Lackadaisy Flimflam

Answer Pile 9: The Answering

I apologize if this blog falls rather comatose through the summer months. I’m presently working on the end portions of Volume 2 and a related, sizable project I’ll talk more about later. Here’s some more filler material and ask-box responses for the interim, though.

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More text and stupid pictures after the break.

19th June 2013 · 846 notes

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loscomicos:

Little dream Ivy from the recent page <3

aww =)

11th June 2013 · 275 notes

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thurinusworks:

There are many tutorials out in the wild that attempt to address the Photoshop “Save for Web” colour shift problem that many artists and web designers run into. However, a disproportionate number of these do so with half-baked workarounds that only “fix” the problem on content creator computers, while exacerbating the issue for their audience.

In this tutorial, I try to demonstrate how colour profiles affect image appearance on different browser types, and how best to make content look as good as it can on as many displays as possible from Photoshop. Don’t expect a comprehensive writeup about colour management - there are more authoritative treatises you can check out for that (start here: http://www.gballard.net/psd.html)

While I don’t proclaim to be an expert, I feel that I have done enough research and my own experiments to make the assessments I do on this tutorial. Regardless, I welcome any corrections from those of you who are more knowledgeable in the subject.

If you’ve ever had cause to throw furniture through windows because that painting you just spent a chunk of your life on looks all wrong when viewed on every other monitor display or browser, this might help.

Color profiles are a black art even among digital artists, it seems, but this is the most comprehensive thing I’ve seen explaining why colors shift and what to do about it.

10th June 2013 · 2,811 notes

Art Theft…

While on the unfortunate topic of stolen art, I suppose I’ll go ahead and ask a 4th of July favor. If you see fireworks with Lackadaisy art on the packaging, please don’t buy it. The art is stolen - no less than 7 different paintings. I’ve known about this for about a year, but so far all attempts to contact the manufacturer/distributor have yielded no response or left me at voice messaging dead ends.
These photos are from someone who spotted them and was kind enough to contact me about it.

Jake’s Fireworks is the name of the company, and they appear to do their own manufacturing in China (which ostensibly means they create their own packaging too).
The product listing is here on their site and in their wholesale catalog.

Please don’t send any well-intentioned emails to them or anything. I’m trying to resolve this without resorting to anger and threatening messages. Jake’s Fireworks distributes all over the place, though, so I’m just putting out a request for anyone who might be in the market for holiday fireworks to not buy any with stolen art on them. =/

9th June 2013 · 2,873 notes

Anonymous asked you:

I know its not lackadaisy related, but did you allow anyone to use your characters? I just saw my compatriots playing a slot machine app on his ipad called cat slots: kitten cartel. It looks live they are using a cheap knock off of mitzy, atlas, wick, etc.
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No, it’s not authorized. I’ll have to download it to get a closer look, but it appears they might have copied, modified and recolored my work. Unfortunately, with art in a state of mostly copied but not directly stolen, it’s not likely there’s anything I can do about it (except fume silently).

9th June 2013 · 101 notes

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Some quick notes about poses in response to a question from my ask box.
I don’t think I’m consistently successful at drawing human poses that aren’t stiff or unnatural, but maybe there’s something here that will be helpful to someone anyway.

27th May 2013 · 5,289 notes

still-the-best-1973 submitted:
Hello there! I’m a longtime reader of the comic and a fairly large fan, and as my way of thanks for brightening my day with your bootlegging feline shenanigans for the past four-or-something years, I wanted to share this with you; the first track of what I hope to eventually turn into a small three-or-four track EP inspired by Lackadaisy! I’ve been working on the project on and off for about two years now (inbetween the many other projects I’ve spread myself over in that time), but I hope to have the whole thing finished in no more then maybe a couple of months. In the meantime, however, I hope this silly little jazzy ditty I’ve put together puts a smile on your face!

- Decon
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That was a fun listen - it did put a smile on my face. Thank you so much! I’m honored, really, and reminded that as much as I draw comics selfishly for my own gratification, it’s probably the resulting creative transactions with other types of artists that make it most worthwhile.

18th May 2013 · 95 notes

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blonde-hurricane96:

Mordecai Heller

Aww. That’s the most adorable Mordecai ever.
(He almost looks like a match for an animated fairy tale princess…but she’d only have the googly-eyes for him until she found out who had ‘disappeared’ her talking animal sidekicks.)

18th May 2013 · 383 notes

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This is a response to the 10 or 11% of my ask box consisting of inquiries about pancakes, waffles and pancakes vs. waffles.

I promise I’ve been working on things that are at least a little less stupid than this too.

11th May 2013 · 2,992 notes

Magic Lantern Projector

So, Lackadaisy shirts are a thing now.
In case there’s any interest, they can be found at the 4de.com Store.

11th May 2013 · 1,484 notes