Sidewalks #4
The final comic in a series of older comics done for a local newspaper.
I know this is the middle of the week and I don’t usually post now, but I wanted to get this comic off my desktop. So here it is.
This comic takes place at Goodale Park, a park very close to downtown on the fringes of the hip Short North area. I used to take our dogs there often to roam around with other dog owners, but I haven’t done that for a while.
After I abandoned an idea involving food trucks that wasn’t really working, a friend gave me the idea of a lemonade stand. Much of this comic was the result of kicking around ideas at Stauf’s coffee shop with him.
I think Goodale Park would be a great place to set up a lemonade stand, although I’m not sure if it’s against park regulations or not. Goodale Park is just North of Columbus and is the home of ComFest, Columbus’s yearly community festival. I have only been once; a lack of parking and a sometimes sketchy crowd keep me away.
The fountain in the background is a hallmark of the park. Here’s is a close up look at the top:
And that’s it. Or at least the comics I still like today. It’s been fun looking back on this series that I did—back when I was still working with pencil and ink on bristol board. If you’d like to check out the rest of the series, here it is (oops! Two number threes):
Sidewalks #3
This is the third comic I did in 2012 for a local newspaper called Columbus Alive! as part of their Sketch in the City series, where local cartoonists took turns creating a comic for six weeks. You can find links to the others down below.
Sketch in the City: Sidewalks #3
This is another older comic from back when I was working on Bristol board with pen and ink. It’s from a series called “Sketch in the City” that ran in the shuttered Columbus free weekly “Columbus Alive!” Local cartoonists were given a six week run to do a strip related to the goings on in Columbus.
Old Comics: "Sidewalks"
In Columbus, Ohio, we used to have a free weekly paper called Columbus Alive! And in it they had a feature called “Sketch in the City” where a local cartoonist got a five day run to do whatever they wanted as long as it featured something local. This is way back before I moved most of my production over to digital, so everything was done on Bristol Boar…
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