After a month or so of sneaking in drawings here and there, I’ve finally completed my first minicomic – Rag the Viking! Even though I did the drawing and produced the comic, It’s really a collaboration between myself and Steve Ogden. Steve had the basic idea, from which I wrote the full script. He also had the original Rag design, too. You can see Steve’s original character drawings and direction for me at the Wishtales Rag page.
The minicomic was made to have available at our SPACE table come April. But I will be making it available to those of you who would like a copy. The cost will be small, probably $2.00 (plus shipping – which should be cheap, it’s small and light.)
All that is left is for me to produce them. I have to make a few small tweaks to the final images, then have them run off and cut and staple them all together. Once they are ready, I’ll put them on the store page.
Rag the Viking is the story of a typical office man who has dreams beyond his typical daily experience.
I really dig the art in this. You did an awesome job man! Is this going to be available outside of the Con?
Thanks Matt! Steve advised me quite a bit on spotting blacks and character development. Helped me stretch my skills a bit.
Yes it will be available as soon as I have them printed up. I should have them within a week.
Great job, congratulations. Working in black and white is a bit different from what your usual Marooned strip. Was the lack of color a challenge?
It was indeed. As I said, Steve helped a lot to suggest things to do and give me examples. I took to it a bit as things went along. I have a lot to learn, but it was fun and challenging. I’m actually happy with the result.
I’ve started using spot blacks more with my stuff. It’s really amazing how much that helps. It gives the image a certain amount of graphical…balance…or something. I dunno, It just ends up looking more deliberate….
…I am using weird words to describe this thing…