Ardian’s on Batman: BLACKEST NIGHT blankets Gotham City in this 3-issue miniseries from writer Peter J. Tomasi (GREEN LANTERN CORPS, THE MIGHTY) and hot new talent Adrian Syaf!

Holy crap holy crap HOLY CRAP

*dances and dances and DANCES*

I knew it, I knew it, I *knew* it. I *knew* he’d hit the big leagues when I opened up the very first email with ( Read more... )

I had a dream in the middle of the night that Ardian had gotten a huge gig with one of the big comic book companies and I was so excited about it I woke myself up. *laughs and laughs*

I got paid today. We’ve been putting off buying a new desktop computer for over a year (Ted’s crashed … a long time ago, and mine crashed a year ago January and then ( Read more... )

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I suspect, but I do not know for certain, that other writers do the same thing I do when working on copy edits, which is to say, they talk back at the copy editor. “How *dare* you remove my italics,” I say (out loud). (This is an important moment for this character. It *requires* italics.) “No,” I say out loud, “I don’t *want* an em-dash there.” ( ( Read more... )

Ok, Chance #5 is finished. This is good, because it's the last issue Ardian's going to be able to draw, due to him having gone off and gotten a real job with the Dabel Brothers. I wanted to be able to finish the storyline with his artwork, so I ended up changing the end of the story (which needed to be changed because the story itself had strayed ( Read more... )

Ok, the name has been dropped on the Jim Butcher forums so I am damned well taking that as carte blanche to SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Ardian Syaf, the artist I've been working with on Chance, is GOING TO BE THE DRESDEN ARTIST!

I heard about the Dresden comic early enough to be able to say, "Er, do they have an artist? Because I know this really ( Read more... )

Arright, we're going up to Bray for Dad's birthday, which is tomorrow. I'm more or less giving myself the next couple days off, consequently, although I'm going to try to get the TPC proposal done.

In the meantime, go look at Ardian's completely delightful "Supes & Fanboy" sketch. I love my artist. :)

I've got all but one page for issue 3 of Chance now. (Crap, I'm going to *have* to write the 5th and 6th issues soon!)

( page 19, because it is just So. Damned. Cool. )

Ted and I made bbq pulled pork sandwiches for dinner last night (which is to say, he did everything else and I made the bbq sauce, which is how it works in our house. He keeps asking me for the bbq sauce recipe, but given that I just fling it together (ie: you put in enough ketchup, then add honey until it looks like the right amount. Then you ( Read more... )

I still have a whole thing I want to write about regarding the creation process of a comic book, but I'm waiting until I've got colors and letters for the whole first 5 pages before I do that, so I can make this whole thing with showing the step by step process I've gone through ( Read more... )