by Matthew Warlick | Nov 1, 2009 | 30 Characters, Art & Illustration
I’ve signed up to participate in an event for November called 30 Characters, where each day of the month you create a new character and post it to the blog.
Below is my entry for day one, Pantless Gramps.
Heroes beware for in the shadows lurks Pantsless Gramps, the super-senile psychic senior citizen! He can move matter with his mental might! He cannot, however, remember where he put his pants.
I spent way more time on this than I had planned, about 3 hours. Tomorrow’s character will be slightly less intricate, promise.
I’ll be cross posting these to the blog here as well as my DeviantArt account. I’m really looking forward to it!
by Matthew Warlick | Oct 31, 2009 | Art & Illustration, Blog, Dreams, Projects, Senryu
So while I’m in between freelance projects I’m hitting the Senryu pages hard and fast, vowing to do a page a day until it’s finished and ready to print.
To see it and more be sure to look for Senryu in participating comic shops December 30th.
by Matthew Warlick | Oct 31, 2009 | Art & Illustration, Blog, Projects, Senryu
So as you know I?ve been planning on getting my book Senryu out for Indy Comic Book Week, and have been posting previews and progress here and on the ICBW blog.
Double-page spread from Senryu.
As you might also know my Space-Gun studios mates Jake Ekiss, Vinh Luan Luu and Paul Milligan and I have been pushing really hard on the Indy Comic Book Week front, and are really excited about the opportunity to get our books into stores.
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| Double-page spread from Senryu. |
Well due to circumstances beyond my control Senryu is now in jeopardy of not making it to the shelves on December 30th. I had a very large freelance project get pushed back until after the New Year, and as such it leaves very little room in the budget for essentials, much less printing costs for a comic that, no matter how well recieved, is guaranteed to lose money.
So, while I don?t like to beg, I?m going to start a PayPal fund raising event for printing and shipping costs and see how it goes. My goal? A whopping $300US to cover printing costs and shipping to as many participating stores as possible. The deadline to send the files to print is November 15th.
Anyone who donates more than $25 will get a copy of the book mailed to them with a nice thank you note. I?ll end up donating original art and other goodies to folks who participate as well. More on that later.
Donations can be made via PayPal to soulcoredot (at) gmail.com.
Shameless PayPal Donate button below for your enjoyment!
Thanks in advance to everyone who’s followed my progress so far and offered advice and support, you guys rock. Now let’s see if we can get this thing into stores!
And just for visitng, here’s another preview page.
by Matthew Warlick | Oct 19, 2009 | Art & Illustration, Blog, Indy Comic Book Week, Projects
Indy Comic Book Week has taken off more than we could have ever hoped, and with the TWAYKI graphic novel finished I’ve had some time to focus on side gigs and pet projects.
Below is my page for One Night Stand entitled Daydreamer. It’s a mini comic being put together by David Hopkins for ICBW.
ONE NIGHT STAND is a collection of one-page stories, all about “casual encounters.” This mini-comic will explore sex and intimacy, guilt and anonymity, risk and fantasy.
I’ll be working on Senryu next while I wait for my next day-job script to come in. I’ll be finishing it up this week and getting it ready for Indy Comic Book Week as well.
Stay tuned.
by Matthew Warlick | Oct 5, 2009 | Art & Illustration, Events, Indy Comic Book Week, Projects, Senryu
So, after much frustration at the hands of a crafty domain squatter the blog is finally back up and runningl. WordPress is good to go and the database has been recovered. Big thanks to my good friend Amelia for all the technical help. Also, my apologies for the repeat posts. We’re back to normal now and you should see nothing but new material from here on out.
Despite the downtime I’ve been busy on several fronts and have a few noteworthy updates. First up is…
Indy Comic Book Week
Long story short is, the one and only distributor of comic books, Diamond, is taking a week off in December, and after some inspiration from Kyle Latino, Space-Gun Studios decided to take some initiative and start Indy Comic Book Week.
Paul Milligan did the logo and I put together the website and we started spreading the word through social media, and it’s actually taken off quite well. At the moment we have upwards of 20 DFW area stores participating (including Zeus, Titan, Madness and Lone Star), and will have a chance to get our own books on “new comic” shelves come December 30th.
For more info and to follow the event’s progress visit http://indycomicbookweek.com.
Which brings us to…
Senryu
I’ll also be participating in Indy Comic Book Week with my first book, Senryu. Below are a few preview pages, you can see a write-up on the ICBW blog.
by Matthew Warlick | Oct 1, 2009 | Art & Illustration
Testing out the WordPress iPhone app with some Tetragramaton pencils.
