Thursday, April 15, 2010

Batter Up Monkey Boy....


Some days you just want to hit something. Well, most days lately it seems. But this evening was fairly productive. I am working on the next illustration for the KiGor pulp story. After all you can't beat stone age weapon wielding mandrills for fun! I am having some trouble fitting all the action into this format that I like. I also have to consider the center fold of the book. I personally don't like the art going into the fold and never coming back out. So I am trying to keep the action on sides with the least important items in the center, or the fold. I have seen books where people don't pay much attention to that and it really drives me nuts. Especially when it is an art book, or a comic with those big double page spreads.
I am also hot at work writing the first full Captain Spectre issue. I had some good ideas floating around today while I was working at the day job stuff. Thank goodness they can't control my mind while I work, I am sure they have tried. I think it will be a fun story.

5 comments:

  1. One of the scientists is going to have to point out that the mandrill's are primates not monkeys...loved the line though!

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  2. Socrates.....I was actually thinking that might be what the mandrills said to the humans......we are the monkey boys.....ha.

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  3. Action has a new name...Tom Floyd!
    Awesome fight scene! A very good example of kill or be killed.

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  4. Not to be picky, but my science background is stepping in for a moment.

    First off, monkeys ARE primates. Secondly, because of their large size, mandrills are often thought to be apes, but they are actually an Old World monkey.

    It's really a lot more complicated, but that is currently how zoology catalogs these creatures.

    MP

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