DAD! Finished (sorta)
It took almost a year but I’m done with everything that I can do with “DAD!” The pages are laid out (the equivalent of pencils are done) and the script was finalized today. I’m now sending it on so that the color-er and letter-er can do their part. Considering its 150 some pages… its going to be a while before they finish what they are doing. But it just feels NICE to know that I’m done with my part!
August 1st, 2007 at 2:49 pm
I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.
But I’m happy for you nonetheless.
August 1st, 2007 at 2:54 pm
http://www.scottking.info/comics/dad/dad.shtml
Those are the “test pages” I did last fall. The whole graphic novel is now scripted and all the pages are finished. Everything is being passed onto a color-er who will digitally ink the photos and color them so they will look like a comic and not photos. Then a letter-er is going in and adding all the lettering for speech bubbles, titles, and narration boxes.
August 1st, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Congrats! or should I say Congraaaaaads.
I’m very interested in seeing the colored version!
Should we put you on the calendar for an in-store signing in 2008?
August 10th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Scott,
I was searching the www for “Photographic Comics” as research for my own project I’m working on. I stumbled across yours, and I am compelled to comment about “Dad!”
I too have been a comic fan for many years, and finally got the courage to start my own. I found quickly that content and story were most integral, versus flashy shiny artwork. I also became a fan of surrealistic stories, crime noir and modern yarns of ordinary people hurled into extraordinary circumstances.
Which is where your story comes in. As I read your primer on the ‘comic’, I had a hard time realizing that this is real life. Not just people cast to ‘perform’ as characters.
As I got to the end of page 2 in Chapter 1, I almost wept furiously. Your complelling story telling is relentless, and with the reality of the events you captured, you have given an amazing perspective on the nature of the human condition, and (again) the extraordinary circumstance it experiences.
I applaud you for the sheer courage and honesty it takes to record this experience (both visually and audibly) and format it to a medium anyone can absorb completely and thoroughly. Simplistic, no nonsense approach was made to the foundation with the first few panels, and after a few pages in (Page 4 Chapter 1) I was rattled with the harsh reality of caring for a very sick loved one is not glamorous, not shiny and clean, and can only be done with love. This is the courage I speak of that you weave into your story and it gives me courage, and hope that more folks out there don’t have to endure this but if they do, they have support and caring family to be there for them.
At first I was gonna pick apart the ‘art’ of your photograpy, but then, again, reality and depth of your captured moments made technicality a minor issue.
I am interested in finding your comic in print or even seeing the finished story online. You’ve gotten my attention, so I guess I am a fan of your “Dad!”
I’m inspired now, so I’m gonna go work on my “Bullets and Daisies” Photographic Novel.
Peace,
TM