The failed attempt...

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.

Pause

Sorry all, I missed a day, a lot going on I guess. Anyways, here is another look at a project I have been working out for a bit. This is a rough character sketch of the villain/hero from an animated short I am trying to get ready. The story is about a super hero and a super villain who fall in love in their real life alter egos. It's a story about love and redemption and all that sappy stuff, with a bunch of action and humor mixed in. For now, enjoy, with an image of PAUSE!

Through the looking glass...

So here are a few sketches I did for a comic I have been on again, off again working on. These characters have pretty much been scrapped from any of the ideas I have going now, but thought I'd share them. Obviously the story tied into the world of Alice in Wonderland.

Awkward

I don't usually like to share images of things I am currently working on for obvious reasons, but figured over the next few days I would throw a few things together for everyone.

The first two entries I have are from a graphic novel I have been working on called "Awkward" starring a turtle named Sheldon. The story itself is semi-biographical and will chronicle a lot of the awkward situations I have experienced and known other people to experience over the years with love, work and life in general. Below are some rough character designs for Sheldon and his friend Walter, a happy go lucky alligator whose only passion is finding the perfect lobster for dinner. I am really excited to share these and even more excited to finish the story.

PelletHead Continued...

Because I can only upload 5 pictures at a time I give you the rest of the pages I actually scanned.

PelletHead

I often have people ask me about PelletHead, well, those that knew me when I was going full force with the character years ago at least. Well... I honestly have not done much in a long time. I originally planned using him in an animated series, which never got off the ground, although a bunch of test animation and even a few scripts were done for said show. I then decided years later to do a web comic before the whole web comic thing was common place and well, never got past getting the website up aside from 1 or 2 episodes. I then tried to do an actual print version of the book shortly before moving to San Diego and even did a prologue story for the 2004 Even More Fund Comics Benefit book. Shortly after moving to San Diego I got distracted by a girl and didn't go back to the character until years later. With no distractions and having worked in comics for a bit I decided to take what I learned and start over. I scrapped the original pages I started and pretty much scrapped the story, but found a way to kind of tie in that original prologue. The character became much more serious and less humor was involved as was originally written into the proposed animated series from years earlier.

I did not really tell too many people that I had actually started work on another PelletHead series and very few people actually saw any of the work I did for it. Today I present to you a look at that work I did. I almost finished the first issue, but got distracted when a death in my life turned my creative endeavors to another book. That book we will look at in the next few weeks, but for now, here are the lost pages of PelletHead: Intergalactic Explorer.

Headless...

One more before I hit the sack. Again, another freehand sketch of a Haunted Mansion character. I kinda screwed up the legs, but oh well, I had fun doing it.