While there are a few (like maybe one or two) editors who’ve not definitively responded to the Count of Monte Cristo graphic novel proposal I’d been working on a month or two ago, it looks like it’s time to consider it officially dead in the water–or at least, “shelved” for the time being. I’m continuing… Continue reading »
Jun
17
Interview at ALA’s Good Comics for Kids Blog
Among the many great folks I had a chance to hang out with a few weeks back at Heroes Con 2010 was Snow Wildsmith, a regional librarian (Mooresville, NC) and blogger for the American Library Association’s Good Comics for Kids site. She did an interview with me on the show floor about all-ages GNs and… Continue reading »
Apr
01
Sketchbook 3/31
Up top here is a possible design for Mercedes from The Count of Monte Cristo project, and down below are two possible designs for a bartender in Oyster War.
Feb
19
Sketchbook 2/19
…And yet a few more Count of Monte Cristo sketches, this time of Haydee. She’s a character who often gets cut, or at least diminished, in film/TV versions but I’d definitley find a way to keep her front and center if possible. I’m not really happy with either of these designs, but you gotta start… Continue reading »
Feb
18
Sketchbook 2/18
Yet more noodling on The Count of Monte Cristo–this time, The Count himself. The main thing I’m going for here is to (unlike any film or TV version I’ve seen) really play up the Orientalist nature of the book, and The Count in particular. I don’t know that these two images do that entirely, but… Continue reading »
Feb
12
Sketchbook 2/12
More sketchbook ruminations on character designs from The Count of Monte Cristo. This time it’s Fernand, shown here on the left as the young Fernand Mondego, and on the right as “The Count de Morcerf,” a title he purchases with ill-gotten spoils of war.
Feb
08
Sketchbook 02/08
I don’t know if anything will come of this Count of Monte Cristo thing, but it’s at least something fun to work on in my sketchbook. This is another rumination on the character of Danglars (shown young and old here), who hits me as a real nouveau riche type who would probably be decked out… Continue reading »
Jan
15
Count of Monte Cristo 5-Page Sample – Complete
Well, here it is: the five finished pages of The Count of Monte Cristo I’ve been tinkering with on and off for a bit. If this ever became a real Count of Monte Cristo graphic novel project, I’d likely hand-letter it (or at least get a font made of my hand lettering) but for purposes… Continue reading »
Jan
09
Count of Monte Cristo: Finished Inks
These sample pages for The Count of Monte Cristo are still coming along, albeit somewhat slowly. One thing I really like about small projects like this five-pager is that they give me the opportunity to try out new process tricks that I’d not really be willing to commit to for a bigger project without some… Continue reading »
Dec
13
Count of Monte Cristo – Pencil Roughs
I’ve had a bit of time to move ahead on these Count of Monte Cristo pages I’ve been working on just for fun. I took my very rough thumbnails from the last iteration of this project and turned them all into 15% cyan blue via threshold –> fill in Photoshop, then I work over those… Continue reading »