After last October's Alternative Press Expo, I wanted to start my next project and have another book ready for the conventions next spring. I had several ideas in mind but nothing that would fit into a one-shot format. Flipping through a San Francisco History book, I came across the story of ISHI, one of the last "wild" indians found one hundred years ago.
And so I am off and running with it. The script is done and I've been drawing and inking for the past week or two. It is a slow process and normally I'd have plenty of time but I also want to use this project for my Digital Illustration class.
For the class, I need a 12 page zine ready in about a week from now. Full color and using the tools of Illustrator, which will be interesting since I prefer to color in Photoshop (and I think that is the industry standard too).
At the pace I am going, there is no way I will finish. But since my pages are so detailed, and some of that detail gets lost when I reduce it to the zine size, my friend Melina suggested that I break up the pages and use the panels to make my zine. For example, rather than one 11x17 page of original art = 1 page in the comic, I can turn one page with multiple panels into three pages.
I like Melina's idea so I am treating this zine as a sampler to give people a taste of the story while I save the full story for my own printed comic for Spring 2013.
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