About Black and White
Black and White follows the various and sundry episodes in the life of Percy St. James and his friends at the University of Texas at Dallas. Percy kinda stands out, as he happens to be an anthropomorphic Dalmatian -- an oddity that, while still unexplained, seems to grow less odd with every strip.
When I moved to college, I found an audience for my doodles by way of the campus newspaper. Since then B&W has become what one might be tempted to call "a serious deal," and I have ambitions. But for now it remains just a little experiment in making a regular (and good) comic strip and a slick website. The results of this experiment so far: very much success! (Except for that little bout with comment spam back in aught-six.)
Recognitions and Publications
- Awarded third place for Comic Panel/Strip by the Associated Collegiate Press and Universal Press Syndicate at the National College Media Convention in Kansas City on 29 October 2005
- Featured (with printed strips) in the March/April 2006 issue of Young Money
- Published biweekly in The UTD Mercury, the UTD student newspaper
Artist Biography
Luke McKenzie is a junior at UT Dallas, pursuing an Arts and Technology major there. He has been drawing since he was very small, and OD'd on AP Studio Art portfolios in high school. (UTD only gave him credit for Drawing Foundations, but Luke does not mind.) He plans on using his art skills to keep drawing comics, pursue illustration, animation and web design - in the hope that, one day, he will have a Dalmatian of his very own.
He was born in Oklahoma City back in 1985 but went to high school in Texas. On the side, he is a real typography and horology nerd, and his accordion will make you smile.
Email: luke
bwcartoon.com
(now there is no excuse! you have to email me)
Website: theclockspot.com
Bleep Blop, Bleep Blorp
(everything you didn't need to know)
Black and White is usually drawn on smooth 9"x12" bristol paper, with a fine sable brush and fine-tip pens with india ink, or with Faber-Castell Pitt artist pens. Inking mistakes are corrected on the computer (the white-out bottle in the logo is totally bogus). Coloring (and sometimes drawing) is done in Photoshop CS with a Wacom Graphire (4x5) tablet on a Mac. But all of this is subject to the whimsy of the artist.
Why are you still reading this?
If you need something to read, go read the other webcomics on the home page. They are better than this page. :P