Mal Jones

• Got the tumblr site all set up for The Giant War, finally.
• Sketched spot illos for two Giant War pieces.
• Explored data visualization and began design of data visualization needs for client at The Day Job.

Joe has been working on The Great Pacific for a while now, but he needs help getting it over the finishing line. The Kickstarter Fund will be used to help pay his artist, editor, designer, and letterer on the project, which is what Kickstarter is for.

From the Kickstarter page: 

Great Pacific is a full-color sci-fi adventure comic book series set to debut in the US comics market in October 2012….

… Great Pacific tells the story of Chas Worthington, recent heir to one of the richest oil fortunes and most successful corporations in American history. In a defiant act that seems crazy to most and criminal to many, he sheds his former life of wealth and influence to settle the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch, planting his flag and declaring the environmental wasteland a new, sovereign country.

The art is fucking amazing, really, and I’m ashamed to say I didn’t even know the Garbage Path was a real thing.

You can become a backer of the project here.

• Refined type treatments for Client at the Day Job.
• Revised concept art for pitch at the Day Job.

• Spent all night hooking up my Giant War template up to Tumblr. Still not done. Grumble. Grumble.
• Got color type treatments off to a Client at the Day Job.
• Designed about a dozen elements to be implemented on an upcoming site launch at the Day Job.

• Thumbnailed a piece for The Giant War. Probably the first piece that’ll run.
• Thumbnailed another piece that may or may not run on The Giant War. Marc and I haven’t decided yet.
• Worked with Joe to set up a page to support his upcoming Kickstarter project.

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These aren’t the most exciting posts in the world, but the Tally keeps me honest.

• Finished the site template for The Giant War
• Worked with Marc to plan what to kick off The Giant War with.
• Designed form and page elements for a client at The Day Job.

• Started coding the Tumblr theme for The Giant War.
• Emergency CSS tweaks to a project at the Day Job.

• Got the first Giant War piece lettered and up for Marc to see.
• Started coding the Giant War site (It’ll be up on Tumblr at http://thegiantwar.tumblr.com).
• Concept sketches for interesting client project at the Day Job.