BWISH Studios News & Updates

Bungee-Man continues, somehow. I’m surprised I was able to get this page done what with the excitement of E3 kicking off (Left 4 Dead 2?! I’m not tired of 1 yet!) and WWDC looming, my mental stimulation has reached peak levels. I hope I can continue channeling this energy into productivity. Anyway, enjoy the page!

After a brief scare of Photoshop freezing just as I was saving the final version, technology prevailed and Bungee-Man continues! A bit light in the art department this week but it’s all for dramatic effect, I can assure you. As mentioned last week, Bungee-Man is officially becoming a Monday update from now on.

This week we will also begin a Thursday BWISH update but it won’t be Bungee-Man related. Come back later this week and to discover the secret!

I could give any number of excuses for the late addition to the Bungee-Man family, but who cares? The new page is up. Let’s see if I can handle an update again next week. Maybe I’ll go for a multi-page update?

Also, if you’re interested, there’s now a BWISH Facebook page as a way to keep up with future updates; and of course there’s also the BWISH RSS feed.

And if you’re crazy enough, you may want to follow me (Justin) on twitter. I’ve been using it for a while and is another fancy method for keeping up with the BWISH. Ride the BWANG!

Bungee-Man is live!

I was able to fix some web side problems and also took the opportunity to make a couple of tweaks to the page. This is exciting for me because this is really the first thing I’ve completed with my tablet that’s been somewhat worth sharing. Rather than break down and just draw it in pencil, I forced myself to do everything digitally. I obviously still need a lot more practice with digital illustration as I’m not quite where I am with traditional media, but that’s the point of this. Gotta start somewhere, right?

The proposed update schedule for the time being is a new page every Sunday. Hopefully once Mike and I start getting into a routine we’ll be able produce updates more frequently, but for now let’s not push it, k? We’re fragile when it comes to regular updates.

Well, now is when I should be announcing the first couple pages of Bungee-Man are up but there appears to be a problem with the page this morning. Lame! Unfortunately I won’t be able to fix it until later tonight. You know what they say, it wouldn’t be a BWISH project if it weren’t delayed. 

Check back later tonight! Or better yet, follow our RSS Feed or my Twitter to always know when thing happen.

Bungee-Man was a comic I started in the 6th grade. It was a silly comic with stick figures on graph paper, which made drawing the ‘boxes’ quite easy. I had created dozens of these comics and compiled them into a single blue folder. Unfortunately that folder has since been lost. It disappeared sometime late in highschool and it’s location still haunts me to this day.

Bungee-Man was a simple story of a man who tripped on his cat one day and fell out of a window. He fell in a truck of toxic waste and developed the ability to stretch his limbs. Poor and with no creativity whatsover, he borrowed a towel from the Ramada Inn for a cape, some cardboard for a chest emblem, and set off on whacky adventures against some painfully ”original” villains. Some of these villains included his arch nemesis, Bum Man, who after a freak accident couldn’t wear pants (he wore skirts) and had the ability to control… trash cans. There was also Gadget Master, a scientist with a robot claw; Fatboy, who was the size of a small city; Merman, a confused seafarring prince; Fire Lord and Cyclone, two aliens who… God, I don’t even know. There was plenty more but you get the idea of how bad they were. There was even an epic full colored tale of an adventure combining elements that closely resembled Super Mario World and Secret of Mana. 

Fast forward 13 years and Mike liked the concept of Bungee-Man so much he decided to adapt it into something… well, decent. This is the story we will be starting on Sunday.

This weekend I will share some very old Bungee-Man work. I may have lost most of the original comics but there’s still a few things that managed to survive the years. It will be interesting to compare this old stuff with the upcoming new stuff.