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Digital art fascinates me. I usually work in traditional media, such as pencils, multiliners, copic markers, coloured pencils, watercolour, and gouache. I use apps on my phone to manipulate my drawings, making alpha layers and background layers, and scaling and making panels. Then I transfer to my laptop and use Photoshop to build pages and…
My mother was born in a small village in Guanajuato Mexico. Her mother was dirt poor even by 1930’s Mexico standards, which is really saying something. Her father had died before she was born. He was trying to catch a ride on a bus. It was one of those old-fashioned buses with the standing platforms…
BOB’s creator Lance was so excited about the upcoming launch, he couldn’t wait until the book was out to start cosplaying as one of its characters. Come on, what else would you do if you created your own comic book character?! Sure, it may have creeped out his neighbors, but his enthusiasm has given us…
Well, we doubt the rest of responsible America will be much cheered, but for us personally, there’s at least one silver lining to Trump’s winning the election this year: our new comic isn’t going to seem so dated. When we began writing BOB: NON-UNION PSYCHIC # 1 last year, Trump hadn’t even clinched the…
Let’s start at the very beginning. You’ll need to know a little bit of lingo associated with Comicbook illustration. This will help you find more tutorials, locate books and videos to help you along your journey Here is a simple list of terms you’ll need to know: Pencils - Comicbook illustrators and the industry at…
I lived through Katrina. I’m not saying that in a boastful way. I didn’t live in the city, I was across the lake on the Northshore. My home had minimal damage. I didn’t lose any loved ones in the storm. There were a lot of people that had it a lot worse than I did…
I just got back from the Tennessee Comic Con. That’s the second convention I’ve been to since we’ve started posting pages for Ayla. So I think it’s time to talk about the language in Ayla. You know what I’m talking about. The swear words. A sidebar but important in the scheme of things. Anyone that…
There is an ending. Ayla is created to be an ongoing serial. But I’m writing the series in stories that stand by themselves. Each story will connect to the next one, much like a novel in an adventure or mystery thriller will feed off the ones before it. So each story will have a beginning…
Ayla’s title, actually her job description, Speaker for the Dead comes from the tv show Homicide: Life on the Street based on the non fiction book by David Simon. Simon went on to later create The Wire and Treme (which also has a connection with us as it told the story of New Orleans after…
There were two things driving me in the creation of this series at the start. First, there was the title “Speaker for the Dead.” (And yes I know all about the science fiction series by Orson Scott Card, a series I once loved but would rather not get into reasons for not loving it now.…
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