CCN - Round 2?

Juiceboy

So I know there is a lot of focus on the D2D challenge right now but I was wondering if anyone knew when the next round of CCN would be happening? Is this going to start up after D2D?

Also, based on what I am seeing re: CCN Round 1 winners and the development of their books I was wondering if there were any projected release dates? Will a bunch be released all at once in a Shock and Awe type deal or will each one come out as it is released? Will this be a [...]

AW Update #8

Yen

July 1st. Ho-lee-crap. Where did the spring go?

Fellow Vancouverites might agree with me when I say, who cares where the spring went, as long as it stays like this for a while! (We've had it coming, people.)

I haven't been posting about Abigail much, I know. It just seemed like updates would be saying the same-old, same-old for a while -- Sandrine's hard at workas the lone artist on this book, and producing amazing, well, art. I mean... you could frame and hang some of [...]

Deutschmaschine nearing completion

Fetternity

Creating a comic seems easy. Writing it is a labor of love indulged by a dream-like trance.

Editing it.... not so much. Thank Cthulhu (Ïa! Ïa Dagon! Ïa Cthulhu!!) that this team is very open and talented. Ladies and gentlemen, the hard-working artists behind Deutschmaschine:

I stated before that the first version of Gabriele by Santiago scared mea bit. And he put that fear to rest swiftly. His pages are structurally sound, very solid and clean work. I don't [...]

It's Friday! Isn't it?

Tenzil Kem

I don't know about the rest of you out there but it feels like Friday around here (Saturday soon as the minutes click towards midnight). So what? you ask. So plenty! Isn't there supposed to be a new winner of CCN:APTN this evening? I mean I think I read that somewhere, though maybe that's been changed and I just didn't get the memo. Anyway, if the contest is over for the week, congratulations to someone, and if it isn't than keep trying!

AW Update #7

Yen

Welly welly welly. Lots has happened since my last update... the NSI PlayWriters came and went -- holy crap, that looked like fun. Can't wait to hear more about it!

I went on holiday in Oregon for 10 days, and came back engaged. Yay! Did you know they have no sales tax in Oregon? Also yay!

And, as you may have heard , Sandrine has finished the pencils for Abigail's War. They are knocking Robert & I out! Damn, it's going to be exciting to see them in colour. [...]

AW Update #6

Yen

I've given up on the weekly thing. That was probably madness.

Nothing about comics is really weekly, I'm learning.

Things have been picking up steam with Abigail's War. Sandrine is producing page after page of beautiful pencils. I believe she's working at pages 7 and 8 now, and 1-6 aren't going to change much before colours. Yay! Check out Robert's update here.

I still feel like I'm learning so much. I'm learning to give feedback faster, and m [...]

Week X - Deuschmaschine

Fetternity

(disclaimer: enormous blog post with loads of pictures)

I write Week X because, in all honesty, I have no idea how long it’s been since Jive-A-Tastic Julian Lawrence received the assignment of editing Deutschmaschine. Time has been evolving at a strange pace since the appearance of the Keeper of the Gate and Key on that edition of The Gutter…

However, now I figured I might as well talk about it a bit now, hu [...]

APTN CCN

Fetternity

This is awesome!! CCN goes Aboriginal!

And what a neat idea, too. I literally cannot wait to see what gets produced! :)

Week 5, 6... wait, what update is this?

Yen

I haven't blogged about the process on Abigail's War for a couple of weeks... sorry 'bout that! Truth is, there hasn't been much drama. Just a steady production process that has now officially produced Page X .

We needed to take a bit longer with it because, well, so many important decisions needed to be made along the way! Through the script and the Vis Doc, I'd outlined all kinds of details... the tone of the book (different in flashbacks and the present time), bal [...]

Making time

Fetternity

...ooooh boy am I fat... Why is it that every time I want to order something relatively healthy to be delivered at work it's always 1) a jacuzzi-sized platter and 2) loaded with everything that makes it tasty too easily, i.e. fat, sugars and salt?

Anyway.

I'm saying this because I need the fat and energy; I'm running on pretty low batteries right now. Everyone except my girlfriend and I have or are currently sick with the flu or a vicious cold or something, and I'm [...]

Discussions

Fetternity

I have a Livejournal, but I usually talk more about my art-related feelings here. Maybe I should x-post once in a while.

Subject the First: Bill Cosby releases a hip-hop album
This got me furiously amused. He's now what, 90? Hip-hop? All I could do is walk around the office spreading the news to my employees and we got so many laughs over it. Even African-Americans around the office were amused. One was amused, too, but she also pointed out the strongly-critical vie [...]

Lucky number twelve

Ruroshen

Wow, what a crazy week, huh?

I’d call it a roller coaster, but I suspect now that roller coasters will seem pretty tame compared to the experience of the past few days. November’s Song was going up and down so much, I thought I was going to be seasick. I don’t know how closely the rest of you were following the CCCN charts, but I was checking the page on as close to an hourly basis as I could manage over the weekend…and on the [...]

Polymath self-pressure

Fetternity

A little blogging about ambitions and goals.

When I started high school, I wanted to be an architect. I felt that would have been a good life. Designing buildings and their interior, structuring the whole thing, you know?
Then my Sec. I career orientation teacher informed me that being an architect also involved in-depth and specialized knowledge of physics and chemistry as part of it all.

That threw the whole idea right out the window.

Onward, it became [...]

Polarity

Ivy Crow

Hello everyone!

I'm leaving a quick word here to say that I finally uploaded Polarity in its entirety. I had been adding pages every so often, but given its current ranking I decided to put the whole script up. So, those who were waiting for more pages to review/comment/vote, wait no more, they are all there. :) I also rewrote the flashback scene to have it work better in the bigger storyline.

Those who haven't taken a lo [...]

Abigail's War - Week 4 Update & Quid Pro Quo

Yen

Well, last week (Week 4) was a bit of a blur for me! Pencils and colours for Page X, an appearance on The Gutter (yes, I am the keeper of various demons and their mysterious audio effects), some personal joy (gonna have a new book of poetry out this fall!), AND... Robert and I put together a "Quid Pro Quo" interview for your reading pleasure.

Part 1 of the Quid Pro Quo interview - complete with a peek at Page X

Part 2 begins... now!

Quid Pro Quo: Jennica, Y [...]

Ramblomatic

Fetternity

Hiya gang. Ramblomatic Major here, on an everything-and-nothing rant.

First subject: Voting.
Voting is getting very, very difficult to do for me. Not because there is a lack of good pitches, but because there are, quite simply, too many good pitches out there. It's time for the D-2-D initiative to grab some of the very good pitches on the site (MartialLaw, Obsolescence, Agnes Culpepper, Vinny the Vegan Vampire, Polarity, Why I Hate Zombies, The Tipping Point, to name a f [...]

Casting the Girl of Your Dreams (for Mind Crimes)

genrewriter

If you could cast any girl in a comic, such as Mind Crimes, who would it be? Who do you think is so hot that she deserves to be immortalized in comics? I'm looking for inspiration for the new character I discussed in my last blog. She is the girl of my hero's dreams, and has been known to nearly cause car crashes from guys rubbernecking her.

Mind Crimes - new character?

genrewriter

In the Pitch Doctor guidelines it specifically says "there's no need to provide the entire script," yet Matt Howl has always been a firm believer that everyone should include their full script in the pitch. So imagine my (pleasant) surprise when he recently looked over Mind Crimes for the first time and left this glowing comment in the script section: "I'm the guy who doesn't usually vote for partial scripts -- but you've done such a good job from the beginning [...]

Mind Crimes - Casting Call

genrewriter

Last week's "Casting Jack" blog was a lot of fun, so I thought I'd give casting Mind Crimes a try. Who would make a great Byron Reborr? Or to put it another way, who are the top leading men in Hollywood right now? I'm thinking Christian Bale's a contender. Maybe Gerard Butler. Who else?

"Flu" T2

Ruroshen

My contribution to UT2, Gnomance , has finally gone public...only about a week late. And oy, what a week it's been.

One of the hazards of working in retail as I do--especially during cold and flu season--is the sheer number of people (and their germs) that I'm exposed to in any given day. Though I try to take precautions--keeping hand sanitizer at the cash, sending staff home when they're sick and insisting they stay there until they're not--sometimes all it takes [...]

Blog Entries tagged 'CCN'

CCN - Round 2?

AW Update #8

Deutschmaschine nearing completion

It's Friday! Isn't it?

AW Update #7

AW Update #6

Week X - Deuschmaschine

APTN CCN

Week 5, 6... wait, what update is this?

Making time

Discussions

Lucky number twelve

Polymath self-pressure

Polarity

Abigail's War - Week 4 Update & Quid Pro Quo

Ramblomatic

Casting the Girl of Your Dreams (for Mind Crimes)

Mind Crimes - new character?

Mind Crimes - Casting Call

"Flu" T2