GAE. SCANS. MATCH.

Done with all 64 The Game scans.

ASS I CAN LIVE WITH

Okay. I think I can look at this without tearing my eyes out. Any more than I would anything else in this book.



See previous posts for why this doesn't look as bad as it could.

WALL OF DUNZ II: THIS TIME, IT'S PERSONAL

Here's the final pages of "The Game" (short the two redraws I want to do)

DONE! Redraws tomorrow. I didn't do that long sleep I wanted to do last night, and I'm hoping I get to do it tonight. Then some lettering! Two pages worth.

Will finish "Remember" retouches soon. Then I put "Game" together. And "God."

I might take a day or two off next week for some plowing. We'll see.

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Cracked Kramer's and Comic Art. They look gorgeous. Kramer's I usually gotta crack a few times before I start reading it. Maybe I'll do it start to finish this time...

I might actually hold off on CA until SPX. Might make good travel reading.

Didn't crack Mome. Didn't crack anything else... except Hikaru No Go! Truly, I am sick. But I had to know how the tournament ended! Need to see if Forbidden has #5 (Hanley's did not, but they had 6, 7 and...8?). I need to read them all before Obata gets out of prison.

BURNOUT

Here's the wall of done. Or mostly done. At least one of these needs to be redrawn this week. But, this is what the studio wall looks like when I've got a lot of pages inked. Four more to do. Those pencils are hanging in the hallway, as this wall is only so big.



Here's one of those panels, one that came out almost pretty good. It's panel 1 of page 8 and would make for a great Lichtenstein reproduction. You listening to me, Lichtenstein? You GOTS to be back to doing comic book panel reproductions by now, right? Dude, I totally spackled a wall you hung work on one time. Gimme some sugar.

INKO!

Well, I've finished the inks for the first four panels (the first page) and hope to get into the next four in a couple of minutes. Here's the finished inks for the first panel:


Let's see, I added the background in after the foreground was done. I knew the image needed something, and the missing thing was faux wood wainscoting. Nothing says, "Justin Fox drew this" quite like the appearance that the comic takes place in a finished basement somewhere. I'm pretty pissed at the way the lettering and the art interfere with each other. This is what happens when you decide to do the lettering AFTER drawing the damn thing. I'll probably try to fix that as I move along.

The rest of the panels look about as good as I can make them look.

So, the process is: finish inking everything, scan it all, assemble the pages, digitally fix the egregious errors, print and assemble the books. I have 36 days. There;s still a few things I have to do with the other books in this issue, and a few #6s to print AND a shitload of #5s to print. 36 days.

THE GAME

This was my original thumbnail for the first page of The Game, the 16-page story I'm including in EMAW #7. I was originally working within a 9-panel grid, but that changed when I decided to print the book in a smaller format. It was a 13-page story, at first. I cut out some fat and densified some of the panels to fit it all in 16 when I switched to a 4-panel grid.

And here are the pencils for the first panel of page one. I'm drawing each panel on 9x12 Bristol board (vellum finish) and then I'll put all the panels together in photoshop, once all the inking is done. I did the lettering before I scanned this in.