If you're just popping over because you picked up a card from the NYCC well...then...HELLO! Thanks for picking up my card!
Feel free to start from the beginning. Updates are random, any reader could tell you that, but you can always follow me on facebook or deviantART to find out when pages are coming out! I'm also working on getting a lot of the older pages redone to make the frame of GF really solid. Why? Go back a few blog entries and you'll see.
Thanks for visiting!
And if you're a current reader: Yeah, no new page yet. I am dead tired from the Con. No more plans until 2012, plz.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Friday, October 1, 2010
Up to Date
If you were wondering where I am, what I'm doing and what's going on, well here is your answer:
As I've posted in a few places, I am currently re-writing GO FISH and BLOOD. GF is a bit more difficult to re-write, as it is over 400 pages long and about as simple as an Escher painting (not to say it's good, just difficult...). BLOOD is not so bad, because it has just begun, but it's another project.
I've also been trying to prepare myself for the New York Comic Con, which is this weekend, and I'm about as ready for it as...something that...isn't...ready for things. See? I can't even be creative anymore!
I have business cards I plan on handing out and I am going to schmooze with artists and famous people, hopefully. Mostly I just want to meet DJY1991 and the author behind TJ and Amal. And buy a ton of comics. COMICS.
The sad thing is that I forgot to revamp and buff up this website before the con. That means anyone who actually DOES check out the site might be completely turned off, foiling my plans of fame and world domination. NOOOO! Aw well. Best to get them used to my lackluster update schedule, right?
Hope to see you there!
As I've posted in a few places, I am currently re-writing GO FISH and BLOOD. GF is a bit more difficult to re-write, as it is over 400 pages long and about as simple as an Escher painting (not to say it's good, just difficult...). BLOOD is not so bad, because it has just begun, but it's another project.
I've also been trying to prepare myself for the New York Comic Con, which is this weekend, and I'm about as ready for it as...something that...isn't...ready for things. See? I can't even be creative anymore!
I have business cards I plan on handing out and I am going to schmooze with artists and famous people, hopefully. Mostly I just want to meet DJY1991 and the author behind TJ and Amal. And buy a ton of comics. COMICS.
The sad thing is that I forgot to revamp and buff up this website before the con. That means anyone who actually DOES check out the site might be completely turned off, foiling my plans of fame and world domination. NOOOO! Aw well. Best to get them used to my lackluster update schedule, right?
Hope to see you there!
Monday, September 13, 2010
Blargh
Sorry it took so long, Mary-Annie. Here is your page! Thank you for reading GO FISH and asking for a dedication!
Today's Page:
Light was so hard to work with here. It's a dark room, but the page is dark and dark dark dark DARK! So just pretend there is a light source and move on, awright? Also, Tlaloc's eyes glow.
IMPORTANT
I'm taking a short break to figure out the future of GF. I know I've said I was going to do it before, but I really haven't. I just planned out more of the same. This is more a technical future-planning thing. I'm writing out GF in its entirety with some revisions.
Speaking of revisions, after a brief but insightful conversation with someone on deviantART, I've decided that portions of GF that seriously piss me off are going to be redone. This could mean a page, a scene or an entire chapter. This is going to be a long, labor-intensive project that I can and will not put a date on. I feel as though it will save me the fear of hating my comic as well as take care of potholes I've left in the story.
When new pages/scenes/chapters are uploaded, I will notify you here and on facebook, if you follow me there, and you may go re-read that part. Otherwise, you may get lost or wonder why suddenly something hasn't happened (yes, GF is THAT bad...).
Oh God what have I done...
Today's Page:
Light was so hard to work with here. It's a dark room, but the page is dark and dark dark dark DARK! So just pretend there is a light source and move on, awright? Also, Tlaloc's eyes glow.
IMPORTANT
I'm taking a short break to figure out the future of GF. I know I've said I was going to do it before, but I really haven't. I just planned out more of the same. This is more a technical future-planning thing. I'm writing out GF in its entirety with some revisions.
Speaking of revisions, after a brief but insightful conversation with someone on deviantART, I've decided that portions of GF that seriously piss me off are going to be redone. This could mean a page, a scene or an entire chapter. This is going to be a long, labor-intensive project that I can and will not put a date on. I feel as though it will save me the fear of hating my comic as well as take care of potholes I've left in the story.
When new pages/scenes/chapters are uploaded, I will notify you here and on facebook, if you follow me there, and you may go re-read that part. Otherwise, you may get lost or wonder why suddenly something hasn't happened (yes, GF is THAT bad...).
Oh God what have I done...
Saturday, September 11, 2010
FIVE. YEARS.
If this comic was a child, I'd be sending it off to school and hoping that it was going to grow up to be a good person. Not famous or important, but happy with its life and decent to others.
Of course, being the third child, GO FISH is going to be a spoiled brat.
Five years, guys. That's insane. I never planned for GF to make it past issue 2. But I'm currently plugging away at issue 13 and painfully agonizing over issue 14 and already thinking of issue 15. CRAZY.
There have been a lot of ups and downs...mostly downs. GO FISH was started because I was pissed off by the reaction people had towards my failed comic PET. It failed because of my own idiocy and ego-stroking. I had too many characters with too much background that was never explained. I thought "fine, I'll make a comic with as few characters as possible and no background" and dropped a couple humanoids onto some lined paper. Roger was originally blond and his first name was WAY too embarrassing to reveal before I am famous and dead. Baxter has remained the same, but I was going to give that stupid feather on his hat some symbolism, but y'know, fuck it.
And it was a hit.
I showed it at Johnson State College, the Visual Arts Center, the tiny double-wide-sized gallery/studio/classroom and asked for feedback on this very day five years ago (Jesus, I am old). The response was great and I was shocked. I was a little afraid, too. Now I had to make a story. Immediately I worked out the end and set out to meet it.
But things happened. My friends and people and influences and education happened. Plot holes had to be filled with as much shit as I could find in my head. Roger mentioned a guy named Alex = BAM, his ONLY friend in the whole universe, Alex, is born. Originally meant to be straight and kind of a "dude, no way, dude" sort of guy, Alex was given the last name Sleeper (the Vermont state police commissioner at the time with an awesome last name) and was never gay in my mind until I accidentally started pouring feminism into him to pull it off Roger (you can actually pinpoint the moment he turns gay if you pay attention).
I made up my own gods for a while, but Art History proved too much for me and I was introduced, via Professor Mary Martin, to Tlaloc. A sad rain god who had had his wife stolen from him and sat around drinking rain and moping with lepers. A few character models later and Tlaloc was in GF, ready to steal the show. Now Alex was really gay = my Gary Stu. Fuck.
And so it went. I started with two characters, no background, little story and today I have (I have to count, hold on...) eight characters and COUNTING (there are a couple more additions...sorry). This is like a bad anime now (except worse). They all have their own problems and backgrounds; some I plan on visiting and others I do not.
I think GF will be coming to a close within a few issues. I am becoming afraid of my comic, my characters, this story, and I think the sooner I end it the sooner I can take what I've learned from this project and apply it to others. I'll be sad to see it go. It's been a ton of fun. Luckily, after graduation my updates have had a hell of a rocky schedule (from every day to three times a week to weekends to not at all to once a week, etc...) and it will probably extend GF's life into the next millennium. Hopefully by this time my art will look better and my storytelling abilities will have improved.
But there's one thing I find odd. After FIVE YEARS, only one person has ever asked:
"What is Roger's last name?"
Maybe we'll find out some day.
I love you, appreciate you and respect you, the reader, for being so patient and staying by my side. I draw because I love it, but I update and share my work because I love you. GAY!
SEE YOU IN FIVE YEARS!<3
Of course, being the third child, GO FISH is going to be a spoiled brat.
Five years, guys. That's insane. I never planned for GF to make it past issue 2. But I'm currently plugging away at issue 13 and painfully agonizing over issue 14 and already thinking of issue 15. CRAZY.
There have been a lot of ups and downs...mostly downs. GO FISH was started because I was pissed off by the reaction people had towards my failed comic PET. It failed because of my own idiocy and ego-stroking. I had too many characters with too much background that was never explained. I thought "fine, I'll make a comic with as few characters as possible and no background" and dropped a couple humanoids onto some lined paper. Roger was originally blond and his first name was WAY too embarrassing to reveal before I am famous and dead. Baxter has remained the same, but I was going to give that stupid feather on his hat some symbolism, but y'know, fuck it.
And it was a hit.
I showed it at Johnson State College, the Visual Arts Center, the tiny double-wide-sized gallery/studio/classroom and asked for feedback on this very day five years ago (Jesus, I am old). The response was great and I was shocked. I was a little afraid, too. Now I had to make a story. Immediately I worked out the end and set out to meet it.
But things happened. My friends and people and influences and education happened. Plot holes had to be filled with as much shit as I could find in my head. Roger mentioned a guy named Alex = BAM, his ONLY friend in the whole universe, Alex, is born. Originally meant to be straight and kind of a "dude, no way, dude" sort of guy, Alex was given the last name Sleeper (the Vermont state police commissioner at the time with an awesome last name) and was never gay in my mind until I accidentally started pouring feminism into him to pull it off Roger (you can actually pinpoint the moment he turns gay if you pay attention).
I made up my own gods for a while, but Art History proved too much for me and I was introduced, via Professor Mary Martin, to Tlaloc. A sad rain god who had had his wife stolen from him and sat around drinking rain and moping with lepers. A few character models later and Tlaloc was in GF, ready to steal the show. Now Alex was really gay = my Gary Stu. Fuck.
And so it went. I started with two characters, no background, little story and today I have (I have to count, hold on...) eight characters and COUNTING (there are a couple more additions...sorry). This is like a bad anime now (except worse). They all have their own problems and backgrounds; some I plan on visiting and others I do not.
I think GF will be coming to a close within a few issues. I am becoming afraid of my comic, my characters, this story, and I think the sooner I end it the sooner I can take what I've learned from this project and apply it to others. I'll be sad to see it go. It's been a ton of fun. Luckily, after graduation my updates have had a hell of a rocky schedule (from every day to three times a week to weekends to not at all to once a week, etc...) and it will probably extend GF's life into the next millennium. Hopefully by this time my art will look better and my storytelling abilities will have improved.
But there's one thing I find odd. After FIVE YEARS, only one person has ever asked:
"What is Roger's last name?"
Maybe we'll find out some day.
I love you, appreciate you and respect you, the reader, for being so patient and staying by my side. I draw because I love it, but I update and share my work because I love you. GAY!
SEE YOU IN FIVE YEARS!<3
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Baila!
Hey I got some awesome birthday art from XxSweetNightmaresxX on deviantART! Thanks!
I'm still not sure why Baxter is the singer or why Tezcatlipoca is there, but hey, Alex has his maracas and couldn't be happier, right?!
GF's birthday is Sunday! Yee! And the CAKE concert!
I'm still not sure why Baxter is the singer or why Tezcatlipoca is there, but hey, Alex has his maracas and couldn't be happier, right?!
GF's birthday is Sunday! Yee! And the CAKE concert!
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Boo-YAH
Update!
For AceMaxim, Max Ace Spades, Spadey-Maxi...Spade...Err...
Thanks for keeping me company online at night. Despite the fact that some of the messages you send me would probably confuse the hell out of my roommate should she use my computer and see it, I enjoy or brief and pointless conversations. Heart.
Today's Page:
FUN FACT: Gods call one another "Lord" if they feel inferior to them. Tlaloc knows Baxter can waste him. Also, you'll recall Baxter doing the same to Rakahan who would've taken out Baxter had it not been for the "intervention".
Awww you thought Baxter was going to rip into him, didn't you? So much for cliffhangers.
The shading style on this page is lazy and quick, but it was fun and it got finished so you know...shut up and stuff.
I am in love with the Scott Pilgrim movie, by the way. I just caught the last showing of it in my area (less than two weeks?! wtf) and it's only the second movie I've ever seen more than once in a theater. I am now going to purchase the books.
For AceMaxim, Max Ace Spades, Spadey-Maxi...Spade...Err...
Thanks for keeping me company online at night. Despite the fact that some of the messages you send me would probably confuse the hell out of my roommate should she use my computer and see it, I enjoy or brief and pointless conversations. Heart.
Today's Page:
FUN FACT: Gods call one another "Lord" if they feel inferior to them. Tlaloc knows Baxter can waste him. Also, you'll recall Baxter doing the same to Rakahan who would've taken out Baxter had it not been for the "intervention".
Awww you thought Baxter was going to rip into him, didn't you? So much for cliffhangers.
The shading style on this page is lazy and quick, but it was fun and it got finished so you know...shut up and stuff.
I am in love with the Scott Pilgrim movie, by the way. I just caught the last showing of it in my area (less than two weeks?! wtf) and it's only the second movie I've ever seen more than once in a theater. I am now going to purchase the books.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Woot
An update! Yeah!
This is dedicated to Robin Dempsey of "Shades of Grey", a completed online graphic novel about Heaven, Hell and all the wonderful characters in between. The link above goes to the comic archive there. Thanks for being a chum, link-trader and author of one of my favorite comics! (I'm super sad it's over :( )
Today's Page:
Tlaloc: "OH SHI-"
Despite what you may think, Baxter scares the hell out of Tlaloc. Their "companionship" goes back a long time, back to when Tlaloc was still in Mexico, and yes, Tlaloc DID remove Dreamweaver's mark from Baxter's shoulder. Tlaloc was also friends with Nor for a while and lusted after her a little bit. You may see some of this in BLOOD, but I doubt it.
Oh Tlaloc...
This is dedicated to Robin Dempsey of "Shades of Grey", a completed online graphic novel about Heaven, Hell and all the wonderful characters in between. The link above goes to the comic archive there. Thanks for being a chum, link-trader and author of one of my favorite comics! (I'm super sad it's over :( )
Today's Page:
Tlaloc: "OH SHI-"
Despite what you may think, Baxter scares the hell out of Tlaloc. Their "companionship" goes back a long time, back to when Tlaloc was still in Mexico, and yes, Tlaloc DID remove Dreamweaver's mark from Baxter's shoulder. Tlaloc was also friends with Nor for a while and lusted after her a little bit. You may see some of this in BLOOD, but I doubt it.
Oh Tlaloc...
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