Saturday, November 10, 2007

Time for rest...

Remember when I said things were quite and we had caught up? I lied. We got busy again. Things have been non-stop since France. Both in regards to work and personal lives. Eric and I were both very sick after the trip, and a flurry of rewrites were necessary during said illnesses. Apparently there is a big meeting early this coming week and all the material we had created so far required fine tuning beforehand.

It was exhausting. I feel good though. Other than the lingering dread of being very ill, that is. We have completed four full scripts (with some nice co-writing assistance on one from our friend Chris Brandt) and have about two more halfway completed.

We're lucky the writers strike doesn't affect us. Not just because we're not yet members of the guild, but because of the nature of the project. A few things shifted slightly differently and we could be very out of work.

Now we really do have time to rest. But I don't really like to rest. I prefer being busy. Alas.

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This is an old image. The first back cover to the Super Scary Monster Show comic. But I'm fond of it, and I've been doing some reworking of the Allen the Alien character lately after watching "The Thing". We'll see how well all that cinematic horror and dread translate to cute and irritating.

Once again, the line art is by Eric Jones. But this one was colored by Michael (Rusty) Drake. I miss collaborating with Rusty. We need to work on a new project together.

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Phone calls and deadlines...

I received a phone call yesterday. It contained information that was not what I wanted to hear. Not a big deal, necessarily. But it requires me to change my thinking on a few things.

We're now caught up with all the post France work we were assigned. It wasn't alot. The next week or two will be spent in a limbo like state while things outside of our own ability to control spiral as they are wont to do. November will be an interesting month for us.

We're starting to put together the Super Scary Monster Show trade paperback. I should really spend some of my down time working on that.