FLUKE 2016The hour is nigh. 10 days, actually. FLUKE approaches sooner than I had hoped and here's me with plenty not done and not enough time to do it in. *sigh* I always seem to roll this way. I need the "last minute tingles" to get any sort of progress on a project.
I should have two new Grimm Files mini comics ready by the 23rd and some refurbished minis and new illustrations.
Zero hour approaches. There are about 4 weeks between a finished 12-page mini comic and FLUKE 2015. Yea...I haven't even started the script of We, the Odd #1, yet. I have no excuse...other than panicky procrastination. This month is gonna be a hassle of my own doing, but there will be a #1 on that table come April 11th!
arg... After I finish the book cover and before drawing We, The Odd #1, I have a small 8-pager in the works for the Atlanta Zine Fest in June, and it's in color! Strictly hush-hush at the moment, but it involves some attempted kidnapping, grave robbing and unlicensed flesh-peddling--you know, a kid's mini comic. Posting sample pages soon...
Starting to write script for issue #1 of We, The Odd. Whoooo! It will be a bit more linear and clear up some questions from the hastily made #0. I am also helping Dr. Matt Miller of USC-Aiken by illustrating/coloring the cover of his book which is geared towards professors who want to teach using graphic novels. It's due by June.
I'll post some pages of issue #1 once I have everything worked out. D. Blake Werts put together this nifty little monthly mag about mini comics and their makers. There's veterans and newbies featured in here--all for the purpose of forming connections and gaining info in the mini comic arena. I have a little blurb in there too. Thanks for your hard work, Blake! Just spent a couple hours copying and stapling the 8 page sketchbook + cover. It is com-plete! And I have learned something important: I hate folding. I don't know how I would produce 50 copies of 12+ pagers without incurring psychosis. At one point, I truly believed my long stapler had a vendetta against me and found myself openly cursing at it. So...I am done with the mini comics for FLUKE, now all that's left is the postcards and individual illustrations which I have to ink and color in the next 2 weeks... Yay. It (mini comic) arrived last week. Looks nice, but wish I hadn't rushed it...bleh.
Been working on the second sketchbook mini and it is slow goings. I suppose I am still wallowing in relief from having finished "We, The Odd". My brain is not happy with starting a new anxiety-ridden project. But, SO BE IT. Well, the PDF's are off to the printer's. Should be proofed by tomorrow and mailed back sometime next week. I know for purist mini comic connoisseurs (sp?) the hard-core stuff is done completely off-grid, dirty DIY style, but I thought it was important that this first printing be done by professionals. Now the SECOND mini comic I am doing is going to be hand-cut, xeroxed, long-stapled, old school style DIY. So it can't be said that I never got my hands dirty.
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AuthorPart-time illustrator and comic book penciller. Some time player of RPG video games. The rest of the time making a living editing and copywriting. Archives
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