My first professional comic book work is finally printed and in my possession.
Doug TenNapel's Bad Island, published by
Scholastic Books. Before I drew
Scrooge and Santa, I was a Lead Colorist with
Katherine Garner on what was TenNapel's latest comic. This was the first time I had done anything professional for the comic industry. Not to mention, the first time I had every worked as a Colorist. I was just starting to get to know Doug when he asked me to do this, and working through it helped to develop a friendship with him. Mr. TenNapel is a good man, a hard worker and a great guy to work under. I also got to know Katherine and learn what an equally hard worker she is, not to mention her skills in the craft of coloring. My position was to develop a color pallet that other colorists could work from, and together we created the base colors for Katherine to the render (shadows/highlights) and adjust. It was a good experience and I'm very pleased with the result.
This project lead to other work with Doug, including coloring his web comic
Ratfist (Lead Colorist - Katherine Garner). This on-line graphic novel is in the works to be published by
Image Comics, but you can read the entire thing for free right now!
As an extra treat, I was recently given a copy of Bad Island and a Ratfist shirt.
Thank you Doug and Katherine for all your hard work and support.
