space girl comic
i did way more research on bunnies in space for this comic than i ever imagined myself doing.
turns out the second bunny in space was called zvezdochka. but the third bunny in space (and first bunny in orbit) never had its name or picture published, which is not only super disappointing on its own but also totally killed my original comic idea of having a whole photo album of pioneering space bunnies. damn it soviet union, all you had to do was give this bunny a name. was that really so hard?
subtle throwback to comic #11. it’s almost like i’m a genius and planned this all along (i didn’t).
maybe the reason sedna is always wearing the same hoodie is that it was the only one she could find with a matching miniature version.
poor yuri. too loyal for her own good. lucky she has some impressive english vocabulary and upper body strength for a bunny.
funny story: when i drew this comic i looked up reference images for cordless drills, and i’m still getting stupid cordless drill ads months later. seriously google, please leave me alone.
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another day, another illustration that took me way longer than it should have because i have no idea what i’m doing. this time starring my tribute to the primary antagonist and undisputed best character of the peanuts universe, the kite-eating tree.
and good grief! is that yuri? classic sedna readers rejoice, the bun is back! and with a slight redesign (because let’s be honest, she looked pretty terrible in classic sedna). expect to see more yuri in the next few comics.
rockets have pretty much always been single-use since their invention, which has been the primary reason for space travel being so ludicrously expensive. imagine how much a plane ticket would cost if an airliner could only fit 3 passengers and was destroyed after one flight. nasa dabbled with reusable spacecraft with the space shuttle, but the refurbishment of the shuttle was so expensive it would have been cheaper if they’d kept flying single-use rockets.
when spacex landed a falcon 9 first stage in december 2015, we may have finally entered an age of true reusable spacecraft, where rockets can simply be refuelled and flown again much like an airliner. of course, we’re not quite there yet, but in a few decades space travel may finally be accessible not just to astronauts and ultra-gazillionaires, but to regular folk like you and me.
…well, not really me. you’ll still probably need many thousands of bucks for a ticket, and i forfeited making that kind of money when i started drawing comics. :(
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it’s illustration day lads! not 100% happy with the colours in this one but i’ve spent so much time fruitlessly tweaking it that i really just need to move on with my life. hope you guys like it.
being able to do chalk art like this is one nice perk about living in a cul-de-sac in a country that doesn’t rain every second day. for reference, a diplodocus is about 26 metres (85 feet) long , and a redstone rocket (which carried alan shepard, the first american into space in 1961) is 25 metres (82 feet) tall. so i think the rocket is a little scaled down in this illustration, but if i zoomed out any further, sedna and dini would have just been tiny little specs.
i like to imagine the ridiculous amount of time sedna must have spent practising and fine-tuning in order to nail that shot instead of just knocking on dini’s door. but then again, what was sedna gonna do with her time anyway if not launch rockets?
i for one would be more than happy for my tax dollars to fund sedna’s upstart space program.
(just kidding, i’m too poor to pay taxes.)
if only sedna had powered the rocket with whatever anti-gravity magic is in her ponytail, then she wouldn’t have had any problems.
kids, always remember your parachute. or at least make sure your neighbours have insurance.
for the curious:
specific impulse = fuel efficiency
delta-v = amount of fuel (measured in potential velocity)
t.w.r. = thrust-to-weight ratio = rockety-power vs gravity
(if it’s less than 1, you won’t be going to space today)