Bun Detective: day at the office
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May15

Bun Detective: day at the office

by NickSD on May 15, 2013 at 11:18 pm
Chapter:

Superdude Comics Presents: Bun Detective #1

Page 1

Panel 1: Green gaslight from a lamppost in the left-hand corner pours forth, illuminating a pink-purplish rabbit in a brown fedora and trenchcoat.  Caption: “I’m a detective. And a bun. For anonymity, I go by BUN, Bun Detective.”

Panel 2: Bun detective walks down the street toward us, smoky yellowy gaslight bouncing from city streets to city brick building.

Panel 3: Bun detective faces away to a double-door building entrance. “Like I do every day, I head to the office in Chinatown Tower about 4am”

Panel 4: The office door, wooden with smoky glass and the lettering “Bun P.I.”

Panel 5: Bun detective, rocking the brown trenchcoat and fedora, steps in front of the door.

Panel 6: Inside the office, the purple-haired secretary, Martha, taps at a netbook computer on a large lacquered desk.  In front of the desk, Bun detective’s head and fedora pokes up, “Hey Martha, what’s new?”

Panel 7: Martha answers: “Something of note showed up overnight on the encrypted classifieds… 500 pieces-ah-silver offered for finding stolen items. You’ll have to talk to the client, Alabama Mining, in Spacetown, though“

Panel 8: Bun detective begins to walk down the hall outside the office door.  ”I don’t really like Spacetown, the space dolphins make me nervous… but 500 silver? That’s nearly 400,000 USD* “

*Note: due to inflation, 400,000 USD here, in 2109 is roughly equivalent to 40,000 USD today (2013).

Panel 9: “Time to head to the Spaceport.”  The bun detective faces the elevators, or movers, alongside their control panel.

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Apr25

Cartooning the Presidents: 1800-1854

by NickSD on April 25, 2013 at 12:02 am
Posted In: Behind the Scenes

A sneak peek at the cartoons I’m painting of the presidents for our video series: Real Policy Differences – examining the shifts in parties and key policy debates that shaped politics from the presidential election of 1800 to the elections of today. Our first two installments explore the First Party System from 1800-1824.

Below are all the presidents (with the exception of George Washington) elected under the First Party System and the Second Party System (1800-1854)

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Mar31

Bun Paintings from March 30, 2013

by NickSD on March 31, 2013 at 12:49 am
Posted In: Behind the Scenes

Snowball in Buntopia

Captain Snowball in Buntopia, oils on a watercolor background

 

AcrylicSnowball

acrylic Snowball

 

WatercolorSnowball1

Captain Snowball, oil on sponge watercolor

 

 

Buns before the transformation

Bunnies before the transformation

 

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Dec10

If you’re here from Deconstructing Comics, WELCOME!

by NickSD on December 10, 2012 at 3:02 pm
Posted In: Behind the Scenes

The amazing has happened, Bunnies in Space was reviewed here by Tim & Mulele! If you’re here after listening to Deconstructing Comics, WELCOME!

You can read the original chapter one Mulele and Tim reviewed here: Chapter One PDF

I’ve removed the original serialization’s pages, because I’m super committed to improving and ruthless with dicing up my work. Currently on the site, I am publishing a new chapter one, a revamp of sorts that tries to address the problems with speech balloons and better organize the plot-lines and focus more on character development, while retaining the zaniness of the original ^^

For bonus material, click for Hop & Change poster, Animated map of bun population growth, and The Bunlympics.

Click here for > Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders vs. Zombies

Thanks so much for dropping in!

Best,

Nick

 

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Sep27

“Bunnies in Space,” by Nick Dupree, the video introduction!

by NickSD on September 27, 2012 at 2:35 pm
Posted In: Blog, Teasers

Go to superdude.org to read Bunnies in Space!

Bunnies in Space—a long-form, sci-fi comic published at www.superdude.org—explained by me, its creator.
All art by me, its creator, Nick Dupree. All rights reserved.

“Bunnies innnn Spaaaaaaace” voiceover intro by Walei Sabry.

TRANSCRIPT:

In a world where rabbits roam the space lanes…

BUNNIES… IN… SPACE

Hello, this is Nick again, and I wanted to introduce you to my comic, Bunnies in Space.

First, bunnies rise up against their mistreatment in laboratories, they escape, they use stem cell technology to turn themselves into “bunmanoids,, ” which is humanlike, anthropomorphic buns.

Their goal is not to confront the humans. They’re mostly peaceful, except, the general,
Marcus Lepidus. He is a bun supremacist, and he has no patience for humans, and he’s a fairly complex character…

You know, there’s a lot going on with him; he is loyal to the republic above all else and he’s a great guy to have on your side, but his power is dangerous.

Then there’s Captain Snowball. He is kind of the everyman, I identify with him most. Captain Snowball makes first contact with aliens, and he tells them the story of Bunnies in Space.

Check it out…

The challenge of this type of storytelling is, you’re creating an entire world, and it’s unwieldy. It’s hard to compress the story of an entire universe into a comic. So, sometimes I try to put too much story into one page, sometimes it ends up being more novel than graphic novel. Sometimes I’m not focused as much as I’d like to be in the story.

I think that once we get into Chapter 2, which will be very soon… probably within 30 days, we’ll get into Chapter 2 and that will be much more focused writing, because I’ve learned from the mistakes I made in Chapter 1, and I can get better and better and better.

There’s gonna be a limited print run of Chapter 1 planned within the next few weeks. So I’ll go to New York Comic Con and have some copies of the Chapter 1 with me, in case anyone’s interested.

I hope you’ll check it out, and I look forward to doing more videos.

Thank you, and good night.

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May27

“Apothecary” Page Six Coming Soon!

by SuperdudeComics Staff on May 27, 2012 at 5:49 pm
Posted In: Teasers
Pharmacist-Panel-23

Saul, in profile, contemplates his first day as a pharmacist. Behind him is the apothecary shop complete with sign "Solomon Sibley apothecary." The setting sun painted the sky purple and blue.

The story of Saul continues.  Nick is art-ing away.  Page six of Apothecary is expected to publish before May 30th!

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