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Inkmo is my dude

February 8, 2010 | 10:03 pm, by radiomaru

Because of my fervent desire to make this last Scott Pilgrim book even better than all the other ones put together, and because of the tight drawing & releasing schedule, I solicited for an art assistant back in december. So for the past month I’ve been working with Mr John “Inkmo” Kantz (check out his deviantart and webcomic) and I’m pleased to say that it is going extremely well.

With volumes 4 and 5 especially, I just got down to crunch time and couldn’t do as much as I wanted to with the tones. This is usually the last step in the process and is the first thing to get axed when you’re pressed for time, because hey, the comic is drawn, there are drawings, it all makes sense. But having the shading and those extra interesting patterns and stuff can really push things to the limit and that’s what I want!!! I want the limit!!!!!!

So anyway, that’s what John is doing – he’s completely handling the toning for me, and since I ended up with such a freakin’ talented assistant he’s also helping out with a bunch of backgrounds and other stuff. And with his help, the book will be on time! and most importantly it will look totally awesome!

I wish I could show you all the wonderful work he’s doing, but pretty much every panel is a spoiler. Sorry. I don’t want to spoil you. So this whole past is just a big tease.

Sunday

February 7, 2010 | 12:03 pm, by radiomaru

i’ve been slightly run down with a cold the last few days, and now our furnace is busted again.

MEANWHILE…

February 5, 2010 | 3:43 pm, by radiomaru

Transformers #19 at the drug store when I was 7 years old -> Marvel -> X-Men -> X-Force -> Image -> Gen 13 -> high school -> ugh, comics -> (but i was still drawing them, secretly, all by myself) -> staring at Bone #19 on the shelf for 3 weeks and eventually buying it because I felt bad about handling it so many times -> Bone, Cerebus, Replacement God-> Sailor Moon on YTV -> anime -> Ranma 1/2 -> Ranma 1/2 manga -> like every other manga I could find in the late 90s -> “I Feel Sick” -> Seth’s “It’s A Good Life If You Don’t Weaken”, because it was set in Southwestern Ontario -> Hicksville -> Bendis & stuff -> Paul Pope’s “Heavy Liquid” -> tracking down every other Paul Pope book that ever existed -> Jamie Hewlett “Tank Girl” reprints that came out around the same time -> The Invisibles! -> Grant Morrison -> Paradise Kiss -> manga boom -> more manga -> manga in French that I couldn’t get in English yet, like “Nana” -> older manga -> Tezuka manga -> everything

EDIT: I forgot about some stuff, like the Invisibles and Grant Morrison (his X-Men run and “The Filth” in the early aughts also had a huge impact), so I stuck them in the timeline in boldface