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(originally posted on Diaryland.com, 2003-09-02 - 11:55 a.m.)
Whew! Tired after an all-nighter between Sunday and Monday, but Girl Genius #10 is almost out the door. Today, I get to composite mountain photos into a hand-drawn mountain range. It looks quite good so far -- amazingly, the photos of mountains that I found have been fitting almost exactly in the sketched slopes and contours of the drawn mountain range. To quote The Tick: "Heavens to Betsy, what are the odds?!??"
After that, it's a few slight adjustments here and there to enhance the pages that extra bit before burning the CD to send to the client. And after THAT, it's a suspenseful waiting game.
The Foglios recently licensed the Girl Genius product to WizKids, a gaming company, which has just been bought out by Topps (yes, the bubble gum card people). They still want me as the colorist, but of course the final decision rests with the license owners -- and I'm concerned that they'll kick me off the book and put a colorist on it from their own stable. (Which would be a big mistake, and not just in my humble opinion: the Foglios are very pleased with my work, and whatever failings I may have, I KNOW I'm a damned good colorist).)
The Foglios have the impression that there won't be any problem with me continuing on the book, but in this business, anything could happen. It would suck horribly to finally get a chance to work with one of my favorite artists, then get booted because some editor wants their cousin, who has never painted a book in his life, to get a comic book credit :-P. The sad truth is, that's what often happens.
If this ends up tanking on me, fuck the comics industry -- it's time to find a more lucrative and pleasant career doing something else, like cleaning toilets. (Gee, can you tell I'm a little bitter at this point? ;-P Oh, well. All I can do is wait.)
Whew! Tired after an all-nighter between Sunday and Monday, but Girl Genius #10 is almost out the door. Today, I get to composite mountain photos into a hand-drawn mountain range. It looks quite good so far -- amazingly, the photos of mountains that I found have been fitting almost exactly in the sketched slopes and contours of the drawn mountain range. To quote The Tick: "Heavens to Betsy, what are the odds?!??"
After that, it's a few slight adjustments here and there to enhance the pages that extra bit before burning the CD to send to the client. And after THAT, it's a suspenseful waiting game.
The Foglios recently licensed the Girl Genius product to WizKids, a gaming company, which has just been bought out by Topps (yes, the bubble gum card people). They still want me as the colorist, but of course the final decision rests with the license owners -- and I'm concerned that they'll kick me off the book and put a colorist on it from their own stable. (Which would be a big mistake, and not just in my humble opinion: the Foglios are very pleased with my work, and whatever failings I may have, I KNOW I'm a damned good colorist).)
The Foglios have the impression that there won't be any problem with me continuing on the book, but in this business, anything could happen. It would suck horribly to finally get a chance to work with one of my favorite artists, then get booted because some editor wants their cousin, who has never painted a book in his life, to get a comic book credit :-P. The sad truth is, that's what often happens.
If this ends up tanking on me, fuck the comics industry -- it's time to find a more lucrative and pleasant career doing something else, like cleaning toilets. (Gee, can you tell I'm a little bitter at this point? ;-P Oh, well. All I can do is wait.)
