A quick rough sketch to get back into things. I hope for this to be the first of many sketches and other “sneak peeks” to come in the next couple of weeks.
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Rapid City is a comic about music.
It’s about super heroes, and werewolves, and robots and stuff, but it is really about music.
What I am saying about super powers in the comic, I am really saying about music. Music gave me a way to think about super powers, and super powers gave me a way to write about music.
One of my biggest inspirations has been the band Rancid. Their music has inspired me, and their progression and development as a band has helped me to plot out the arcs of the major characters in Rapid City.
This comic is really important to me, and this band is really important to the comic book.
So, when I saw that they were booked to play two nights in Boston, I got a ticket and headed down there.
Before the show I saw guitarist and singer Lars Fredrickson outside. I spoke to him briefly and gave him a copy of our teaser comic. He seemed to like it.
The show that night was amazing.
Wednesday, I bought my weekly comic books and headed back down to the show venue. I was hanging around reading my comics when I noticed a small commotion among the other…ummm…among the other stalkers.
Frontman Tim Armstrong was talking to the fans. Cool! I tried to play it cool. I tried to not be a grinning fan boy. But this was the guy who wrote my favorite songs.
I played it as cool as I could.
I showed him the comic and told him about it as best as I could mutter through. He seemed impressed and asked me about it. And I told him more.
Then he asked “You hooked up for tonight?”
He was asking if I had tickets for that night’s show. I didn’t. And I played it cool.
“Not yet.”
And then he turns to the woman who has been filming him and says “Put him on the list.”
Yeah, that was cool.
The show was great. I spent the train ride home scribbling notes in my Rapid City notebook.
What will come of it? Who cares? I just think it’s neat that they were flattered by the comic they inspired me to write.
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This is a sketch of Glyph I did for someone. He wasn’t able to come back to pick up his WWC con sketch I did, so I’m mailing it to him and as an added bonus for his troubles I did this one too. Hope he likes it.
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Well, Jason and I attended Skottie Young’s class on “Acting in Comics” when we were at the WWC. It was a lot of fun.
Skottie reminded me of an important part of the learning process in drawing: gesture drawing. As any artist with some training will tell you, gesture drawing is the quick scribbly sketches that teachers make you do in figure drawing classes. Unfortunately, since we artists are an inherently lazy and undisciplined lot, we tend to stop with the scribbles as soon as the teacher stops asking for them. At least, I know I have.
Anyway, Skottie reminded us that it’s easy to fall into a position slump. We all have fall-back positions that we tend to put our characters into. Warming up with a whole lot of gesture drawings can help break that habit.
In turn, I have bought a couple of newsprint sketchbooks and have devoted my mornings to scribbling in public. I won’t post them here because, like I said, they’re just scribbles. But I’m getting a lot of new poses from you citizens unbeknownst to any of you. So keep your eyes open, you might see me out on the street some morning soon.
I’ll be the one scribbling.
Love,
Micah
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Well Wizard World Chicago has passed. Was a great weekend. Had a really fun time. Met a ton of people, went to dinner with Jason Howard and friends and bought way too many trade paperbacks. The important thing was that we were out and spreading the word about Rapid City.
Diamond Comic Distributors also stopped by and I had a good conversation with them. I think he put some of my concerns with Diamond at ease. We’ll see how that “relationship” develops.
One thing that was just incredible to see was a gentleman stopped by the booth who had some of our earlier books from when we published under Blue Comics. He had stuff that was published 10 years ago! That was very cool to see and talk with him briefly.
We are certainly looking to return to Chicago next year.
Me sketching away for Jordan who purchased a Teaser book. (Photo by Charna)
Micah finishing off his White Castle meal.
Near the end of Sunday there was much frustration with the people behind us. They were encroaching on our space and just sleeping in chairs. (Photo by Charna)
The table banner by the end was taking a beating. (Photo by Charna)
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Well we’re upon the eve of our trek to the “Windy City” for the “Wizard World Chicago” convention. I’m quite excited to get to Chicago again. It’s one of my favorite places to visit (San Diego being number one). So we’ll be heading out in the morning and should be there early afternoon. Most likely won’t be at the show for the “Premiere Night” on thursday, but will definitely be there the rest of the weekend. I’m really pumped up to be at this show. It’s been 8 years I think since the last time I went. Should be a lot of fun. So stop by our table (#3250 B) in Artist Alley to talk with Micah or I and pick up a “Con Sketch Edition” of the Teaser Ashcan and get a sketch done by either one of us.
Hope to see you there!
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