Before and After

Hi there, I'm currently in the stage of OS collection corrections where I'm re-drawing and re-writing some sections of the book which felt like they needed it. Over the last two days I re-drew one of my least favorite two-page sequences from issue 2. (I'm actually re-drawing a lot of issue 2.)

Here's the original version from issue 2:


Here's the re-draw for the collection:


I feel like I can live with it more now. There are quite a few scenes that have been re-drawn and re-written and re-thought. I'm actually enjoying the process, even if looking at the originals feels embarassing. I feel like doing this sort of process is really informative, I can actually remember the spots where I took short cuts four years ago and see the horrible result of those short cuts much more clearly now. That said, I hope to never have to revise this much again for a collection. Hopefully I'm learning my lesson.

I'm currently reading Tezuka's MW, which is pretty awesome. I also picked up a book by Matsumoto (guy who did Tekken Kinkreet) called GOGO Monster which I'm pretty excited about. Here are some pages I really like (note, I did not scan those images below, I swiped them from the "google"). I'm enjoying how quiet a lot of it feels.

I am also excited for BCGF. I will be there, selling comics and prints with the Sundays gang. I'll probably post more info about that closer to the time of the show, which is less than three weeks away. Which seems crazy.