tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23084618471196126172024-03-13T11:59:48.734-07:00wet moonSophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228892803278850156noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308461847119612617.post-90592869932831873322016-05-29T10:37:00.005-07:002016-05-29T10:37:50.850-07:002016 UPDATES!Here I am!!!<br />
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It's been almost a year since I posted last, it's crazy. I got so absorbed into working on Jem and the Holograms and trying to get it all finished. It's all done now, though, last night I finished my final issue for the time being. I can't believe I worked on Jem for about a year and a half, and it doesn't seem like that long, time really flies.<br />
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Anyway, now that Jem is done, that means I'm FINALLY going back to work on Wet Moon 7!!! The rest of 2016 is pretty wide open for me so hopefully I'll be able to get in a good 6+ months of work on WM7. I'm going to be rewriting a bunch of it and probably redoing most or all of the pages I had drawn so far.<br />
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I completely forgot to post here about the new edition of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wet-Moon-Book-Feeble-Wanderings/dp/1620103044" target="_blank">Wet Moon volume 1</a> that came out recently! It has my name fixed on it and a new cover designed by <a href="http://heyanniemok.com/" target="_blank">Annie Mok</a>, as well as some extras in the back like character profiles and some fanart.<br />
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<br />We're re-releasing each book one by one, it'll be so great to have new editions with my name updated on them all and nicer paper stock and all that. You can get it at all the usual booksellers like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wet-Moon-Book-Feeble-Wanderings/dp/1620103044" target="_blank">Amazon</a> and also digitally at <a href="https://www.comixology.com/Wet-Moon-Vol-1/digital-comic/320184" target="_blank">Comixology</a>.<br />
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I think I might move this blog to Tumblr or another platform, Blogger is kind of a hassle to use... I don't know, I'll think about it. I wish Livejournal would come back into fashion, that was such a fun site. What I REALLY need to do is get my personal website redesigned and back up and running. What a pain!<br />
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Thank you as always for being so patient, you guys!!Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228892803278850156noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308461847119612617.post-69318534943930040612015-06-30T21:56:00.004-07:002015-06-30T21:56:40.433-07:00Advocate interviewi recently did a big important interview at The Advocate with Brian Andersen, <a href="http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/geek/2015/06/19/trans-jem-artist-coming-out-and-creating-comics" target="_blank">click here to read it</a>. i talk about coming out as transgender and how it's affected my work, particularly Wet Moon.<br />
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i touch on it only briefly but one of the main reasons (the other being money) why Wet Moon is taking so long (and Shadoweyes) is because i was too depressed to work much on my personal comics. it was like Wet Moon and Shadoweyes were too close to home and they represented the life i wanted to leave behind, and being so crushed underneath being trans and trying to figure out what to do, i just couldn't muster up any energy to work on Wet Moon volume 7 in any significant amount. it's been a struggle. since coming out, things have been getting better and i still don't feel 100% but i do feel better than ever. i'm slowly getting there, and so i've been thinking more and more about Wet Moon over the past year and i feel like i'm almost at a place emotionally and mentally that i'll be able to go back to work on it.<br />
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i'm not sure when, since i'm tied up with Jem & the Holograms right now and trying to make money to pay for transition expenses, but i'm thinking about doing weekly Wet Moon 7 pages as a webcomic next year. it's a really big book, and maybe if i start small and go page by page i'll be able to get some momentum on it and not feel so overwhelmed.<br />
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i miss all the Wet Moon characters! i can still draw pin-ups of them but it's not quite the same.<br />
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i want to thank all the fans who have been soooo amazingly patient over the years, you guys have been so awesome. it really means a lot when someone says they'll wait no matter how long it takes for me to finish volume 7, and knowing that people will wait gives me a lot of hope and encouragement. it makes me feel so much less stressed out.<br />
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thank you so much for sticking with me through all this.Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228892803278850156noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308461847119612617.post-42530122337551070182015-06-12T22:10:00.001-07:002015-06-12T22:10:11.316-07:00All The Evils Offered Beneath Bloodied Halls Of Blackened Lustever wondered what Myrtle & the Slutty Angels' song <i>All The Evils
Offered Beneath Bloodied Halls Of Blackened Lust</i> in Wet Moon volume 6
sounds like?? now you can find out, the song is real and
you can <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Evils-Offered-Beneath-Bloodied-Blackened/dp/B00VBZFU62/ref" target="_blank">get it on Amazon</a> and <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/all-evils-offered-beneath/id980752493" target="_blank">iTunes</a>!!!<br />
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has been a long time coming, my friend Ariel and i have been planning
this for years. i thought it would never be finished but here it is!<br />
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<br />Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228892803278850156noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308461847119612617.post-44790337431087835872014-04-01T09:53:00.000-07:002015-04-01T17:11:36.935-07:00updateswow, it's been a long time since my last post. O_o i did a 4-issue Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles story for IDW so i was busy with that until February, and i've been kinda slacking off the past month, doing just little things here and there and doing a lot of drawings just for fun.<br />
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right now i've just started working on my last TMNT issue for a while, one issue of the upcoming Turtles in Time mini-series (i'm doing the dinosaur issue!), and then after that it's back to Wet Moon 7 for a bit. i hope it's worth the wait, sorry it's taking so long, Wet Moon really took a hit when i ran into financial troubles back in 2010 or whenever and never recovered.<br />
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i can't believe Wet Moon is almost at its 10th anniversary, which will be around the end of this year/early 2015. i want to do something special but i don't know if i'll have time... other sort of big WM news is that i'm pretty sure volume 8 is going to be the final book, and i'll be calling it quits after that, at least for a while. Wet Moon will probably be back after that eventually, but maybe as a spin-off or some other form, not sure yet but i have some ideas.<br />
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i don't know if it'll be career suicide to end Wet Moon, but it seems like the right thing to do. i love the characters but i've felt more and more crushed underneath all the storylines i've woven together, i feel like i'm paying for the decisions my 24-year-old self made, and i need to wipe the slate clean and move on. other reasons are i feel like i'm always trying to repurpose Wet Moon to fit with myself as i get older and change as a person, people change a lot in 10 years, and also that with each new book, WM gets more and more inaccessible, i don't want it to become like long-running superhero comics or those Japanese comics that you're interested in until you find out they're 25 volumes long and counting. bleh.<br />
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so, we'll see how it goes. thanks, everyone!Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228892803278850156noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308461847119612617.post-44225924492951684572013-08-14T19:11:00.000-07:002013-08-14T19:12:20.071-07:00another Wet Moon 7 sneak peek!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228892803278850156noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308461847119612617.post-59424215904155713682013-07-18T00:35:00.000-07:002013-07-18T00:35:01.522-07:00Nora & Nissa<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228892803278850156noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308461847119612617.post-26931957655246022912013-07-15T00:56:00.000-07:002013-07-15T00:56:11.136-07:00Kinzoku<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228892803278850156noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308461847119612617.post-48759103195418840092013-07-12T19:38:00.002-07:002013-07-12T19:38:14.977-07:00Cleo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228892803278850156noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308461847119612617.post-25473614589676501922013-07-11T17:50:00.000-07:002013-07-11T17:50:00.732-07:00Glen and Martin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228892803278850156noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308461847119612617.post-41227994132586466922013-07-11T00:00:00.001-07:002013-07-11T00:00:29.003-07:00Audreyclick for big version.<br />
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<br />Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228892803278850156noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308461847119612617.post-66831253811705574842013-07-08T23:02:00.003-07:002013-07-08T23:02:46.080-07:00Cleo & Trilbyclick to make big!<br />
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<br />Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228892803278850156noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308461847119612617.post-13852172835796097492013-07-08T12:37:00.001-07:002013-07-09T17:17:26.937-07:00Ringtree sistersclick to make big!<br />
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<br />Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228892803278850156noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308461847119612617.post-16624324106535153402013-07-03T18:09:00.001-07:002013-08-14T19:11:42.603-07:00Wet Moon 7 sneak peek!Wet Moon 7 has been slow going thanks to a bunch of different things, i won't have much time to work on it this year unfortunately. :( it's frustrating. but after a secret gig later this year, i'm planning on 2014 being the Year of Ross and getting Wet Moon 7 and Shadoweyes 3 done! i can't believe how much my personal books have gone off the rails since Glory, it sucks, but now that i'm a bit more financially-stable i hope i can get back to my own projects full-time again for a while. thanks for being patient, everyone!!<br />
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Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228892803278850156noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308461847119612617.post-40154126474717939812013-04-04T22:13:00.001-07:002013-08-14T19:11:54.310-07:00script + thumbnailsi don't do a lot of process posts mostly because i think my process is fairly straightforward and unremarkable, plus i'm lazy, but here we go!<br />
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i tried to find some Wet Moon 7 snippets that weren't super spoilery and i think these work okay, but if you're spoilerphobic then turn back now! this is a process from script to thumbnail. here's an excerpt of 7 pages.<br />
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some notes: i've been doing a thing where i color code scenes in my scripts to denote which characters each scene focuses on (Mara = red, Cleo = blue, Martin = mustardy color, etc.) so i can better pace things out and i can tell generally how much pagetime a given character has just by scrolling through the text document really fast, but i didn't include that here.. the parts where it says [CHARACTER] OUTFIT both tally up how many outfits each character has in the book so i know how many i have to lay out, and they also will refer to specific outfits once i gather those up and make easy-access collages of them for when i start drawing pages. the "artpage" header is how many pages i actually have to draw, minus the chapter dividers or black "pause" pages and stuff like that, i like to know how many pages i'm going to be drawing, or at least a general idea since sometimes i add or delete pages along the way. then the first page number is what the actual page number will be in the final book.<br />
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i wanted to do a thing where the script is alongside the thumbnails so you can follow along easily but it was too difficult and time-consuming, although it probably would have taken less time then jockeying with Blogger's annoying formatting.<br />
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anyway, here we go after the jump!<br />
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my scripts aren't written with the intent of anyone ever seeing them, even my editor, so my panel descriptions are really sparse because all the poses, compositions, body language and facial expressions are in my head. i do make up some of that as i thumbnail, since writing it out doesn't always translate to the thumbnail and i move characters around or change dialogue to accommodate the eventual drawing, but most of the stuff is already made up in my head when i write this stuff down.<b> </b><br />
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<b>page 56 [artpage 51]</b><br />
- <b>MARTIN OUTFIT #4, GLEN OUTFIT #3, AUDREY OUTFIT #3</b>. Martin and Glen, sitting in<br />
the basement of Martin’s house, looking at yearbooks. Audrey is nearby on a couch or chair,<br />
reading a book.<br />
<b>Glen:</b> “Oh shit, Tim Marasco, remember him?! What an asshole.”<br />
<b>Martin:</b> “He peed on your backpack in gym!”<br />
- <b>Glen:</b> “Yeah. But it was after I left that tube of acne cream on his desk in Spanish class, ‘cause he had<br />
so many zits, so I kinda deserved it.”<br />
<b>Martin:</b> “No way, you deserved him squeezing the tube all over your head, not getting your<br />
backpack tossed in a gym shower and peed on. Come on.”<br />
<b>Glen:</b> “I guess so. Yeah. High school was pretty cool.”<br />
- <b>Martin:</b> “Haha, are you kidding? It blew. Where <i>else</i> could you get your backpack peed on?”<br />
<b>Glen:</b> “It sucked in a lotta ways, I got bullied pretty bad but some of the stories are too good to<br />
pass up. Well, I dunno, maybe not, tough to say. I was pretty mean to some people, too, like<br />
Vulture Boy and that girl I harassed by calling her a werewolf in 9th grade. I think all that<br />
made her switch schools.”<br />
- focus on Audrey glancing down at Glen and Martin, amused.<br />
<b>Martin:</b> “Yeah… That’s pretty bad.”<br />
<b>Glen:</b> “I was just angry. Like, at everyone.”<br />
- Martin points at a yearbook page, showing some evil-looking boy. dialogue is from off-panel.<br />
<b> Martin:</b> “Oh man, Mo Skivington, he looks like the frickin’ devil in this picture, haha.”<br />
<b>Glen:</b> “Haha, yeah, the eyebrows. He was actual jerk, too, he was exactly what you’d assume from<br />
this photo. Remember when we were outside on the hill during lunch and he ran at me—”<br />
<b>Martin:</b> “Hahaha, knocked you down the soccer field hill!”<br />
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<b>page 57 [artpage 52]</b><br />
- <b>Martin:</b> “It was like slow motion, I was like “Glennnnnn loooook oouuutt” but then nope, tumbling<br />
down the hill.”<br />
<b>Glen, looking at the yearbook:</b> “Hehheh. What are these little dots you drew in by some people’s<br />
names?”<br />
- <b>Martin:</b> “Yeah, I don’t know, I thought at first they were marking all the people I hated but now I’m<br />
not so sure because look, Steve Strobeck has a dot and I didn’t hate him, same with Alexa Lee, I<br />
<i>definitely</i> didn’t hate her, heh.”<br />
<b>Glen:</b> “Maybe it’s people who <i>I</i> hated…”<br />
- they lean closer toward each other.<br />
<b>Martin:</b> “Look, Quincy VanGrol, didn’t hate him either…”<br />
<b>Glen:</b> “Oh, it’s gotta be people who I hate, I completely hated him. He was like, all passive-<br />
aggressive, one day he was my friend then the next he wasn’t and back and forth, and he<br />
always mispronounced all the Magic card names.”<br />
- <b>Martin: </b>“Haha, yeah, ‘Dormonic Hordes.’ DEMONIC Hordes, what a turd.”<br />
<b>Glen:</b> “Ahh, good times. College is so boring, isn’t it?”<br />
- <b>Martin:</b> “I like it way more than high school. You’re nuts. You talk like you’re all old or something,<br />
you’re only 20.”<br />
<b>Glen:</b> “I <i>feel</i> old.”<br />
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<b>page 58 [artpage 53]</b><br />
- <b>Glen:</b> “Maybe we should do tabletop gaming again. Maybe then I’d feel less old.”<br />
<b>Martin:</b> “Ha, really? What? Nah. I can’t do that anymore.”<br />
<b>Glen:</b> “Come on, we could… Who could we get from Wet Moon?”<br />
- they both look back at Audrey.<br />
<b>Audrey:</b> “…”<br />
<b>Audrey con’t:</b> “Could I play an elf…?”<br />
- <b>Glen:</b> “Oh, Audrey, so adorably clueless. We don’t play games with <i>elves</i> in them.”<br />
<b> Audrey:</b> “Oh.”<br />
- <b>Martin:</b> “I was about to say Trilby but… you know.”<br />
<b> Glen:</b> “Aw. Yeah. You know it’s a disaster to bring anyone you’re dating or dated into the group.<br />
Can’t mix gaming and romance.”<br />
- <b>Martin:</b> “Yeah, true. Pete?”<br />
<b>Glen:</b> “Who?”<br />
<b> Martin:</b> “Pringles Guy, but we’re not calling him that anymore.”<br />
<b>Glen:</b> “Oh, right. Yeah, we should ask him when we get back. So cool. I could run that Ninjas &<br />
Superspies campaign I always wanted to do. Withering Flesh touch.”<br />
- <b>Martin:</b> “I dunno, man… Maybe not. I don’t know if I could get back into it now.”<b> </b><br />
<b> Glen:</b> “I wonder if I still have my dice…”<br />
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<b>page 59 [artpage 54]<br />[December 12, Saturday]</b><br />
- <b>CLEO OUTFIT #4, MARA OUTFIT #2, TRILBY PAJAMAS STILL</b>. cut to Trilby’s bedroom<br />
again. Cleo, Trilby and Mara are here. Trilby and Cleo are pretty closely positioned and Cleo is<br />
overbearing, while Mara is off away from them. Trilby has a stack of paper.<br />
<b>Trilby:</b> “Cleo. What is this outfit?”<br />
<b>Cleo:</b> “What? You don’t think it’s cute…?”<br />
<b>Trilby:</b> “Umm… Kinda but it’s too tight. It makes your belly look crazy.”<br />
- Trilby shows Cleo and Mara the papers. Mara glances at Cleo.<br />
<b>Cleo:</b> “Oh…”<br />
<b>Mara:</b> “I like it.”<br />
<b>Trilby:</b> “So, check these out, I printed out a bunch of news articles about me. It’s kinda weird.<br />
They keep getting facts wrong.”<br />
- Mara and Cleo looks at them.<br />
<b>Mara: </b>“I haven’t seen nothin’ about it online or on the news…”<br />
<b>Trilby:</b> “Yeah. I guess it woulda been bigger if I’d actually died.”<br />
- Trilby tries to get up, Cleo ready to help her.<br />
<b>Trilby:</b> “Hold on…”<br />
<b>Cleo:</b> “Whoa, what is it? Are you okay??”<br />
- Cleo helps Trilby up.<br />
<b>Trilby:</b> “Gotta go to the bathroom.”<br />
<b> Cleo</b>: “Oh, okay. Come on.”<br />
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<b>page 60 [artpage 55]</b><br />
- Cleo helps Trilby away.<br />
<b>Cleo:</b> “Hold on, Mara.”<br />
- Mara sits there alone on Trilby’s futon. awkward and uncomfortable.<br />
- same shot.<br />
- cut to the bathroom. Cleo is helping Trilby with her stoma. Trilby looks upset.<br />
<b>Trilby:</b> “I’m sorry. I’m sorry.”<br />
- <b>Cleo:</b> “Shh. It’s fine. I want to do it.”<br />
- <b>Cleo:</b> “See, it’s not a big deal…”<br />
<b>Trilby:</b> “It stinks.”<br />
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<b>page 61 [artpage 56]</b>- Cleo empties the bag.<br />
<b>Cleo:</b> “No it doesn’t.”<br />
- Cleo gets a new bag.<br />
<b>Trilby:</b> “...I… lemme put it back on. I can do it. Here.”<br />
- Trilby takes the bag and undoes the package or whatever.<br />
- she starts crying.<br />
<b>Cleo:</b> “Oh, sweetie…”<br />
- they hug, Trilby crying.<br />
<b>Trilby, small text:</b> “I can’t go back out there.”<br />
- cut to Mara, still alone.<br />
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<b>page 140 [artpage 101]<br />[December 16, Wednesday]</b>- <b>MARA OUTFIT #7, NISSA OUTFIT #2, NORA OUTFIT #2</b>. back in Wet Moon. Mara is<br />
unpacking some of her clothes. Nora is looking at some of them.<br />
<b>Nora:</b> “I love these!”<br />
<b>Mara:</b> “Yeah, I used to be pretty gothy.”<br />
- as Nora looks through the clothes, Mara brings up her cockroach terrarium and sets it on a table.<br />
<b>Nora:</b> “What is—”<br />
<b>Mara:</b> “My pet cockroaches.”<br />
- <b>Nora:</b> “AAAAAH! What!!!” freaking out.<br />
<b>Nissa:</b> “Pipe down! Whoa! What!”<br />
<b>Mara:</b> “It’s fine! I know everyone hates roaches but I love them, so, yeah.”<br />
- Mara lets a roach crawl onto her hand.<br />
<b>Nora:</b> “Ohhh my <i>goddddddd!!!</i>”<br />
<b>Nissa:</b> “<i>Cut it out!</i> Quit freaking <i>out</i>!”<br />
<b>Mara:</b> “They’re always there for me when everyone else is a jerk.”<br />
- Mara holds out her hand with the roach on it toward Nora and Nissa.<br />
<b>Mara:</b> “This guy’s name is Zurthorok—”<br />
<b>Nora:</b> “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH—”<br />
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<b>page 141 [artpage 102]</b><br />
- Mara puts the roach back. Nora is calming down.<br />
<b>Mara:</b> “Haha, you’re so mean!” joking.<br />
<b>Nissa:</b> “She’s just pretending to overreact!”<br />
<b> Nora:</b> “Am not!”<br />
- Nora moves closer to Mara in a subtle damsel kind of way, maybe putting her hands on Mara’s arms or <br />
something. Nissa is rolling her eyes.<br />
<b>Nora:</b> “Don’t ever bring them near me!”<br />
<b>Mara:</b> “Heh, okay, okay.” <br />
- Mara goes to bite a fingernail/bandaided finger, but Nora reaches up.<br />
<b>Nora:</b> “No, don’t.”<br />
- Nora keeps her hand on Mara’s hand. kind of visibly uncomfortable, dying to bite!<br />
<b>Nora:</b> “Don’t do it.”<br />
<b>Mara:</b> “O-okay… I really want to, though, heh…”<br />
- <b>Nora:</b> “Ask me a question. Think about something else.” keeping her hands on Mara’s.<br />
<b>Nissa:</b> “*sigh*”<br />
<b>Mara: </b>“Um… okay… uh…”<br />
- <b>Mara:</b> “Do you… do you two ever wanna be separate?”<br />
<b>Nissa:</b> “Ohhh <i>boy</i>, how’d I know <i>that</i> one was coming?? <i>Every</i>one has to ask us <i>that!</i>”<br />
<b>Mara:</b> “Sorry…”<br />
<b>Nora:</b> “No, it’s fine. Shush.”<br />
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- <b>Nora:</b> “I don’t remember it, but my mom says when we were little sometimes we’d try to like, pull our<br />
heads away from each other, so I guess back then I wanted to be separate… But now I don’t.”<br />
<b>Nissa:</b> “Me neither. No way. Together forever.”<br />
- <b>Mara:</b> “That’s cool. It must be real hard, though, I can’t even imagine, how some people treat you, or<br />
like, you wanna do one thing when Nissa wants to do another thing, what if you wanna major in<br />
different things in college… I’m sorry, I don’t mean to make you feel like you’re… you’re freaks or<br />
somethin’, I’m sure everyone asks about this shit, but I’m jus’ genuinely interested…”<br />
- <b>Nora:</b> “It’s okay. If it was anyone else besides you I’d be grouchy about it.”<br />
<b>Nora con’t:</b> “So, like, I wanna major in fine art and Nissa—”<br />
<b>Nissa interrupting:</b> “<i>Game</i> design!”<br />
- Mara moves some stuff around as the girls talk, but still giving them full attention.<br />
<b>Nora:</b> “Yeah. So, that’s tricky but I’ve also got this wonderful connection with my sister that no one<br />
else could ever have, and—”<br />
<b>Nissa interrupting:</b> “She’s always <i>there</i>, I’m always <i>here</i>, we’re <i>always</i> here for each other, <i>pretty</i><br />
<i> </i> much the best. It probably sounds really annoying to most people like you’d always be going<br />
<i>‘god, shut up’</i> to the other person or, like, you know what I mean?”<br />
- Nissa is poking through Mara’s stuff.<br />
<b>Nora:</b> “I’d be really scared if I woke up and suddenly Nissa was gone.”<br />
- Nissa pulls out Mara’s sexy photoshoot photos.<br />
<b>Nissa:</b> “<i>Whoa</i>, what’re <i>these</i>??”<br />
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can't believe it's been over a month since i finished Glory. still feels like yesterday. i've been slow to get back to work, which is usually what happens after a big project, but i've managed to finish the Wet Moon 7 script! i'm about to start thumbnailing in the next couple days, i'm excited even though thumbnailing is the most boring stage in my process. it really helps, though, it's totally worth doing it.<br />
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Wet Moon 7 is going to be a long book, my scripts are fluid and usually change as i thumbnail so sometimes i'll cut or add pages on a whim depending on how i feel or what ideas i get or change my mind on, but right now it's 260 pages! that includes chapter breaks, though, and it's about 211 pages i actually have to draw, and then there about 25 flashback pages which are going to be drawn by another artist. i won't announce her yet, i don't want her to feel pressured until we really get things rolling. ;) that's a first for Wet Moon, though, a guest artist. gonna be awesome.<br />
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i wish i had the speed of my 25-26-year-old self, back when i could do 2-3 pages a day. i was a speed demon. how did i get so slow? did i lose the fire of youth? i want to double my efforts to get back to 2 pages a day, i hope i can do it. and i mean the drawing part, not counting thumbnails or greytones/lettering, just the linework which is the hard part. everything else goes fast. if i could somehow draw at least 2 pages a day, every day or at least most days, i could finish drawing 211 pages in less than 4 months. is it possible???<br />
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i'm pretty sure Glen and/or Martin are going to get the cover this time, and i'm thinking of "Winter Sets In" as the subtitle. i wanted to drop the subtitles with volume 6 but my publisher pushed for having one because it makes it easier to identify the book in the Library of Congress or something like that? rather than having the incomplete-looking "Wet Moon 6" on the list or something, so i bent on the subtitle for WM6 and figured i'd keep them going. originally the subtitles started out as kind of meaning something, but then by volume 3 i had sort of turned them into a joke and was trying to make up the most florid, inappropriately-epic-sounding subtitles i could just for fun. so with volume 6 i decided they should mean something again or have some relation to the book.<br />
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i wish i could talk more about WM7 but i don't want to totally spoil everything! i might post a couple portions of my script, would anybody be interested in that? probably not too interesting, my scripts are really basic and not detailed since most of it's in my head, but some people like to see process stuff.Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228892803278850156noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308461847119612617.post-61411105814418554902013-01-21T14:03:00.001-08:002013-01-21T14:05:50.162-08:00Glory: DONE!i finished Glory last night (my series at Image, written by Joe Keatinge, for anyone not familiar!), it feels strange. i got the Glory job 2 years ago and was juggling the first year of it with Wet Moon 6, and then 2012 was all Glory, so it's been a constant presence. even though i'm done, the final issue doesn't come out until March, but it's basically over for me and i can't believe it. i feel pretty burned out but it's been a great ride, a real challenge.
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thank you to everyone who made 2012 such a great year for me, both regarding Glory and Wet Moon!!!<br />
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now that it's over, it's time to make up for all that "lost" time and get Wet Moon 7 together. i have a lot written already in outline form that i've been chipping away at in my free time (or procrastination time, heh), and i'm liking what i have so far. i already knew the basics of what volume 7 was going to be but i had a bunch of new ideas while writing, but i can't reveal anything!!! >:D<br />
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in its current state it feels like Mara is the main character this time, but of course it's also a lot about Trilby and the fallout from what happened to her. it also has a lot of Martin and Glen which i'm excited about, and Nora and Nissa, Natalie's sisters, have major roles. after the really long Wet Moon volume 3 in 2007 i swore i'd never do a volume that long again, but i'm considering attempting it again for volume 7, or at least making it 200 pages.<br />
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i'm also considering having another artist draw a big flashback sequence but that's up in the air at the moment. it might be weird having another artist in a Wet Moon book, but i think it could be cool and interesting.
and for the cover i'm thinking Glen and/or Martin, what do you guys think? either him or Nora and Nissa, they would be pretty striking, but it's probably time to get a guy on the cover. Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228892803278850156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308461847119612617.post-42745885444552030872012-12-28T13:32:00.000-08:002013-08-14T19:12:07.918-07:00Wet Moon 7 sneak peekbig spoilers for Wet Moon 6 and 7 under the cut!!! beware!<br />
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this is a sketch i did a few months ago and tinkered with some more the other day, but i haven't posted it until now because it's major spoilers. i wasn't sure if i should ever post it at all, but sooner or later i'm going to have to show non-secret indications, outside of the comic itself, of Trilby's survival. it can't stay secret forever, the book is out, and it's always going to be spoilers for someone, right? so here's a sketch of what Trilby will probably look like in Wet Moon 7.<br />
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happy new year, everyone!!! :DSophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228892803278850156noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308461847119612617.post-55547504222219450762012-12-08T16:08:00.000-08:002012-12-12T11:08:06.075-08:00unhappy holidays<img src="http://greenoblivion.com/hosted/WMcard.jpg">Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228892803278850156noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308461847119612617.post-67010168411088199522012-11-29T23:30:00.001-08:002012-11-29T23:46:23.754-08:00Wet Moon 6 FINAL PREVIEW PAGE!<img src="http://www.greenoblivion.com/wm6online/WM6_048.jpg"/><br>
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<p>i did so much research on the hospital equipment, including talking to professionals and relating to them Trilby's condition and what equipment would be used, and one nurse even snuck into unoccupied ICU rooms at her place of work to take secret photos for me! :O she risked her job for Wet Moon!</p>
<p>the boy here is Trilby's brother Mat, who hasn't been introduced but i wanted another one of Trilby's several siblings to be there, since it was mentioned in a previous book that she has a large family. i figure the other siblings are older and off at other colleges or living in other cities. the others, including the already-introduced Minnie (also seen here), are Tila, Truman, and Wily; i'm not sure yet if they will be eventually introduced in the comic or not. i have lot of background material that never or barely gets used.</p>
<p><b>ANYWAY, this is the final preview page!</b> thank you everyone who's been reading along and especially thank you to everyone who has commented, it's been very much appreciated. thank you to everyone who has bought the book or is planning to, too. i really hope the preview and my commentary were worthwhile, and for those of you who had been waiting since volume 5, i hope Wet Moon 6 is worth the wait.</p>
<p>thank you as always for all the support! it's super amazing and flattering and a total honor for me that anyone reads my stuff and even gives a tiny shit about it. you guys make this all possible, so thank you for this amazing cartooning career i've been able to pull off for the last 9, almost 10 years (i think?). i've been so lucky and i'm so grateful.</p>
<p>THANK YOU!!!! <3 <3 <3</p>
<p>so now that the mushy stuff is out of the way, even though the WM6 preview is over, i want to keep posting here with exclusive Wet Moon stuff. i've been thinking about posting other people's fanart, character profiles/bios (what their favorite books/movies/etc. are, stuff like that), and maybe a behind-the-scenes/making-of for Wet Moon 7, but i'm not sure if that would be too spoilery. what do you guys think? any other ideas or anything you're particularly interested to see?</p>
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