NDIB-Pencil Page 8

Gamera Raph tries to comfort a sullen Casey in the Dan Berger-written story "Nobody Does It Better". NDIB will be Tales of the TMNT 60, due out in July.

First Fire of the Year

I'm busy pencilling Tales 60 right now and needed something to blog about. This past weekend my family and I went to this new year's first fire. More during the nicer weather, I have a small group of close friends and we all sorta seem to take turns hosting little fire-gathering events. This one, the annual winter party, took place this past weekend at my friends Bill and Rochelle's house. It featured ice fishing and beef stew, mac and cheese, chili and 16 bean soup along with the obligatory hamburgs and hot dogs.
Yeah, it was cold but it heralds the warmer weather that's hopefully on it's way.

Birthday Card

Yeah, today's my birthday. I was kinda hoping not to acknowledge it but I got this card and it kicked ass so bad that I just had to post it.
Thanks Arseniy-

Thumbnails

This is kinda a follow-up to the post that I made earlier this week, where I talked about scripts. Thumbnails/breakdowns are the step that follows the scripting stage. The timing is good, as my student Maddi and I are at this point now. Her script is in a near finished state and I emailed her yesterday with a brief explanation about how I do my thumbnails and included the example that I am using for this post. These 2 pages are from the upcoming Don mini. In a very rough form, they show the panels and within them the placement of characters. Also, at this time I try to include some idea about what I want the dialogue to be. Once the book is laid out, we can see what each page will look like and make changes to the story or visuals if we decide it's needed.

Two Caseys

Last week I posted about how I was asked if the studio guys and myself would like to do a Casey jam drawing. Dan and I were the only ones to agree to sign on although I'm still working on Pete. I knew Berger would do a totally kick-ass job and he definitely did not disappoint. Here it is so far-

Scripts

Daniel had a suggestion that folks might be interested in seeing what it looks like, when a comic is written. So, for this post, I've scanned 2 examples of scripts that have been given to me.
Pete's is the first. In my experience, what he has always done is he has type-written 3 or 4 pages of story, and from that I'll go ahead and do my thumbnails. As you can see at this point, I know very little about what the actual dialogue will be. The scenes that I draw are more or less situational, rather than knowing what the actual exchange between characters is.


Murph is somewhat different. He will give me the actual panel count per page and often tells me what he wants shown in each panel, sometimes even with a little thumbnail of his own. Dialogue has been written to a finished, or near finished state. The book that I'm starting to pencil today is written by Berger and he writes in a form very similar to Murphy. This form of writing would be considered more industry standard, I'm figuring.
Either way, from here I'll proceed and go to breakdowns/thumbnails.

Paleo: Loner, Page 8

This past week, I've been in between books. I took this time to work on my Paleo project, and have now gotten the first 13 pages finished.