One of my favorite things is to read about the production experiences of making comics from other friends and colleagues in the comics game. Admittedly I am huge special features junky. I watch the making of features on the Lord of the Rings trilogy far more than I do the movies. It gives me that […]
The Longest Road and the Slowest Typewriter Read More »
Last evening I finished coloring and lettering the final page of book 1 in the Adamsville series! It was a really nice moment as I was up chatting with a few cartoonist friends and my wife was in the room with me and we all got to celebrate together. What a journey it has been.
Adamsville Book 1 Is Complete! Read More »
I now have two and half weeks of work and 22 pages left to finish coloring until book 1 is complete in the Adamsville series. For whatever reason the last month of work or so has felt like the LONGEST! Probably just being sleepy, but one of the things with making graphic novels, as opposed
Grinding Down To Finish (How The End Feels The Longest) Read More »
This weekend gave us some fun here in Jacksonville as Tropical Storm Beryl barrelled in to our coast and gave us a good deal of rain, power outages and wind. Where I live things were thankfully uneventful, but it was pretty crazy throughout town. At one point I did wake up in the middle of the
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I was looking through my old rejection letters from the first time I pitched Adamsville, (then just called THE UNKNOWNS) and it was surprising how I felt after looking at those rejections. I wasn’t saddened by them or upset, or discouraged. I enjoy this book series for myself and have enjoyed making it for myself
The Original First Scene From My Pitch For Adamsville & A Word On Failure Read More »
My buddy Christopher Wharton recently had a successful Kickstarter campaign for his upcoming project GIANT! I did a coloring of one of his pages. Check out his comic and let him know how awesome it is!
I recently began thinking through my topics around planning and how to sustain myself as I enter into the final push to finish Adamsville bk 1. It yielded some interesting observations. I noticed that the primary way in which we think through the process of finishing something is to plan like this: I can probably produce
It’s All A Part Of The Plan Read More »
It’s all downhill from here! I have now passed the halfway mark of inking the book and things are moving smoothly enough! I got very busy for a few things at work involving studying for two licenses I need for my day job. Things were going well without it effecting my comics stuff, but then
Past The Halfway Mark! Read More »
Well, I got done about a month faster than I saw myself actually getting done, but chapter 2 of Adamsville is now complete and as it stands I am 53 pages in and 41% totally done on the whole thing. Chapter 3 is 28 pages long and almost fully penciled. I plan to start the
Chapter 2 Is In The Can – Chapter 3 Gearing Up To Kick My Rear Read More »
Here’s a peak at a page from Chapter 2: I’m busy working my way through the colors in chapter 2 and they are coming together really fast. I’m pretty proud of this chapter and the storytelling along with everything else in it. I had done some back and forth recently about releasing this book to
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