New Comics Project: DEUCE
I have a project called DEUCE in the works. Written by me, art by the omnipotent Nic Hunter (my collaborator for the WORK! anthology and a couple of other short stories).
Ok, I admit it--DEUCE isn't really a new project. It started out a screenplay that I wrote when I was studying script writing in college. But it's been a pet project ever since, in various different incarnations. It's one of those projects that I just need to see through.
I was talking to Nic about pitching a GN or a miniseries and this was the concept he liked best out of the dozen or so I hit him with, so I reformatted the first part of the script into comics form. He liked it, so I turned out a complete first issue.
It's a difficult piece. Nic did layouts for the first issue/chapter and there were problems. It's a challenging story to draw as well as to write and I have to admit, Nic kicked my arse when it came to doing his part. I rewrote it, he redid the thumbs and offered some new ideas. I rewrote it again, he went and adjusted everything yet again...
We spent two months planning out the first issue, but we've now settled on the layouts and Nic is off drawing it. I think it's looking shit hot; couldn't be happier with it. In the meantime, I've a first draft of the second issue down.
It helps that I have the screenplay version, but it's really just as much work to reformat that into comics as it is to write new script--there are traps to fall into when making the transformation and I think I hit every single one of them in the first issue. Hopefully I've avoided most of them this time around; I will continue to blog about that effort as I go, and I'll also show off some pages as they come in.
Peace out,
-- JF