Gilbert, Scott – Lies

Website (sort of)

Lies

What a tiny, tiny mini. There’s not much to go on here, but luckily he’s one of the many comics creators who knows the value of a good website. All kinds of samples here. Scott drew a strip called True Artist Tales for a Houston newspaper for 10 years before deciding that he wanted to focus on larger, more self-contained work. The samples here are almost too tiny to comment on. These strips are about trying to eat while hunters are talking in gruesome detail about some of their kills, popping a zit with alarming results and finding that special item in the supermarket. Not bad stuff at all, but I’ve always been a bigger fan of comics work than strips, with a few very rare exceptions. Some of the strips on his page are pretty damned funny though, and it looks like he’s making a serious effort to create some longer works, so it looks like we’re going to have to wait to see what he’s really capable. If you’re thinking that I probably shouldn’t have put his name up if I didn’t have much to say about him yet, that’s not the way I see it. In my opinion, if somebody sees his name here and sees that I’m excited about whatever he puts out next, maybe they’ll think twice about buying it when they see it, instead of just passing it by. Unlikely, maybe, but I’m living in a dream world and I think we should support whatever he does next. If it sucks, well, that’ll be a different story. But this didn’t suck, and most of the strips that I read on his site didn’t either. Got it?