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...

Page 21

Just one more page to go...

Page 20

So close. So close.

This one actually took longer than it looks. I had to re-work my thumbnails. I could tell that when I was doing my thumbnails I rushed the last few - denoting areas 'to be resolved later'. Well... I guess today it was officially 'later'.

Page 19

I finally feel like I'm in the home stretch of finishing the pencils on this story... Only 3 more pages to go. I'm not getting as much done during spring break as I thought. As long as I finish these pencils and get started in finishing them before the new quarter starts, I think I'll be happy. My goal is to be able to do a book every quarter (at least 4 full books a year). Once things get more settled here in the new house it'll go smoother - plus I'm still finding my place at work - lots of class prep and what have you. That'll dwindle down soon enough.