In keeping with the trend I totally only established yesterday, here’s a model comparison for Earl the Archangel from 2003 and today. The most obvious and notable change for Early is the hair: I’m still not sure what that weird block/afro thing he started out with was. The shaggy style was established in the storyline where he joined a boy band (no kiddin’, it happened!), and I really liked it, so I kept it.
earl the archangel
Sketch a Day, Day 50
Today marks the 50th sketch I’ve drawn for the Sketch a Day project. In honor of that, it’s on a larger piece of paper (from one of my sketch pads) instead of an index card. It features my usual avatar, plus two characters from my now-defunct comic strip, Crooked Halo (I don’t currently have access to the archives, or else I’d have linked to them. I keep hoping someday Adam will either grab the dimbulbcomics.com domain name back, or will at least get rid of the redirect that points our Comic Genesis site there. I’d do it, but I’m pretty hopeless with html). The shoulder angel is Earl, the Archangel, possibly the least-effective guardian angel in the history of ever, while the shoulder devil is Tim Tation, the anthropomorphic personification of temptation. They’re a fun couple of characters to write, and if I ever did another comic strip (which, God willing, someday I will), they’re probably the two characters I’d choose to follow around.

