And, before I let this go, here's a pic of yours truly at Appleseed! Photo by our intrepid photog, Gio Marko!
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Polishing the diamond a bit ...
It's hard to believe that the Appleseed Con here in Fort Wayne has already come and gone for 2014. It was really great to meet everyone who stopped by my table there, and I got to meet some new people and see some old friends once again. The public got to see "Seekers of Tomorrow" for the first time, and I got to explain my little morality tale about life on Mars in the distant future a couple of zillion times. After awhile, explaining the premise seemed a little goofy, even to me, but I persevered! As I sat there talking about these characters, I realized how much they meant to me. I've also spent a lot of time thinking of different ways and better ways to present all of this to the public, and the graphic below is the first step towards that. While I am definitely plotting out future storylines, there's no reason why I shouldn't try to optimize the material I already have, if even just a bit more. So, I've begun adding digital color to what will likely be, for the time being, an e-book. Here's a sneak peek at the first page. I hope you enjoy it.
Monday, May 5, 2014
Find a copy of "Seekers" - on ETSY!
I began building an Etsy shop some time ago with the intention of selling some pieces of original art there, but it began to look like a very nice, easy way to begin marketing the initial adventures of the "Seekers of Tomorrow." If you can't make it to the Appleseed Con in Fort Wayne on May 17 & 18, 2014, then you can still order a copy. It's all good. :)
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Back Cover for "Seekers of Tomorrow" #1!
The full issue of this manga sized booklet will be debuting at Fort Wayne, Indiana's Appleseed Con in May!
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Mad Origins of the Seekers - preview!
(This
is part of an introductory article that will be featured in the
"Seekers of Tomorrow" booklet, available at Fort Wayne's Appleseed Con
in May. The full article in the booklet has some additional
illustrations from the initial storyboard stage, and those tell the
story of the development of the strip as much as the text does here.)
The strips in this booklet began as a college project a few years ago, in a storyboarding class at IPFW taught by independent filmmaker and small press comic book artist Allen Etter. I’d had a whole other life in graphic design and in comics before then, most notably with “Arthur: King of Britain,” which I wrote and drew for Gary Reed’s Caliber Comics waaaay back in the 1990’s. However, that was then, this was now, and I hadn’t done a fully illustrated project for a very long time. Specifically, I’d never drawn a comic-strip in a daily newspaper format (which I’d always loved) that actually had a planned ending. Taking stock of what I could realistically get done within the time allotted for the project, I decided that a self-contained three week long storyline (18 strips) would be a lot of fun, and would scratch a long ignored itch!
A short story which dealt with just a handful of characters seemed to make sense, and I decided to begin with the concept of Mars as a dying world - something Edgar Rice Burroughs dealt with in his Mars novels a full century before. Unlike Burroughs’ adventurous worlds of swords, ray guns, and scantily clad beauties, my story would be a little bit more like an over-the-top episode of “The Twilight Zone,” or the kind of short science fiction story that could have been found in an old EC comic from the 1950’s. Setting the story a full thousand years in the future meant that centuries of terraforming would have been done, and now, in the story’s present, all of that work was beginning to crumble. This was a scenario I’d played around with for twenty years or more, but it never made it past a few finished pages before I’d get distracted by something else. This time would be different ...
The strips in this booklet began as a college project a few years ago, in a storyboarding class at IPFW taught by independent filmmaker and small press comic book artist Allen Etter. I’d had a whole other life in graphic design and in comics before then, most notably with “Arthur: King of Britain,” which I wrote and drew for Gary Reed’s Caliber Comics waaaay back in the 1990’s. However, that was then, this was now, and I hadn’t done a fully illustrated project for a very long time. Specifically, I’d never drawn a comic-strip in a daily newspaper format (which I’d always loved) that actually had a planned ending. Taking stock of what I could realistically get done within the time allotted for the project, I decided that a self-contained three week long storyline (18 strips) would be a lot of fun, and would scratch a long ignored itch!
A short story which dealt with just a handful of characters seemed to make sense, and I decided to begin with the concept of Mars as a dying world - something Edgar Rice Burroughs dealt with in his Mars novels a full century before. Unlike Burroughs’ adventurous worlds of swords, ray guns, and scantily clad beauties, my story would be a little bit more like an over-the-top episode of “The Twilight Zone,” or the kind of short science fiction story that could have been found in an old EC comic from the 1950’s. Setting the story a full thousand years in the future meant that centuries of terraforming would have been done, and now, in the story’s present, all of that work was beginning to crumble. This was a scenario I’d played around with for twenty years or more, but it never made it past a few finished pages before I’d get distracted by something else. This time would be different ...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Page One preview from the FIRST ISSUE!
A page from the manga-sized comic "Seekers of Tomorrow," that I'm
planning on debuting at the Appleseed Con in May. It's a short story
originally told as a daily strip, but I've reformatted it a bit.
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