OH HEY, YOU'RE HERE!
My name is Gibson, it's nice to meet you. Or have we met already? My memory isn't what it used to be. Either way, welcome to our studio we call The Giant Kitten Head.
People who know me might call me inscrutable, others might call me forthright, and some might say I'm both at the same time, and others might have forgotten the question by now. I've never been secretive of how I make comics (I make comics, by the way) but I've also never been particularly showy about it. I wanted to change that, and so I'm launching a process blog in conjunction with my collaborator and partner in crime, Rori!
As it happens, we've just signed a contract with Andrews McMeel Universal (hi AMU!) for a graphic novel adaptation of Emily Bronte's WUTHERING HEIGHTS, so we thought what better time to start than by chronicling our journey through the process. I'll have a lot to say about the craft of writing comics, my experiences in independent publishing and the transition to Middle Grade and Young Adult comics, as well as general thoughts on the medium and our industry. There'll be cat pictures too, don't worry.
Here comes Rori, she's cool. Cheers, and thanks for dropping in.
Hello there, lovelies! I’m Rori, from the internet, and it’s cool to be here posting with Gibson.
If you haven’t met me before, I’m the artist in this endeavor. (I also make other stuff, but we’ll leave it at comics for now.) I’ll be posting process blogs from the comic artist’s perspective, as well as musings on storytelling, and, as you might have suspected, art! And I’ll be having some fun with it.
I’m really looking forward to sharing the behind-the-scenes of our journey (and my first full-length graphic novel!) Hopefully it will demystify the process (it’s not all done by elves between midnight and 3am, I swear!) and show the experimentation, craft, planning & re-planning that goes into making a graphic novel.