This is a screen-grab of the edited text on top of the rough layouts. On these pages the town bully and his to thug friends harrass Victor and his dad. This is also the page with the “saving the cat” event.

I scanned the pages into InDesign and then added in text […]

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I am always trying to get better with drawing groups of charcters. Here is my first attempt at the characters for chapter 1 of BTGC (grahic novel version). These WILL change soon, but I was so pleased at drawing them all.
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Geno, Jason, and Mike

When I was in So-Cal last week I got to see my brother-in-law’s band the Boxkutters…LIVE. Here is a snap or two. To see more or hear some tunes, visit the official website Boxkutters.com.
The band is joined on Jam night at Liam’s Irish Pub with Tim on bass (left back) […]

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After Comic-Con 2006 I took a week off to visit family down south. Over that time I got to relax and focus on my graphic novel. I re-outlined the story from scratch, did a detailed outline of chapters 1-3, and then drew up the rough layouts for chapter 1 when I got home.
I […]

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The Cartoon Art Camp: Making Mini Comics has been Cancelled!! Make sure you check out the other class for kids on August 21-25,2006 Character Creation.
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Visit http://www.atomicbearpress.com/comics/log/ to see my
production art for my comic book, Beyond the Great Chimney
as well as other art, sketches and drawings.

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Eric Saxby has posted a short comic story fly away on his site, Living in the past. Check it out.
Eric was working on his graphic novel, Autumn, at our table at the San Diego Comic-Con and it looks really great. His style is unique and clean.

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Here are more photos from the San Diego Comic Con 2006

here are my booth mates at the CAM table: Eric Saxby (Autumn), Martin Robaszewski and his wife Elsa (Zecta) and two folks are missing. To see a compleat photo, visit HERE.Here is Eric again. His Graphic Novel is going to be excellent […]

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The Tokyo Disneyland fan site Joe’s Tokyo Resort page has a random generator, Create Your Own Disney Magic, that creates name for Disneyland Parades and Shows. Great fun when you need to take a quick break from what your doing.
So, when your in Japan why not go to the park and take in the […]

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