What? More damned Oz?

Indeed. This is a page of images from the pilot of Lost in Oz. Look at the images first. Then read the plot description via the other link. One of these days I’ll have to find a bootleg of this.

I can’t say I like Bill Bryan’s art. He’s got a good color sense in his cover paintings but his figure work all looks … skewed. It’s sort of like he’s drawing things as viewed underwater. I’m not sure how else to describe it.

He probably holds the unheralded honor of having produced the most Oz pages of any artist. He definitely beats out every other artists except for Eric Shanower and John R. Neil. I’m pretty sure he beats them as well but I’d need to do some math to be sure.

Anyway, Mr. Bryan comes up because I loaded eighteen more Oz/Dark Oz/Land of Oz images to the Oz comics page. Gaze upon them and judge ye for thyself.

Billi 99 has been reviewed by the Kipster, a man of better taste and quicker wit than I. Good things are said eloquently.

Updated the Oz Comics page again this morning. Wow that’s ugly. And it will only get uglier before it gets better. I’ll be able to do a little yuck factor adjustment once all the images and text is in place but it will still be an ugly child. Poor thing. Maybe, someday, if I go to finishing school I can pass on some refinement.

I think I’ve found all the Oz comics I’m going to find on the net. I suspect that Classics Illustrated did a Wizard adaptation. I’ll have to look. I’m going to contact some of Oz fansites and see if anyone knows about any, more obscure comics.

I spend time at the computer in mornings – coding, scanning, photoshopping, writing. This as the caffeine shifts me to what I consider more or less normal for now. Artwork gets done in the evenings and weekends after chores. When the caffeine is wearing out. Fortunately, once I’m on an art roll, I usually perk up. Sort of. The challenge is getting the energy to get out the drawings and make myself start working.

Loaded images to the Oz Comics page. More images and some text to come. Probably tomorrow.

In other news – it’s raining in Seattle. But only a light drizzle.

As you were.

Okay, maybe without the heroin drag. But basically I know a few simple codes and I find myself typing them over and over. And then correcting the darned things when they don’t work. Unless I’m working with a template my webpages all look very plain. Plain is good because plain isn’t as ugly as complicated bad design. I’m not a good designer. Not a horrible one, just not a particularly good one. What little design sense I have comes from hanging out with people who are good designers.

All of which means nothing other than I spent the morning working on the Oz Comics page and then didn’t post it before I had to go to work. It’s still a sloppy mess. Better (at least wordier) than what’s up now but so what? You can’t see it.

Blah blah. Happy Tuesday.

Finished posting all the sketch images to the Oz Squad sketch pages. Created an Oz Comics page – mainly because I couldn’t find a webpage anywhere that was dedicated to Oz comics. Same reason I created the Oz Squad page to begin with. Just a first half assed draft so far. There are some links that need fixing. Lots of images to hunt down.

I should also go back to the sketch page later this week and add some more text. I do most of my writing during dull spots at work or before seven o’clock in the morning so I’m sure it will be brilliant.

I’m in the process of updating the Oz Squad page over at my Keenspace site. Nothing huge. A jpeg of the first cover for Oz Squad #1. A tweek of the text. A link to a sketch page. The first draft of the sketch page with the first sketches.

I’ll post again when I’ve made more changes.

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