The Kickstarter closed on June 20th and it was a rousing success!

I had modest hopes going in as I haven’t run one in quite a while, but the campaign had an amazing 277 backers and overfunded by 1100%!

Wow!

If you missed it, it’s not too late. Kickstarter now allows late pledges and the basic pledge levels are still open and accepting pledges.

We passed all the stretch goals I set, so as well as the Comic Book and Artbook, backers who pledged for either version of the comic will also get 4 6×9 art prints.

There was also a Variant Cover unlocked halfway through, but it is now gone. I may have a few left over once the campaign is fulfilled, but it was a limited edition for the campaign only.

I’ve got a lot of work to do this week to get the comic and bonus posters ready for the printer. I’ll post again once the comic has been printed and added to the on-line store!

It’s been an all-consuming thing for the last few weeks, and I’m kind of exhausted, but I’m excited about the possibilities and I’m already starting to think about the next comic release/kickstarter campaign coming this fall!

I drew 3 original stories in ’93.

Story number 2 was a Gothic Vampire story (itself a redraw of an idea I developed and drew one page of 4 years earlier) that never made it past the layout loose pencil stage. I also stopped on page 13 without finishing the story and as I have no layouts or script in my files I imagine I was kind of making it up as I went along. I remember having fun doing it, but it was largely an exercise in doing single source lighting. Lots of extreme shadow and candle light!

I can only assume I moved on to “The Party” (story # 3 that I finished in December of this year) because I wanted samples to get work and figured a retro Gothic horror story wasn’t going to get me work at Marvel or DC, so on to the to the idea with super-hero action in it!

Anyway, I’ve pulled out “The Vampire Story” periodically with the intention of finishing it, most recently the intention was to draw it from scratch using the original as a springboard, but there were a handful of poses I still like even 30 years on. Having finished “The Party” and still not having anything definite to work on I decided to import the original pages into Clip Studio, quickly trace them off, then start moving, cutting and adding.

3 days later I have an expanded 18 page story roughed out, and surprisingly I’ve kept most of the original work though I had to move and resize a lot of it. Though, by the time I finish this will look like a new story even if the idea and some of the layouts/posing are 30 years old!

Next, I have to write a script and do rough lettering and solidifying of the layouts before diving into the full pencils.

More soon!

It took a ridiculously long time in between other projects, but I finished the inks to the new Sîan story this week.

All I need is to draw a cover and this story is ready for release.

Another year with no posts!

Sigh…

Anyway, since I last wrote I finished pencilling the new Sîan story, started inking it, did an alternate cover for an issue of Geek Girl, built a very large shed pretty much by myself, and started inking another series for DC Comics, Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives.

Inking on the Sîan story has slowed down, but I’m a little over halfway and continuing to work on it in between inking pages of Dead Boy Detectives.

Here is the first page in it’s unlettered state for your viewing pleasure.

there’s more to come soon!

An overview shot of the complete 12 page page story!

It’s always satisfying to see a finished story laid out like this. I think I overworked it a little, but I’m calling it done.

This will be the lead story in a to-be-published someday soon-ish 48 page one-shot comic compiling some older short stories of a fantasy/sci-fi theme, some previously published, some unpublished. I’ve got to get back into the mindset of crowdfunding and publishing, but I haven’t felt much urgency of getting this out there as I’m not booked for any conventions yet, and obviously there haven’t been any in a while!

But other than compiling and design details, the main stories are all done. Unless I do something stupid like expand it yet again with something even newer (I do things like that!), I should be announcing it’s impending release in the spring.