D.I.C.E Panel Update

The final schedule for the panel talks at DICE is up now over at the bigbang.ie. Turns out the HALF PAST DANGER panel is actually on on the Sunday at 1:30pm, not on the Saturday as previously reported. Sorry about any confusion, hopefully anybody that had been planning to attend can still make it! The talk will consist of myself and Jordie yapping about all things HPD, including the announcement of the book's publisher. I'll also be showing lots of unseen art from the first two issues of the book.
Asking the questions and cracking wise will be fellow Eclectic Mick, Dec 'Here-To-Help' Shalvey. Please come along to listen, ask questions and hurl abuse. Not to forget the FREE prints that each attendee will receive. Those bad boys will cost cash-money after the panel, so get 'em while they're gratis.

See ye at the weekend! The show is gonna be fantastic, I'm sure of it. Major kudos to the lads at The Big Bang for putting the whole logistical nightmare together! Check out the panel listings below, there're plenty of great choices. Reckon I'll end up going to half of them myself!

D.I.C.E Print

Here's the final print for the upcoming DICE show in 2 weeks. Can't say how delighted I am with the job Jordie did on the colours, she absolutely nailed it. This print will be available FREE to anybody that attends the Half Past Danger panel on saturday the 29th at the show(time tbc), and then for sale at my table at the show if I have any left over.

Speaking of the panel, we have lots of interesting tidbits lined up,  as well as a special guest moderator who's one of Ireland's leading names in the comics world. That, or Declan Shalvey.
I'll also be revealing the publisher for the book, which I'm really rather excited about.

The whole show is shaping up to be a fantastic one, with some amazing guests. See ye there!

'Because You're a Goddamn Coward.'

A panel from page 9 of the second issue that I'm quite fond of.

Issue 2 Panel

Stuck this chunk of a panel from early on in the second issue up on the Eclectic Micks blog yesterday, figured I'd slap it up here too and keep all of the snippets of artwork in one place.

D.I.C.E (Dublin International Comic Expo) Print

This is the inked version of an exclusive con print that's going to be given away to attendees of the Half Past Danger panel at the upcoming Dublin International Comics Expo next month. I'll stick the coloured version up when I get it back from Jordie.

Details of the con can be found here.

Teaser Inks

This is a teaser page I drew for inclusion in the upcoming Though Bubble anthology book that will be published in conjunction with the fantastic Thought Bubble comics festival in Leeds next November. You'll also hopefully see the teaser popping up here and there soon enough once the book's publisher is announced (still ironing out the fine details on that score, but there IS a publisher committed, and they are BIG. Top five in the US big.)

There's a coloured version of this page that the lovely Miss Bellaire and I collaborated on, but I'll save that for after the Thought Bubble book sees print, just so I'm not stealing the thunder on that front.

Half Past Danger is getting closer...

Pin Your Colours To The Mast

...Something had to give. More and more recently it's been dawning on me that there's no way that I can continue to produce the book at the pace I've set myself if I don't find a way to compromise somewhere along the production line. And since the entire series is already written, and there's no way I'd let anybody else actually draw any of the thing, it comes down to colours. The colouring process, while thoroughly enjoyable, has been really slowing me down. As mentioned in a different post, sometimes it's ending up taking me longer than the pencils and inks on a given page combined. Which is nutty.

So long story short: I panicked. Then I asked good friend and ridiculously-talented pro colourist Jordie Bellaire if she'd have any interest in coming aboard. Jordie had long assured me all throughout the first 8 months on HPD that if I needed any help with the colouring that she'd be there to bail me out. But I was always (A) utterly determined to do the whole thing myself, and (B) afraid that she was simply too busy to take on another project. Jordie's colouring skills are in massive demand at the minute throughout the entire American comics industry, having worked over the past 18 months for the five largest US comic labels; Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, IDW and Image.

They all want her, and I've got her.

As of the second issue, Jordie will be clambering  aboard the good ship HPD to apply her mad skillz to the colours. She's aiming to take what I did with the colours on issue 1, and give them her own twist (read: improve them no end) in issue 2, while maintaining consistency of mood and palette with  the colour direction I've already established for the project as a whole. The tone and feel of the story are right up Jordie's alley, and she seems delighted to be a part of it. Jordie loves all (well, most!) of the same movies and comics that inspired this series as I do, and we're certainly more than simpatico on the page.

This is undoubtedly a good thing for the book. Simply put, Jordie's one of the best.