After I picked up a last-minute cancelled booth in artist alley during New York Comic Con in October, I was approached for an ongoing comics project.
The publisher wouldn't like me to say much about it yet, but more or less, I'd be doing a 12 page shortie per month. It's a nice pace, a nice page rate, and fun subject matter.
I just completed the inks for the first shortie yesterday. To the right is a awkward slicing from page 9 panel 3. If you can guess what the assignment is from this, you will earn the page as a prize. Good luck!
I don't know how long the series will last, or even if I will be picked up after this shortie...but, if I am, and the series isn't cancelled, my first goal is to stick with this for a year, all 2014, 12 pages per month of the secret shorties.
Baby OGN
If I can ramp up to something of my former pace through 2010, then I should be able to get in a few pages per month of my half-finished OGN about the straight people and their baby. Greg offered to edit the second half so it could be pushed into a better place. If I can get a few pages in per month from March-August, I could have it in time for NYCC.
Arche-Lady compilation
I abandoned this after scanning all 1000 pages of the series which I worked on from 1992-2002. After I got all jazzed about comics post-NYCC, I started with the annotation of the series, and got through about 400 pages. Obviously, 2 500-page books intended only as xmas 2014 gifts for my friends is a high-effort low-impact project, but I want to do it, damn it. You won't want to buy this, trust me.
Cavalcade mini
I've got one page completed, and 7 more scripted. Cover planned out and everything. Seems reasonable to have in time for NYCC and Angouleme, yes?
New York Comic Con
If I have a new OGN and a collection of secret shorties (as the publisher plans to have) then it'll be totally worth it to do NYCC in October. So on the goals list are cards (I didn't have any last year!), and a new banner thingie.
Angouleme Festival
Ok, technically, that'll be January 2015, but all the commitment and prep will have to occur in 2014. I'll need to have a little French mini, a poster, and I hope to finish the faux magazine cover I started when I last attended the festival, as a freebie handout.
Ok, this list is absurd. Unless the secret shorties fall through and then there's room to spare for some unforeseen project.
Yay, 2014! Yay, Monica!
Oh—since she asked, I will too: do you have anything you want to see from me in 2014? Blog entries? Pics of me in undies? etc.?
4 comments:
Hmmmmm. I know that you have already done some X-men stuff, but I am going to go out on a limb and guess... back ups in Young Avengers? Wiccan goes to college?
Oh and if you are taking suggestions. Cavalcade pin ups. Or Baxter and his dads. Or the Magician with the boyfriend and bunnies. Or...
Good to see you making a plan. :)
Or Clint Walker.
That would be a fun assignment, but not the one I have. Also rec'd a guess via email that I might have been picked up for a Kevin Keller story...also incorrect.
Had to Google Clint Walker...I recognized him as the buff dude from THE DIRTY DOZEN...I'm down with that.
Might have to revise my goals. Picking up the annotation project, I see I made it to page 200 of 1000, not 400... :-(
Check out Clint Walker in the tv series, Cheyenne. For some reason he always seems to end up shirtless. :)
Can we pick "all of the above" for our request?
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