Cover

I've hit a bit of wall after working flat out to get the comic done for the End of the Line Festival.  I'm taking a short break then getting into the Mashups bible, in the meantime here is the cover.

The Case of the Gibbering Gibbons

Earning your Stripes

Sketchup is a comic artists best friend

From Dylan Teague's Blog: dylansdrawingboard.blogpsot.com

Sketchup is a free, fully featured and easy to use 3D program which is an absolutely lifesaver for artists trying to get perspective to look right.  There is also a large catalogue of free models so it you are like me and can't draw cars and buildings, it is worth spending some time learning how to do the basics.

http://www.sketchup.com/

ImageTexT, Journal of Comics Studies

ImageTexT (mind the funky spelling) is an open journal focusing on comics and sequential art.  This is a good starting point for people wanting to look further into the theory of comics and their social impact.  They also have a good news feed which is angled towards the US but has some interesting events.

Their site blurb says:

ImageTexT is a peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of comics and related media. We are published by the English Department at the University of Florida with support from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Our content is available free of charge, and regular issues of ImageTexTwill be published three times per year.

I hope to be adding all kinds of open comics studies links to this blog as I go, to emphasise that The Mashups is not just about me touting my comics, but about the indie comics community.

MK V1.1

Slow and steady

I'm kicking off the Mashups project with a short 6 page story on each of the 3 stories.  First up is MK Ultra and I've pencilled 2 pages today, hopefully it will be ready to ink by the end of the week.

Thank you for your patience....

Fate Inc.

What they are saying

Science may have given us the GPS, teflon coating and the but it also opens the door to a universe of nightmares, catastrophes and rogue phenomena ever ready to spill out into the world. Most people remain in blissful ignorance of the threats to reality which are routinely dispatched by the three brilliant freelance scientists of Fate Inc. Most people are ignorant, but the interwebs are abuzz with rumours as supposition.

Dead Ned

What they are saying

For eighteen months the armed bandit they called 'Dead Ned' was the terror of the private security services, robbing the armed transports and the vaults of the wealthy. During that time he was shot several times but seemed impossible to kill, earning him the comparison to bushranger Ned Kelly and something of a folk hero status as he never seriously hurt anyone and seemed impossible to catch or even to get reliable descriptions or security images.

That all went very wrong during a robbery where a bystander was killed and Dead Ned was eventually brought down, fatally wounded. Exposed as small time crim Glen Brewer, the legend seemed destined to fade away until rumours began to spread that Dead Ned was back...

MK Ultra

What they are saying

No one knows anything about where this guy came from, except that he wears a Chinese monkey mask and delivers all kinds of beat downs to thugs, bullies and drunken yobbos. The blurry youtube videos, captured on shaky phone cameras called him first Monkey King, then shortened to MK, and eventually this mutated into MK Ultra.

As the videos went viral a whole slew of imitators appeared. There is a guy in a pig mask, a fish mask and a whole rabble of demon-masked wannabes posting their challenges to MK Ultra online. Over time these videos have become more and more over the top, but the one where MK Ultra seems to be skating on a pink cloud – now that one has to have been faked...