Let There Be More Light

Here's the fourth page of the Kill All Monsters! pitch. Hell yeah, this stuff was fun to draw. Maybe more soon....?

Lines by my and colours by Scott Keating.

High Hopes

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The Kill All Monsters! pitch pages are complete! They have been colored (by Scott Keating) and lettered (by Kel Nuttall) and are now ready to be sent out in the hopes that they'll find a good publisher to call home. Michael and I are so jazzed about the pages that I feel like I just have to share one of them with y'all! So, here's page 1 for your entertainment!

I'll make sure to keep you all posted on any developments that occur during the publisher hunt!

Remember When (Side A)

Remember when I said we weren't showing any finished pages from the Kill All Monsters! book? Well, it seems like that sneaky KAM! co-creator Michael May* went ahead and posted a page on his blog today!

Fine! I will, too! Behold page 1 of the new and improved Kill All Monsters!!

you gotta click the image to see it in all its glory!

* Michael isn't really that sneaky
** tip of the hat to my grammar editor, Jackie Copland!

Your Gold Teeth

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Another inked panel from the Kill All Monsters! pitch pages. My part of the pitch work is almost done. Michael May and I are looking to get the pages coloured and lettered and then the publisher search will be on.

Run (I'm A Natural Disaster)

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I'm working hard on the new Kill All Monsters! pitch pages. Michael and I have decided to hold off on showing any substantial images for the book while we work our way through it. But, for the sake of having something to look at (as this is an artist's blog), I'm posting this look at my process for working out a particular panel. That last image is pretty much ready to ink, although I think I may put something in the foreground to help give the reader a sense of the monster's scale.

Too Much Time On My Hands

iTunes Meme (thanks Michael!)

Instructions: Open up your iTunes and fill out this survey, no matter how embarrassing the responses might be.

How many songs total: 7480
How many hours or days of music: 22.2 days
Most recently played: "Just Like U Said It Would B" Sinead O'Connor
Most played: "Closer" Nine Inch Nails
Most recently added: "Magic Potion" by The Black Keys

Sort by song title:
First Song: "A.D.I./Horror of It All" by Anthrax
Last Song: "99" by Toto

Sort by time:
Shortest Song: "Yeah" by Kyuss (00:04)
Longest Song: "Thick As A Brick." by Jethro Tull (43:36)

Sort by album:
First album: Abacab by Genesis
Last album: 90125 by Yes
First song that comes up on Shuffle: "Forbidden Love" by Madonna

Search the following and state how many songs come up:
Death: 33 (including band names) 6 (just in song titles)
Life: 140 (including band names and album titles) 62 (just song titles)
Love: 429 (including band names and album titles) 282 (just song titles)
Hate: 37 (including band names and album titles) 5 (just song titles)
You: 1055 (including band names and album titles) I'm not even going to try and count just the songs
Sex: 56 (including band names and album titles) 11 (just song titles)

She Sells Sanctuary

I just flew back from FallCon in Minneapolis and boy are my arms tired. (groan)

But seriously, I had a great time at Fall Con, even though the hot temperatures and high humidity were slowly killing me. Hanging with my good friends Michael May and Alex Ness (and their families), getting to know Jessica Hickman, Grant Gould and Darla Ecklund and meeting tons of comic readers who were very eager to get their hands on a book like KILL ALL MONSTERS! were all highlights of my weekend in Minnesota.

This was my first con that I spent behind a table instead of being a homeless creator that roamed the con floor looking for people to talk to or good deals on comics. It was a great experience. Thankfully, Michael and I were sharing a table so the pressure to be constantly greeting and chatting up people was lessened. I’m not much of a salesman but by the end of the 2-day con I was starting to get into the groove.

The selling of books was all fine and good but the main reason Michael and I were there was to talk up our Kill All Monsters! book to anyone who was interested. And, according to the number of people who flipped through all the preview pages of the first issue and picked up a full color KAM! print, we have a book that seems to have a lot of interest! Now we just need to find it a publishing home that can take advantage of all that interest.

Pictured above is me (left) and Michael May (right).