So years ago, comic book publisher BOOM! Studios got the rights to several Pixar properties and were planning several comics based on "Toy Story, Cars, The Incredibles, Wall-E and Monsters, Inc.". I was excited about this idea and tried my hand at doing some tests. During this time, it was at the San Diego Comic-Con the year of the announcement that I had, what I thought to be an amazing idea. Each Pixar movie starts with a short and those shorts have their own characters. Why not do a short before each issue or at the very least, each collection? An homage to the old Disney comic books that had short one page stories at the beginning and end of each comic. I threw together a few ideas and the idea was generally well liked, at least enough for them to hear me out and ask me to send them samples.
After a few storyboards (I'll scan a bunch of them for a later post) they found two that they liked. As "Tin Toy" was the short before "Toy Story", the first book they were releasing, I thought it apt to use that character. Below are the two pages in rough form I came up with. They never saw the light of day as I was told Disney/Pixar did not want to do anything with the shorts characters. It's a shame really, I thought it would have been a nice touch.
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