My right arm is still not up to delivering mail. Or much else. With pain relievers I’m able to do some drawing and some typing. But progress is slow.   

Jake Parker’s number one rule for making comics is FINISH YOUR COMIC. I have violated this rule as many (possibly more) times as I have followed it. One of my current goals is to finish some of those stories. 

Late last year I collected a stack of stuff that my brother in California had been storing in a closet for far too many years. Besides the original art for Misspent Youths, there were prints and portfolios by artists that younger me had admired, some sketchbooks from my high school years and about a dozen pages from a comic I’d started drawing in, I think, 1992.

I don’t remember a lot of details about the project. It was being written by someone that I collaborated with fairly frequently over the years. He didn’t finish scripting this one. Based on the dialogue in the existing pages the story seemed to be about some folks facing an impending apocalypse. I like the art. I love finding new uses for old work.

The writer and I are no longer in contact. With past unfinished projects we had agreed that I could do whatever I wanted with the art, including writing a new story using it. So …

“Goblin Alpha Seven” is the project’s working title. (When I first started scanning the old art my working title was “Revelationaries”. I didn’t like it but I needed something to call the files.) I renamed the characters, rearranged the pages and wrote a new script. Now I’m finishing the old pages and drawing new ones.

This is one of the original pages.

This is the page updated. I’m not saying the page is finished yet. I’m still working on the story and the script. I may make changes.

Last week I listed the projects I’m going to be tracking. I’m not sure how to break down progress on them. Some sort of spreadsheet would be the most detailed and accurate method but, at the moment, I don’t know how to format that into WordPress. One more thing to figure out on the fly.

Goblin Alpha Seven (comic) – 40 pages
John Bell’s Oz Book (illustrations)
Mighty Nizz: Getting Dressed (comic) – 18 pages
Mighty Nizz: Tarot Deck (tarot deck) – 78 cards
Skookworks Webstore – 248 designs
Observations (comic) – 8 pages
Sunk Cost Elegy (comic) – 120 pages
The Surrilana Depths (comic) – (200 pages)
Daughter of Spiders (illustrated short story series) – number of stories, word count and number of illustrations to be determined.

Have a great week! See you next Monday!