Alfie in the Snow! Final color version...

Here is the color final art that I whipped out this morning in a rush since the print deadline was today at 5pm and it will be in print early this week! I like the color theory for the strip. I love the first panel and how he sits by the back door. Ha! Just like he does in real life! Enjoy!

Alfie in the Snow! The pencil sketches...

Here is the new pencil drawing for the new Alfie strip I just did this weekend for DCM! The whole gag for this cartoon was based on the last panel which was a sketch (seen below) I drew sometime early on in Alfie's development as a cartoon. It was a moment of Alfie's life that I wanted to capture on paper and I decided that this sketch could be the punch line for the new strip this month.
This whole gag pretty much actually happened as I showed it. Alfie was close to one-year old and he saw his first snow storm and wanted to see snow close up. He was at the back door and he was hesitant to go out and I knew he had to go to the bathroom so I gave him a soft boot out the door. He jumped and landed tail end in the snow and sank like it was quicksand! It was pretty funny. It was a deeper snow than I though it was. Alfie was only 1 pound and 9 ounces at that time so he just tried to swim in the snow to get back inside since it was cold. I bundled him in a towel and then went outside and shoveled him a whole blocked out area that he could roam around in the snow. He then went out and enjoyed the snow which I'll be showing in the future!

Shhh! He's sleeping...

No, I haven't been slacking on producing Alfie since my last post. I've been drawing Scooby stuff since New Year's Day so that has taken a lot of my time. I am drawing the new Alfie strip for the February issue of DCM and I'll have the pencils for you to see soon! Keep checking back!