IT IS.....DONE!

Finally completed lettering the NYE INCIDENTS GN for Devil's Due. Of course, as things tend to go, NYE along with four other things kind of all came in at once and needed to be done ASAP...as compared to drifting in over the previous MONTHS as scheduled.

In spite of power outages costing me half a day and other little things coming up I managed to do the final two chapters in three days (as well as working on other jobs while waiting for scripts or correction notes or whatever). Which is pretty fast for me given that the previous chapters took about a week each. Maybe I need the pressure to get my speed up.

Also got TRAILER PARK OF TERROR #9 out last week. Most of the material for that came in just a couple days before NYE so it got in line first. This issue has a very.... interesting... "theme" of sorts. Whatever could it be? Might the cover art give some slight clue?

In some ways, I'm starting to feel like letterers are the ER doctors of the comics team. Invariably everything that can go wrong, does. (DAMN YOU, MURPHY! DAMN YOU AND YOUR LAW TO HELL!) Anyway, once Murphy has done his damage to the production schedule and moved on, the frantic "parents" rush their ailing "baby" in my ER and say "So, umm....any chance we could...y'know...maybe get that tomorrow? Or the next day? Pleeeease?" Other work, personal commitments, SLEEP be damned this thing needs to be saved.

So, yeah, we're like the ER docs.

Except, y'know, they get paid reeeeeally well.

And people respect them. (I've seen comic book reviews where everyone from the writer down to the editor was listed in the credits...but not the letterer. I mean c'mon, people! You have to go past the letterer on the credits page to even see who that editor was!!)

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.

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.

Lost Squad #6 preview

Devil's Due has put up a preview of #6 on their site...CLICK IT.