The Re-run of Wahoo Morris is over and new pages begin this week.

I’ve got a good head start of close to 40 pages so the story should run through to the end with no more breaks.

When I took on this project, my idea was to draw the story in a 1930’s/40’s newspaper comic strip style. I wanted to go for a cross between Milton Caniff and Roy Crane.

By the time I had done the character designs I’d dropped the idea of ape-ing a specific artists style, but what I kept was the idea of simplifying the facial details a-la Roy Crane and letting my cartoonier aspects out in a way I wouldn’t in a straight adventure strip. I also tried to reign in my Alex Raymond/ Hal Foster influenced inking style and go for a wetter, thicker style like Caniff. I’m not sure how successful I’ve been, but I think I emulated the feel of the era fairly well.

Here’s another sneak peek.

A couple weeks ago I finished up my last storyboard in a long run of consecutive shows. I enjoyed the work (and loved the money!) but by this time last year my comic work progress had pretty much slowed to a crawl.And I’ve had two comic projects on the side during that time.

At long last one of the two projects is getting close to wrapping up. I’m finalizing backgrounds on a 34 page short and I should be done some time next week.

I can’t show much as the project is a ways from coming out, but I can tell you that it is written by Eisner Award-nominated writer Derek McCulloch, is based on the short stories of Damon Runyon, and will be coming out from Image Comics sometime in the near-ish future. It’s a collection of short stories each drawn by a different artist and there are a few more stories to be completed so a release date isn’t available yet.

I can’t say much more than that, but here’s a sneak peak of a few panels  I finished up today.