Ambitious plans update

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Just wanted to give a progress update on my Ambitious Plans that I announced last week with my new comic, THE NORMLINGS. Short answer is, I am on schedule! Yesterday I finished the first 22 pages of the comic and scanned everything in. Now I’m in the process of cleaning up those scans, replacing all the speech bubbles / text with a more readable digital equivalent, and getting everything formatted for print.

I have one week left for my deadline and I still have a lot to do. Not only do I have to go through every page and do the above, but I also have to design the cover pages and four additional interior pages with miscellaneous fun goodies. (don’t want to spoil it just yet, but you may need to grab your X-Ray Specs and bucket of sea monkeys for this one.)

As far as when this goes online? Not sure yet, but it’s close. My plan is once each print version page is finished, I’ll turn around and make the web friendly version as well. This will take some initial trial and error to get it the dimensions I want and still have them look good online. It’ll definitely happen within the next couple of weeks so stay tuned!

Ambitious plans are ambitious

Inked crane from THE NORMLINGSI’m about to do something ambitious. First off, here’s an inked version of that crane you saw several weeks ago. Neat eh? Ok, so I have the ST. LOUIS COMIC CON coming up in St. Charles, MO, June 18-19th and I am seriously considering trying to have my new comic, THE NORMLINGS, in ==PRINT== to sell there! I don’t even have it on the web yet and I’m already thinking of printing it.

I’ve decided to release this as a traditional 24 page comic, and I currently have 5 pages finished, another 4 more inked, and 11 more sketched out. I have about two weeks to pull this off and make it print ready, along with the cover art, and send it off to the printer.

It is doable, and since it’s my first convention in about two years, I wanted to have something new to show off. Stay tuned and see if I can pull this off!

Avery After School Update (both classes)

I just wanted to apologize for having to cancel both classes this week. My son was ill earlier this week and he unfortunately passed it unto me and I’m having a hard time shaking it. Classes will shift back a week, so Comic Workshop kids will go May 4th and 11th and How To Draw Monsters kids will be May 5th and 12th. This is the first time ever I had to cancel due to an illness, so again I apologize for this!

Summer Camps, Adv. KCW, Girl Scouts and The Normlings

Advanced Kids Comic Workshop Notebook

A LOT of stuff is going on right now with several other plates spinning in the air. I’m working on an Advanced Kids Comic Workshop and have summer camps lined up, and Girl Scout classes as well as an update on my new comic. Check it out below!

ADVANCED KIDS COMIC WORKSHOP
First, as you can see by the photo, I’m finally working on an outline for an Advanced Kids Comic Workshop! I get a huge amount of requests from parents for this but for a long time I’ve pounded my head against my desk (more…)