Oddly enough Doug has great penmanship when it comes to this.

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!

See you in 2012!

Thanksgiving already? Time flies. Doug forgot to invite anybody to his Thanksgiving dinner but that probably won’t stop him from eating it all.

Happy Thanksgiving!

First off I apologize to anyone who is offended by this strip. I meant no ill will, the idea came from a friend of mine who is known to come to Halloween parties dressed as a famous person who recently died, was injured or had something terrible happen to them. His past costumes have been Princess Di post crash, Michael Jackson with children attached to him and Siegfried (or was it Roy) post tiger attack just to give you an idea. After last years comic strip I figured Doug had that same mentality so he upped the ante with a Dan Wheldon costume. I think the other option he would have went with was Steve Jobs. Again, sorry.

Happy Halloween!

If you are here because you got a free magnet at NYCC or LBCC, WELCOME! Tweet me @dotproblems!

After taking a week off for vacation, coming back to reality was a bit hard. I think I’m STILL on island time. I’ve been playing Dead Island for the XBOX and it brings me back to the resort we stayed at…well minus the zombie-pacolpyse. For Doug all it means is coming home to a stable Internet connection and liberally applying aloe vera occasionally.

I’m going on my first “real” vacation since about 10 years ago. That’s not to say I haven’t had a vacation but flying back to the east coast to see my family isn’t anything like going to a sunny beach and drinking Mai Tais (sorry Mom). It will be nice to go somewhere and disconnect. No checking e-mails, Facebook statuses or endless Tweets. Although I’m sure at some point I will. Baby steps. That led me to the idea for this strip. Every hotel seems to have Internet so even going on vacation you can still connect if you want to. Doug wouldn’t know what to do if he was completely disconnected so why not bring all the comforts of home? Does it defeat the purpose? Yes. But Doug isn’t know to make the best decisions. I, however, will do my best.

San Diego Comic Con is here! I’ll be heading down Friday to get in on the action. Feel free to find ME and I’ll give you a Dot Problems postcard and magnet (while supplies last). Now onto the comic.

There have been a lot of online articles regarding comic swiper extraordinaire Rob Granito on Bleeding Cool. Basically this guy copies other artists work then sells it at conventions as his own. This got me thinking that by now he is probably getting annoyed at every convention with people getting on his case about stealing (as well they should). My character Doug is too oblivious to know any of this and just wants a sketch from someone he assumes is a legit-o-mite artist. Rob, obviously fed up, answered Doug with a line from the X-Men: First Class movie (there are spoilers so I won’t ruin it for you if you haven’t seen it yet). Just so everyone knows, the incident in my comic strip DID NOT HAPPEN. Well, at least not to me anyway.

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San Diego Comic-Con is soon approaching! This year I was able to book a GREAT hotel and am looking forward to all the fun! Even my girlfriend is excited! I’ve been thinking of some cool promotional items that I could do for Dot Problems and finally it hit me. Postcards! I was originally going to design one that featured Doug falling with the logo following on a white back ground into darkness or something. I drew the image and never finished it. It just wasn’t right. Why would someone pick it up and actually KEEP it? They wouldn’t. Then I thought of all those “Greetings From” type postcards and WHAMMO, jackpot! So I researched some old school designs and decided to create one based solely on SDCC. Not only will it be a cool promo item but you can actually USE it! Yes if you want to you can mail it! Or if you find me at SDCC I’ll sketch on the back or write a note to your loved one or friend. Either way it’s a win-win!! I’ll be bringing a bunch with me to SDCC to give out or just leave at random hotels and bars. Maybe next year I’ll get an Artist Alley table. Who knows. I just want to keep being creative and have a blast doing it.

This strip was inspired by all the tweets that came out shortly after the Green Lantern WonderCon trailer made its debut. That trailer really got everyone amped up for the movie including myself. It looks like a fun summer blockbuster! This year is definitely the year of the comic book movie! I may even do some strips about Thor (well another strip) and Captain America, who knows…

I recently got an iPad 2 and have been playing with it non-stop. It can eat up huge chunks of your time. That led me to the idea that some people probably use their iPhone (BlackBerry, Droid, whatever) to text or play games at work more than they should. Doug is one of those people.

Here is a HUGE version of the strip if you want to read the phone text. I didn’t think the actual text was as important as showing the passing of time. I like to add little things like e-mails going unanswered and no desktop activity as well as mindless texts, status updates and tweets.

I thought this strip was going to be a quickie since 90% of it was all created in Photoshop. It wasn’t so quick. Editing screenshots is a pain in the butt. Special thanks to Maria for the iPhone screenshots.

Merry Christmas from Dot Problems!!

I am currently in PA with my family and wanted to post a little something for the holidays. If it looks a little different it’s because it was drawn on recycled paper, inked with Sharpie/PITT pens and colored with colored pencils. After 2 trips to Staples I was able to scan it into Photoshop for the finishing touches. Hope you have a great holiday; I will!