Chaaarge!

Working on pages for Doug Hahner’s MY GEEK FAMILY, a slice of life comic about a day in the life of his geeky family. It’s a sweet comic, and it’s going to be fun to draw. Like this page. 

Whoa-oh, We’re Halfway There.

Page 22 of my limited series webcomic went up recently.

http://www.grayhavencomics.com/2012/08/01/the-legend-of-tanin-chapter-21/

We’re coming up to the end of act 2 pretty soon. I hope you’re enjoying it, and hopefully I’m back to updating this blog regularly.

Legend Of Tanin

I hope you’re reading my little webcomic on the Gray Haven website.

http://www.grayhavencomics.com/category/webcomic/legend-of-tanin/

And I hope you’re enjoying it. I drew a 1pg non-canonical comic featuring the Pebble because a couple people seem to really like this character, and asked for it. So, to show my thanks for the support, here it is. Hope you find it entertaining.

Thanks for reading!

Apocolypse Bunny

1 March was, for some reason, dubbed “creator owned day”. The idea was that you were supposed to create your own character, draw it, and post it online. Fun idea, until everyone decided NOT to do it. The only people who mentioned the day also mentioned how every day is creator owned day for them. The other half of the people who mentioned it just recommended creator owned books to read.

Well, I did it. I decided I wanted to do a riff on the TORTOISE & THE HARE story set to the backdrop of bullet car racing. Then I remembered Skottie Young’s APOCOLYPSE BUNNY.

http://www.skottieyoung.com/2011/08/finding-end-part-2-happy-accidents.html

I just find the idea of it adorable, and fun to draw.

So, my tortoise went from being a rookie racer going up against the veteran badass Bunny racer to a 400yr old Tortoise with a mounted rotary gun on his shell that remembers the “old times”.

It was fun to sketch out, so I drew it.

Farmer Boy Page 9

Farmer Boy Page 8

Cartoonists On Youtube

Some great videos I “recently” found.

Dave Gibbons teaches you more than just how to use a cintiq.

Four videos of Jeff Smith teaching you how to make comics from beginning to finish. When he starts inking, make sure you’re watching closely.

And, the reason “recently” is in quotes above, because I’m sure i’ve posted these next vids before, but who can’t get enough of Doug TenNapel talking about making comics?

Farmer Boy Page 7

Closer look at our hero.

Progress

Bit of a run down on the projects I have going, have planned, and have finished.

Graphic Novels:
BREAKDOWN – 300+ page book. Written. Briefly on hold while I finish the following mini-comics. Once done with those, this becomes my sole focus save for the occasional short (less than 10pgs) story.

BLACKIE – Being written. Waiting to finish Breakdown because this will be another hefty book clocking in with over 200 pages.

Mini-comics:
HELLHOUNDS ON MY TRAIL – 85% done. Once the art is finished, I’ll be “editing” it, and redrawing pages that might need to be redone considering the sometime gaps between working on pages.

BOSTON STRONGBOY – Finished. In the process of scanning and putting together a PDF for sale soon.

MY GEEK FAMILY – Written by Doug Hahner, and penciling has started. It’ll be 26 pages, and printed by Gray Haven Comics once it’s done. It’ll probably be available digitally as well, but that’s up to them.

FERNANDIDO e BARTOLOMEO – Needs to be written. Waiting until the other mini-comics are finished before beginning this. Most likely it will be inkwashed, which is why I want to make sure to just be focusing on this.

SHORT STORIES COLLECTION – Ongoing. Each short story will be available for free digitally, and eventually collected (once I get about 100pgs worth) into a digital book with some unseen shorts done specifically for the book.

Webcomics:
FARMER BOY – Written. Currently drawing and updating one page every Friday. It should end up being 50-60 pages and take the entire year to finish. Once done, it’ll be collected in a digital book with extra materials.

THE LEGEND of TANIN – Currently updating on http://www.grayhavencomics.com every week. I assume the site will collect the story into a mini-comic. If not, I’ll definitely be collecting it as a digital book for sale once it’s complete. The book will have plenty more material than being put on the site.

The Legend of Tanin

Two new pages went up today on the Gray Haven website.

http://www.grayhavencomics.com/2012/02/15/legend-of-tanin-chapter-2/

Be sure to check out the rest of the site for some more fun comics, too.

Here’s an image I did for fun yesterday, for the series. Intended as an ad (of sorts) just to post here, or to include when it eventually collects. I wanted to include some text that sort of encapsulates the story and felt this poem did it better than I ever could.

I hope you’ll enjoy where I’m going with this story as much as I’m enjoying making it. Most of the work I do tends to be based on history, gloomy, and set in the real world. THE LEGEND of TANIN is a complete change and forcing me to use my limited imagination.

It’s totally fun.