http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=148527
The interview is with creator Joshua Hagler who lets me help him letter this cool 10 issue mini series about a boy who lost the ability to hear but becomes something of an enigma in his home town.
Includes many a cool picture. Go check it out! This is a fine arts comic you won't want to miss. It won the Xeric Grant in 2006.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Thursday, February 21, 2008
New personal lettering record
4 hours and 30 minutes to letter the 22 pages of Grimm Fairy Tales #24 from Zenescope.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Printers with non-resumable, web based file uploads. GAH!
Today is printfile upload day at AAM/Markosia. We have a total of four books going to print this month which total 352.3MB - actually, it's probably gonna be more like 450MB, but one interior file goes up later.
Anyway, our printer has this nice web interface where you select your files, put in the job ID, company, and reply to email, and then woosh, it goes up to their server.
Except there's no "woosh" involved whatsoever.
First off, the interface can't deal with Firefox. I have to switch to IE or get my uploads canceled after a mere 10MB. Fortunately, you can emulate IE with an extension in Firefox.
Next, while I have a maximum upload speed of 125kb/s, this server caps me at around 30kb/s. So I'm twiddling my thumbs for the longest time while this shit goes up, and have to listen to this weird "clicking" noise every time a chunk is successfully transferred.
So then it was a few hours later, and I checked the stupid window. 97.8% were done. And what happens? My internet cuts out during the remaining 2.2% and I have to start all over again!
I usually prefer to get everything up at once so nothing gets lost, but now I decided to split this upload into two sessions. Which will have me up half the night while I've got a rather high fever.
Good times!
Anyway, our printer has this nice web interface where you select your files, put in the job ID, company, and reply to email, and then woosh, it goes up to their server.
Except there's no "woosh" involved whatsoever.
First off, the interface can't deal with Firefox. I have to switch to IE or get my uploads canceled after a mere 10MB. Fortunately, you can emulate IE with an extension in Firefox.
Next, while I have a maximum upload speed of 125kb/s, this server caps me at around 30kb/s. So I'm twiddling my thumbs for the longest time while this shit goes up, and have to listen to this weird "clicking" noise every time a chunk is successfully transferred.
So then it was a few hours later, and I checked the stupid window. 97.8% were done. And what happens? My internet cuts out during the remaining 2.2% and I have to start all over again!
I usually prefer to get everything up at once so nothing gets lost, but now I decided to split this upload into two sessions. Which will have me up half the night while I've got a rather high fever.
Good times!
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Another Starship Troopers #5 review - and this time I'm credited!
http://www.whatevercomics.co.uk/news/Archives/feb08/batseyeviewst.htm
Starship Troopers #5
Bad Blood Part 1
By Cy Dethan, Paul Green & Thomas Mauer.
“Shame me, and I will piss bullets down your throats until you are very, very sorry”
And with dialogue like this you sure as hell know you are in for a ride.
Apparently this is not only the first published work for Cy Dethan but
also for artist Paul Green, and this effort is something that they
should both be very proud of, I know I would be.
The writers dialogue seems to have a really nice flow to it and at no
time did I find myself flipping back a couple of pages to see if I had
somehow missed something, it tells the story with the minimum of fuss
but also with a certain flair that makes me wonder “ if this is what he
is capable of while working within the tight perimeters of a licence
then what is he capable of given a complete free hand” time will tell,
and from what I have seen so far the future is bright, and we may well
have another Miller, Brubaker, Bendis, Ellis on our hands.
On to the art.
The first thing that strikes me about Paul’s art is how shinny it
is, it as if its lit up with hidden lights, I could have sworn that it
would glow in the dark, but it doesn’t, I tried it, the art is very
cool, and doesn’t seem to lend anything from anyone else, although I am
sure others will be lending from Paul before long.
As a sum up, the whole comic comes across as a labour of love
rather than a page rate grind, and the only gripe I had was the it all
ended to soon, I want more damm it, more.
Now on to a score, bearing in mind that this is a first published
work, and that it is working within the perimeters of a licence I am
going to give it a solid…
9/10
Starship Troopers #5
Bad Blood Part 1
By Cy Dethan, Paul Green & Thomas Mauer.
“Shame me, and I will piss bullets down your throats until you are very, very sorry”
And with dialogue like this you sure as hell know you are in for a ride.
Apparently this is not only the first published work for Cy Dethan but
also for artist Paul Green, and this effort is something that they
should both be very proud of, I know I would be.
The writers dialogue seems to have a really nice flow to it and at no
time did I find myself flipping back a couple of pages to see if I had
somehow missed something, it tells the story with the minimum of fuss
but also with a certain flair that makes me wonder “ if this is what he
is capable of while working within the tight perimeters of a licence
then what is he capable of given a complete free hand” time will tell,
and from what I have seen so far the future is bright, and we may well
have another Miller, Brubaker, Bendis, Ellis on our hands.
On to the art.
The first thing that strikes me about Paul’s art is how shinny it
is, it as if its lit up with hidden lights, I could have sworn that it
would glow in the dark, but it doesn’t, I tried it, the art is very
cool, and doesn’t seem to lend anything from anyone else, although I am
sure others will be lending from Paul before long.
As a sum up, the whole comic comes across as a labour of love
rather than a page rate grind, and the only gripe I had was the it all
ended to soon, I want more damm it, more.
Now on to a score, bearing in mind that this is a first published
work, and that it is working within the perimeters of a licence I am
going to give it a solid…
9/10
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Monday, February 04, 2008
Woohoo! First Starship Troopers #5 review!
http://www.comicsvillage.com/review.aspx?reviewID=126
While investigating Anachnid activity, Elite Pathfinder platoon, Vanuakens Vandals discovers much more than they expected.
New writer Cy Dethan and new artist Paul Green take the reigns for Markosia's flagship comic Starship Troopers. Cy Dethan clearly has a different take on the Starship Troopers franchise than Tony Lee and whereas I felt Lee tried to focus on human emotions, Dethan seems to be expanding the universe.
Which, at this point, is exactly what the comic needed. Dethan is clearly trying to go beyond the original premise of the book and the movies and create an expanded vision. He's right to do so. The comic was in danger of becoming stagnant, but bringing in new species, units and people, Dethan manages to push the comic forward in new directions.
In addition, his writing is good. Nothing here makes me doubt that Dethan is a good fit for the writing duties on the title.
Now to the art. The art is absolutely beautiful! The artist takes his stylish line art to the next level with the use of computer technologies for things like mist and light beams but somehow he manages not to overdo it and create a overly glossy soulless style.
In places, the artwork is absolutely breathtaking.
All in all, it's an auspicious start to the new look Starship Troopers. I was going to give it a 9, but I think I'll upgrade it to a 10.
10
While investigating Anachnid activity, Elite Pathfinder platoon, Vanuakens Vandals discovers much more than they expected.
New writer Cy Dethan and new artist Paul Green take the reigns for Markosia's flagship comic Starship Troopers. Cy Dethan clearly has a different take on the Starship Troopers franchise than Tony Lee and whereas I felt Lee tried to focus on human emotions, Dethan seems to be expanding the universe.
Which, at this point, is exactly what the comic needed. Dethan is clearly trying to go beyond the original premise of the book and the movies and create an expanded vision. He's right to do so. The comic was in danger of becoming stagnant, but bringing in new species, units and people, Dethan manages to push the comic forward in new directions.
In addition, his writing is good. Nothing here makes me doubt that Dethan is a good fit for the writing duties on the title.
Now to the art. The art is absolutely beautiful! The artist takes his stylish line art to the next level with the use of computer technologies for things like mist and light beams but somehow he manages not to overdo it and create a overly glossy soulless style.
In places, the artwork is absolutely breathtaking.
All in all, it's an auspicious start to the new look Starship Troopers. I was going to give it a 9, but I think I'll upgrade it to a 10.
10
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Saturday, February 02, 2008
PopGun vol. 1 reviewd on G4's Attack of the Show!
http://www.g4tv.com/pile_player.aspx?video_key=20053
"You'll want to buy this for the art, not for the writing" is a weird thing to say, but fuck it. This plug made PopGun the #3 Image book on Amazon and we're at around place 11,000 of roughly 5,000,000 books offered on their site. Nice!
Also, toward the end of the clip, you can see the first page of Deadeye with the dead nun. That means I was on Attack of the Show, sort of. :D
"You'll want to buy this for the art, not for the writing" is a weird thing to say, but fuck it. This plug made PopGun the #3 Image book on Amazon and we're at around place 11,000 of roughly 5,000,000 books offered on their site. Nice!
Also, toward the end of the clip, you can see the first page of Deadeye with the dead nun. That means I was on Attack of the Show, sort of. :D
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