Crow and Raven Original Sketch

 

Looking through old scans I found my original Sketchbook page for The Crow and The Raven. Just sat down at starbucks and wrote it, I wrote the text originally to entertain myself but decided to include it as text-to-speech. I cut this up to make the animatic, then made the full size assets in my sketchbook and made the finished video after about 18 editing iterations.

Bob Dole's Fantastic Halloween Wishes

 

My halloween costume from 1996, my friend was bill clinton. Still a handy mask to have around, featured prominently in “He Who Must Be Obeyed Sets Zealot About a Particular Tasque” and the end of “Winter’s Magical Graspe”

Compressing Red and the Wolfe

 

Using every trick I could think of I finally got Red and the Wolfe small enough to please the kindle publishing thing. I put in 300 megs of Jpgs and it poops out a 600+ meg file... what the hell is it doing with all that space? It saves a redundant dump of all the files I put into it in the save folder... So I have no idea. Now I just have to tediously outline every panel for the guided view. I thought about just using the auto-detect because it is really funny at how terrible it is, mostly just making one tiny box per page, but I guess I wont. You’d think... that the THICK BLACK BOARDERS I used would help it out, but it just seems to confuse it.

Red and the Wolfe scales

 

Looking through my Red and the Wolfe folder found a scale comparison from preproduction. Also does anyone who reads comics on smart devices use the panel-by-panel view? I think I’d prefer page-by-page but I guess on a phone that wouldn’t work.

Catgirl Body Rot

 

Made a Body Rot! My dad gave me a sheet of LM386 chips he had laying around and this is one of about a half dozen effects I’ve made with them; including the amp I’m currently using. Wanted to do a catgirl on this, make it stand out from all the gore I decorated my other pedals with.

Zealot redux

 I remembered not liking my illustrations for the last few panels of the zealot and went back to change them only to find out I already had! But I changed a few anyway because I still didn’t like them. And I’m a huge george lucas fan and love all the horrible changes he made to add terrible 90s CGI to a 70s movie to embetter it. Hopefully some day all original classic movies will be destroyed and remade with the power of tone deafness and CGI.

Kindle test

 

Trying to get 7 gigs of PDFs pared down 650 megs so I can publish Red as one book and not separate chapters. Kindle’s publishing software seems to double whatever size a thing I put in it for some reason, so I’m trying to shoot for 300.

Red and the Wolfe on Kindle

 

Red and the Wolfe is moving to Kindle as Amazon slowly consumes and digests ComiXology. I’m not sure how the merger works exactly except that I have to republish through KDP and if you already have it on ComiXology it will still be available through the app, you just won’t be able to buy it through them. It also means hopefully there will be a print version, which I am eager to see!

Chemicalmen

 

Tom the Tentacle