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Hey everyone! This weekend I’ll be at New York Comic Con. I’m at table H23 in Artist Alley. Here’s how to find me:
Come by and say hi! Grab yourself some comics. Also, I’ll be on two panels.
Thursday, October 4
4:00-5:00pm The New Comics Publishing Frontier room 1A02
From crowdfunding to webcomics, comiXology Originals and traditional publishing – these days there are so many options to bring your comic to life and out into the world! Looking for tips on what avenue might be right for your comic? Join comiXology and a veteran group of comic professionals – with years of experience across different publishing models – as they share their experiences and hard-won knowledge in a panel no self-starting comics creator can miss!
Sunday, October 7
2:30-3:30pm The Voices of ComiXology Originals
Join a star-studded panel of beloved comic creators and rising-star talent as they discuss in detail their latest comiXology Originals series and graphic novels! They’ll also wow the crowd with stories on the process of bringing creator-owned comics to life and what it’s like pushing the envelope with digital comics, and beyond.
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Page 34 – 38The demon’s name is from the scientific name for a coo coo bird. So I asked for the design to have a beaky looking face with no eyes. Yishan added the fleshy flappy skin. I wanted the monster to be fairly easy to kill this time around because the challenge later is gonna be keeping Joyce away from the fight.page 39 – 42This scene is about upping the ante. The demon maybe hasn’t seemed THAT dangerous up until this point. It hasn’t directly hurt anything but I wanted to show the full implications of putting it’s needs before your own safety. Hense the vampire walking into the sun and burning up. Then immediately after the demon mind controls Joyce, so we got the threat made clear and then it’s directed at a character we care about.page 43 – 47These few pages I tired to build up some brief tension before the reveal of Buffy finding Joyce. Then I wanted Buffy to try and deal with it herself.page 48 – 52These are all kinda dangers in the kitchen that can accidentally get left unattended. It’s a little bit of minor jeopardy before the big fight. I also wanted the demon to be sorta indifferent to Buffy because it only cares about being taken care of. Like it’s not thinking it’s all want. Kina like an actual child 😛page 53 – 63Buffy springs into action. This scene I wanted to make sure while they were restraining Joyce they weren’t hurting her. So Joyce is doing all the damage to the scoobies.One of the fun things about comics is you can do fun things with lettering. I specially suggested the “words” of the spell make ribbons that attack the demon. It’s fun to take advantage of the medium.page 64 – 68If you listen to my podcast with Spike and Amanda (Dirty Old Ladies) I talked a little bit about this scene on the episode of censorship. One of the examples of when censorship is good was in relation to me working on Buffy. The demon has to look monstrous when Buffy fights and kills it because it can’t look like Buffy kills a child when taken out of context. It’s a branding/property protection thing that makes sense and doesn’t really interfere with anything story wise.page 69 – 72Since a lot of the conflict on the personal end of things was Buffy and her Mom so I wanted to end on a nice Buffy and her mom money. Something sweet and it very they ended up getting the mother daughter time Joyce wanted. -
The Better to Find You With page 54 is up.
If you’d like to read the comic pages early click here! Right now page 58 is up
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Hey everyone! My new Drip is up!
What’s Drip you ask? it’s a subscription service to help support indy artists. It’s owned by Kickstarter so if you have a kickstarter account you don’t have to make a new account/reenter payment stuff. I’ve set up different payment levels where you can get more and more cool stuff each month.
At $1 a month, I’ll be posting pages of [Super]Natural Attraction every Monday starting October 22nd. [Super]Natural Attraction is a episodic digital comic with a dark sense of humor. It’s inspired by a love of the paranormal and reverse-harem shojo manga (such as Ouran Host Club). Originally it was funded on Kickstarter. But it’s moving to Drip.
I’m the writer. Kara Leopard is drawing. Whitney Cogar is coloring.
[Super]Natural Attraction is:
Persephone was about start her second year of college, when she was tragically killed in a hit and run. Luckily, her eccentric med-student roommate have found a way to “fix” her. She is now returned from the dead with only a few scars as proof it of the incident.
However, her unique situation allows her to find out her school campus is full of vampires, werewolves, demons, witches, satyrs, and every magical creature from legend. No one else can see their true nature. This makes her a curiosity to the whole new found community and a useful tool to the local monster hunter looking for proof.
At $5 a month, you can read pages of The Better to Find You With a month early. I’ll also be posting pages of You are the Chosen One as I work on it. If you don’t know about You are the Chosen One, it’s a fantasy story about 23 children who are told they are the Chosen One destined to stop a Dark Power. You watch as each kid tries to purpose that destiny of saving the world.
At $6 a month, you can be the first to read the next The City Between comic, The Dead Deception. This level is for a limited time and only for people who back in the first 30 days. Here’s a look at The Dead Deception:
In a futuristic world, Detective Maria Pimienta’s new partner is Connor Burke, the first and only open werewolf detective. Maria’s coworkers warn her about the job’s dangerous nature, and how Connor’s partners have a tendency to get injured on the job. None of those injuries are proven to be his fault, but seven partners ending up on disability pay is a lot to ignore.
Now a man has been murdered by a unusually strong teenager girl. Connor’s theory about the case is inconsistent, and he dismisses her at every turn. Maria starts to wonder if the man who’s supposed to have her back is hiding something… something that might have knocked his previous partners out of the field.
At $10 a month, you can have a cameo in the background of my comics. Basically when ever there is a crowd scene in any comic, I’ll draw you in.