finish my comic book

I recently went to a craft store and bought some new pencils and some awesome markers and finished about 2/3 of my comic so far! I didn’t finish any of the story, but I filled in all of the color and added definition to the text and to the story board. I’m so motivated by how far I’ve gone, that hopefully I’ll be finished with the first copy by the end of the year!

I just finished printing up “vessel,” which started as a 24 hour comix experiment, and ended up as a full story, which took me half a year to complete. Done. But more ideas for comix flood in. I could keep this entry going for eternity since i’ll always have another story to develop, but I thought I would turn off the reminder.

Today I wrote 28 pages, finishing the main action of the first volume. Yes, there’s rewrites, fiddling, translations – not to mention the reveal pages about the other plot line – but I solved some major problems and now I can totally see how it’s gonna play out.

Good thing too, since our next meeting with the publisher is in the fourteenth.

Oh. My. God. The publisher is shopping us at fairs, and apparently there’s interest in at least three other markets. (Good thing, since ours is very small). It’s becoming increasingly important to finish on time. stress

I’ve already finished parts 1 & 2 and had them printed… I should really just finish part 3. But I hate drawing.

We have weekly work meetings now. That means that even if I haven’t had time do ANYTHING during the week, for that afternoon at least I’ll be getting stuff done.

I’m writing episode three while Rama is drawing Ep one and storyboarding ep two… And her publisher has expressed interest in the project. Yea!

The illustrator wanted to radically revise the comic, and I really couldn’t. We haven’t talked about it in weeks, and she is working on another project.

I did grieve but I’m slowly building momentum on other ideas.

It’s been a year since I printed it, and whored myself out at Megacon. Ne Ne and I don’t talk much, and so I haven’t got an artist anymore.

Bummer.

We were finally in the same country, the artist and I. She just released her first graphic novel in Finland and could tell me stories from the publicity tour. I cooked dinner. Then we talked about OH and decided to expand the 12-page intro into a 20-page first episode. It’s set in a high school, and we want to do ‘years’, and we’ve now tentatively settled on a structure…

The stuff is just pouring out of me though. It’s weird. There’s nothing of the usual struggle going on. The scope doesn’t bug me either – it’s no different from, say, writing an rpg campaign for a large number of players.

If only writing the Book that I’m SUPPOSED to be doing would be as pleasurable.

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