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To be continued...
Background
I grew bored with my "Steem Life" comic and wanted to break out my Wacom again, so I introduce ...
"Steemocracy"
This comic was born out of a simple discussion earlier tonight while eating dinner. I mentioned that I wanted to create a new comic, but instead of Photoshopping everything, I wanted to do drawings using my Wacom tablet. I'll admit, I was inspired by @klye and really like what he's been doing since it adds more personality and a unique touch.
I plan on making Steemocracy an ongoing story, since the first few volumes just spewed from my head all at once during dinner and we all laughed. So be sure to follow this blog and see what happens to Ed next time when a certain someone finds out what Eddie has been up to.
In This Volume
For some inside info on this weeks episode, "verax" was Edward Snowden's codename that he used when talking with Barton Gellman, a Washington Post reporter. Verax means “truth teller” in Latin. Previously in history two British dissenters used the pseudonym "Verax". A 17th-century Parliament detractor named Clement Walker, who died brutally in the confines of the Tower of London. And centuries later, Henry Dunckley, a social critic that adopted the byline “Verax” on his Manchester Examiner weekly columns.
Fun Fact
Edward Snowden has stated to reporters that the United States intelligence Community, “will most certainly kill you if they think you are the single point of failure that could stop this disclosure and make them the sole owner of this information.”
Hmm, I wonder what might happen if Edward were to disclose some information on a blockchain?
@tuck-fheman Man you have the most funny posts. Gawd i wish I could post cool stuff like this!
666 flags hahaha
This comic is great. I'm looking forward to the next part :-D
I was wondering if anyone would catch the little details. :)
Clever.
Here's the colored version of Volume 1 ...
Nice one! How'd you colour it?
I'm a wizard! :)
I did some PS magic like you suggested, got the background removed and went to work with my Wacom.
Dammit! As I was typing this I look up and see I missed adding the grass texture in areas and made it too thick on the right. Bah, I may fix that when my Yiynova Tablet Monitor comes in next week. Really looking forward to messing around with it versus this tiny ass Wacom. Drawing on 6x3 is tough enough, but looking up while doing it has been a chore to learn.
I wish I had colored this one. I screwed up and flattened it before I could color and erasing the background so I can color it is proving to be more work than it's worth. Oh well, lesson learned. I'm rather new to PS and don't really know where everything is yet. I'm a former Gimp user.
Try converting it to a vector and/or posterising it so it becomes monochromatic. Then you can remove the background cleanly again.
Also try using the threshold tool in gimp.
Cool, I'll give that a shot, thanks!
Reply to the colored version below so I can return your upvote. I wanted to move it to the top and removed my previous upvote of your comment. Thanks!
hehehehhee you maid my day bro, strange world
Great work @tuck-fheman, "Verax" good to know...
Release information on a system outside of government control.... That's crazy talk. Enjoying the drawing touch man!
That is very interesting, if Edward Snowden join steemit..... :)
Steemocracy? Nice ring to it. Btw, based on how this thing works, you might want to check out stuff by Cory Doctorow, since steem is a lot like some systems in his stories, whuffie from "Down and Out in Magic Kingdom". Someone also mentioned something like that in the "Makers", which I am yet to read. Anyhow, subscribed, I like to see where your webcomic goes.
Ach, really annoying I missed this! :-)
Can't wait for the next one!
Cg
It was posted just a few hours after this one. I probably should have waited longer, but originally I wanted to have all of those two in one post, it just took so long on the 2nd part that I went ahead and posted the first as Vol 1. Here's the 2nd volume.
https://steemit.com/steemocracy/@tuck-fheman/steemocracy-a-steem-comic-or-volume-2-or-all-quiet-on-the-steemit-front
To be fair though, his first post generated a lot of followers. You think he has it bad? @Jonah is too scared to even log in.
omg:) 49213 Likes Vs 666 Flags
Your comic & also the article is so good :)
Hey tuck i dont need a vote just your opinion to my question.
https://steemit.com/steem/@joelinux/does-anything-change-when-you-go-from-a-superuser-to-a-hero
Ha ha, what can I say?..........................
Edward Snowden is dead. Maybe he'll rise from dead but don't bet on it.
So do you know that for a fact @wakeupnd ?
The US is the biggest mafia of all time and he suddenly puts out a couple mysterious tweets then goes missing. Yeah he's dead.
You can't assume @wakeupnd, you need proof (fact) or your just starting rumours.
You're right I don't have proof but I have a brain and can see what happens to people that are a threat to the status quo in Washington. Just look JFK, MLK or John Lennon all serious threats to the elite.
Seems like he might be, in spite of denials. Supposedly his mistress confirmed it, but who knows?
That news was from a fake news site and low quality "news" sites picked it up. ;)
Hahaha. That was great.
It's funny because it's true!
Awesome work - very good indeed!
The moive is coming out in September 16th 2016. I will go see it for sure.
The guy is so interesting and can't get enough of him.
hahaha awesome! Im soon following this!
This is so funny! I wonder if Mr Snowden will actually sign up to steemit. Wouldn't it be a good place for him to leak some more things？
Perhaps. Check out the next volume and find out! :)
;) bring it on!
I thought that was real trending topic you got me fool lol . Very click bait headline
How is it a click bait headline? lol
Great and refreshing :)
What was the first instruction?
And SBD 113707 is some serious virtual money. What can he do with it? Except play with it on exchanges :)
Thank you!