Some images from my thesis:-)

Just throwing up a couple of the images from the visual component of my grad thesis:-)

OK.. OK.. not technically a "blog comic" per se.. but I had to just get this one out of my brain! I like this comic not just because Batman is evidently trying to return something at Target... but that also the World's Greatest Detective has apparently lost his receipt:-)
As always.... thanks for looking!
T$

A new fun sketch that I just posted on EBay!
"Roller Grrl"!

lady death sketch:-)

A fun sketch that I will be posting for sale on the EBay!

Buffet the vampire slayer

I thought of this yesterday and laughed to myself all night at work about it:-)
Since I haven't has a chance to finish a blog comic recently I thought I would throw this up.

Just posting a new fun commissioned sketch:-) New comic by Sunday!!

New art on ebay!!!!

Another piece of original art that I am hawking via ebay. This drawing is pretty cool so check it out if you are interested in purchasing some Ted Helard original art!! Just click here:-)

Super girl original sketch! Bid now!

Don't forget to bid! This is a great deal for an original sketch and it will be worth a gazillion dollars one day!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190387112308&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT

Cross Country Trip Episode 4 "Nickleback"

Cross Country Trip Episode 3 "Snow Bound"

Some new drawings and such!

Hey, all! No new comic until tomorrow but here is some other stuff I have been messing around with:-)

Cross Country Trip: Episode 2 "The Droid"

I just wanted a goddam coffee!!
For some crazy reason the gps in Heather's Droid refused to work properly in Louisiana... hmmm.. maybe it's all the swamps

Updated Paypal Button for Colored Print

The newest, fanciest, shiniest GRADE AAA paypal button. Buy a print now!

I will be offering this colored version as a limited run print of 50-- each signed and numbered copy a mere 15 bones a pop!! (5 dollars shipping and handling:-)) It will ship in a fancy tube and be suitable for framing and respectful placement in your home, office or prison cell.

Print

Option 1 $15.00 Option 2 $15.00 Option 3 $15.00

Cross Country Trip: Episode 1 - "Away We Go!"

*Whew*
What a crazy last couple of months!
However I am back in the proverbial saddle and will get back to producing blog-comics at least twice a week!
Huzzah!
This comic is the first in a series of comic strips I will be posting following Heather, Will and I's trip from Savannah, Ga to Blue Lake, Ca and then back again!
As, always..
..thanks to everyone for checking out my blog!

(also.. I still have a few prints left if anyone wants to buy one:-))

The fast, easy way to purchase the color print "Conspiracy Theory"!

I will be offering this colored version as a limited run print of 50-- each signed and numbered copy a mere 15 bones a pop!! (5 dollars shipping and handling:-)) It will ship in a fancy tube and be suitable for framing and respectful placement in your home, office or prison cell.

Click on the link below to pay with paypal~

Rather than Scrabble--now in COLOR!!

While Heather and I were on the road to Cali and back I took some time whilst not in the driver seat to splash some colors onto the latest "Rather that Scrabble" installment. I hope this in some small way makes up for not posting over the last two weeks:-)
I will also be offering this print for sale via my Facebook fan page!!
Check out the "Rather than Scrabble" Facebook fan page for all the exciting details--
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ted-Helards-Comic-Blog/311543995168?ref=ts
..act now as supplies are limited..
...just in time for the holidays...
...not available in stores..
...be the envy of all your friends..
..still legal in 17 states...

'Conspiracy Theory"

"Intern-al Trouble

Dedicated to the memory of my dad.
As always, thanks for looking.
Ted

The next installment of "Rather than Scrabble". Inked in the middle of last night:-)
I think the strip says it all..
Many of the my day to day concerns sort of fell away following Heather and I's house fire...
When your immediate concern is...
"Hey.. where exactly will we be sleeping tonight...?"
... you sort of stop sweating the smaller stuff.
Now that we have ironed out many of the difficulties stemming from the fire my other concerns and anxieties have shown back up for the party... and they ALL brought potato salad.
And it seems to always hit about 3:00 am. I will sit upright in bed in a cold sweat..
"Ahhhh... my thesis.. student loans... sample pages.. my job.. thinning hair... AUUGGGHH!!!"
I suppose that is just the nature of things and the goal is to channel that anxiety into manageable productivity...
...we'll see how it goes:-)

As always, thanks for looking!
T$

Rather Than Scrabble

Please click the comic and it will be big enough to read:-)

So.. here is my first installment of "Rather Than Scrabble".
Many of you may know that the last couple of months have been pretty tough for Heather and I..
I have gotten very far away from drawing and comics, and when I have tried to work I have found that my process has gotten a little funky.. it's almost as if in an attempt to manage the discordant elements and crazy events in my life I have tried to over structure other elements of my life as well... my art, in particular.

Hence, this journal comic.

The whole idea is just to produce this sucker, thrice weekly, in a discreet amount of time so it doesn't impinge on my other endeavors.. i.e. relationships, my other comic work, my job, thesis, my health, alligator wrastlin' and cookie baking.

In essence I just have to knock it out!

This comic is at the opposite end of the other work I have been producing and as Heather can attest it about killed me to draw it. Half way through I nearly balled it up and burned it...
it sucked.. I was going way to fast and the inking looked like crap.. so did the lettering.. it looked like a moron had done it.. why was I doing this...
...blah blah blah blah blah..
...boo hoo hoo for me...

Heather made me finish it...
..and I must say that in its completion I am finding a certain measure of catharsis.
Not so much as to get out the trampoline and brown liquor...
..but a bit.

If any one ventures in here and sees what I am attempting to do here I hope they dig it. But I guess the whole point here is that it is for me. As imperfect and weird and goofy as it may be.. as I may be.. or as any of us.

As always.. thanks for looking!
T$

...ahem...

Because it has only been a year and 4 months since my last post... I will keep this brief..
I am intending on posting, in the spot, a bit of a "journal comic" type of thing.. I know this "internet" is all the rage with the kids and I am not above trying to capitalize on the hot new trend of the day..
I will be posting thrice weekly- Tues., Fri., and Sunday which will feature a longer, more traditional "Sunday" format style of strip.
I will be posting this coming Tuesday with my first strip and I hope everyone thinks that it is keen and a thoughtful endeavor and buys lots of the themed coffee mugs, stuffed pushies, wall calendars and dish towels that will soon follow in the wake of the strip's massive success!!

...as always, thank you for your tolerance and understanding.

Sincerely,
Ted Helard and everyone else here at "Ted Helard Sequential Art Studio and Gun Smithing"