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When you’re making a comic, there’s a lot of ancillary material that builds up– sketches, layouts, character designs, that sort of thing. I thought it’s be cool to highlight that stuff, plus whatever other non-page stuff that comes out of Studio Keawekane (located in Hilo, Hawaii) with a new Tuesday segment called “DJ’s Sketch Pad”– until I come up with a better name that is.
Ok, here’s a piece called Cally in Gear!
I really dug this little piece, so I decided to revamp our “cover page” using it instead of the 6 symbol we were previously running. I’m jokingly calling it our “Sketch Variant” cover.
You can keep up with DJ at his DeviantArt page by clicking here!
If you’ve got suggestions for a snazzier name, let us know in the comments!
Seeya back here on Thursday for another exciting blog@16 entry!!
Here’s the page that I’ve been excited to post since we launched!
Page three’s big turnaround is the introduction of Don Killenger, star quarterback, as the baddie that Cally was fighting! Readers of our Zuda pitch will recall this reveal was our cliffhanger ending and one of the reasons I’ve been looking forward to page 3 is that from here on out, we’re in uncharted reader territory! All new story and nothing you’ve yet seen!
I also really dig what Lettering Ninja, Brant Fowler, did for page 3. If you flip back to Page 2, you’ll notice that Cally’s dialouge is in “Voice Over”– which, in comics is generally handled with Caption Boxes–
But with Page 3, we transition from Cally’s external voice to her internal monologue– which, we’d left everything as caption boxes, would probably be quite confusing…The fact that you aren’t confused is all Brant!
Lettering is a hidden art– and like any art, Letterers have a grab bag of tricks that you rarely consciously notice, but all push the narrative forward.
The obvious one on this page is our iconic “6″ that Brant popped onto Cally’s internal voice. That wasn’t called out in the script, that was all Brant. I think it’s pretty cool.
A subtler lettering note– again, all Brant– is the slight de-coloration of Cally’s balloon in the flashback. You’ll see it on Page 2 as well, when Uncle Conrad is talking…It’s a very small thing, but really helps establish that we’re in two different time-frames.
Lettering! It’s much more than filling in the little balloons! Big hand to Mr. Brant for the awesome work he brings to our pages!
In other site news, I’ve moved the blog off the front page. We’re still updating it every Thursday, but to access it, you’ll need to hit the tab at the top. The main page felt a little cluttered with the blog here– scrolling down five and a half miles– so, I decided to push it into its own section.
Speaking of the blog, starting tomorrow we’re going to be running a new feature called DJ’s Sketch Pad– featuring bonus art, concepts, sketches, and work-in-progress from the mega-talented DJ Keawekane! I’m sitting on some great stuff that I can’t wait to show ya!
Lastly, big thanks to those of you who passed us a vote on Top Web Comics! In just three weeks we’ve gone from the 2,000th position to 1,050! That’s right, we’re just 50 spots away from breaking the top 1000 webcomics in the world!!
If you can take a second to click on the link below and pass us a vote (it’s free and there is no signup) it’d be awesome! Baby steps from 1,000 to 100, I say!
That’s it for today! Hope you enjoyed Page 3 and we’ll seeya tomorrow for DJ’s Sketch Pad!
