Ah. The nightmare! This page comes from 2002, inked in 2013. I was doing some really cool things with layouts at the time. In 2002, I finally decided to just draw my story whether I could render it the way I saw it or not. Just tell the story I said to myself. And I […]
Ah! Another “Frankenpage.” This page had quite a bit of digital “surgery” in the lower left corner. The other “boo boo” I made was the German spelling of nein. I originally spelled it “nine.” And up that went in the dreaded comic sans onto Tumblr. It stayed misspelled for about a year before a friend […]
This is what I call a “Frankenpage.” So this was my process: I drew this page in late 2002 in an 81/2 by 11 inch sketch book. Rather than re-draw it, I enlarged it to 11 x 17 on a copy machine. This was 2012. I than inked the page by hand and lettered it […]
In response to criticism about the villain of Basic Instinct being a lesbian, Michael Douglass had this to say: “Someone has to be the bad guy and it can’t always be the Italians.” Vying for the top spot of most overused bad guy in film, literature or comics is no doubt the Nazis. It is well […]
This page is a homage to Peanuts. One of the cool things about the Peanut’s strip is that it was a kid’s view of the world. The reader almost never SAW the adults. So it is here…
This is one of my favorite pages in the book. Despite it being rather simply rendered, there is a lot of depth to it in terms of composition. This also features some of my early attempts to hand letter. My original goal was to do an old fashioned comic book with old fashioned tools. I […]
This is another page from way back in the day. If I had to guess, I drew this in late 2002 and inked it in 2012. I had a lot of fun writing the dialogue to be sure.
So here is page six with preppy spelled right and better lettering overall.
This is another page from early in the genesis of Nightstik. Hopefully, the digital surgery I did won’t be too noticeable. Oh, and what the hell was Pete Carol thinking?! Hand off to Lynch!
So you might be wondering from time to time why some pages look better than others. The answer is I did not draw these in order. Page 4 was drawn about five years ago while the preceding pages were drawn fairly recently. I have obviously improved.