thoughts, musings and other rambling…
Fan Expo 2010 has come and gone. It was a strange show this year. The whole thing seemed extremely disorganized. Friday we arrived at 4:00 pm and were continually misdirected by security and volunteer staff on how to actually get into the convention floor. Turned out that in order to pick up our exhibitor badge [...]
Here is a “behind the scenes” look at the making of SPY GUY #1 Page 7. This one is interesting not only because it is the “hook” for issue 1, but it also contains the very first gag ever created for Spy Guy. Back around 2004 I got to thinking that every comic book should [...]
Been busy, busy, busy working on SPY GUY #2… want to see a panel? -
Here is the first panel for the 2 page SPACE 2010 Anthology that I am working on right now. I’ve always had a problem with going in with the blacks for contrast, but I’m very pleased with the way this one is coming along. Thought I’d share. Now back to the drawing board. -
Getting ready to bust out the inks on Page 3. As you can see, I’ve got my Frank Miller contrast reference ready, and my Mike Mignola “Kirby Dot” reference ready. You can also see the Sharpie and Pentel Correction Pen rough for a general idea of what I’m going for. Note the Post-it note rough [...]
Spent a few hours over this weekend inking sound effects on page 2, and was quite happy with how they turned out. The uzi “ratatat-tat” has come a long way since SPY GUY: Bootleg. On the last panel, I took the advice of Sean Robinson over at the TCJ message board and went with an [...]
Halloween at Ultraist Studios: -
Here on Page 6 the action ends, and we start getting into intensive dialog and character interaction. Something I always find difficult to write for comics. However on this page I’ve started experimenting with writing the dialog on post-it notes, taking the cue from they way they used to do storyboards in these parts for [...]
This morning I (finally) got the second “over-night” FedEx package from Lebonfon. Too bad they didn’t ACTUALLY get here “over-night” on Saturday in time for the Fan Expo, yet I digress. But the even bigger surprise is that not more than an hour later a transport truck arrives with the Mother Load! Yessir! ALL the [...]
Friday came around… no comics. When I checked online and saw that the expected “over-night” delivery was going to be Monday at 5:00 pm I got more than a little worried. Erika did some detective work while I was at the con, and managed to find out that the comics could be here between 12:00 [...]