What the heck is Rabbits Against Magic all about?

Ever wondered what goes on inside a magician's top hat before the wand raps on the brim and the word "abracadabra" is uttered? Well here's a comic strip that delves headlong into that world of wacky weirdness and silly surrealism. A strange world where two mutant rabbits, one in superhero costume, one a cynical cyclops—no doubt warped by appearing in too many magic tricks—speculate about life, death, love, truth, beauty and the futile nature of representative democracy.  There are foxes of limited intelligence endlessly and hopelessly pursuing their carnivorous instincts.  And then there's a duck.

Sometimes political, sometimes melancholic but always proudly avoiding pointless parody and painful puns, the Rabbits Against Magic comic strip runs in full color on-line every day, come rain, shine or earthquakes.

For the technically curious, the strip is initially sketched with my favorite Faber Castel DS05 pencil (which I've had since 1976!) with a 2B lead on Strathmore Vellum Bristol board at about 10.5" x 3.5" and then inked using size 0 and 00 Robert Simmons 785 white sable brushes and Pelikan drawing ink. I'd like to use cruelty-free brushes but I haven't found any good synthetic ones yet so those poor sables suffer for my art. Some of the details are done with Pigma Micron pens (usually 08 and 05 sizes) and I usually draw the borders with a Pentel Brush pen. I fix mistakes with regular Liquid Paper and then erase the pencil using an extra soft TriTip eraser. The lettering is done by hand using Rotring Art Pens and a green plastic Rapidesign lettering guide template. The finished art is then scanned as grayscale using a Canon LiDE500F at 600 DPI. I set the threshold at 128, make any necessary spacing alterations before saving as an RGB file. Finally it's colored in Photoshop (I'm still using CS2) for which a Wacom Graphire II tablet comes in really handy although from time to time I do it the old fashioned way using Schmincke watercolors.

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