For those who somehow don't know..

Lackadaisy Cats is a reaction image goldmine.

>>5

Indeed!

Yeah this kinda deserves to be bought. The only reason I'm holding out is because......I'm a cheap bastard.

I just wish it updated sometime.

>>10

Good things are worth waiting for.

>>10

Well the last update was 4 pages put together in anticipation of the holidays. She said on the website that new pages are well underway. I expect a new one this month at least.

>>10

Actually, I believe the next update is coming in the next couple days, according to her twitter.

Artist is really nice in person, too. One of those people I found tucked back in the small press tables at SDCC last year.

An interesting little CGI movie using some of Tracy Butler's character models

http://www.metropolitan-themovie.com/

Click "Video" and then "Le Film"

>>137

Doesn't look all that great from the teaser.

New page: "Academia".

Lackadaisy kicks so much ass it's almost criminal.

>>231

I was going through withdrawals. I am much excited about the lair of Viktor.

>>241
I check it daily. I know they come out once a month if I'm lucky, but goddamn if I'm not anxious for each new comic. She's incredibly talented and her characters are remarkably real while being cartoony too.

"Bee-line"

>>281

Is that Rocky's rape face in the second panel?

>>282
I'm pretty sure Rocky's always wearing his rape face.

I showed a friend of mine Lackadaisy and Better Days/OL yesterday and she said it would be funny if someone took a page from Lackadaisy. And re-drew it in Naylor's style.

Someone please do this.

>>293

>>it would be funny if someone took a page from Lackadaisy. And re-drew it in Naylor's style.

Do. Not. Want.

>>295
I want ;_;

>>293

You are a bad person. Why do you hate good art?

>>302


I just want to see the vast contrast.

>>293

This might be good for lulz, but I'd like to see them try to re-write it in his style as well. Naylor's way more of a bad writer than he is a bad artist.

>>304

Well when my friend suggested this blasphemous act it was so we could laugh at it.

>>305

What you'd have to do is take all the filler comics and put them in the middle of the story comics...So you go from Rocky setting fire to the barn to Viktor and Mordecai transporting a tied up victim to the corn fields and arguing, then to Mitzi...then Freckle...then back to Rocky doing something totally unrelated?

>>293

>I showed a friend of mine Lackadaisy and Better Days/OL yesterday and she said it would be funny if someone took a page from Lackadaisy. And re-drew it in Naylor's style.

NO.

>>311

Aww you guys are no fun. I'd suggest maybe doing it backwards but....that might be hard XD

>>312

>>I'd suggest maybe doing it backwards but....that might be hard XD


You mean Tracy doing Naylors style?...definitly do not want D:<

>>329


No I mean taking Naylor characters and drawing them in Tracy's style. I think it would be an improvement.

>>330

Hmm.. If the characters you're refering to are any one other than Fisk and little mini Fisk Jr. (aparently he's to unimportant for me to remember his damn name) than this idea might actually be pretty awesome.

You see, this idea works. You're suggesting taking something aweful (Naylors art/characters/story... am i forgeting anything?) and improving upon it (by making more like Tracy's work)

Your earlier idea sucked, you wanted to take something awesome and ruin it.

>>338
You guys just don't share my sick sense of humor.

"Cacophony"

"Deadeye"

I'm so ashamed. I want to see Ivy naked but at the same time it's Lackadaisy. It's so good it feels sacred, like wanting to see porn from it is like thinking about sex in the middle of church.

Sitting there in the pew with a boner thinking "I am so going to hell for this."

>>865

>>858
>>859

LoL Viktor is such a grump.

But seriously, as usual, these comics are reaction shot gold mines.

>>867
I know, I'm a terrible person. T_T

>>869

I've heard worse.

I still like you, ID

So she put it up a few days late -- who cares when what you're getting is this awesome?

>>1161

So, so awesome.

Indeed.

>>1161
>in color
it's so beautiful. ;.;

and I love the sandwiches being nailed on the walls. it was probably rocky's idea.

Fun fact. Despite being an obviously French influenced city (Fleur de lis on the flag and all), St. Louis also has a fairly sizable Irish population. This is probably related in some way to the fact that the place is also super-mega Catholic.

I love Lackadaisy because anything set in St. Louis gets my immediate approval.

>>1161

Ahahahahaha

>>1161

Omg that frown on Rocky's face.

>>1161
Omigosh, Freckle's face in panel 7 is so cute :D

>>1161

Aw this is too cute.

>>1161

I fuckin' lol'ed too hard when i saw this.

>>1161
I love St. Patrick's Day XD

Anyone else find it particularly funny that she wasn't phased by them nailing sandwiches on the wall?

>>1186
Nothing gets in the way of churchin' time.

>>1188

Damn skippy.

>Just some sketchy stuff here and a color piece at the top of Nina for the eventual revamp of the character bio page.

>At the bottom is a sample color page ... done for a foreign publisher that seems to want to do a full color book.
>I tend to cram a lot of panels onto a page. That combined with multiple scene/ambient light changes makes creating an appealing palette for the page as a whole very difficult. Over-stuffed panel layouts might appear reasonably coherent in monochrome sepia, but I fear full color is in danger of looking like a variegated vomit rainbow. I'm not entirely sold on this idea. We'll see if anything comes of it.

Personally, I think it's fuckawesome.

Email Tracy and tell her of its fuckawesomeness. We need more of this!

The original, for comparison.

I dunno, I rather like the sepiatone better.

>>1608

Hmmm... I think the color looks better and makes details clearer, but I expect when the speech bubbles are put back in, the colorized background details will become distracting.

Just when you think it can't look any better she colors it and it just....looks...so......GOOD!

>Rough stage of a comic panel.

"Dotage"

And another update's coming this Tuesday.

>>2004

So goddamn awesome. XD

>>2004

What's that she's speaking? Russian?

>>2011

Czech.

>>2012

Or Slovak, but they're pretty well interchangeable.

Panel 1:
Hello.

My sink is leaking.

What...what's going on?

Panel 2:
Water's coming out of the pipes.

Panel 3:
The floor's completely covered with water.

Panel 4:

Ooohh...
Are you sick?
Ooohh...

Wretched boy. I'll bring you something for that.

And who says you can't show age in anthro characters?

>>2027

Tracy's admitted that part of the reason the comic updates so slowly is that she can't avoid the heavy detail and character designs. The extra effort's worth it, personal opinion and such.

>>1952
That's better than most FINISHED works I see on the net.

Ivy is reminding me of Amy Rose...but for some reason this doesn't bother me.

>>2046

Maybe because Ivy's got a much richer personality.

"Defiance"

>>2065
Oh my god, panel 10 is beautiful.
And panel 1 is just way too adorable.

>>2066

Panel 4 is the best face. Ever.

it had to be done

Those damn Bolsheviks

I lol'd at the first panel

Yeah it's just you an me...hiding behind your chair like a creepy troll of perpetual annoyance.

>>2078

lol! So many great faces in this comic.

>>865

sooooooo we can grant LD as rule 34 inmune?

i mean 34 on this would allow us to se god... pummeling someone out of existence for blasphemy and madness.

either way it would only work if it tracy herself did the 34 and it would be at most, softcore but it would be so awesome the universe would implode

>>2154

It already exists.

No I'm gonna link it.

Bohemia Way

>Zib and Mitzi - one from the gallery of unlikely photographs.
>Lackadaisy's band was a nomadic one before coming to rest in St. Louis.

....I now support ZibxMitzi *shot*

>>2252

Good god, I'd like to eat Tracy's brain and figure out how she does hair and lighting.

So glad I bought the book back when...

>>2270
she went to art school

>>2301

>>she went to art school

Um.. No, actually, I believe she is an entirely self taught artist. Which only makes her art even more impressive to me, as most self taught artists that I've seen aren't that good with anatomy or realism.

She's traditionally trained. Whether she took lessons or went to school I'm not sure of, but I don't remember her ever claiming she was self-taught.

>>2319
You don't get that good being self-taught

>>2319

>>She's traditionally trained.

No, she's not.

From the FAQ page on Lackadaisy.com

>>Q. Where did you learn to draw? What school did you go to?

>>A. I didn't go to art school. I did carry a sketchbook wherever I went all through childhood, though. I still do, in fact. It's sort of like a security blanket that I draw on.

>>2321

>>You don't get that good being self-taught

Evidently, some people do. It's not impossible, just extremely rare.

>>2323

yeah true that

>>2323

Or she had a mentor. You can take lessons. You don't have to go to a school to be traditionally trained.

>>2341

>>You don't have to go to a school to be traditionally trained.

True. However, since the question was asking her where she learned to draw, in addition to asking what school she went to, Common sense would lead me to assume that she would mention if she had any tutoring or such. Unless, of course, she was being very literal.

>>2341
Art and music are different from say, science, in that they're a lot easier to teach to yourself. You practice a ton, look over your work critically, get feedback from artist friends, and draw more. It's not like math and science where there are significant conceptual hurdles you will inevitably reach where you kind of need someone to give you some guidance.

>>2345

I think the difference is not so much that the artist can get feedback from artist friends (so can the learning mathematician/scientist) but that the artist can get feedback from anyone. Art is (normally) meant for consumption by the layman... and while the layman probably can't deliver the deep, technical criticism of a fellow craftsman, they can tell you what worked and what didn't work for them.

Four new pages today!

"Handyman"

"Sandwich"

"Rhubarb"

"Gallivant"

>>2706

Rocky's shit-eating grin in that final panel sent me into a minute-long laughing fit, and it was glorious.

I think I'm gaining prescience or something: I had a Lackadaisy dream last night (seriously), and now 4 new pages! Awesome.

Also, my sewer line is also clogged -- and the dream featured a sinking boat. Hmm...

Awww... now I buy Pepper and Freckle as a couple.

Why is Lackadaisy so awesome?

>>2707

Greatest shit eating grin I've seen in a while.

Lackadaisy Preview 0028

>Here's more single-character color art for a card deck that might someday come to pass, more character paintings for the character bio page overhaul that might also someday come to pass, and a myriad of other bits. The "photo" in the lower right appears in the sketchbook section as well, but since that sees minimal use and I tend to forget to tell anyone when I update it, I figured I'd just include it here too.

>(Asa's portrait is styled after old Knapp-Felt magazine ads for hats.)

I can't help but wonder what the Li'l Mordecai sketch is for...

Mordecai will be humanized at some point. There's a background to everyone, even a cold calculating assassin/accountant.

The bottom left pic is instant reaction image.

Button Sketches

>Drawings for a set of buttons that will be available at Summer 2010 conventions. I'll be coloring these up quickly as I can.

The Rocky and Freckle buttons are going to sell out so fast.

>>3134
Mordecai is strangely adorable, holding a pair of scissors and looking like a crazy person.

>>3134
Serafine looks so devilish :)

>>3134

Who doesn't love the cold calculating symmetry conscious murderer?

Lackadaisy Regalia

>This is actually artwork for buttons (original pencil art is >>3134 ) dressed up with an art deco background to make it presentable.

>Presently, these buttons are available for pre-order... The two stupid-happy Freckle and Rocky buttons toward the bottom of the image are convention exclusives that come free with the set if you pre-order or pick them up at San Diego Comic-con 2010.

Want. Stupid lack of money. :(

Also, she says comic updates will pick up again in August after con season.

>>3215

I wish I could make art like this...