Whew! Issue one has been one hell of a ride! It took over 28 years to realize this dream. I am extremely grateful to everyone who has been supporting me by letting a 40 year old noodle on a comic book that is probably going no where. A big thanks to the gang at Fantasium […]
This is what we call a “montage.” Strictly speaking, we see a whole lot of time pass by in one page. There is a story behind the villains on this page, and if this whole web comic thing works out, I might even get to tell them! This was originally page 21 back in my […]
So this page returns to “traditional media.” This story very much evolved in bits and pieces over a 30 year time span. I want to say that I penciled this page around 2012 and inked it by hand in 2013. I was still very much into that cross hatching, James O’Barr look. I still dig […]
Page 20 is actually an addition the original story. I felt like I needed a quiet scene between my hero and his mentor. This may sound corny, but a child’s belief in you is very powerful. To a child, an adult is a fearsome and powerful thing to behold. This is a lesson I have […]
In Amazing Spider-Man #1, Peter Parker fantasizes about a life of crime in order to help his sick aunt. Spoiler alert! Peter feels responsible for the death of his Uncle Ben. Since our hero has no sick aunt or dead uncle to feel guilty over, he indulges in a 12-13 year old’s coolest fantasy. For […]
Page 18 is another page from one of my sketch books. This one also features new lettering and more “digital surgery.” I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that the ambulance in the bottom left corner is on loan from a 3 hour comic book challenge that I participated in a few months ago. […]
This page comes from a time when I was attempting to ape the style of James O’Barr of The Crow. I have always been a fan of cross hatching, but I have since adopted a cleaner style as evidenced by digital “surgery” in the upper left of this page. Here, our hero comments on the plot […]
I have been doing more experimenting with re-doing my original attempts to publish this comic. For a look at my first attempt check out castlecomics@tumblr.com. Back in those days, I was still using my stick down lettering and hand drawing the balloons. This page is a bit of a nod to the old Batman TV […]
The hero revealed! Pg. 15 represents many attempts to get it right. For the full story behind this page, check out castlecomics@tumblr.com or @Castlecomics11 over on Twitter. One of the cool things about working digitally is that I no longer have to live with pages that didn’t quite measure up in my mind of how […]
Ok, confession time. This page is every bullied kid’s fantasy. While I personally didn’t encounter too much bullying in junior high, there were a few, ahem, interesting kids to whom I harbored Walter Mitty like fantasies of dispatching with my new found superpowers. These thoughts are especially chilling in light of the school shootings that […]