I drew some lady character art here for a desert wanderer lady. With a bug helmet. Hopefully that will make a lot more sense in the future. The fuuuutttuuuurrreee

I drew a monkey man. His name is Captain Bonobo.

And I would like to share him with you.

I’m still trying to peg down a style for this comic, it’s definitely more cartoony than the work I’ve been doing lately. I’m trying to get back to my roots I guess, weird animals and people with simpler shapes.

I’m also working up a site redesign now, so expect some changes to the homestead soon enough.

The 100 Days project was a total success! I’ve got a tally down at the bottom listing all the stuff I got accomplished during the period and though I only got 1 completed comic out, the amount of scripting and prep work I did for my other projects is insane to me. It also gave me some real focus to which projects needed to get attention and which ones could go to the backburner. I’ve already decided that the next 100 Days project I do will involve a lot more artwork, since posting lengthy character descriptions and hacked up outlines is pretty much boring.

I do have a little news for those of you following Mourning Electric. I’ve decided to take it down a different avenue heading for print. After getting reactions at SDCC, it just felt like a webcomic was not the right format. I’ll keep the Zuda entry up forever, but the new version of the script is being tailored for a book.

To take the place of ME, I’m developing the other project that was originally headed toward Zuda, Vapor Trails. Keep an eye out for that soon (first picture posts tomorrow).

So without further ado (and broken up by project so it’s actually readable):

THE 100 DAYS TALLY

Pins N Needles:

Issues 01-03 written
Issue 01 – thumbnailed and in the middle of pencils
Pitch packet at 30% completion

Mourning Electric:

Short story finished and posted
New Script – 21 Pages
Story outlines done

Vapor Trails:

Script – Chapter 1 complete – 33
Character/Vis Dev Art (to be posted tomorrow)
Short script completed

I also wanted to talk a little about the whole Zuda closure and how it affected my work and this project. Scroll down past said big ass picture and click on the Keep Reading link for wall-of-text ranting! YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO KNOW, IT’S IN YOUR RACY NATURE.

Click to read the original submission!

Man, what do I say about this? I want to take a minute here and just explain how this whole thing played out.

So let’s talk about this project. I’ll do a post on influences and development later, suffice to say there was a lot of music involved. ME started sometime in the middle of September 2009, when I was trying to figure out what to work on. I knew I wanted to do a weekly and I was itching, like many, for another run at the Zuda deal. So I started work on it and finished over the course of the next couple months, pretty standard stuff. In the middle of it I realized that even if Zuda didn’t want it, I still wanted to do it. I really like this story a lot.

So I turned it in at the end of November, maybe the first week of December, I can’t quite remember. At that point, I knew it would be a wait so I sunk into some celebration. I did what I think a lot of newer creators do, and I didn’t work on anything for a while. That’s the thing I regret most now, but hey, you gotta learn sometime right?

And then the 3 months came up, I saw other comics that I knew had been submitted after mine coming into the competition. I figured, well they’re just looking for the right place for my comic now, it’s not right for the current competition. I sent a few emails to their feedback form to make sure my sub hadn’t gotten lost like some others I’ve known, but I never got a response. Right around February, I started getting antsy, but I wanted to be patient. That’s something that has to be expected in a business like this, with so much material going through so few people.

I had decided to let things ride with Zuda to see where it went. In the meantime, I started up another comic with a friend in the hopes for another contest entry. It was a fantasy/sci-fi thing based on a really old comic of mine. It was right in the middle of that that I found out about the competition end. They told us they were reviewing submissions in the queue, and I believe they did just that. But it meant another 3 months of waiting to see if mine would make it through to their new format.

Obviously, as with so many other really amazing entries, it did not.

And now I’m left knowing exactly what I knew 6 months ago. Mourning Electric needs its own site. It needs to be mine and mine alone, broken free of the Zuda format, the need for ultra-compressed storytelling. It needs to be its own comic.

So I’m hard at work on the new script, I’ll be redoing the pages in a new book-style format that will allow for more decompressed storytelling.

I appreciate the hard work of the Zuda staff and I’m definitely sad to see them abandon their efforts in such a hasty manner, but I want to thank them for giving me and so many great creators the inspiration to get moving on those projects they’d been sitting on. I hope you keep all em comin.

As a special treat, I’ve also decided to post the original Zuda submission that I did way back when. It will be up later today when I get the pages setup.

COMIC UPDATE!
Go read the new pages!.

Click the picture to read the newest pages!

Thanks everyone for reading, stay tuned for more Mourning Electric!

100 DAYS TALLY – END OF DAY 66
PNN Issue 01 – Layouts – Pg 1-8
Mourning Electric – New script – pg 1-14

The 100 Days project continues on unabated, for the most part. The last few days have been full of writing for the most part, with little time to put pictures on paper. That’s what Lindsey’s for right?

COMIC UPDATE!
Pages 9-12 are available today, with 4 pages being posted next Wednesday and the one after that. Go check it out!.

Click the picture to read!

Make sure to check back next Wednesday for the exciting continuation!

100 DAYS TALLY – END OF DAY 59
GBM – Scripts for 66
PNN Issue 03 Script – completed
PNN Issue 04 Script – p1-3 and some plotting

As many have already noted, this week marked the closing out of Zuda’s slush pile and I was among that group. It’s an unfortunate thing, but one I was well-prepared for. I wish them luck on whatever it is they’re going to be doing. After waiting 7 months for a reply, I had pretty much assumed that Mourning Electric would not be continuing on as a weekly with DC.

However, that means I can do pretty much whatever I want with it, so it’s going to be getting it’s own site. I’m working on getting a back-stock of pages finished for it so that I can release it this fall before Long Beach.

Pages 5-8 are available today, with 4 pages being posted next Wednesday and the one after that. Go check it out!.

Click the picture to read!

Make sure to check back next Wednesday for the exciting continuation!

100 DAYS TALLY – END OF DAY 53
GBM – Scripts for 63-65
PNN Issue 02 Script – first draft done
PNN Issue 03 Script – p1-14

Now then, go on and take a gander at the comic. Pages 1-4 are available today, as the subject implies, with 4 pages being posted every Wednesday until July 7th (total of 16 pages for you kids keeping score at home).

Click the picture to read!

I’ve also taken the liberty of redoing my Comics page for easier access. Take a peek!

Make sure to check back next Wednesday for the exciting continuation!

100 DAYS TALLY – END OF DAY 46
Mourning Electric side story – complete!
GBM 60-62 finished
PNN Issue 02 Script – 10 pages

But enough talkin, you came here for close up teaser pictures of comics right? My first pass of inks are below, no spot blacks yet.

100 DAYS TALLY – END OF DAY 27
Mourning Electric side story – Pencils done
ME side story – Inks – up to page 6 and some of 7 & 8

Note the abstract artwork going on around my ink well, i could probably sell it for more than my comics to some guy in New York

Here Jacob sardonically points at a Wave screen. Also I forgot to ink Molly’s eyebrows

Jacob, having some emotions. This was a very line-weight intensive page so it took a while to get through

A moment of confusion and shame, another heavy line weight page