E-MAN!

Long time no post! Again.

I just finished up some lettering. Ed over at Digital Webbing Press asked if I could help him out on an issue of the legendary indie book E-Man and i was glad to do it. Nice to be part of the DWPress crew again. The bulk of my published writing has come out under the DWP banner so it's like a homecoming. (Oh, shut up! It's the holidays, Christmas music is playing, and I'm feeling sentimental!)

Make with the clicky for a closer look...


Black Watch trudges along defiantly, refusing to remain incomplete. Darryl is putting in a lot of work and time on the colors and really his learning curve has been pretty impressive.

Speaking of impressive learning curves, I started a new horror one-shot with a new artist looking to get some work under his belt and it's kind of fun watching someone's art develop from page to page. As we get more done I'll talk about it more and toss up some art.

Another newer project was moving along quite nicely but has hit a lull. It may be the season or other things but my co-creator/artist has been MIA for a couple weeks. He has some BIG "life stuff" going on so ya can't really blame him.

I have a new Nothingface one-shot written and ready to go... if I could find someone to draw the damned thing! :D

And finally... for now... When Drive-Ins Attack is alive and well! Project organizer Rich Stahnke has found a lot of the creative work falling into his lap... from writing and illustrating his own story to coloring and drawing for others. (And hopefully finding time to ink MY story in time for inclusion in the book.) Rich is just really pouring himself into this and I wish I could help more than just lettering.

Wow...frikkin' ghost town in here...

Look! There goes a tumbleweed!

So, apparently I suck at keeping a blog. ;) It seems like there's either too MUCH to write about...or too LITTLE. And it doesn't always help that working in comics...especially indie comics...can be a lot of hurry up and wait.

Couple of fun things going on right now...

Things happened and Black Watch had to take a step backward. It's turned out to be one of those lemons / lemonade things. I was NOT happy with what went down but now in the aftermath of that, the book is turning out so much better and has become an enjoyable experience once more. A little taste...a page from the new and improved Black Watch #1...

I'm lettering a GN (graphic novel, for the uninformed) for Devil's Due called The Nye Incidents. It's written by novelist Craig Spector and centers around UFOs and alien abduction. As a reader I'm quite enjoying it and can't wait for the next batch of pages and script to come in so I can see what happens next.

Here's a little info at the Devil's Due site.

You can click here to download a PDF preview of the GN: THE NYE INCIDENTS.

And of course things roll on with Trailer Park of Terror...the movie and the comic. But I'm short on time..."Hitman" is just sitting there demanding I slip it in the DVD player and sit down to watch it. Just google "Trailer Park of Terror" and you find all sorts of news about the film festivals they've been doing and what actors from the flick are up to and other stuff.

Nothing much to say, I SHOULD be working or sleeping...

Wired.com - On his blog, Jason Silverman lists the Top 10 Movie Trailers @ Sundance (going on at the same time/town as Slamdance). Norma and crew made the list. CLICK-CLICK :D


I have found an artist for my contribution to the When Drive-Ins Attack! anthology!! The graphic novel anthology will feature stories from Steve Niles (30 Days of Night, Simon Dark, Batman), Rich Stahnke (Furious Fist of the Drunken Monkey), Dan Wickline (30 Days of Night), Dwight McPherson (Edgar Allen Poo, Dead Men Tell No Tales) and many others. I've had the story written and have been keeping an eye out for an artist for MONTHS. I finally found the right guy. I have rough character designs and thumbnail sketches of the all 19 pages already. Hope to have something to show in the next couple weeks.


Book 1 of Black Watch is only a few tweaks from being completely finished. Waaaaaay back when the book was picked up by Imperium and we learned that we'd be waiting until summer or later of this year to put the book out, everything kind of went onto the back burner. But now the time draws near and Rob is finishing the last color tweaks to the last pages as he gets ready to start cranking on the next two issues which are completely drawn and waiting for him. I have a few tweaks I think I'll make to the lettering/SFX/script as I go through and output the final files for print....and of course as we get really close credits pages and editorial stuff and ad pages...but basically it's ready to go.


OH YEAH! Almost forgot, my graphic novel Nothingface will soon be available as a free PDF download through WOWIO.com.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Well, I hope everyone had some happy and safe fun for New Year's. And I hope it's left you with some "fresh start" energy for whatever you're working on...career, home projects, financial stuff....whatever. I'm off to a pretty good 2008 myself. Did I little cleaning house (figuratively and literally) and find myself with a good attitude for starting off the new year. Need to get some things taken care of, need to get some things back on track and I feel energized to do it and see very clearly how to go about it one-not-so-overwhelming step at a time.

• Black Watch will be coming out this year.
• Nothingface will be going up on WOWIO soon. (For those not in the know, WOWIO is a free ebook service. I can get my books listed there, you can then download them for FREE as PDF files and I make a little money of each copy downloaded.)
  
• I plan/hope to have at least seven books out this year with my name in the WRITER slot! Four issues of Black Watch (hey, each issue counts, sparky!) and three more things, one shots of other properties. Planning for some new Nothingface with a one-shot...as well as launching Angeline 43 with a one-shot, and hopefully one more one-shot (and/or a sizable story in a big anthology).
• I have several cool lettering assignments lined up....some old, some new. Trailer Park of Terror, Chaotic Soldiers, a kids book called Monster Truck Mayhem, a graphic novel for Devil's Due, possibly another GN I won't name just yet, the When Drive-Ins Attack anthology GN (an image from that book can be seen at right) and possibly a few other things if their creators find publishing homes for them.
  
• Trailer Park of Terror the movie will be out this year (Premiering at the Slamdance Film Festival)...really bigger news for the boys at Imperium than me but it's nice to be associated with it.
  
• The Lost Squad movie will hopefully be moving along for my pal Chris Kirby...if this writer's strike every gets settled. (Another case of a book I letter getting upon screen....not really MY news but still fun to be "attached to" no matter how remotely.)
  

Well, I guess that's enough jibber-jabber. Better get some sleep so i can get up and get crackin' on all this new year, new start stuff.

Eh...stuff

Well, the Imperium boys are off in Chicago promoting Trailer Park of Terror and, of course, their next smash hit....BLACK WATCH!!! They'll be handing out some BW ashcans I put together. (Thanks again to my pal Al Dorantes for the print job!)

Also, my buddy Brian Wisniewski is out there with some special "retailer only" preview books. Trying to touch base with as many comic shop guys as he can...letting them know the book exists, that we want to hear what THEY want in terms of promotional material, etc.

The book isn't coming out until spring but we're trying to get the ball rolling now!

I'm lettering some Trailer Park pages, working on a logo and lettering some submission pages for a Mike Exner and Alan Robinson project that looks really cool, and I have a LOT of writing I need to do.

Oh, well, back to work!

Trailer Park of Terror @ SDCC!!

Anybody going to SDCC (San Diego Comic-Con...or I guess it's officially Comic-Con International) should check out the Imperium Comics booth (#2306)... their booth this year was designed by Drac Studios. Drac is the Academy Award winning FX house that did the creature makeup for the Trailer Park of Terror movie (Imperium does the Trailer Park comic which I letter and to which I occasionally contribute a story...the comic, unlike the movie, is an anthology format).

There'll be two life-size zombies from the movie...not cardboard standees but, like, giant models of them put together by Drac! A couple of the actors from Trailer Park, Michelle Lee and Ed Corbin, will be around, the booth will supposedly look something like the inside of a trailer and there will be a big flatscreen showing behind the scenes stuff and teasers for the movie. Sounds like it will be a cool set-up, go check it out!!

Also, even though I won't be there, some preview ashcans for Black Watch will be! Grab one and check it out! The book's not coming out until spring but it seemed silly to NOT have a little something for it at the Imperium booth this summer. More info and previews will be coming as we get closer to spring.

((That pic up there is Michelle Lee doing her thing. In the movie she plays one of the cursed cannibalistic creeps in the trailer park! One of the unrelenting undead! I've seen some pics of her zombie makeup and it rocks! All the makeup I've seen looks amazing. She was also in Pirates 3 earlier this year.))

Quick news update

BLACK WATCH has a publisher! More details soon.

I also have a couple other fun projects in the works that I'll try to post about soon.

I'm rushing around trying to get a bunch of stuff done before SDCC, an ashcan of Black Watch for myself and a few other things for other folks. Sure wish I was going.

For anyone going, track down the Imperium Comics booth (#2306). The Trailer Park of Terror MOVIE folks will be crashing the booth of the folks who bring you the comic and I hear they're bringing some COOL stuff with 'em! Try life-size zombies from the movie, a huge flat screen with previews, and a booth set up designed by an Academy Award winning FX house. Pretty monkey-farmin' cool, people! Damn I wish I could go!!!

Black Watch part three

A couple more pages of

Black Watch #1!!
Scroll down a post or two for previous pages if you haven't seen them yet.
CLICK TO SEE ALL PAGES BIGGER.

Credits: Kel words • Bong drawings • Robt colors

Black Watch is © Kelly A Nuttall

So, Robt is on the mend and getting back to work, so the set of pages for the proposal should be ready to go very soon. For a guy who went throgh some pretty rough weeks he seems to be getting right back into the swing of things.

My own relatively minor flu seem to be almost done after a couple months as well so I need to be getting more productive. In addition to the regular lettering jobs and lettering and writing my own comics it's also coming up on con season so I have promotional materials to start putting together and additional projects to get lettered for friends doing their small press books for the cons.

Black Watch part two

A couple more pages of
Black Watch #1!!
Scroll down a post for previous pages if you haven't seen them yet. CLICK TO SEE THEM BIGGER. Same credits as before...

Kel words • Bong drawings • Robt colors • Kel letters

Yes, I'm an egomaniac and I listed myself twice. I am drunk...drunk with power. Tremble at my fantastitude.

Should also point out that Black Watch was co-created by Samuel J Brown.

Black Watch is © Kelly A Nuttall

Black Watch part one

Okay, since traffic in here is almost nonexistent I figure it can't hurt to lay down some pages for those couple folks who do still wander in. I'll pop up a page or two every day or two. These pages are unedited and not color corrected yet...in fact a couple pages later on haven't been colored at all.


Let's start at the start...Both cover options and the first two pages of
Black Watch #1....

(CLICK ON THE PICS TO ENLARGE)

Cover 1- Bong Dazo/ART & Jay Fotos/COLOR ART
Cover 2- Ignacio Calero/ART & Hi-Fi/COLOR ART
Interiors- Bong Dazo/ART - Robt L Snyder/ COLOR ART -
Kel Nuttall/STORY & LETTERS

It's a monster!

A cover from the upcoming BLACK WATCH miniseries. Drawn by Bong Dazo and colored by Jay Fotos.

Let's talk Turkey!

Okay, since it's the holiday season here you might assume I'm going to talk dinner plans...but you're wrong!

I'm talking about the country Turkey! My graphic novel NOTHINGFACE was drawn by Yildiray Cinar who lives there. It also featured a pinup by Mahmud Asrar, also from Turkey. They BOTH have books currently solicited at Image! CHEERS TO THESE GUYS!!!!

CINAR takes over Noble Causes!
NOBLE CAUSES #28

Written by Jay Faerber, art by Yildiray Cinar, cover by Khary Randolph.

The daring plan to cure Kitty Blackthorne results in someone's death, which adds another layer to the feud between the Nobles and the Blackthornes.

32 pages, $3.50, in stores on March 21.


MAHMAUD helps launch Dynamo 5!!
DYNAMO 5 #1

Written by Jay Faerber, art by Mahmud Asrar, cover by Asrar and Ron Riley.

Captain Dynamo, the greatest super-hero in the world, was not the most faithful husband. Now he's dead and his family is trying to piece together their lives. As his enemies descend on his unprotected city, Captain Dynamo's widow rounds up his five illegitimate children, each of whom have inherited one of their father's super-powers. Can these total strangers come to terms with their powers, their father's legacy and each other as total chaos erupts? This new ongoing monthly series as Image Comics chronicles a super-hero team like no other -- Dynamo 5!

32 pages, $3.50, in stores on March 7.

(SIDE NOTE: There was actually a Turkish edition of NOTHINGFACE that did quite well! We were written up and I was interviewed by one of the big newspapers!)


THIS JUST IN...

BONG DAZO...illustrator of BLACK WATCH...landed himself a Marvel/DB Pro gig!
Bong had recently told me he was working for them and I just noticed the info online. He will be working on Michael Lent's Prey: Origin of the Species! More info on that once I track it down.

Black Watch art

Just time for a splash page from Issue 2 of
Black Watch by Bong Dazo and back to work.....


Oh, those pesky Nazis leaving their mutated and deformed failed genetic experiments laying about for unsuspecting British SAS troops to stumble into.

CLICK IT...IT'LL GET BIGGER>>>>>>>

One down...

Okay...just going to try and slap up a quick post when something gets done. That way people waiting on me can keep up with what's going on without me having to send out 10 emails a day to fill them in and beg for patience. ;)

Okay, Pistolfist #3 is finally done and sent off for approval. (That's the cover to #1 since I couldn't find the cover to #3) One more issue, I believe, and that books wraps up.

Also recieved the inked pages of Black Watch #2 from Bong. Few little things we might have to tweak but it's pretty much done. Some really bizzarre monster he came up with.

Okay, some Trailer Park of Terror and some Drunken Monkey and some Psychosis and some writing....and i think some other lettering that I'm not rembering off the top of my head...all coming up this week......

Just a quick check-in....

Too busy still for any in depth reports. Things progress.

Black Watch has issue 1 line art done, issue 2 is in full swing, I have "alternate" cover line art for 1&2 with pencils for 3 coming tomorrow, and I think we now have a colorist.

Here's some stuff....

No time for love, Dr. Jones!

Heh! The title is a quote from Short Round in Temple of Doom ...love that little guy. Anyway...no time for much of a real post. Still trying to stop this flu from kicking my ass and scrambling to catch up on lettering jobs. So..not time.

Trailer Park of Terror #5 is off to the printer. Up to my neck in a new lettering job called Psychosis.

Patched up the second script for Black Watch. This is a very good thing considering my boy BONG DAZO has turned in completed line art for Black Watch #1!! WOOOOHOOOO!!! After THREE YEARS and EIGHT other artists who didn't work out or simply flaked I get finished art from Bong after only about three weeks!! (click it)

4:30 AM October 28, 2006

Busy as hell. As people keep pointing out to me....at least I'm busy doing something in a field I enjoy (lettering comics) and being busy means making money. Valid points....but I'd still rather be spending the bulk of my time writing. I have a few big things coming up that are going to be keeping me lettering a LOT through the end of the year and maybe a month or two beyond but I'm starting to trim down my lettering jobs.

Going to be more selective and asking more money. If it's going to keep me away from writing, it better be good or filling my wallet or both! NOT that I haven't enjoyed my recent jobs! That's surely NOT the case. But for the sake my my writing "career"...can you really call it a career when you're at the point where it costs you more than it makes you?...I just need to set the bar higher to keep myself from taking more jobs than I should. Future jobs should be really cool, or fun, or see me working for a big company or on projects with extra cool talent involved...or they should at least be paying me my new minimum rate. I can almost hear JD from Imperium saying "Oh, $#*@!! What does that mean??"

Anyway, moving on...it's 4:30am and I've been in bed a few hours, just miserable sick with a messed up back and dealing with a touch of his flu we have going 'round around here, but I feel a bit better so I figured I better get on the computer and finish one last page of lettering an a short story for a fella. Checked my email and found pencils for a Black Watch cover...or variant cover...or poster...or something. The pic on the left is a quickie mock-up with the logo.

Also got some sweet headshots from the artist doing Life of Riley with me. LoR is a mismatched group of teens bouncing around realities trying to find pieces of an artifact, trying to find Riley's mom and brother who they learn are out there reality-hopping too, and trying find a way home. Maybe I'll post those up later.

Well, time is a'wastin'...I better crank out that page and get back to bed.

More....

Things continue to move along. Lots of lettering to do but I wanted to give you something for popping in here!

More Black Watch characters from ....that artist I'm not naming yet. :D (click to enlarge)



Don't think this is the exact style the pages will be in, he said he was going to experiment with a little more "edge". Hopefully I can show you some of that soon.

Two days in a row!

Just a really quick post before I get back to lettering. I know I said I wasn't going to talk about the new Black Watch artist until I see how things go and I wasn't going to post any of his art for a while either. But I got some character designs today and wanted to share one. (Click it to make it bigger)