Mo’ Info

31st July, 2008 - Posted by Chris

One of the other reasons for the change to ComicPress is that I am participating in a ‘Drawing Words & Writing Pictures’ Nomad Groups over at ‘The Comic Forums’ which is basically a group of comic creators (wether they be writers or artists) working their way through this book called ‘Drawing Words and Writing Pictures’.

The book is like a textbook / syllabus for comic creation and it will involve me drawing scripts as exercises then discussing and critiquing with the rest of the group.
I have no art skills to speak of so the comics above may turn out to be horrendous but the point of the Nomad Group is to get better and more creative. Maybe I’ll find a creative way around my lack of art skills… maybe not. Hopefully it’ll help me in a bunch of other ways too though.

*fingers crossed*

I have once again torn chunks from the Comic script that I am focusing on at present, needed to get the first 5 pages to be a nice contained action packed chunk as I may send it as a pitch to Shadowline. I think I have those pages working well now and I have begun re-planning the the rest of the action to fit in three separate 22page issues.

I also have a prose story I need to finish for the Derby Scribes Isolation competition as well as another one I need to start for the GeekSyndicate writing competition over at ‘The Comic Forums’.

It’s going to be a busy month and then NaNoWriMo is looming large again in a few months too, I need to try and avoid the XBox… my arch nemesis!!!

Cheers,
Chris

Moving on along!

29th July, 2008 - Posted by Chris

Yes it is a new site, I’m now running on ComicPress (WordPress) in anticipation of a few projects I hope to get finished and posted up here soon.

I was only using CuteNews before as I didn’t want spam but the past few weeks I was recieving a horendous amount of spam comments so it was time for a change.

I finally managed to get in touch with Terry from Murky Depths, seems as though it was my domain E-Mail that was causing the problems.
Marc is going to be drawing ‘Pilgrimage’ this coming month and once it’s done I’ll be submitting it to Terry so look out for news on that.

I have managed to get an old project of mine dusted off too and have edited and re-written it to an inch of it’s life.
I can’t believe how many pages and panels I used to use to write stories but at the moment I think it’s working… just need to write the climax to the story and that too will hopefully be something that Marc will provide art on, I think his dark style will suit it perfectly.

The stuff for Resolution Comics seems to be coming along, and should all be finished next month, my artist just has a few pages left to do.
Marc has finished his and you can see samples across at his blog.

Cheers,
Chris