Friday 2 November 2007

I've put work on 'The Art of Self Destruction' on hold for the moment untill I get the test print from Blurb.com through (I like the quality of Lulu.com but Blurb is easier to do, I want to be sure I can trust it will full-bleed properly otherwise the whole thing will look like shit!), I thought it was gonna arrive today cos I've had UPS hammering the door down all week while I've been at work but it turned out to be a couple of test print posters that I ordered from Lulu (you keeping up?). I was dissapointed with one of the two which was darker than it looks on screen and didn't work as well as a poster as I thought it would but the Violet one turned out great - except, as I said, for it being a tad too dark. But I can remedy that at the source. This is what test prints are for, after all.

I've also been playing with the idea of publishing a proper comic of some kind. 'The Art..' (or atleast what little of it I've worked out so far) is something a little more experimental in that I'm not even sure it can be classed as a Graphic Novel, plus I want to do something a lot simpler in drawing style - like the kind of stuff you get in webcomics. I have a few ideas, like ressurecting and re-drawing some of the old blog-comics I used to do and expanding them to a graphic novel, taking the idea I have for 'The Emo Dead' (a horror movie parody animation featuring me, Matt, Scott and Jak which as an idea is pretty much dead itself, atleast in animation form) or coming up with something new.

And this is all alongside a proposed return to FutureQuake and Violet which, lest us forget, is the one I actually get paid for...