I’ve created a Facebook Trekker page where I’ve begun posting news, updates, sneak-peaks (like this work-in-progress snapshot,) and conversations about Trekker as we move to the return to print! Please check it out– Likes and Shares greatly appreciated.
For those of you who will be able to attend the excellent Emerald City Comic Con and/or the thriving Stumptown Comic Fest this Spring, you will find me tabling at both shows and offering various Trekker items to trumpet our impending Return to Print! On hand will be both a free full-color post card and also a free mini-comic featuring a generous sampling of glimpses from the brand-new “The Train To Avalon Bay” epic which will begin its run in Dark Horse Presents #24 this May!
Also available will be high-quality prints of the Trekker illustration that appeared in last years ECCC art book “Monsters and Dames”, original sketches done to order at the show, and other fun items, both Trekker-related and otherwise.
For anyone curious about my specific work process, over at trekkercomic.com I have just posted a new blog entry where I walk through the steps I used in creating my illustration for next year’s Emerald City Comicon charity book, “Monsters and Dames”.
This March 1-3, Trekker and I return to the great Emerald City Comicon. I’m honored to have another piece in the Monster and Dames convention book this year. And once again I was lucky enough to have Jeremy Colwell provide the terrific colors to my black and white drawing. I’m amazingly lucky to have Jeremy’s contributions to the new Trekker stories in the works right now.
The Monsters and Dames book is done each year as a benefit for the Seattle Children’s Hospital and is available exclusively at the convention. It’s always a popular, sell-out item. All the artists represented in the book will be at the show and happy to sign the book. It makes a great souvenir of the show and is a classy collection of great art pieces on top of that.
That’s not the only reason to attend Emerald City by a long shot. ECCC is one of the most fun and best-run conventions in the country, and it’s a high-light of my convention season each year. I’ll again be sketching, signing and sharing the latest news on Trekker and my other projects at through the whole show. So drop by and say hello!
Beginning this week at trekkercomic.com, I present another key tale in the life of Mercy St. Clair. When TRIAL BY FIRE was first published, my only regret at the time was that the color and printing was far darker that either I or the colorist (monster-talented Moose Bauman) had intended. It was early in the days of digital color, and we just didn’t make proper allowances for the transition from the brightness of an image on a lit computer screen to that on the printed page. So, with apologies to Moose, I have taken the chance here to tweak things a bit, shifting levels on the over-all color, and changing the panel border color from the original green/brown/gray to the starker black. Above is a side-by-side comparison of page 1, as it first appeared, and how it looks after my meddling.
Apart from that one concern, I remain proud to this day of the story, which contains a major event in the life of our young heroine as well as, I hope, a tolerably brisk and engaging adventure.