Over the last month, I’ve been working with Greg Wright on a new comic book project called “Monstrous”.
It’s got steam powered robots & monsters that span the imagination. In this pilot, we meet a little girl who has to team up with a monster for hire to avenge her father’s death. What I love about MONSTROUS, is that it has the “IT” factor that I believe will be enjoyed by young and old. It has fun moments, scary moments and head turning moments.
Sometimes I wish could just read the entire series already instead of having to create it. It’s not that I don’t enjoy working on it (trust me – it’s a blast)… it’s the fact that I have to wait on my slow butt to finish it. Ha!
Urban Tribes
This is the first illustration of a series I am working on about creatures in an Urban backdrop
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Today's Ypulse Youth Advisory Board review come from Julia Tanenbaum on Leviathan the latest novel from Scott Westerfeld. A longtime fan, Julia shares her thoughts on the book as well as the shift in genre from the post-apocalyptic world of the... Read the rest of this post
Adventures in badassery!
Scott Westerfeld, the author of the fun, body-image-centered trilogy, Uglies, Pretties, 
Specials, the vampire series, Peeps, and puzzle-horror series, Midnighters, has a new book out, the beginning to a very promising new series. Leviathan, a steam-punk retelling of WWI, is a rollicking start to what I'm hoping is going to be Westerfeld's best series yet! Perspective switches every two chapters between an unseated prince (Aleks), who has been humbled by his parents' deaths, and Derryn, a cross-dressing girl in the British Royal Navy. Driving both characters is the need to keep their true identities secret, and when their paths cross, their central tensions blend in compelling and juicy (yes, juicy) ways.
Like all Westerfeld's novels, Leviathan kicks off the action immediately, and I was hooked from page one. This world of Clankers (large, mechanical war vehicles) and Darwinist Beasties (hybrid war animal-machines) is so much fun that even though I was seriously pissed when I realized that this book was the first in a series (I shake my fist at you, Scott Westerfeld!!! Now I have to wait???) I can't say I'm not excited to spend more time in this world. For those readers that enjoyed Hunger Games, His Dark Materials, or Eon, this book might be a go. Like Hunger Games, this book moves quickly. Like His Dark Materials it occurs in a world that is at once an alternate past and a possible future. And like Eon, it features a strong, cross-dressing lead, succeeding in a man's role.
I am a little embarrassed to admit I didn't actually read this... I listened to it on audio on the drive from Seattle to San Francisco, as read by the (badass) Alan Cummings (who does an AWESOME job, seriously, AMAZING) but I liked it so much I'm going to read a hard copy, too. I suggest you do, too!
This week's challenge is:
Steampunk!
Redesign something in Steampunk style.
Steampunk is a fashion style, a tech-mod style, and a fiction (usually sci-fi) style in which technology re-emerges as though everything runs on steam, mechanics (cogs and gears), and fashion and design is stuck in the Victorian style. Examples are League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Jules Verne, The Golden Compass, Steamboy, etc.
Check out Google Images for reference and these action figures for inspiration.
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love this! So cool.