Bolt and Zero just catching up.

Some updates on the comic- Currently we are lettering and coloring the first issue. We hope to have a preview up soon, fully colored and lettered. In the meantime here's some colored panels from page 01. Making this comic thing happen!

Five page preview of the inked artwork for issue one!

Aaand the next version. It's like the previous two had a baby. Funny that.

(One day, when I really need my ego crushed, I'll throw up the crappy versions I made.)

I've wanted to do a slightly longer text post for a few days now, and while I’m sitting in a movie theatre and waiting for the lights to go down, I thought I’d give it a crack.

The Badguys is the first comic I’ve written (apart from a very short story called Zombie Napoleon that I wrote years ago. But the less said about that the better. I’ll probably get drunk and post it eventually). It’s been what they call a ‘learning experience’.

I’ll definitely write more about how I decided to script and plot and other writerly things down the track, because I think it’s interesting and it might be helpful to some people, but today I just wanted to give a brief history of how things started. For posterity.

So I mentioned earlier that I first had the idea for the comic about a year ago, and it took me close to another six months to have a workable plot and script that I could actually show to my beta readers. More importantly, it was something I liked enough to be willing to show to prospective artists to try and find a collaborator. Even more importantlier, it was something I liked enough to actually put my own money behind and pay an artist. Seriously, people. Pay your artists. 

From there, I advertised in a few places, but I struck gold with meeting Orlando on the comicbookcollabs subreddit. He was the very first of quite a few applicants, and shameless plug incoming, he was awesome. He brought a style to the project that changed a lot of how I thought about it, and his visuals made writing (and re-writing) that much easier. We’re currently on inks of the first issue, and working with him has been fantastic.

It’s been working from the ground up for both of us in a lot of ways, but since there needs to be a moral or something at the end of this, here it is. Find a good artist. Pay them.

On another note, I just got my first colour samples. Aaaaah.