Comic Book Update
Matt and I have been making some decent progress on the comic book. I’ve finally have a rough skeleton outline developed for the first six issues. Now, I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned this already or not, but we have envisioned ourselves creating a six issue mini-series comic to introduce the main characters of our story and set the setting for an extended series run should we successfully pitch the comic to a publishing company - or decide to produce it on our own. So, having said that, it’s pretty exciting to finally have an idea of what we are trying to accomplish in this mini-series.
Currently the first two issues have been outlined in detail and are ready to written into a script, however, due to the way I am writing the first six issues, I needed to figure out what was going to happen in all six issues before I could start writing the first. Now that I finally know where I am going, the scripts can begin and the characters can come alive.
In addition, last month a Mini MegaCon went on in Orlando. It’s called a “Mini” MegaCon because the really one happens in April every year and is 4 times as big. Now MegaCon is the largest southeastern United States comic book convention. Think of it as the San Diego Comic-Con but with more comics and less movies and movie stars. Anyways, MegaCon is both a fun and interesting experience. On the one hand, you are surrounded by a huge amount of talent in both writing and drawing. Hundreds of people are there pitching and showing off their work to the masses. It’s fantastic to be around people doing the same things your are. Now, on the other hand, people to “dress up” at these conventions too. So it’s like Halloween only unless you are a Sci-Fi, anime or comic book fan, you aren’t going to recognize any of the characters. (Case in point: my financee) All in all though, it really is fun to go and attend.
Now the reason we went to convention was because there were a number of panels going on dealing with creating your own comic. We sat in on panels that had a number of famous artists and writers and we were able to ask questions and get answers from people working in the industry that we, ourselves, want to someday get into. We were able to understand what it’s like to work under the larger publishing companies like Marvel or DC, as well as, learn just what it takes to produce and market your comic on your own. It was very educational and we learned a lot. Some really good ideas came out of the convention too. And I don’t want to get into too much detail because for one they are still in development, but for another, I don’t want to give any of our ideas away. Matt and I have some pretty ambitious plans though. I just really hope that we can put the time and effort needed to do the ideas justice.
Anyways, I’ll leave you with some updates on the concept work my brother’s been working on. Enjoy.
