Update for April 8th

I am done with my comic, it will be printed monday and set up within the next few days.
Hoo boy hoo doggie.
I am so excited to be done with this and to focus on the thesis in the next coming week.
I have already begun plans to find work in ann arbor after I gradute, I was offered jobs in the video game archive and at the vault of midnight both of which will be
A.) Fun to work at
B.) A good revenue to use for furthering my own personal projects in the coming years.

This weeks research was

THE SHINING 

I feel bad that I didn't like it more. I felt that it was more visually stimulating than it was from a narrative standpoint.
I really did lure me into a dream like state and I enjoyed it purely on that level but other than that I found it a little too built up to satisfy.

Other than that

MY COMIC IS DONE AND READY TO PRINT
oh boy.

Update for Friday March 31st.

I am working non stop on my comic and my thesis. It is taking a lot of effort and I am barely holding it together.


In terms of research I have moved on from visual research to more thematic research as I finish my thesis.

My visual research this week was:

TRAIN TO BUSAN

A Korean horror film about a train where zombie begin to board and take over cars one by one. A father has to keep his daughter safe in an increasingly dangerous situation and it's uses of characters, environment and visual storytelling exploring themes of self sacrifice and unsolicited compassion.

My thematic research this week was:

CULTS AND STUFF

I have been pairing with the podcast Sect Ed to research the effects of suspicion, brainwashing and fear mongering in the real world. It will provide useful information when I write about the real world effects of corruptive elements. (The Heaven's Gate cult used the internet to draw in new members and used sci-fi to indoctrinate impressionable youths.)

Hopefully that can give me more information to work with.

Update for Mar 25th

Not a lot to report this week.
I am locked down in work mode, drawing 24/7
luckily that gives me a lot of time to watch horror movies.

I watched a pretty dang good indie horror movie

THE DEVIL'S CANDY

A horror movie about a family who moves into a new home, and the madman who seems to want to get back in.
An artist inspired by demonic voices, a troubled kid, rock and roll.
This movie was a great inspiration for the horror that I am working on now.

Since I have finished the into and set up of my story, I need to have good scary pay off and this movie is all about the pay off.
It was ok for the most part but the ending elevated it to incredible levels and made it all fit together.
I'd recommend it.

Update for Feb 18th

Only a little bit of research this time:

LATE PHASES:

Been awhile since I saw such a good "B-Horror Movie" like this.
It really reminded me of Gingersnaps, another great werewolf B-Movie.

Late Phases is about a blind Vietnam veteran who overhears his neighbor being eaten by a werewolf, the cops write the murder off as a wild animal attack but the Vet decides to take matters in his own hands. Epic montages of gathering silver bullets and making traps ensue.
It also has a great sense of sadness as the man knows he will probably die during the hunt juxtaposed with him settling into the creepy retirement community that he knows he won't be moving out again regardless of the werewolves.

I have been making comic pages with pretty consistently this last month. So I appreciated watching a movie that knew how to use it's visuals to tell the story. There was basically no soundtrack so the audio mixing was telling the story as much as the actors were.

Overall I am still stressed, suffering, drawing and watching too many horror movies.

Update for March 10

(Sorry for the delay I realized that this post didn't get uploaded)

So, while I have been working pretty consistently on my comic pages, I found some interesting research material and a concept I need to keep in mind while I work.

The concept of "Unending Anticipation" as a visual horror trope.

I found this while watching the 2016 horror movie, The Invitation.

It's a horror movie about a man meeting up with his ex-wife after 2 years. They are both still coping with the death of their son and have both remarried.
The dinner party that follows is unsettling and strange, leading to an evening of paranoia and intrique that leads to a sudden bloodbath.

But what made this movie interesting was the fact that 95% of the movie was just talking around a table, and only 5% of it was the gore and horror.
And yet, it was terrifying throughout.
Maybe it was the fact that it was advertized as a horror that I was in anticipation the whole time,
Maybe it was the unsettling music, or the Kubrickesque framing, or the reserved character acting, but with every passing moment it got scarier and scarier despite just being about some white people having wine around a coffee table. It was effective and impactful.

The reason this resonated with me was the fact that I am working with horror in a 2D still medium at the moment and visual horror can't be created through quick cuts or 2 frame flashes of the monster so the techniques included are vital to building my own suspense.

Update for Feb 24th

Spring break is here and I intend to come into the studio at least every other day this week to work on pages all day. Hopefully that will give me the boost of extra time I need to work on my thesis.

In the meantime the most relevant research I did was on the ARG 'Sara is Missing" in which you play a stranger investigating a lost phone that might belong to a kidnap victim, and you have to dig into her virus riddle system, read through all her text messages and look at all her photos for clues.

It really draws the audience into it's creepy and layered story. The gameplay accents the story beats by crafting the scares to what the player would be logically thinking once they are suspend their disbelief. A useful thing to keep in mind

Nightmind did a really good cross examination of the game and it's flaws.

And for a fuller experience, good old markiplier did a solid playthrough.

Other than that I am still trying as hard as I can and trying to schedule my other classes with my thesis meetings. I will keep trying.

Post for February 18th

Things are collapsing in on me but I am going to try my best.
I need to work more on my thesis and last time I wasn't able to find a time to meet with the Thesis consultant and I don't want to miss her this time around.

In other news I have been researching Night Mind (NM)
A youtube channel that focuses on what makes good horror, good suspense and just an all around good story.

(I think I even linked to his twin peaks video in a much earlier post during my initial research.)

His recent video on Resident Evil VI is a great resource for how to lead an audience's anticipation to a scare and how to 'train' the audience to expect things in certain situations.

As I am working on inking the first several pages of my comic, I really need to keep in mind how my 'setup' for the story 'teaches' the audience. You need to warm the viewer up to the world and how the tools of your fiction and really focus on what effect my decisions will lead to further down the line.
It's all about foundation. Strong foundation, maybe it won't topple later.
I hope.

Post for FEB 11th

Well, it is only 8 more weeks until my IP is due and I am going to be doing less and less research and more and more just, working until I physically can't anymore.

The last bit of inspiration comes from a genuine relic from the internet.

MARBLE HORNETS

We all know Slenderman, the internet meme gone awry. Slenderman started as a photoshop contest to make convincing  'haunted; photo, and this one (below) ended up winning, it eventually spiraled into
fan theories, fan art, spin offs, video games and even more spin offs until the creepy "Slenderman" became a meme of the bare bones basic "Spooky urban legends creature," a short hand cliche trope that is no longer considered original

But there was a golden period, right after the photoshop contest but RIGHT before the Slenderman mythos became a pop culture phenomenon.

MARBLE HORNETS

Marble Hornets was a short form web series depicting an old student film found on tapes after the original owner went missing. When his childhood friend re-watched the old tapes, he starts to notice a creature following them in the background, from a distance. A monster known as "The Operator" long before "Slenderman" existed, terrorized the cast and crew of marble hornets. His very presence drove people slowly insane to the point of obsession. The fact that the video series is grainy old footage with the monster hidden in single frames at a time, the audience has to become obsessed themselves, looking at every single image frame by frame to see the horror, just as the characters do. The hidden nature of the operator causes the characters to look for him behind every corner and constantly doubt their eyes, and the abstract low budget quality of the show itself makes the viewer take on the same roll as the characters. This is the exact blend of form and function that I hope to embody in my own work.
I hope.

Post for Feb 5th

Progress has been made with the storyboards

More than that I have the plot outline ready.

Outline: A nameless hacker and a cyber bully spends his days working as a nurse, and his nights harassing people online. He vents his hateful urges onto other people he doesn’t know as a way to live his normal life without guilt. He doesn’t think of himself as a bad person because he is kind and helpful to the people he meets in real life. He justifies it himself as a hobby, a way to test his skills as a hacker and a just a way to keep himself occupied. He is often paid to hack people's webcams and send the footage to his clients. He often hacks into strangers computers and mess with their files purely as a joke, he often sees it as nothing more than pranks. He frequents sites on the dark web but rarely ever buys anything.

Things change when another hacker tries to shut down his system, he is angered and retaliates by finding out where they live and buying dark-web drugs as them, then tipping the cops to their location. He reads a local news report days later about the other hacker getting arrested.

After this, he begins to feel guilt for the first time, and suppresses it as best he can. Things start to go wrong as his computer suffers some minor viruses and his house starts have electrical issues. He finds evidence of tampering with his wires outside his apartment and calls an electrician who never shows up. His computer refuses to start up, but then acts normal when he tries to leave for work. He calls in sick to spend the day tearing his computer apart to look for the problem. Small inconveniences keep him from finishing, he begins to suspect that someone from the dark-web has found him and has found some way to infect his computer and maybe even damage his electrical systems. He stops going online for a while and work begins to consume his time. Tired and lacking sleep, he decides to check his semi-functional computer only to find that he has apparently been logged on several times in the last week. Not only that but threatening messages appear hidden in the depths of his computer.

In anger he buys a brand new laptop to tries to get to the source of this problem, only finding that the same threatening messages are already on his brand new computer. He tries to call the tech support only to hear a strange voice on the other side of the line.

He smashes the new laptop and goes to the old computer, his face is talking to him, mocking him for all the horrible things he has done to other people and the hacker he sent to jail. In anger he takes a butcher knife and slashes at the computer, smashing it with his bear fists once the knife breaks. He hears someone outside his window and he goes to confront them, he finds someone with their back turned messing with his wires, he grabs the broken blade and tries to kill the stranger, only to find it is the electrician he called so long ago. The police arrive on the scene and drag him away, while he is screaming about how this was some conspiracy to drive him insane.

The last scene is of the salesman at the computer shop sending a letter that is later revived by a man in jail.

The story is suppose to be like a dark web creepy pasta mixed with a twilight zone-esque cautionary tale of self destruction.

I decided to remove any supernatural element to add to the paranoia and the realism.

It is a classic story about a misunderstanding and make the paranoia a real factor in the character's downward spiral.

Not much else to state. I am working hard and trying not to collapse or get sick when my progress is dependant on me working at full capacity each day. oh well

Post for Jan 29.

I unfortunately skipped last weeks blog update so I will make sure that this one covers all my bases.

I have run into an artistic roadblock and have been working hard to muscle through my artist block to produce work. My thumbnails are going to be turned into at least 4 inked pages by the end of the week and at least 1 digitally scanned page that I can consider "Done"

I also plan to post my finished script to this blog by next Friday for suggestions.

I have been struggling to get back to drawing regularly and hopefully this week is the start of an upswing rather than another downfall emotionally.

In terms of tangible progress, I now have a working title for my comic.
"One way Mirror" Which I hope is different enough from Black Mirror, one of my major inspirations. I honestly was not thinking about the show when I came up with the name but it is one of those names too similar to ignore the differences.
I like how it works thematically as the computer screen acts like a 2 way mirror nowadays. The dark screen acts a mirror to reflect the person looking at themselves, while the webcam acts like a one sided glass to hackers and people who could be watching you from halfway across the world.

RESEARCH:

By Jove I found a goldmine.

I watched 2 horror movies that really got my motor running in terms of inspiration.
First: Under the Shadow

A foreign horror movie set in Iran during the Iraq-Iran war. A mother has to protect her daughter while the war rages on outside and a dark spirit of revenge haunts those who have been lost inside the apartment. It was thrilling, visually compelling and had great use of motifs and lighting to forward the narrative of oppression and looming danger overhead.


The next one....
HARD CANDY
OOOOOOOOOOH Boy.
This movie was basically made for me and my project, This movie is... in essence what I want my final product to be.
Although it came out in 2005 it is still incredibly relevant to today's issues with anonymity and digital stalking.
The movie follows a young 14 year old girl who meets a 30 year old man she met in an online chatroom. He invites her to his house and offers her a drink... and yet, the movie takes a darker turn that one could possibly imagine.
A twisted tale of cat and mouse, revenge and darkly sexual mind games begins as the young girl actually manipulates and tortures the pedophile over the edge of insanity and into a chaotic tailspin that ends in a bloody climax.
It is EXACTLY what I want from a technology centric thriller about the dangers of the internet and how people can be use the internet to transform something safe or innocent into a place of dark violence.
I loved it, I hated it and I wanted more. I both strongly recommend NOT watching it and also watching it at the same time. It is VERY violent and mature even without a lot of blood or gore.

I feel very inspired and will make a lot of progress by the end of this month.
I feel excited are you excited?

First Update of 2017 (Jan 13th)

It's Friday the 13th so this post is appropriate.

I finally have a clear roadmap to finishing my IP project and I couldn't be more excited.

Taking to heart my mid-process critique and focusing on one story at a time.
The first one about the hacker specifically.
I decided to drop the supernatural elements (almost) and focus on making it a more traditional horror story that you might here whispered on forums of shared via chain email.
To tap into the darker "urban legend" motif.

I have a full script of the story and it is my goal to have 15+ thumbnail storyboards by next week ready to ink.
I am going for a much more grounded "creepypasta" style that might make it dig just that much deeper under the skin of my readers and I love it.
I am drawing more inspirations from the dramatic creepypastas readings like this one: (waring, graphic content)

They give me the chills and I think this is a great path to take when writing my "modern horror story" with more of Twilight Zone or Hitchcock style to the tragedy rather than just a spooky ghost story.

I am super excited and will have actual work to post by next update.
Let's do this thing.

Update for December 9th

So again... not a lot has happened recently.

My computer was fixed about 80's one of my files of old concept art got corrupted but my more recent digital drawings are safe. I can't draw because of all the issues with my wacom but I am determined to keep working as hard as I can nonetheless.

I was able to get my submission materials to John Luther on time and now I will just have to edit and arrange what material I have and what material I will make over the weekend for next week. My wacom tablet should be fuctional by this saturday meaning sunday could be nothing but drawing and that is a huge relief to me.

Also
I have found several good revenues of research in the meantime.

The video channels, The Film Theorists

















A great video about sound design and the lack of information that makes J-horror work.

And the channel Every Frame a Painting:

A great video about framing as a way to make dialouge flow and character motivation visual.
I have been really digging deep into the technicals of framing and storytelling on a more visual level.
I have a script written for my three stories, but I am purposefully looking for what words can be cut out and the information can be shown visually.
Hopefully it will make the final product all the more enjoyable.

Update for Dec 2 2016

So not much to update this week.
My computer broke and is in the shop, so the weeks worth of digital art I was planning to do went down the drain real fast.

At the very least I was able to save my hard drive, meaning that most of my animations and sketches are safe but I feel horribly set back and I am not sure what to do.

I spent this week researching more narrative based themes when it comes to conveyance and audience involvement. I watched several documentaries on video game design and how an interactive story can teach the player what to do, what to feel and how to view the story through simple design changes. It pointed out how in Dark Souls, there are too many weapons and shields when compared to Bloodbourne that has NO shields in the game.
Dark Souls tells the audience that blocking is a valid form of defense even though dodging and parrying makes the game a lot more fun and fast paced, meaning the audience already starts frustrated and confused at the start of the game, and then gets little to no time practicing the dodge/parry technique which makes a lot of a tough bosses that much harder. While in the sequel series Bloodbourne, there are simply NO shields. Meaning the player has to practice and perfect the dodge/parry technique right at the start of the game and thus the entire game is easier and thus more fun. In addition, the practice one gets in Bloodbourne makes you appreciate all the other Dark Souls games as you now have the practice to handle those games.

It might seem like a rather tangential aside but it makes sense in context of my style. I eat that stuff up. Storytelling mechanics and subtle conveyance is my bread and butter. The entire feel and flow of a piece of media is completely changed by removing one superfluous feature. When it comes to structuring a narrative, editing your work to be more streamlined is key.

I have been working on my writing and asking myself how LITTLE dialogue I can use to tell the audience what is happening. Studying conveyance is important to unlocking the tools of storytelling.

In other news I have been working with Pen and paper a lot.




It is definitely making me feel better but I won't really be able to get back to were I was until I get my laptop back. Drawing is pretty much my only stress release and I am not doing too well without it.

Update for November 25th

Happy Thanksgiving.

Starting on monday, I will begin my 'test week' to see if I can make a comic page a day. It will be a fun test and hopefully productive.

I also plan to scan and upload everything I get done this week so my next post will have a TON of in process images.

In terms of research I found a wonderfully nostalgic gem.

The 1998 made for TV movie: Dream House.
I remember watching the tail end of this movie late one night on TV when my parents were asleep and hoooo boy.
Even if this is an awful movie in pretty much every aspect, it was like looking at myself through a time machine. It is EXACTLY the aesthetic and thematic style I like when making my own stories.
The movie is about an AI that is supposed to watch over and take care of a family currently going through their own personal issues. The AI falls in love with the dad and tries to kill the rest of the family so they can be together.
90's cheesy horror ensues and it is gloriously Canadian.
It really reminded me of old "Goosebumps" or "Are You Afraid of the Dark." episodes. That mix of "a ton of love and care is put into this, but also at the same time it looks like nobody gave any effort making this." aesthetic is hilarious, lovable and totally what I am trying to emulate.

It really made my day watching this and it was one of those movies I know for a fact that no one else will ever appreciate the way I do and I am feeling incredibly inspired to make my own delightfully cheesy horror story.

Let's go!

Update for NOV 18th

Plan!

I have a good plan.
Starting the end of thanksgiving break I will be dedicating myself to at least a page a day. Hopefully making 7 pages a week. I know that I can get at least 1 page done on mondays, wednesdays, and fridays. At up to 2 pages or more on tuesdays and thursdays. Plus on the weekends I can work as much as I want making up to 3 pages each day.

This is however a rough guesstimation so I will be doing a 'practice' week when I get back to see exactly how much or how little pages I can make in a week then go from there.

I fully understand that some weeks will be super productive and I will be bogged down other weeks, but If i can get anywhere from 5 to 7 a week I should have more than enough pages done by the end of the semester and I will certainty have all the pages done by he end of the school year.
Technically if I play my cards right I could get the 30 pages done in a month and easily finish my graphic novel.

For example, this page took me only a few hours to make:

So I am very confident in my own abilities which is a new sensation for me to be feeling.
We will have to wait and see.

Update for Nov 11th

Updates:
I have been watching Black Mirror season 3. That's something interesting.

So far I think that the most important ones relating to my own work are episodes 1, 3 and 4

Episode 1:
A strong start to the new season had an amazing blend of bright shiny new technology and social commentary. It isn't scary by any means, it is actually pretty low key and more about subtle drama and commentary. It really cut into the "snapchat" culture where tweens take photos of the their meals and make fun of each others clothes. I think the 3rd act is a little weak and does not deliver on it's message but it was still a very solid story where they take an abstract cultural phenomena and makes it a literal mechanic of the world.
Fun fact, there is an app coming out that lets you rate people, a YELP for people so to speak.
God help us.

Episode 3:
I think the fact that nothing blatantly supernatural about this episode made it feel a whole lot more real. There are historical cases of people being blackmailed into committing crimes. It is genuinely creepy how easily these people can be pushed into pure evil with just a few texts. The twist ending is inevitable but still shocking. This is almost exactly how I want my stories to be like, a largely unseen horror, easily understandable characters, a looming sense of dread, and subtle commentary about the modern age and how technology can be used for evil without vilifying technology as a whole.



Episode 4:
Summary: Adorable
The whole time i was laughing because it was like someone took the "dead lesbian" trope and made it literal.
I think that the concept of a virtual afterlife was interesting and I really liked the whole "pick immortality or pick death" dynamic as it could lead to a lot of interesting discussions, but it was not as fleshed out as I thought it would be.
I am not complaining though, this is the first Black Mirror episode to have a happy ending. It was too adorable for me to handle.
I love well written LGBT romances.



That is all in terms of Influences and research.
Black Mirror had a lot of great concepts to think about and some really solid "ghost story" elements that I will need to look into when completing my project.
Episode 3 was a great STORY. Even summing it up in a sentence it is still intriguing.
"Once a teens secrets are stolen from his computer by hackers, he is forced to complete a series of escalating crimes in order to keep his secret from being released."

In terms of actual work, I have a lot to present at tuesdays critque, I have a lot more concept art, and I am going to spend this weekend on digital pages and even some animated elements.
I have been in a huge slump due to the crushing depression that resulted from the election but I am forcing myself to draw again and hopefully I continue to be productive in spite of my mood.

Update for November 4th

This update will quick and to the point as I have boiled down what I need to do a single concept.
I plan to work on 3 inked panels that I will scan and upload them to then re-draw them in photoshop. I will then try to animate elements of each page.
Hopefully I will have 3 semi-polished "examples" of what the finished product could look like.
I don't have much to report as I have just been sketching and storyboarding all week and there isn't really a lot to show for it.

In terms of outside research I am still researching Jim Ottaviani for his style and approach to narritive, as well as WEBtoons collection of Halloween horror animations.

I am planning this weekend to also do research into some good old fashioned cheesy horror movies because I began to feel very inspired by the concept of "ghost stories" not just horror stories but, "ghost stories" "Campfire stories" whatever you want to call them. Not the hollywood slasher movie but the lingering creepy tall tales that have unexpected twists and bone chilling endings

Hopefully I will have more to update next week, a few finished images, animations and some fully thought out concepts in the terms of the horror basics.

Happy Halloween!

Update for Oct 28

Not much to report this week as I had to forsake studio work time to deal with several family and finanical issues this week.
(sorry for uploading this basically at midnight)

This monday is halloween and it is time to get spooky.

I made some really interesting strides in my research. One of the main inspirations for my work is Bongcheon dong ghost. A horror webcomic with intergrated animated elements

http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=31&weekday=tue

This is the link but fair warning, it is disturbing and rather shocking.



I will never forget how scared I was the first time I read this comic and it is exactly how I want my audience to feel when they read mine.

There is such a sense of fear and anticipation.
I think I identified what makes this comic so effective with the way it sets up it's horror "jump scares"

Out of nowhere one of the panels of the comic moves and the ghost turns around to face the audience in a jaw dropping display of gore and terror.

This first scare is rather small, but highly unexpected in a static meduim.
You see it and it suddenly dawns on you that the next time you scroll down to the next panel, another animated jump scare might happen.

By not showing the biggest scare first, the comic both shocks us, but also warms us up to the idea of the animated jumpscare. So you are not totally terrified but you are now mentally preparing for the next one.
The first one scared you because it came out of nowhere. The second one scares you because you KNOW it is coming, but you don't know what it will be or when it will happen. So you spend the rest of the comic wrapped in awful anticipation that only grows larger and larger the more you read.










And this leads me to my newest discovery.
An app called "Webtoon"
it lets you read webcomics from your phone , and has some exclusive titles that use the features of your phone to manufacture jumpscares, like a ghost appearing behind you using your camera or getting texts messages from a character in the comic.

This is honestly the most scared I have been reading a webcomic since I first read Bongcheon dong ghost back when i was 16 years old.

I plant to read all of them by next monday and begin working on a "mock up" of my own ghost comic to take advantage of the same medium.

And maybe watch some Black Mirror season 3 i have heard good things about it.

That's all for this week it was very slow and I felt very unmotivated and unproductive but I am working to get back on track and this is just the inspiration I need

Update for Oct/21

Update: I made a lot of progress with my inking techniques by making 10 different ink concept sketches, and 6 concept inkings of the final comic. As per the teachers instructions made 6 drawings as a sort of "preview" or "trailer" for the finished product. I considered it a "proof of concept" Due to how much ink and markers I used, it turned out great but very smelly.

Joel Reynolds: Ip rough timeline:

The main goal is to have steps 1-5 finished by december

Steps:
1.) Writing Script:
2.) Storyboards and Concept Art:
3.) Sketching Panels:

4.) Inking Panels:

5.) Scanning and Importing files:

6.) Re-inking digitally:

7.) Shading:

8.) Animating:

9.) Publishing:

As of Oct 20: I have 55 days until the end of the semester.

That’s about 6 days to each of the 9 steps.
With 4 work days a week and weekends for catch up time.

IDEAL TIMELINE:
1.) - 2 work days - 1 additional day to proof-read and edit. (3) [24th-26th]

2.) - 4 work days plus weekend (6) [27th-3rd]

3.) - 4 work days plus weekend (6) [4th-9th]
4.) - 4 work days plus weekend (6) [10th-16th]
5.) - 1 work day (1) [17th]

6.) - 4 work days plus weekend (6) [18th-23rd]

7.) - 2 work days plus weekend (4) [24th-28]

8.) - 1 month (30)

9.) - 1 week (7)

IDEAL TIME FRAME: [ 65-80 days]

Update for OCT 15th

This will hopefully be my last friday post NOT posted on a friday.

After meeting with Marianetta and Beth I am taking steps to not be so perpetually tardy.
I had initially thought that senior IP would be very work focused where everyday was individual work time on a schedule we set for ourselves. But I am learning that this is less self guided and much more like a traditional class with set weekly grades.

So my goal over break is to get back into the correct mindset for being a productive student.

Part 1: Scheduling: I have my weekly work time blocked out on a google calendar with reminders sent to my phone.

At the end of this week I will see how many pages I can ink and set my page limit for the rest of the semester. Hopefully I will be able to predict how long my final comic could be.

Part 2: Catch Up: I will be using the fall break to document all the work I have done so far.
I have done a lot of my work I just to show PROOF which is the key.

[X]- Stacks photos: I DO have many photos of myself researching in various libraries around campus. I will print them out.

[X]- Notes from Paul Sizer Interview: I wrote down all the notes I took on a piece of paper and just have to transfer them to digital so I can send it to Marianetta and Beth.

[X]- Future Interviews: I am currently reading Phoebe Gloeckner's biography and she has agreed to an interview at a later date.


Part 3: TRAILER:

To identify a singular project, I am going to be working on an 8-page preview "trailer" for my comic.
A "proof of concept" so it seems

Conclusion: I need to show PROOF that I am doing all this work or else it means nothing. I know that this isn't "busy work" but it is important to take this process in the correct order to ensure maximum success.
It might seem annoying but it is still important and I understand that.