I'm working in my portfolio and resisting my daily need for a XBOX and PS2 fix. ( and losing that battle, mostly)
My portfolio pieces are coming together and a couple of urban adventure concepts are coming to fruition. I will present a preview of what I have in mind. One story is a mix of hip hop, vigilanties and social responsibility. The other is an urban fairytale.
I had an idea for a 6 Million Dollar Man movie when I saw the poster for The Island starring Ewen McGregor. In the promotional poster, they had a blur effect around him ( speed lines) and for some reason I thought of the old tv series and how the intro would end with Lee Majors surrounded by the same effect.
http://www.theisland-themovie.com/index_3.html
http://www.jimcarreynettet.dk/billeder/sixmillion.gif

If they sold it as a serious take on that goofy show(that i loved!) starring Mcgregor, it would be a go. My mind was racing with the different serios approaches the story could take: nature versus science. mortality/immortality. humanities fraility and the lengths we would go to correct or flaws regardless of the consequences, etc.
But ,alas, Jim Carrey, as it turns out, will spoof the whole thing next year in his comedy remake.

All is not lost. The motivation is still there and the concepts I came up with are sound. A friend convinced me to continue writing it and see where the script leads. So I will. Even if the names of certain key characters must change.

Check the link to my portfolio site that I had forgotten to post before.
I will post a crap load of sketches this week to both sites and flesh out DivineWar that I started in the beginning of the year.

What the hey.

Here's another page from the ashcan assigment.

In this sequence(because each page had its own storyline), the reporter is in front of the MET trying to interview a dude that just isnt interested and the stories attention then shifts to the cloaked stranger in the background.

I had a devil of a time getting the reporter's face the way that I wanted it. The freckles were added almost as an afterthought.

I had an older seasoned looking reporter in mind for the story but then I thought "Yo, she's covering a story at the MET?!! Gotta be a rookie assignment." No disrespect to the MET.

In post production, the channels logo and captions were to be added to the base of the panels to convey that she was broadcasting.

This is page one of 8 for an ashcan that was done last year. I suspect that it will never see print. Long story, don't ask.
When I was approached for the assignment, the publishers stressed the need for them to emerge into this market with a strong product. I believed then that the initial intro into this eight pager should be very cinematic.
I made notes along the page borders for the painter and embellisher, but they didnt come through on the scan. I stressed that the planet's integrity in panel one must be sound in each stage of development in order to 'sell' the effect which would translate or set the tone for the remaining panels.
I would have loved to see how it would have turned out.
If it's legal for me to do so, I will complete the page myself to complete the thought.

The Need of the Few



When will black people be considered more than second class citizens? Some will say that the 'problem' in New Orleans was a social one. Well, how is it then that only black people were shown (allegedly) 'looting' and considered a criminal threat? Our government sent mercenaries and soldiers before they sent assistance. They used the military to close the city's border as if there was an epidemic. Imagine that everything you know is gone and your government purposely keeps you under the toenail of death and despair.
The President flies past the devastation then returns days later for a photo-op, with promises to rebuild. (Which from his lips means: Corporate America; circle the carcass and pick the meat from it's bones.)
Once they finish rebuilding, the poor won't be able to afford to live there. They will make sure of that.
All that Aid money will be held in limbo, misappropriated, investigated and finally absorbed into another political agenda once they succeed in distracting us.
Call me a pessimist or cynic, but, history ALWAYS repeats itself if a nation, and it's people, don't learn from, or forgets, its past.

Try to not forget, huh.

I almost forgot. A while back, I had posted some portfolio pieces on:
http://payprchs.deviantart.com/

check it out.

This Hulk page was done in the beginning of the year with additional pages that were promised to follow. I had gotten lost in revisions of those pages ever since. Its funny that w/o a deadline, I could revise a page 50 different ways....

I wanted to project the a calm, drone-like NY that the Hulk just drops himself in and disrupts. In the pages that follow, he will come across the Torch and soon the rest of the FF who try to contain his rampage.

Initially, I wanted to convey the sheer power the Hulk exudes even when he is'nt doing anything. I always loved when different artists draw him like an unstoppable locomotion. I wasnt much for the smoothed-out destruction-free Hulk. Ya know-- like when Bruce B's persona controlled him and he would dress like in a tight tank and blue jeans.

I have to finish my portfolio, so I will set a deadline to finish FF/Hulk and post them here.

Here is a preview of a webcomic that I've been working on. There are a couple of different stories and mine is the (bottom right section on cover)last. Its due to broadcast in a couple of weeks on Stan Lee's Sunday Comics section of Komikwerks
http://www.komikwerks.com/sundaycomics.php

in the meanwhile check out http://www.ferretpress.com for updates.

Working on that 5 pager let me realize my strengths and ATTACK my weaknesses. It's a 'talkey' strip, so I had to focus on character dynamics and expressions. I like the superhero stuff, so unfortunately, I was so used to grimaces and frowns that I had to remind my hand about the intricasies of polite conversation.
Anyhoo----I'll give more info and recall some more when the stuff broadcasts.
Tomorrow, I will post the first political cartoon I've drawn since high school.
Later, I will post a bunch of sketch ideas for an on-line strip I'm conceptualizing.
I have the story idea in my head--some on paper--but I have to rework some costumes and grimaces.