"Au Plaisir --

-- tocard!"

Got a copy of a French comics magazine called Strange in the mail today. Here's me looking at it:




It contains six pages of an adventure serial I'm writing called Venturesome Motes with art by Chris Malgrain, Pierre Minne, Reed Man, and Virginie Blancher (translated by Jean Depelley), as well as a hefty helping of Jack Kirby characters, dinosaurs, and even some Myth of 8-Opus courtesy of Tom Scioli. The French make nice looking books, so getting this makes a great beginning to the new year.

(Click the image to enlarge it... tocard!)

Venturesome Colours

One of my long-simmering comics projects, VENTURESOME MOTES, has moved to the colour stage.

So pretty!

The first two pages are structured as gags -- first the guy on foot is overtaken by a dogsled, then uses a snow-mobile to outrace the dogsled.

The tough part for me is that I'm working backwards on this project, adding captions and dialogue after the pages are drawn, which means every word I choose to add is going to cover up a piece of the artwork.

Brevity: can I achieve it? And what in the world should I make everybody say?