Queer Fantasy and Weird Tales for the People
I am delighted to inform you that I am exactly one page ahead. I’ll be working on increasing that lead over the next couple of weeks.
Things are about to get Bad for our protagonist, so have some looming disaster below the cut:
Continue reading “Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 15”I finished a page, and it’s still regular business hours!
I’m going to be trying to build up a backlog over the next couple of weeks. That will mean a) I’ll get this thing done in a somewhat more reasonable time frame and b) I can stick to the posting schedule with fewer interruptions.
You will find this page below the cut:
Continue reading “Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 14”This page has eight panels. This may be too many.
Onward and forward:
Continue reading “Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 13”I promised you a page on Friday, and you will get a page on Friday!
You may find it below:
Continue reading “Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 12”Photoshop only crashed twice on this page! Progress!
Large image below the cut:
Continue reading “Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 11”Total number of times Photoshop crashed while I worked on this page: 5
Times Photoshop crashed, taking Windows out with it, while I worked on this page: 3
I learned an important lesson about saving one’s work frequently.
On to the page!
Continue reading “Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 10”As usual, I’m the proverbial day late and dollar short, but here it is! This concludes the first chapter. We’ll do bonus art next Tuesday, and the next page (starting the next chapter) should be out next Friday.
Now I’m off to make pie.
Continue reading “Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 9”So it begins!
To avoid gumming up your scrolling with a huge image, I’ll put it below the cut:
Continue reading “Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 1”
I’ve finished sketching the layout of every page. The art and science of comics is to guide the reader’s eye in the correct direction, ensuring they pause where the pacing needs to slow and move quickly when it needs to speed up. We’ll see how well I managed when I start drawing.
I guess I have to start drawing now. It’s intimidating, but I did this all to myself.
I’ll be working on a new and improved title, as well. I’ll be back with more updates when I have them.
Quaker City Night Hawks, “Some of Adam’s Blues”
Good morning!
I didn’t have any comic updates last week–so sorry! Friday got away from me. I’ll have something for you this Friday. The script is coming along, but it’s already way longer than I had planned. I was hoping everything I wanted to get to in the first issue would fit in the standard 22-24 pages, but I’ve hit that number in my script already, and I have several more scenes to get through.
I just have to remember that I’m doing this by myself, for the first time, armed only with a drawing tablet, Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics (plus a lot of online resources and some of my favorite comics), and a dream, so it’s a learning process.
On Wednesday, I’ll have the latest episode of The Well Below the Valley up here for free reading. I’m an episode ahead of you right now, and I think we’ll have one or two more to finish this first arc (corresponding to Part One of the Call of Cthulhu module).
This month, I’m going on a Tiny Book Tour! I’ll be stopping at Story Keepers Books in West Allis, WI on Thursday, March 13 (5:30-7), and at Studio Moonfall in Kenosha, WI on Friday, March 28 (4-7). I hope you can come to either or both! At Story Keepers, I’ll be doing a reading and a Q&A session, while the Studio Moonfall event is more casual. In either case, I will be signing books (and you can pick up some copies if you need them) and hanging out to talk about whatever readers want to talk about.
I think that’s all for today. I’ll have more petitions next week. Thanks for reading, and stop by again!
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