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We’re five weeks in at The Giant War. If you’re following the story on Tumblr, do me a favor and like this post. I just want to see how is actively out there.
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By SPX this year, District Comics will be out.
An anthology put together by Matt Dembicki, District Comics is filled with stories all about Washington, DC by a variety of creators. I tossed my hat in the ring (of course) and got paired up with Scott Brown.
Now! What makes this interesting for you, my lovely readers, is that Scott Brown published all my early comics work (Overtime, The Passenger, some shorts, other things you will never see again cause oh-my-god the art) from about 2000 to 2005.
He was a huge supporter of my comics work and always pushed me to do better. We fell out of touch after a bit, but cue seven years later and we’re together again.
The story is Burn, Washington, Burn, a telling of the British’s march on Washington during the War of 1812. There will be more art when I’m allowed to show it, but there are some thumbnails in the meantime.
Did you know that there was a massive Potomac River tributary that used to cut right through downtown over by the Mall? This city was basically a giant, gross, swamp pit… I guess that much hasn’t changed.
I love history.
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Yesterday Marc Bryant and I launched The Giant War, a new webcomic we’re updating every Monday.
From the description on the site:
The concept is simple. One day humanity woke up to find themselves the second most dominant form of life on the planet. As insects are to man, humankind is to the Giants. What are they? Where did they come from? What do they want? No one knows and no one cares. The only question is, how do we make it through one more day?
It’s the first long form comic project Marc and I have worked on since the The Card Cheat pitch a few years back. We have both hit a point, creatively, where we just needed to get out of our own way and out of our comfort zone.
There is no ongoing storyline (besides Giants show up. World fucked.). Instead each week the update is a small snippet, a moment in the The Giant War world.
Sometimes it’ll be a comic, some times illustrated text, and we even have plans for some audio episodes. The art will shift a bit too… sometimes it’ll really stink, sometimes I’ll knock it out of the park. The whole thing is one long experiment in fun for Marc and I, and we hope you enjoy watching it unfold.
Scene number two that Marc and I put together for The Card Cheat pitch. I used a slightly modified classic comic coloring palette (84 colors or whatever) that Ray put together a while ago.
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About a year and a half ago or so, Marc and I pitched The Card Cheat around to some folks. It didn’t get picked up anywhere, but I’m still proud of the work we did in the pitch.
Since Tumblr only let’s you upload 10 images at at time I’ve broken the art up in to a couple of posts. Here’s the first of two scenes we did for the book. We ended up thumbnailing the whole thing and doing character designs for all major characters as well.
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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.
We are having a release party for Magic Bullet #4!
Magic Bullet is a FREE newspaper-sized comics anthology put out by D.C. Conspiracy, a group of local comics creators.
So come celebrate the newest issue with us on Saturday, March 3! Many of the contributors will be there, original…
