Time Log

What I've Been Up To: Scripting, Shifting, and Stripping

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

It's been a couple weeks since I tossed out an update, so here it goes:

- I finished scripting the second act of Pepper Jones, Adventure Scientist (remember the sample I posted from the first act?). The third act was practically written as a script, so all I need to do is break it into panels. This project is, for those who don't know, a digest-sized full-length graphic novel I'm co-writing with Shawn Atkins, who's also the artist:

- I've had a few story conferences with Pete Borrebach regarding the direction of our upcoming Time Log webcomic (launching in August!). Again drawn by Shawn, Pete and I thought that this story was locked down... until we went back and looked at the scripts we wrote three years ago and realized they needed to be completely overhauled. So overhauled we have! We should have the first few strips written by the start of June.

- Yeah, I shifted myself from one apartment to another over the weekend, but the real shifting is going on over in Super Haters. I bet everyone thought last week's ending was just a mindless joke, right? Well it may have been mindless but it wasn't a joke! Expect some... changes this week. (Here's last week's ending:)

- I've crossed the 15,000 word mark on my super-secret project (which is technically no longer a secret... you just need to know where to find it).

- And finally, I started stripping. Yep, over at Sequential Underground's Facebook page, the Strip Club is underway. It's a rotating cast of cartoonists telling one big semi-coherent story through a series of comic strips. Here's the first panel of my first contribution to Strip Club, Vol 1:

Buy My New Comic Book, Time Log!!!

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

Okay, so not too long ago, I posted some updates about Time Log, my ten-years-in-the-making time travel epic. Now Time Log is here, and there are two awesome ways to get your copy!

- You can download Time Log at DriveThruComics for $1.99

OR

- You can buy a print copy of Time Log over at the AudioShocker Store for $4.00 (we take PayPal)

Reviewers, if you're interested in getting a review copy, email me at nickmarino @ gmail.com.

And for those of you who hate paying for things and/or love the copy of Time Log you purchased and want more, a Time Log webcomic will be launching on the AudioShocker in August. Keep a watch for more.

The Time Log Process - Tones!!!

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

Pencils, inks, and panels, letters, and:

So close to finishing this damn comic!!! I'm almost there. I've got less than four pages of gray tones to go and I CAN'T WAIT TO BE DONE!!!!!! This is fun but also torture.

Anyway, I think this will be my last post of process art. Maybe I'll take a photo of the page when it's printed... I guess that'll be my epilogue. In the meantime, check out this 2001 Time Log video Pete and I made. The TL story has, uhhh, come a long way to say the least.