Chase Chaserton and the Biggest Chase

Most comic strips are character driven. Peanuts by the late great Charles Schulz is about Charlie Brown and his relationship with the other children, all recurring characters. Jim Davis's Garfield about the titular character, a cat, and his relationship with his owner and a dog. There are hundreds of examples of comic strips ranging from Winsor Mccay's Little Nemo to Aaron McGruder's Boondocks.
One of the goals of Honeyspoon is to come up with an ongoing strip. Your traditional, standard four panel comic involving dialogue would follow this set up:

1)A character presents a situation (that is relatable to your average reader) to another character. This situations is either naively misinterpreted or deemed unjustifiable for whatever reason.
2) The second character would either offer a solution or an explanation to why the situation has come about. The explanation is either correct, or ludicrous. More often then not, the second character comes off being the opposite of the first.
3) The lull: the solution is being contemplated, quietly or otherwise, or it's being put into effect.
4) The result: after trying it out or thinking about it, the first character gets a negative result. S/he either rejects the solution because it doesn't fit into the ludacris scenario s/he has painted himself in, or s/he mishandles the solution itself by not understanding it. Hilarity ensues.

Finding no need to mess with this good formula, I still wanted to do something different. The solution was instead of having recurring characters, we'd have a recurring plot. Thus Chase Chaserton would be born.
Chase Chaserton is an ongoing chase between the main character and a purse snatcher. The chase would take them around the world, into different situations, with many different people.
The above image would be the first strip sans dialogue. If you count the first 2 panels as an extension of one it follows the formula. Chase greets a woman, and takes her politeness as a flirt. He then tries to come up with a way to get with her. The purse snatcher strikes (the solution, save the purse get the girl). Chase takes a panel to reassure her that he will get her purse back. Finally, as Chase runs into the distance, the woman thinks "What do i tell my fiance, the wedding invites were in there!" Chase's plan is a disaster waiting to happen.

Working within the strip parameters we've outlined, we believe its good, but ultimately as a weekly webcomic, we want to break those parameters and come up with something more malleable and open to design. That isn't to say you won't see this strip eventually, but right now its a project on hold.
We've come up with a new premise, but everything else is a work in progress. New strip coming soon...

The Promo

How do the guys here at Honeyspoon promote themselves more?
"Why we should make a blog, like other people do!" a voice rang out. And thus was born the blog not with a bang but with a whimper. The bang will come hopefully as people check out our work and as our friends and our clients refer others to this page.
It took another impromptu meeting to see who will fire the first salvo at the blog.
"It should be Andy!" a voice heralded.
"Yeah, Andy!" said Andy.
So here it is from me, Dimitrios.
Here's something from a recent personal project of mine. To set it up, I love comic books. The entire thing as literature, as escapism, as everything. This steady increase of interest in comics that people are crediting to the movies was inevitable. The quality of storytelling had indelibly improved over time. The quality of art has, arguably, increased. The speculator market has (unfortunately) brought it a lot of attention. The steady increase in diversity of stories has expanded fan bases for different companies, and have given newer, smaller companies opportunities to start up. Of course there is also a boatload of awesome strips on the internet now like Achewood, Wondermark, Dinosaur comics, Moresukine, Perry Bible Fellowship, Freekangels, to name a few.
Although I do illustrate, I wanted to try something different. Using the program Comics Life, I reorganized digital photos I had, to tell stories I made up. Enjoy, for now and in the future you'll see other projects both professional and personal from the team.