the Wild West Was Here (assembly)

Uncut Pages.

the Wild West Was Here book 1...ish @ Springcon

So its official. I have the first few copies of the book in print. It has three stories, the Bitter Cold, ...Said the Pilgrim to the Duke, and the Mirror Universe Affair. I'll be at Springcon here in the twin cities this weekend so swing by and get one. I'll also have the marvel cuties buttons, a few Yul Brynner t-shirts, and old stuff like post cards and even some of the old wyatt earp books.

Stop by and get a sketch. I hate when people charge for sketches (not commissions... I'm totally okay with $$ for those, but I don't like paying for sketches) So I'll do some sketches for free or donations or whatever. Maybe we'll do a sketch trade. You do a sketch for me and I'll do one for you. Either way, come one down.

Eventually the book will be available elsewhere. Eventually.

Earp scraps

Here is a small selection of some Wild West Pages.

the Bitter Cold

Here's a screenshot from page 1 of "the Bitter Cold"

...Said the Pilgrim to the Duke pg1

You may remember seeing the pencils and inks for this page a year or two ago... or maybe more. Well that's how long it takes to do a single page. Fact.

check it out! Wyatt Earp Stuff....

In preparation for this next issue going to print I've been going back through and reformatting old pages. Last time the book saw paper it was a very widesrceen approach where as now we have adopted the standard web comic format. There are pages that were drawn a few years ago in the old layout that now need to be reformatted (since this has been something like 3 or 4 years in the making...sorry) take a look. The originals are on the top. The reformatted versions are on the bottom.

Also here are the front and back covers for book 2. If you find the colors to be garish its probably because you're using Firefox which handles colors in an odd way sometimes. If you are overly concerned and are loosing sleep at night load the image up in another browser. It will look fine. If it still doesn't look fine you can consider the possibility that you may have poor taste.

Also, if you are reading this you should go buy Justin's story in this magazine!

Earp in progress

Congratulations to Justin on his news. Here is a progress shot of an Earp page. There was a fair amount of debate on whether the pages should be toned with a spacey blue/green or the more western themed tan. Its still a bit up in the air but for the time being we're leaning towards the tan.

Earp Page

Big ups to Justin on his first official paid story. Isn't he awesome? Here are some pencils for a panel from the Wild West Was Here, "the Mirror Universe Affair" page 9, written by Justin and drawn by myself.

Still earping in 2011

Alright, here it is. Nearly finished. And although my pages come along really really slowly justin has been plugging away on his writing. He recently sent me an amazing script. I think he should upload a small excerpt of it here.

Earp in 2011

I hope Justin isn't offended that I'm taking the first post of 2011. Lets hope to see some progress on the book this year. I guess that would start with finishing this page.

Earp-cerpt

Chuggin' along...

Earp scraps

I managed to squeek out a few more panels. Here is an excerpt.

Earped

While Justin was living large in Miami hanging out with Dexter (thankfully sans Rita) I was slaving away drawing Wyatt Earp pages and digging my car out from under all the snow.

continuing the Earp-cerpts

bit of a spoiler

More Earp-cerpts

more earp-cerpts

more scraps...