC, then you’ve got about 1500 comics to read instead of working today.

Jeffrey Rowland makes two great webcomics, Overcompensating and Wigu. He also runs the largest webcomic T-Shirt and merchandise empire on the planet, Topatoco. He’s been busy opening a new 4000 sq. foot Topatofacility and adding new comics to his roster of… comics. In the spirit of comic brotherhood I sent him a guest comic which you can see HERE.

You can also see the other guest comics I’ve done for PVP and Unshelved and such HERE.

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Regular HE readers might want to check out the Unshelved guest comic I did. Guest comics on Unshelved are a little bit different than others I’ve done, in that they are more like illustrated book reports which they call the The Unshelved Book Club.

Behold:

As he mentions in the post, Scott Kurtz lives a couple of blocks from me in a suburb of a suburb of Dallas, TX. Since November of ‘07 I’ve been listening to his “Webcomics Weekly” Podcast. I have to say that the real world advice I’ve gotten from him (Kris, Dave and Brad) through the podcast has been invaluable.

A good portion of the inspiration for “The Experiement” was based on my “Webcomics Weekly” tutelage.

A few months back, Scott was gracious enough to invite me out to dinner and let me hang out at his studio while he and his cohorts recorded the podcast. It was a fun experience and really galvanized that fact that people ARE making a living from online comics and some are doing in it my own town.

Lately he’s been suffering from various minor illnesses, literally one after another. When he posted that he was too sick to work I figured I would repay his kindness with a guest strip.

It was a  challenge to draw somebody else’s characters, and write a joke in their style. It was also a challenge not to completely mimic Kurtz’s art style. In the end I was really pleased with out how turned out and I appreciate that he ran it.

If you are looking to get into webcomics, either professionally or as a hobby, I strongly recommend picking up their book, “How to Make Webcomics.” It’s four artists that actually live this life giving away all of their tips and secrets.

Update: 

Here’s the original sketch I did of Brent and Jade. Though you guys might like to see some of the “behind the scenes magic…something something.”

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Paul Southworth from the excellent comic UglyHill.com is taking a week off to recharge. I sent him a guest comic to run while his batteries get juiced. He’s running a whole week of guest strips from various artists.

Check it out!

Drawing monsters is offically fun. There might be another guest strip coming later this week but I’m not saying for who.