One of my favorite movies. It absolutely delivers what the trailer promises.
I first came across this trailer back in the late 80s while working at my parents’ video rental store. Early teen Jerzy, who was now wise enough to be skeptical of everything, thought there was no way the movie could be this packed with adventure, especially with such a hard sell. So I avoided watching it for years.
I saw it for the first time maybe five or six years ago, and I can’t believe I was denying myself this. You can find it under the name Super Inframan on most streaming sites.
While I finish coloring Baron von Bear and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue (just under 100 pages left to color!), I’m journaling and sketching to see what a second book pitch might look like. I’m continuing to wonder about characters, listening to what they have to tell me, and seeing what might be revealed. Like I said nearly a year ago, I’m often preparing myself for inspiration.
Right now I’m considering having Gallus Lugubrious return in the second book, but with a new group of “friends” to help him with his next venture. And one of the themes I explore in Two-Faced Statue is the narcissism of minor differences. Gallus hates Baron von Bear because he’s a scholar, whereas Gallus is a practitioner. I got to wondering what other ways Gallus could irrationally hate someone, especially if he’s partnered with them. And it occurred to me that he’d really hate someone who used magic but wasn’t a sorcerer or wizard. A technomancer. Someone who built and hacked machines to tap into the primordial forces that fuel sorcery.
Count Fishravin first appeared as a sorcerer in the first Baron von Bear minicomic, which I published in 2018:
This bulky version was informed by the Fish Don’t Have Teeth minicomic I made back in 2015 or so.
But as I considered changing him from a sorcerer to a technomancer, I thought I’d also take the opportunity to play more with his body type. A google search for “long fish” took me down a rabbit hole around the lancetfish, a frightening-looking creature. So we get this new take on the good Count.
This guy could be fun to draw! I’ll keep playing and see what captures me.
I recently shared the “pile of pages” pic cartoonists like to post after the pencils/inks stages of a graphic novel are done. While it’s satisfying to know that every page of #BaronVonBear and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue is drawn, I still have to finish coloring the book.
I’m coloring a scene wherein our heroes & villains battle in a ruined city at the bottom of a haunted lake. The color palette was inspired by images from the British Museum’s Sunken Cities exhibition catalog.
Spent Friday night drawing in a cute and cozy shed in Coshocton, Ohio.The Wooly Pig Farm Brewery is our favorite place to reconnect with our love of drawing. Follow me on Mastodon RSS
Sheep, Rooster, and Duck. Three of the narrators from Science Comics: Rockets.
Anne and I based their characters on Kelsey Grammer, Bill Murray, and Dean Stockwell, respectively. They’re included in the book as the first known animals to fly in a human-made aircraft.
Read more about them in Science Comics: Rockets, here: https:// jdrozd.com/product/science-com ics-rockets-signed-paperback/
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THIS IS IT! IT’S ALL BEEN BUILDING TO THIS!! HOW WILL IT ALL END?? WILL HASBRO FORCE DAVID WISE TO INTRODUCE 14 MORE CHARACTERS BEFORE WRAPPING IT UP?? WILL HOOVER GET THROUGH THE EPISODE WITHOUT MENTIONING ROCK LORDS ?? WILL JERZY REVEAL THAT HE MADE CARDBOARD TRANSFORMERS IN 8TH GRADE INSTEAD OF KISSING GIRLS?? (SPOILER: HE DOES! ) OH YOU KNOW YOU CAN’T MISS THIS ONE!!!
