Friday, September 29, 2006

The Mighty Yammer: 60




Working on:
Zarjaz strip: All pencilled and ready to ink.
A single page for the 22000ad Messageboard comp of the month
Dreddheads 04: All pencilled and the inks are underway.

Next week: New Jon & Gorath

Latest from FQP:

FutureQuake
The cover query I’d got has been sorted, as the strip relating to one of the covers is now delayed. On the plus side, I’ve now got the cover to next issue sorted!

MangaQuake
Received pages: 13

Lost Property
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Available, hopefully, this time next week! Expect pimpery soon.


Dave

Friday, September 22, 2006

The Mighty Yammer: Crossover 9





Working on:
A new six page strip written by Richmond Clements that will eventually see print in Zarjaz. Featuring one of my personal favourite 2000ad series. I’m pencilling my third page this week and having a blast!

I’m also working up a single page strip for the 2000ad messageboard competition. Good fun these and this is a chance to try something completely different.

Latest from FQP:

FutureQuake Completed pages- 35
Pages to be lettered- 15
The cover query I’d got has been sorted, as the strip relating to one of the covers is now delayed. On the plus side, I’ve now got the cover to next issue sorted!

MangaQuake
Received pages: 6, including a sublime back cover.
The new covers are in the printers, and I plan on collecting them and having a postal run this weekend.

Lost Property
Printing! I’m all go for this now, with any late strips being carried over to next issue. I’ll sort a cover scan for next week.

DogBreath
Been contacted by some of the contributors to earlier issues, and hopefully will be receiving strips shortly, bit of a bonus that!

Dave

Friday, September 15, 2006

The Mighty Yammer: Crossover 08




Working on:
Father Whiplash- Finished inks and the pages have now gone to Richmond Clements for toning. Really pleased with the result of this strip, think it could be some of my best work yet.

Latest from FQP:

Taking place on October 28th is Lancaster comics con and FQP will be there.

The website is going to be getting a new look. No definite date yet, but the work has begun on redesigning the imagery and layout.

FutureQuake Completed pages- 25
Pages to be lettered- 17
This issue has two covers on the go, as we are unsure of the final running order. We have seen a preview of one of the images and it promises to be a stunner!

MangaQuake
Now available from the FQ Shop!
Received pages: 3

Lost Property
Strips completed- 50 so far, with the last few arriving soon. I can also reveal that if all goes to plan, this issue will be all colour printing where the strips need it. All for £2.00!

DogBreath
Nowt new but I’ve heard that there may well be some original art in the offing soon…

Dave

Friday, September 08, 2006

The Mighty Yammer: Crossover 07

Bit of a ramble this week, I’ve been asked about how Bryan and myself actually put the mixed art episodes together. The truth is not that well on my part, as I was impatient.

I sent Bryan rough pencils for each of the strips, showing who was where and what they needed to be doing.

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After this I inked the epiode and waited for Bryan to send his part. What I should have done was wait for Bryan before inking.

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Bryan sent me drawings to fit the roughs I sent him, which always delighted me. His work is so good. After I inserted Mike into the Yammer strips I transferred the file to greyscale, which in the long term was a mistake, as I’d love to be able to show the high contrast in the initial images. One of these images was also used on the cover for Lost Property 02, and was a good part of where the idea came from for that cover.

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After this it was over to be lettered and voila!

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Bryan sent me a rouch idea of what he needed Yammer to be doing for his strips, and if he’d got them, a rough set of images to match.

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After that I’d draw the Yammer to fit the images and mail them to Bryan.

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To my delight, I’ve found the versions of the strips that Bryan originally sent me, so I can now show the final couple of episodes in colour. Enjoy.

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You’ve all seen the results of the strips over the last few weeks, and I hope that the above gives a bit of an insight into how I handled the technique. I apologise to Bryan now for showing some of his work without making sure, but it wouldn’t be complete without showing it.

Working on:
Father Whiplash- inking page 4.

Latest from FQP:
FutureQuake Completed pages- 25

MangaQuake cover saga- nothing from Mess studios for 4 weeks now. Even allowing for holidays this is not good.
Received a replacement cover from Mongoose McCloud which I’m prepping for print, along with a new inside cover containing a brief ’why?’ about the cover.
We’ve begun receiving interior pages for issue 03, and they have given us an idea for a very different cover.

Lost Property:
Covers done (wonderful colours by the mighty mini-Bolt) and a lot of the strips formatted.

DogBreath:
Received the line art for the opening strip, and mighty fine it looks. Hoping to have this ready for Lancaster, but it might have to wait for the Custard factory.

Is this the longest post I've done? Could be...

Friday, September 01, 2006

The Mighty Yammer: Crossover 06




Working on:
Father Whiplash- inking page 3.
Jon & Gorath- Greytones on part 23, pencils on part 24.

Latest from FQP:
FutureQuake Completed page- 25

MangaQuake cover saga- nothing from Mess studios for 3 weeks now. Even allowing for holidays this is not good.

Lost Property:
After last weeks push I’ve now got a lot more strip on the way, and I’m planning on starting to put the book together in the next two weeks.

Sorry for the rushed post, but I'm up to my eyes in real work. Should have something actually worth reading next week

Dave