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12.27.09

A History of Rose Madder, Part 1: A Love-Gone-Wrong-Song Art, Breaking my arm patting myself on the back, Color!!!, Comics, Rose Madder, Shop talk, Theory for free | (0)
OUTLINE-ROSE MADDER-"Is That All There Is" ACT I 1) New York City-The Present a) Open on the white, wintery sky. We hear "Heat Wave" by Martha and the Vendellas. Pan down to reveal the city in snowy splendor. b) More of the city. Visible holiday decorations and displays. End on the apartment window of Rose Madder. The alarm clock is buzzing. 1) Rose is a woman in her mid-twenties; out of school, overeducated, unemployed and somewhat adrift. c) Inside her bedroom. Rose is face down on the bed, asleep. Rose's calico cat ...
10.25.09

Blast From The Past: Tatters Art, Blankety-blank WordPress, Blast from the past, Breaking my arm patting myself on the back, Comics, Shop talk | (0)
From around 1995, Tatters was a one-shot written by Steven Jones and drawn by me, published by Caliber Press. Tatters was kind of an odd duck of a comic, part gothic superhero book, part government conspiracy story, with some sci-fi elements and a dystopian future thrown in for good measure. But the book will always be known to me as (as far as I know) the first comic to model a character after Samuel L. Jackson. Pulp Fiction was hot at the time, and so I drew in Jackson's and Travolta's characters from the movie as the comic's hard-luck hitmen ...

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