I think they're pretty good, Jesse! A marked improvement over the first time you posted them here for comment. keep it up and tighten up the writing, which comes with time spent with the characters, and I think you'll do all right.
Guy~
I'm kinda with Josh on the balloon colors, though I think you should keep the color, but perhaps offset them from the background color a little more. Dave Mckean used to use colored word balloons a lot. One thing he did I would suggest is to use a...
I like the writing and the art quite a bit. And, like Josh pointed out, the fact that it's another square panel may have been a turn-off to the editors. An easy way to get around that and still keep it a panel is to modify everything to fit into a...
Your writing seems fine. What I think your artwork needs is more line definition. All the lines are the same width which makes it look like a coloring book. You have one strip where the bird is talking to himself in the window, and there you seem ...
I don't have any simple answers to this. If there were a set of criteria, we'd all be successful comic strip artists. The key is luck, plain and simple.
Guy~
In between cartoon gigs at the moment. Used to write and draw Cole, a self published comic strip that appeared weekly in several Northeast newspapers. Currently working on co-writing a graphic novela. Unfortunatelly, all of us working on it are quite lazy.