I’ve begun working on the rough layouts for the Perhapanauts short story. It’s going to be a lot of fun to draw this. Not only is it a period piece, of sorts, it also has tons of panels with Big in them! Big is my favorite character of all the Perhapanauts, so I’m really excited to get a opportunity to draw this.
Most of the weekend was a Mother’s Day blur, so no Perhapanauts drawing got done. That’s not to say that I was involved in zero comic making shenanigans this weekend, however!
I have been talking with a few writers about putting together some short stories for Digital Webbing Presents v2.0. As a matter of fact, one of those writers, James Powell, and I are going to be collaborating on one for DWP as a warm up for our Yet-Untitled sci-fi/crime project. And this one story is actually a springboard for more stories. So, anthology work may be in my future for some time to come.
If you had said that my semi-immediate future would include doing more anthology work, I would have said you were on smack. You see, a few weeks ago, I swore off doing any more anthology work. Don’t get me wrong… I’ve been part of some amazing anthologies like Trickster, Postcards and Zombie Bomb!. It’s great to get to work with a variety of writers and get stuff in print but it feels like I haven’t really got anything substantial to show for all my hard work. Nothing I can just point to and say that the art in this is all me (Well, the Perhapanauts one-shot was all me… and there may be another one coming but aside from that…). I need something that I can hold and say “This is my baby.”
But, the announcement of DWP v2.0 has me feeling nostalgic (I was in a early issue of DWPv1.0, many years ago) and I thought, “What the hell?”. In addition to the story with Powell, I might be doing another DWP short with writer Ian Ascher, creator/writer of The Last Paladin, which had a number of appearances in DWPv1.0. What Ian and I have cookin’ up is going to be fun to draw, too!
So, that was my Comic book (non)creative weekend.
So long, Blogger. Hello, WordPress!
As you can see, the blog building continues. We still have to get the No Quarter archives moved over and add a custom header and such… but it’s getting there. In the meantime…
I’ve finished up the art for the 2nd part of the zombie story, “Not at the End”, that Anthony Schiavino and I are contributing to the Zombie Bomb series (Man, zombies are fun to draw!). There is a 3rd part which I will be drawing in the coming months. Until then, however, I will be focusing on drawing up a new Perhapanauts tale that will be featured on the Perhapanauts site. Sort of a “Tales of the Perhapanauts” thing. The story was penned by writer/artist/editor pal, Rich Woodall. It’s going to be a lot of fun! I’ll be posting my progress on that one, as I go along.