Cover Boy: part 2

Boy have we been neglecting this blog big time.

Well, truth be told, we have been busy getting Timmy ready to be shopped around to the big guns.
Everything is pretty much in place. As Tommy mentioned, we may have a treat for you all in the form of a small ashcan print to sell. So stay tuned for that.

I wanted to continue with my previous post about the Timmy mock up cover by posting the actual cover to the comic now that it's finally done. So, without any further delay, here's the cover we're going with.
Hope you like :)



....Wha? What did you say? Children of what?....

Oh, wait a minute, yeah, yeah. You're absolutely right. My bad. That's the cover to Tommy's other comic Children Of Light. Duh, stupid me. Ha ha ha.

Okay, okay. Let's try this again. So here's the cover to Timmy The Killer Robot.

Almost there!

Woo! Need to blow the dust off this place!

We are at this moment minutes from having the submission finished. Maybe a lot of minutes. I don't know. But it's just about done.

Really!

At the last minute, Eric decided to color the pages, and they look great! Maybe he'll let you see them, or maybe he'll keep being a tease. We also thought it would be neato to have a few samples printed in comic form to send as submissions, with the page samples, full story in text form, and sketches and stuff. We thought it would be neato-er to make such a tome available to you sometime soon, as a reward for your patience. Minus the stuff that gives away the whole story, because then you wouldn't buy the comic when it comes out! See, we're always thinking here!

In the meantime let me entertain you with the return of Killer Robot of the Month!

Caveman Robot

I have nothing to say but this could be the best comic ever.

Cover Boy

I'm excited to announce that pages 1 to 6 of Timmy The Killer Robot are finally, as they say, in the can.

Tommy and I decided it would be best to go with a black and white sample to the Publisher(s) we have in mind for the proposal submission. Basically, if the series gets picked up, I would find it a bit time consuming to pencil, ink, letter and color the comic all on my own. Especially with other freelance projects looming on the horizon.

Basically, if the comic gets picked up, and the Publisher insists on color, it will be much easier for Tommy and I to find a colorist to help with the coloring duties. And I already have some one in mind who would be a great addition to the already stellar team ;)

Well, the next step for the proposal package is a cover mock up which is a requirement of one specific Publisher we are submitting to. Actually, this is the first Publisher we are submitting to. And so we got to throwing ideas back and forth. After the second sketch we hit on an idea we both though cool. Bellow is the sketch. I'll post complete pencils or stage snap shots of the cover if I have the time.

'Till next post. Enjoy.

Sketchy Sketchy

Page breakdown and Character study of Timmy's best Friend Nate.

Page shots

And you thought we gave up on this didn't you?
Well, here you go. This is what you get for being such a doubter.

Reworking some of the pages I have already done since they felt rushed and did not meet my standard quality of work.
Enjoy.

AWWwww YEAH!

Mr. Tommy Flick so mentioned in our previous Timmy post that we, unfortunately, lost a colorist for the comic. But hey, that happens in this industry. We, however, with the uttermost sincerity, wish the colorist all the best wishes. We know that the Artist became to busy to be able to commit to the book. That happens. It's happened to me before with Timmy.

Well, as much as I was trying to avoid it, because of the heavy work load it creates, I jumped back into coloring the comic myself.

Part of it had to do with the fact that I am very picky about how my work gets colored. So I figured instead of colorist hunting, let me just do this thing and get it over with :)

I successfully managed to squeeze a little bit of Photoshop embellishing Today to start the first page of the comic.

And because I am such a huge tease, I decided to post a before and after screen shot of the page.

Which way?

Things are changing again here at Timmy central. We had a colorist, now we don't have a colorist. Again. No hard feelings to that person, I wish them the best!

I had been thinking lately about so many roadblocks and closing doors while trying to get this comic rolling. Most of it probably has to do with me not being able to pay anyone yet. Money is a better motivator than the hope of getting money! I was thinking if so many doors are being shut, maybe that's a sign. I kept feeling that wasn't right. Sometimes faith and perseverance is being tested. Eric helped me see that better. We're both Christians, and we believe the Lord rewards perseverance.

maybe we'll succeed, maybe we won't. But it'll be fun to try!

o yeah, and we do have a new colorist, it's the guy who was the best choice from the start!