Chapter 3 pencils are done!

It took a solid month of penciling, but it was worth it. This chapter is going to have the best artwork yet!

Finishing Up the Race: Chapter 2 is done!

After a long stretch of coloring and tweaking the Inkscape Paint Bucket tool a little more (it’s faster and more crash-proof now!), Chapter 2 of the next A Moment of Clarity book, “Candynomics,” is complete! I just uploaded the last page of the chapter to the Webcomics Nation site. This one promises to [...]

A Moment of Inkscape Screenshots!

bulia byak, Inkscape user & developer extraordinaire, just posted two new Inkscape screenshots showing off Inkscape’s new Tweak Tool.  And as a bonus, he used some of my inked artwork from “Candynomics” to show it off!  This tool is probably one of the coolest new features that will be coming to 0.46, and it’s definitely [...]

The Board for Volume 3: November 9, 2007

Yeah! It’s full!

Now I’m going to let it sit over the holidays and, in January or February, start writing the first draft of the next book.  Schweet!

The Amelia Rules! Charity Auction this Veterans Day

During Baltimore Comic-con, flyers were going around the Kids Love Comics! table (which I happened to spend way too much time at for various reasons) for this charity auction that Jimmy Gownley and his crew put together for this Veterans Day. Shortly after the con, I sent a “Clarity” piece along (done in Prismacolors, [...]

A Moment of Clarity Volume 2 Chapter 1 Reviewed!

Alex Haas over at Indy Comic Review just gave the first chapter of Candynomics a four star review!  Go read it yourself at Webcomics Nation and see if you agree!

The Board - October 26, 2007

I completely gutted Act I…
 
…and plan on filling it back up tonight!
Update 10/27/2007: I’m starting to realize something about this particular Rite of Passage story, where the main character, Johnny, has flaws that will be corrected by the end. I’m finding that I need to exploit these flaws for fun purposes during the Fun & Games [...]

The Board Special: The Moment of Clarity

No pictures this time, just some crosslinking fun.  Blake Snyder just sent along this article he wrote that has quite a lovely title, if I do say so myself.  It mentions some of the moments he talked about in Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies, which I just finished reading.  The article is yet [...]

Untwisting the Spine of Perfect-Bound Books

I’m getting ready to redesign and rebuild the first A Moment of Clarity graphic novel, and I plan on working on a few new tools along the way to simplify the process for this book and for future ones. One of them will use Inkscape and Python to generate templates for perfect-bound book covers. [...]

The Board for Volume 3 - October 19, 2007

OK, after a few weeks of not touching Volume 3, I had a breakthrough.  It came while reading through Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies, which arrived after I got back from SPX.  I now know the type of story that Volume 3 will be…

Yeah, this will be a tough one to write…but I’m [...]