I did a drawing! Dinosaurs didn’t tend to get old, but if they did they’d probably’ve looked a bit like this.
THE MUTILATED DEAD: DEVELOPMENT
This was my second comic. My first, Paralysis, was all about the atmosphere and the plot, so there was a lot of talking and grim faces. For this, I wanted all-out violence and a completely different setting. So, Indians attacking a train! The artwork is by Roy Huteson Stewart, an insanely ace British artist. I wanted the comic to be black and white initially - that and its short length were a money-saving measure and to just get something done super-fast - but Roy’s colour work was so amazing I thought, “Fuck it.” I also tried my hand at lettering for the first time on this (not as easy as it sounds!). I love how the comic looks, though I think my script is a bit wonky. Tried to cram too much into too few pages, definitely. Great experience though, and the art is ridiculously cool. Love how he nailed the texture of Old West photos. I have a big poster of page 11 on my wall at home!
A ROPE AROUND YOUR BROKEN NECK: PAGE DEVELOPMENT
My third comic, after The Mutilated Dead (which I’ll post bits for soon), A Rope Around Your Broken Neck was another crack at Gothic stuff. The comic had two artists: R. Ricardo and Nicolas Brondo. Ricardo was an awesome Brazilian dude who had done a lot of adult comics. He had to drop out after doing all the pencils and half of the inks, so I asked Nicolas, an ace Argentinian artist, to jump in and complete the comic. I did the lettering myself in Photoshop. It took about a year all told from the beginning of the artwork phase to being print-ready. Receiving awesome artwork of shit that absolutely dominated my brain for up to a year at a time was seriously badass. I miss that little paperclip next to my emails! Anyway, hope you dig the artwork! You can read A Rope Around Your Broken Neck for free as a .pdf file if you click on the comics section.
PARALYSIS: PAGE DEVELOPMENT
Thought it would be fun to post a step-by-step account of the art process on some of my comics. Paralysis was my first comic, so it was especially exciting when I saw that little paperclip next to an email from the artist, J.C. Grande. Above is the progression from character concept art to a thumbnail sketch and then right through pencils to the final inked, greyed, and lettered page. He did an awesome job. I find the script a bit clumsy now, but just getting something down and printed was brilliant fun.
