All Color WITH the Black

Here's some oldies but goodies, from my hyper realistic phase, the life drawing phase of my life, which happened around 2000-2001

All were done in a life drawing class

Man of the Coth - Fashion Wizard

G8 Cartoonists Summit: List Time: The Most Famous Cartoonists Ever

The Most Famous Cartoonists in the World
That's a Lot!

[warning: this list will probably be amended, to add forgotten names]

·       Walt Disney

·       Windsor McCay

·       John Lasseter

·       Moebius

·       Osamu Tezuka

·       Katsuhiro Otomo

·       Bill Watterson

·       Tim Burton

·       Todd McFarlane

·       Jhonen Vasquez

·       Hayao Miyazaki

·       Yoshitoshi ABe

·       Jeff Smith

·       Dave Sim

·       Scott McCloud

·       Chuck Jones

·       Butch Hartman

·       Lauryn Faust

·       Genndy Tartakovsky

·       Craig McCracken

·       Bill Plympton

·       LeSean Thomas

·       Aaron McGruder

·       Bryan Konietzko

·       Michael Dante Dimartino

·       Eric Fogel

·       Danny Antonucci

·       Matt Groening

·       Akira Toriyama

·       Eichiro Oda

·       Musashi Kishimoto

·       Satoshi Tajiri

·       Charles M Schulz

·       Rintaro

·       Peter Chung

·       CLAMP

·       Seth McFarlane

·       Trey Parker

·       Matt Stone

·       Alex Toth

·       Yoshiyuki Tomino

·       Yoshiyuki Sadamoto

·       Hiroaki Samura

·       Paul Pope

·       Ralph Bakshi

·       Chynna Major

·       Mike Mignola

·       Bruce Timm

·       Frank Cho

·       Richard Scary

·       John Buscema

·       Jim Mahfood

·       Kris Prynoski

·       Rob Schrab

·       Evan Dorkin

·       Brendan Small

·       Masamune Shirow

·       Friz Freleng

·       Kosuke Fujishima

·       Ted Naifeh

·       Will Eisner

·       Herge

·       Enki Bilal

·       Stan Sakai

·       Ben Edlund

·       Steve Purcell

·       Kevin Eastman

·       Peter Laird

·       Robert Crumb

·       Jim Davis

·       Mike Judge

·       JK Rowling

·       Jim Lee

·       Joe Mad

·       Tex Avery

·       John K

·       Joe Hannah

·       William Barbera

·       Shinichiro Watanabe

·       Leiji Matsumoto

·       Rankin / Bass

·       Thomas Romain

·       Dr. Seuss

·       Gary Larson

·       Ralph Steadman

·       Hiromu Arakawa

·       Naoki Urasawa

·       Alejandro Jodorowsky

·       Glen Keane

·       Man of Action

·       Fung Chin Pang

·       Min Woo Hyung

·       FSc

·       Mamoru Oshii

·       Kasuya Minekura

·       Hiroyuki Imaishi

·       Corey Jackson

·       Henry Darger

·        Alex Grey

·        Edward Gorey

·        Maurice Sendak

I've only written beginnings to my novels so far. But this is one of my all time favorite pieces of Narration and World Building

END TIMES

New Earth

History of The Apocalypse

It is the Year 3007, Earth has just entered Third Millennium, when the End Times War breaks out, ravaging the landscape and society nearly as savagely as The First and Second Earth Wars.

A figure of terror and evil emerges in the New-Earth Era. A Nameless Warlord referred to by the government and media as simply “Nosferatu”. Nosferatu becomes the leader of a cultist, Satanic, and terrorist uprising in the New-Earth Era, leaving death, suffering, destruction, and cultural devastation in his wake, where he is strongly suspected to be the Antichrist Figure foretold, written, and read about in ancient international prophecy.

Post-3007, an eventual military and government in numerous countries are established in the wake of the destroyed (Earth 1) Allied World Nations Foundation. The Allied World Nations Foundation II is responsible for the enormous task of assisting the New Earth Builders Society in the transition from Post-Earth-1 to New-Earth.

In the Wake of Earth Wars I and II, and in the Rise of the End Times War, paramilitary United Forces Task Force is established to maintain Law and Justice on New-Earth. The main reason for the Paramilitary Espionage-and-Defense Task Force: It’s name: Shadow Op Seven. Its task is to Defend New-Earth against the threat of a supernatural organized terrorist organization that refers to itself simply as The Fallen, led by the Man With Many Names known to both The Fallen and Shadow Operative 7, as Nosferatu.

Shadow Operative Seven recruits a mysterious and powerful warrior, believed by ancient prophecy and the New-Earth government to be a Divine Warrior who will bring Light to the World one day. His government name: Mono Jubei. He wields numerous weapons, and wears a government uniform that takes the form of a mystical coat. He is believed to be the only warrior powerful enough to stand up to and destroy Nosferatu

Jay's TV Expose, Coming Soon...

Brian Johnston, Viacom, and MSNBC's “To Catch a Predator”, Chris Hanson, Fox News, and the use of American Mainstream Television Programming, (internet) Message Boards, Art Communities online, Blogs, Chatrooms used as a “Political Propaganda Weapon” against the general public by modern day witch hunter neo-Nazi conservatives. Similar to how the Nazis utilized film propaganda in World War II during the 40s. 

END TIMES: COMICS: PRE-PRODUCTION MAKE UP TIME

After a rumor of a hiatus that turn out to be true, I'm hitting the blank pages again.

And END TIMES COMICS pre-production work is actually catching back up to speed, now that there are fewer noisy distraction in my life. Things are less chaotic and unpredictable in my life now,

As a  result the work is going more smoothly.

For instance, instead of finishing only 1 or 2 layout pages, I finished 14 story-respecting layout pages in one day, to be redrawn and revised probably pretty soon.

My emphasis is on narrative and storytelling more than art currently, now more than ever.

Facts, for the FANS that you might not know...

2 years ago in 2012, I worked on and finished the 1st-3rd drafts of a pilot script adaptation for END TIMES, that I wrote entirely  by myself. I contacted L.A. Agencies and never heard  back, so as far as I know the distribution, publishing, and adaptation license and rights to END TIMES are still owned by and belong to me.

I used that pilot script as the basis for the current comic book storyline I am illustrating and adapting to the page (comics page layouts) FROM the page (script/screenplay).

I'm also planning out entire pages at a time with lots of simple roughs as a guide, instead of trying to be all "fancy" and flesh out each individual panel, on the SPOT, which is what I've done with my comic books I've produced up till this time and method. It's ALL about the storytelling and narrative. If you only do 1 panel at a time and not a layout for the whole page, it's more difficult to know where your story is going. Layouts and outlines function as a safety net to keep the manga author on track, and not get lost in the pre-production process too much. SIMILAR to storyboards, but with more overall panels and varying panel sizes...

i am about as far from retiring, quitting, or "giving up" on END TIMES as one author can get...

'Tis pretty ironic to think how lacking my page layout construction strategy was when I first started drawing comics. I constructed my old comics one random panel at a time, which might explain why my early comics look flung together. They kind of were! haha ha.

But now I'm applying strategy and construction to my pages. No panel, or line of narration, dialogue, or page layout proportion is going un-analyzed and unplanned before I commit to it. And once all that is decided....I'm  tending to spend more time on the actual panel illustration process, and more time referring back to my dialogue, action, and scene outline/description in my script. Trying to 1 comic book page without planning and scripting of at least 1 sort or more is a lot like trying to drive on a surface where there's no cement to drive on, because it hasn't been BUILT yet. Not the easiest of methods. But now that I'm aware of it, it's gotten quite a bit less tedious. Everything kind of falls into place with organization and planning.

A comic book first draft needs layouts, thumbs, and thumb layouts for panels and entire pages for the same reason a good script and novel need good scene structure and preliminary outlines. It's just easier and more likely to be finished in a professional manner that way.  

-fin.

See kids. Even OTOMO eats his thumbnail vegetables......

See kids, if you want to draw comics for a living, before hand near indecipherable thumbnails no one understands but you and your imagination, is a necessary part of life.

I finished around 9 pages of story-inspired artwork today. No more of that random crap...

Well, HOPEFULLY no more random ideas. Well, not as many anyway....