Creating Comics At Last

 The end is nigh.  I have just Sent off the final five inked pages to be coloured by Mr Ybanez.Soon I'll have The whole thing utterly completed and I'll be left wondering how it took me nearly two years to get to this point? I'm hoping that the next book will be relatively smooth sailing compared to the litany of schoolboy errors made in the production of the first one.Maybe I'll make whole new mistakes ,maybe I'll refuse to learn from my old ones and just plough through against all  logic and reason again. I can't help being excited A whole comic book written by me his about to materialise into the world for the amusement/entertainment of others. This is really happening people? don't panic

 The delightful Mr Silver has finished the inks for the Cover of book Two, Kreekraw and Kris:Taking The Piss. Since I'm mainly focusing on getting book one complete and sent out to it's backers The cover will not be coloured for a while.I'm now attempting to lean about the wonderful world of print files,pdfs and cymk type stuff. Every dream should be labelled "some assembly required"

One of my pages was actually missing some dialogue making the response to the absent line on the next page seem a little random and without context ...and it took me this long to notice it . I examined it, approved the drawing and sent it for colouring and then let it sit on my pc for week.Suddenly it came to me in my sleep there's a god dam word balloon missing . Better late than never ,I suppose it's better fucking up and correcting it now rather than having it go into print and forever become a splinter of glass in my brain about how stupid I was. Onwards and Upwards

 Rough cover art for book two.Whilst I await more coloured pages of the first book I set Mr Silver to work on the second one.Fantastic as always

  It's a strange thing when the comic is taken out of your hands.When you had the script you had control, now it's in the hands of others.Now it's about there interpretation, there take on it and all you can do is watch and give occasional notes. Fortunately I've been incredibly lucky,There takes on my stories have usually enhanced the story in ways I would never have imagined.Background details ,minor changes to the flow of the story and a myriad of other additions . Giving up control and sending your "baby" to others is hard ,but it's a lot easier when the others are like minded fuckers like yourself

 

 As I sit typing I can see the Rocinante model on my shelf , the several books worth of source material are just next to it.I've had endless hours of discussions about the universe it portrays and how it all fits together.I've managed to convert everyone in my household(and there dependants) into superfans. But. The TV show is just so fucking boring.Since It was brought back on amazon we've had two mostly dull as ditch-water seasons.Season 4 was based on a book a lot of fans regard as not the most thrilling in the series.Did they really need to spend 10 goddam episodes on "Planet Canadian Quarry?"And Murtry, a villain so evil they pretty much let him do whatever he wants no matter how despicable until the end when the plot demands they suddenly grow a backbone and stop him. Truly Amazon have taken "Netflix bloat" the the Nth degree. The 5th season Did we need three episodes build up before the rocks fell?Wasn't it set up in excruciating detail last s...