Writing Yesterday: Another Comic
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shannon_aYesterday I spent my writing time revising a comic book related to Castle Marrach that I wrote two and a half years ago. It was a good script. I was happy with it at the time, and I'm happy with it now too, though I can see more how derivative it is of Neil Gaiman. However, we couldn't find a good artist willing to carry it off then, so the book got shelved.
However, while looking for an artist for my much more recent Lovecraft Country script we also ended up with a second artist that we wanted to work with. So, we decided to offer him CM, and he liked it. So, yesterday it was revisions, and then I collected together a bunch of additional descriptive info and send it to him. The book is now in his lap to deal with.
So, we may well have both a Lovecraft Country & a Castle Marrach comic within six weeks or so. (I've already seen roughs of the first five pages of LC.) I think our current players will enjoy them, and I hope they'll be good marketing to draw additional players in as well.
I actually used to write and draw little comic books, starting in the sixth grade or so. It was originally a response to a creative assignment in a GATE class. We had to work with someone else on a creative project, so a friend of mine named Inchon and I each wrote and drew a little comic book and we each drew in our own characters in the others' comic too, as indicated by the author.
I've lost some of those early comics, probably in one of my mother's periodic purges of my bedroom. (Her answer to my bedroom not being clean enough was always to go through and throw out my stuff.) But, I kept doing them well after my GATE classes (which ended in 8th grade), up until I left for college. I have all of them from my last three or four years of my youth.
They're crude. Mostly thick paper, folded double and stabled together. My artwork is atrocious and I suspect I'd grin ruefully at the stories. Still, they were fun. I should pull them down from the attic someday (they're in a box with a bunch of trophies and plaques from High School) and remind myself what it was to be young and creative.
However, while looking for an artist for my much more recent Lovecraft Country script we also ended up with a second artist that we wanted to work with. So, we decided to offer him CM, and he liked it. So, yesterday it was revisions, and then I collected together a bunch of additional descriptive info and send it to him. The book is now in his lap to deal with.
So, we may well have both a Lovecraft Country & a Castle Marrach comic within six weeks or so. (I've already seen roughs of the first five pages of LC.) I think our current players will enjoy them, and I hope they'll be good marketing to draw additional players in as well.
I actually used to write and draw little comic books, starting in the sixth grade or so. It was originally a response to a creative assignment in a GATE class. We had to work with someone else on a creative project, so a friend of mine named Inchon and I each wrote and drew a little comic book and we each drew in our own characters in the others' comic too, as indicated by the author.
I've lost some of those early comics, probably in one of my mother's periodic purges of my bedroom. (Her answer to my bedroom not being clean enough was always to go through and throw out my stuff.) But, I kept doing them well after my GATE classes (which ended in 8th grade), up until I left for college. I have all of them from my last three or four years of my youth.
They're crude. Mostly thick paper, folded double and stabled together. My artwork is atrocious and I suspect I'd grin ruefully at the stories. Still, they were fun. I should pull them down from the attic someday (they're in a box with a bunch of trophies and plaques from High School) and remind myself what it was to be young and creative.
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Date: 2004-10-07 06:37 pm (UTC)Can't wait to see how the comics turn out!
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Date: 2004-10-08 12:39 am (UTC)