A Rainy Day...

It's raining pretty hard here in Savannah as we wait on Trpoical Storm Andrew to arrive. He doesn't seem to be that special so far...







This rain reminds me of the monsoon season in Tucson.







Alright, I've got to get back to working on finishing my book.

Round One - Editing

I've finished with the first round of inking. Actually I finished on thursday, but have been busy with other stuff since then. I'm now going thru and finishing up drawing, correcting mistakes, etc. This shouldn't take too long. I'm putting my school stuff on the back-burner for the rest of the week while I finish this book up and start my next one.

I will however have to go to work tomorrow - since after spreading these pages out I realize that I left a page on the copier at work...

Five new pages.

Today was my first day off. I was able to get five more pages inked. I haven't scanned them yet, but I will tomorrow. I've put a better more 'official' image linking to my new story in the 'comics' section - just over to your right.

Comic!

I'm putting this link up here really quick. These pages are in the rough stage - no clean up yet.


Click here to read pages from One Cloud Gets Lonely.

Inked Pages.

I'm in the process of inking the pages and finishing up this book. I want to post them in order - but in a format that's actually readable. I'm not sure how I'm going to do that yet...

The Family Chicken!

Here's Kristie's new website!
The Family Chicken
http://thefamilychicken.net

Lettering!

So I haven't quit working on the book, it's just not a particularly exciting part of the process (unless you really like hand-lettering - as I do).

I have finished lettering the book (all 22 pages). I still have to ink the pages - at which point I will also do the word balloons and panel borders (jobs usually associated with the lettering stage).

The trained eye will note the following: David is drawing his comic pages slightly smaller than the standard 11x17. The curtains featured in the studio are TMNT and The Real Ghostbusters. That's an adorable Tomy solar powered bobble-head. Although he keeps a copy of Wally Woods "22 Panels that Always Work" on his desk David rarely uses it.


You may also note that David has almost all of Luc Besson's "Adventure et decouverte d'un film" books (lacking only 'Atlantis' and 'Subway'). He also subscribes to Giant Robot - a magazine that never fails to inspire him on at least some level. (on a side note he also subscribes to the Comic Journal, National Geographic, Following Cerebus, Newsweek, and sadly enough Entertainment weekly.)

Kristie has been working super hard on her website (a fancy feat of Dreamweavership if ever there was one). It'll be done soon.



I'm also finally getting around to putting this picture of the official plush PillowHead up here. It's from Mr. Patrick in Tucson (not to be confused with San Fran Patrick). I will never be able to sew as good as this, ever. It's pretty fancy, indeed.

Anywho, now I've got ink all this funny book mess...

Big Mama and Jimmy.

In Graduate Sequential Studio my students have a one-day one-page project to connect two random photographs. Afterwords all the comics and photographs will be collected together into a joint narrative. Nothing complex or difficult, but usually pretty fun.

Here's my contribution to the project - linking an image of a pool-player named Big Mama and a weepy school-boy named Jimmy.














Here are the original photographs.

YardBird Watchin'

Here are three pages that I pounded out tonight in a few hours. It is for the Fluke festival anthology.

Page 22.

Here's the last penciled page. I've still got to letter and ink them all... That'll take a little while now that I've started teaching again. I know I didn't get as much done during my break as I had hoped, but I think I did pretty good. My goal is to be able to put out 4 books a year.

I'm teaching a new class. There's also a bit of drama at work, which makes me very unsettled...