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HEAT #25 – The Bull and the Horns

by Jeff on March 27, 2010 at 7:45 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #25 – The Bull and the Horns

Prior to commentary, just a reminder that I’ll be at the Edmonton Collectible Toy and Comic Show in Edmonton tomorrow from 10 AM to 5 PM! I’ll also be part of a panel discussion about creating independent comics at 11 AM. So come say hi and buy Hell, Inc.!

I think this may be the first page, of any project, that I’ve drawn without a single background in it.  I have a kind of British sensibility when it comes to comics, and British comics  have backgrounds pretty much at all times. I think it’s a result of their format: weekly five or six page installments in magazines like 2000 AD. With that little space to work with, it makes sense that they try to wring every last detail they can out of their pages. On this particular page there really isn’t space for backgrounds in the first four panels. The fifth one probably could have had one, but I liked it enough as it was that I left it.

We’re two weeks away from the end of Chapter 2, now. Chapter 3 has been slower going, but should hopefully be finished by the time I start posting pages from it. Other projects have taken up some time that I would normally be using to draw HEAT pages, and I have some deadlines on those projects coming up.

On Saturday: Ragnar’s Revenge. Follow @HEATcomic on Twitter to see the preview image!

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Edmonton Collectible Toy and Comic Show 2010

by Jeff on March 26, 2010 at 7:39 pm
Posted In: Blog

This Sunday is the annual Edmonton Collectible Toy and Comic Show, which I’ve been an exhibitor at for the past two years. This year should be even more fun, because Rudi Gunther, Dan Schneider (artist of Zenescope’s Merc), and Brad Glenn and I have chipped in to get a pair of tables in the artist alley.

I’ll be there promoting HEAT and my new print comic, Hell, Inc. I also still have a few copies of Rent-A-Thug: First Offence left, as well as some leftover Rent-A-Thug hats. I’m also trying to come up with some kind of contest to boost readership. I have a pretty workable idea, I just need to fine-tune it a bit.

Hell, Inc. is  my newest print comic, which released at Happy Harbor Comics during Indy Comic Book Week on December 30th. I’ve been describing it to people as The Office with demons, although I’ve consciously tried to avoid just recreating The Office with monsters instead of people. Our protagonist, Doug, works for Hell, Inc., which is the company in charge of running Hell. Hassles and awkwardness ensue. You should buy it.

I’ll also be part of a panel discussion with Dan Schneider (Merc), Bob Prodor and James Davidge (The Duchess Ranch of Old John Ware) at 11 AM. We’re going to be regaling the audience with yarns about the glories and pitfalls of independent comicking. I imagine there will also be some shameless plugging of our books and Q and A with the audience.

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12 Hour Comic Challenge Recap

by Jeff on March 18, 2010 at 10:00 pm
Posted In: Blog

Last Saturday I participated in the 12 Hour Comic Challenge at Happy Harbor Comics. The goal is the same as the 24 Hour Comic Challenge, except you need to complete 12 pages in 12 hours instead of 24 in 24. We did it to raise money for Big Brothers & Sisters of Edmonton, and we kind of kicked ass at it, to the tune of roughly three thousand bucks.

I also kicked the ass of my story, in the sense that I finished all twelve pages in ten and a half hours. I also beat it hard with the ugly stick to get it done that fast. It was a Hell, Inc. story which was specifically designed so that I wouldn’t need to draw backgrounds, and could accomodate whatever random elements I drew at the beginning of the challenge (we had to include a randomly selected character, event, and theme in our story). There’s some decent jokes at the start, but as it progresses the art gets a lot more hurried and the plot stops making sense. The best part of the story is my friend Dan’s idea to do a Mexican bootleg version of my comic instead of coming up with his own story. He recreated my pages, but added moustaches, sombreros and ponchos to all of the characters. And “translated” the dialogue into “Spanish”. Which he recently dubbed “Danish” on Twitter. I’m not sure he’s aware that Danish is a language already.

When read together, I think our comics turned out to be hilarious. Apart… well, not so great. Dan’s looks better, because he’s all a pro and stuff, but makes absolutely no sense on its own, while mine doesn’t look as good, has some mediocre attempts at humour, and doesn’t look as good. So really it just comes down to Dan made a good comic that makes no sense and I made a mediocre one that makes slightly more sense.

Also, Twitter. Follow me on it. @HEATcomic. There’s a preview of Saturday’s strip up there already.

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