Devolution coming closer

It’s becoming a reality.  Devolution.  This is my ComicCritique.com project, and it’s getting ever closer to reality.  I now have a penciler, Jake Bilbao (you can see his pencils on his blog, http://jakebilbao.blogspot.com/), and an inker, Ignacio Calero.  Rounding out the team is letterer Brant Fowler, and that means the creative team is complete.  Step one is getting the character sketches and settings down, then on to the first installment.  Once that’s ready, we’ll begin posting. 

 Things are moving well, and I’m excited at the art each time it comes in.  I just have to make sure the writing holds up to the art these guys are producing.  It’s a good challenge to face. 

 More on the genesis of Devolution later.

ComicCritique.com comic

I’ve been working for some time on a comic book project that will ultimately be posted on the website www.ComicCritique.com.  Starting as an idea for a movie, migrating to the possibility as a novel, the story moved into the realm of comics when a couple online comics posted on ComicCritique.com finished their runs.  This left prime real estate on a site that’s now receiving well over 300,000 hits a month.  With the small step into Marvel Comics and my own established writing with ComicCritique.com, I thought this would be a prime opportunity to produce some of my own work, to hopefully build an audience, and to work on a project I’ve wanted to do for some time.

 The trick now is finding a creative team.  To minimize the complexity and to keep things on time, I want this project to be black and white (plus I think it suits the themes much better), thus eliminating the need for a colorist.  I’m also hoping to have the artist both pencil and ink their work, although it’s not a hard and fast requirement.  And I’ll handle the writing and editing chores, doing my best to keep it on schedule so readers can be assured they can rely on us. 

 The process so far has been both a learning experience and a lot of fun.  I’m using www.digitalwebbing.com as my main source of finding talent, which leads me to artist’s personal and blog sites where I can further explore their work and backgrounds.  And I posted an ad for a letterer, securing someone who works for a studio. 

The project is gaining momentum, and I can’t wait to begin getting into actual produced pages and posting them to the site.  More will come here on the process and the journey of creating “Devolution,” my first comic for ComicCritique.com