What a fracking year!

March 31st, 2011 | by Antoine
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Hello Drunken Fools,

Title says it all, what a fracking year it was.

First of all, please accept my sincere apologizes for not providing any updates on what was going on. Even that was too complicated for my disturbed mind. I don’t need to go deep in details but let’s just say that when you are fighting with illness, when your dad is fighting with illness and on top of that, you get cuut at work and need to find a new one, there is not much room for hobbies and such. Anyway, not in my case.

Now that one big chunk of these issues has been resolved (new job) and another one is kinda stable (my illness issues), I feel it’s time for me to get back to have a bit of fun in my life. And this would be done, of course, by getting back at the comic.

Webcomic Alliance

  • if you are following the Alliance’s website, you probably have noticed already that I’m back at it on that side. Being active with my friends Ken, Dawn, Kurt and Byron is helping me a LOT, thanks freaks!

Next Monday

  • The strip is coming back and will continue the current storyline! If you have a bad memory like me, you may want to go back at the beginning to get back into the storyline by clicking here! :P  

Comic Conventions

  • One kick in the nuts I received recently is when I realized my Webcomic Alliance friends were all at C2E2 a few weekends ago while I was sitting on my butt, watching TV… That moment made me realized I had to do something about it.
  • So, I decided to get a table a two upcoming conventions: Montreal ComicCon and Toronto FanExpo. These two are at the end of the summer, and that should motivate me in getting back to work and finalized some of the projects I had.

Brand that Beer Contest

  • Rember that contest? A lot of folks participated, and I will finally look over the submissions and do what I was planning to do! Stay tuned!

 

I know I tried 2 comebacks already since all the fracking problems started. But this time I need a different approach and make sure I use my comic as a good way of keeping my sanity (or insanity) well alive.

Cheers!

- Antoine

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Name That Beer Contest!

December 8th, 2010 | by Antoine
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Homer Simpson drinks Duff; Peter Griffin drinks Pawtucket Patriot Ale. ; Bob & Doug McKenzie drink Elsinore; Antoine Gagnon drinks whatever he finds; Byron Wilkins drinks prune juice and Kurt Sasso doesn’t drink anything (whimp).

But what do The Drunken Fools drink? We saw “Burp”, we saw “Booz”, but it would be great to have our own brand!

This is why I’m launching this super cool contest where YOU get to name that beer!

Rules:

- Find a cool name for a beer
- Needs to be original
- Needs to be “brand-able”
- “Burp” & “Booz” not allowed
- Three names maximum per participant
- Post your names here in the comments
- Webcomic Alliance members not allowed
- Note: Your submission will get bonus points if the name can be easily adapted in French.

Prizes:

- First place winner will get the original sketched artwork of the Beer Logo (on a 8.5″x11″ bristol), a Drunken Fools T-Shirt (M, L or XL) and a copy of the upcoming Drunken Fools book (should be ready around mid-March 2011);
- T-Shirts & Books will be drawn randomly within the other participants.

Timeline:

Participants can submit their names until December 22nd, 2010. Make sure to check the Reply notification before submitting your comment. If you win, that would be the easiest way for me to reach you.

Winner will be decided after the Holidays, 2nd or 3rd week of January. Depending on the amount received, I may use the help of my Webcomic Alliance pals to decide the top 5 and go with a vote.

On your mark, get set, DRINK!!!!!

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Got myself some Color Markers

December 2nd, 2010 | by Antoine
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Happy Friday Drunken Fools!

While trying to plan 2011, I decided to start doing what my good pal Chris Flick from Capes ‘n Babes and that is Sketch Cards. I’d like to be able to provide some exclusive material to the readers at Conventions in 2011.

And for this, of course I need some good pens, brushes and color markers. I know Chris is using Prismacolor markers. So I went to the art store and unfortunately, couldn’t find these. But I did end up with some cool color markers. I got myself a set of standard colors Touch color twin  markers by ShinHan Art. I’ve also got 5 extra colors that I would be using with my main characters.

So far, I really enjoy using them. One thing I would say tho, I don’t they would be good for big drawings. They should be perfect for doing Sketch Cards, but bigger pictures? Not sure about it. See what I did the same day I bought them, the color on The Incredible Drunk (bigger drawing) are not that good. But for small ones, better look.

Wheeee! New toys! Oh, and if you’re interested, these rae the Black Ink pens/brushes I use, the rare time I draw old school :)

Cheers!

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The Evolution of Billy

December 1st, 2010 | by Antoine
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Hi there Drunken Fools!

A little bit earlier this year (Oct 5th) I “kinda” celebrated my 2 years anniversary of the Drunken Fools. I never realized it until very recently. One thing that I realized is, how fast the characters have changed. Here’s the first articles of a series of 6 on the Evolution of the Characters. Enjoy!

If you are new to the strip, you may not be aware of this but Billy was originally some sort of caricature of myself. Somehow, he still is. When I first started to draw back in September 2008, it was at work, on a boring call and I was just doodling some of my friends for fun. Here’s the very first sketch of Billy. This has never been posted here before!

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