James, I was thinking about the comic book and had two images in my head that I thought "hey it would be great if I could show these the James and tell him my thoughts about how they relate to the comic book" then I thought a blog might be a good way to accomplish that.
I've been working on the comic book more recently. I went back through and re-worked the story to fit the form of a graphic novel and I've done that up to the point where the written version stops. I've changed a lot, and there are some things character-wise and image-wise that I am really excited about.
That was last week. This weekend I put a stack of printer paper in a folder and have been starting to plan out the actual page layouts. I've realized a few things since then: 1. I am an awful artist. Man, I suck. I am sitting in a coffee shop right now with the pages i've done spread out on a bench in front of me and I am embarrassed for anyone to see them. We are talking stick figures and little dots and scratch marks. 2. There is a lot of theory that is going to have to develop if this project is going to become like what I am envisioning. questions like "how do you arrange the frames in the page?" and "how do you put text on a page and deal with dialogue?"
I've got some thoughts on that and (if this blog idea doesn't turn out to be a dud) maybe we can work some of that out on here.
Thoughts?
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Hey Andy,
I think that this would be a great way to share ideas. I would like to see your layout ideas and read what you are envisioning. So if you could scan and post a basic outline for me, then I'll try to draft up some full page versions.
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