Excitement & Disappointment

30. August 2008 by admin.

So, we’re about to leave for the Comic Geek Speak Super Show 2008, which was supposed to be where “From Here to There” debuted. I say “supposed to”, because I talked to the printers yesterday and the book has been delayed. It won’t ship until the day after the Super Show. We are bummed. It’s going to be really sad to hang out at our table at the show, with only some photocopied “preview” copies to show for all the work we did this summer. I know it is a familiar story in the independent comics scene, but it still sucks. I can’t help but feel that, despite how hard we worked, if we had just worked a little harder (17 hour days instead of 16?) that we would have the books in our hot little hands already and be stoked.

That being said, we are excited because we just sent off a contract to artist Stefano Cardoselli for a 32 page one shot that he is writing and drawing titled “Pieces”. Hopefully he’ll be signing that this weekend and getting to work on the story. It’s going to be a suspense/horror story in the vein of movies like “Se7en” and “Saw”. We’re really looking forward to it. Stefano was a joy to work with on “From Here to There”. I’m planning to track down all his work from Heavy Metal, and you should too.

I’m hard at work, revising “The Sound”. It’s coming along nicely. I’ve settled into a groove. The style is a little more cartoony than I first thought, but I’m starting to think that that is my natural style. I’ve figured out the fastest way for me to work is to do pencils in revers on the back of the page, so I can be messy with the pencils (my pencils are super “sketchy”) and then just ink on a lightbox. I’m skipping tightening up the pencils before inking, which is cutting out a good amount of time.

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