As the Grass Grows – A Webcomic by Brad Samuelson

The latest storyline is in full swing, so I figured I’d give you a little info about it. If you noticed, it’s called “Homeland” so you can probably guess where it’s headed. I’m not giving anything away by saying that the gnomes are on strike, so of course it will be up to Gnorm to fix it. Which means he’ll have to be traveling back to the gnomish homeland, Gnomania. Gnomania has been in my head since before the strip started and I originally had a different story in mind to take Gnorm back there, but when the idea of a gnomish strike came up, I had to run with it.

Along the way, we’re going to be seeing a lot more gnomes and a little bit of the gnomish culture. Should be a lot of fun.

-Brad

A couple of weeks ago I started playing around with Ustream so last night I recorded the process I go through to draw a strip. You can check it out on the Extras page. I always find it interesting to see the tools people use and the process they go through when they draw so I wanted to give  a little insight into what I do.

I plan to do more live broadcasts in the future, so if you’re interested in watching me live, follow me on twitter and I’ll let you know when it happens.

-Brad

Just wanted to give you a quick preview of a new character that will be in an upcoming storyline…

Yes… he’s a ferret

-Brad

So one of my favorite webcomics has ended. We the Robots hasn’t been updating at all lately, so it’s not really a surprise, but it’s still depressing. That makes two of my favorite comics that have ended this year (the other being Ugly Hill). I’m pretty impressed and happy with the way both have ended, though I’d much rather them keep going.

Ending a serialized story in a way that is satisfying to the die-hard fans is a pretty tricky thing. I remember a lot of people hating the way Seinfeld ended, but I thought it was brilliant – how else could you end a show like that but with something completely unexpected and pointless.

All that being said, I know exactly how As the Grass Grows will end when the time comes. Don’t get me wrong, I’m hoping that day doesn’t come for a long time, but the idea of how to end it came to me before I even committed to doing a regular strip. It’s one of those things that just makes sense (no I’m not telling… you’ll just have to stick around to the end).

So anyway, if anyone has any suggestions for good webcomics that will get me out of my current depression let me know.

-Brad

So it’s been a rough couple of weeks and somehow my 3 yr old son knew the best way to cheer me up today. I try to get him to draw all the time and for a while he loved to draw with me but lately he’d rather play games, put together puzzles or play with his geo-tracks, but today he must have realized I was bummed out because he came up to me and said “we should lay on our bellies and draw”. So here are the masterpieces from the mind of a 3 year old. There’s no possible way you’ll enjoy them as much as I do, but hopefully you’ll dig them anyway.