Rough Pearl Page 14: A Dangerous Topic

This week, Anna is horrified.

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Moon Prince Page 99: Fear and Determination

This week, an ultimatum is delivered, and a decision is taken.

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Yet Another Process Post

This time I've made a little animation to show how the cover of my "sampled" comic Captain Adam was done, way back in 1992. The final cover is shown as well as the source collage, which is made from bits and pieces of other comics that I cut up into a big pile, then went fishing through to make a new "story". You can read the whole piece here if you're interested.

Rough Pearl Page 13: The Guests

This week, guests arrive for dinner.

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Moon Prince Page 98: An Unsettling Accusation

This week, things take a turn for the creepy!

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Yet Another Process Post

Here's a behind the scenes peek at the creation of a page of The Moon Prince - page 78, in this case. It starts off with the rough "thumbnails" sketch, just done on printer paper with pen, then shows the photo-collage (with 3D backgrounds) I made for the page, starring myself and my wife Melissa as all the characters. Next comes the drawing I did based on the photo-collage, and then the color and tones, and finally the word balloons and "gutters" (borders between the panels):

Stay tuned for this Friday's episode!

Rough Pearl Page 12: Hearth and Home

This week, Adam is ready for a nice relaxing dinner.

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Moon Prince Page 97: Only a Lad

This week, Max gets dissed.

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Plugs Galore

The day has started with two nice mentions of Fantastic Life!

Tom Spurgeon was kind enough to announce its imminent arrival in comics stores over at The Comics Reporter, and Chris Arrant made it his lead item in this week's "Food or Comics?" at Comic Book Resources.

Rough Pearl Page 11: Life in the Hood

This week: paranoia, bitterness, etc.

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Moon Prince Page 96: The Moon Pirates

This week, the Moon Pirates manifest themselves!

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Bat People on the Moon?

While we're waiting for this Friday's action packed installment of the Moon Prince, I thought it might be fun to show you a few of my influences in writing this part of the story. The idea to have bat-people on the Moon actually goes back all the way to 1835, to a famous hoax published in the old New York Sun that claimed astronomers had spotted creatures on the lunar surface using an enormous new telescope. Wonderful drawings of these bat-men were published and caused a huge stir at the time. Here are a few of them:

You can read a fascinating article about the Great Moon Hoax here.

And my list of influences for this part of the story wouldn't be complete without mentioning Jack Kirby's great comics series Kamandi the Last Boy on Earth, which I devoured as a kid. The ninth issue of the story featured bat people battling astronauts in a balloon! Here's the cover (you can click on any of these images for larger versions):