I was going for a Thor meets Big Barda kind of thing. “Old gods” meets “New Gods.” Eh? Eh?

I think we’re almost there.

I was on the Midtown Comics podcast, and despite following Mark Millar (!), I think I acquitted myself pretty well. And I promoted the shit out of Tag Team Comics #1, naturally.

To hear the interview, subscribe to the Midtown Comics podcast on iTunes and download the April 5, 2010 episode. Or download it from the Web right here.

The cover’s all done, except for some minor tweaking of the color scheme. Here it is:

I have to say the weekend was very fruitful. I finished thumbnailing Bolt: 6:59 on Saturday morning (yes, all 48 pages of it—my longest project to date). (I also added some new info to the website’s sidebar (a new bio, for example)). I’m considering this the completion of the first draft of the story. I do have to go back and re-draw a few pages of thumbnails so that the right panels are on the right pages, and then type out a script in a separate text document. (I did the thumbnails in what I’m calling “Lutes style,” which means the thumbnails have numerals inside the word balloons rather than words, and the words are enumerated on a separate sheet.) This shouldn’t take long.

The next step will be to show it to some cartoonists who understand good story structure and know how to talk about comics for a nice, substantive critique. I’ve got some in mind, and I’ll let you know once they’re officially on board.

Next step after that is to read it over and over and over again for flow, pacing, and clarity—with an eye toward improving characterization, if necessary. In other words, the next step is to write a second draft. I’m trying to look at it this way: “look how much I’ve done!” rather than the more discouraging “look how much I have yet to do!”

Someone asked me if I was going to post another set of thumbnails. I said I wasn’t sure, because I don’t really know how people feel about them. What do you think, dear Reader? Would you like to see more thumbnails? Are they too hard to read? Too hard to decipher?

Here’s a quick list of past posts with thumbnails in them, for ease of reading:

• Bolt: 6:59, Pages 1–8
• Bolt: 6:59, Pages 9–12

Let me know what you think.

More thumbnaily goodness:

More thumbnails! So many thumbnails!

Hiya, folks,

As you can see, I’m fiddling with WordPress to try to make my website a little more dynamic. In the meantime, I’m re-posting all the basic info from the old website below, more or less the same way it looked, with the links, images, and comics previews intact. Thanks for your patience!

xoxo

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Neon Girl #1: A Big Girl Fight
by Dennis Pacheco

• 24 pages
• 8 3/16 X 6 9/16
• Black and white; color cover
• $3.50
• Pigeonhole Press

Rated PG-13 for casual swearing, cartoonish violence, and some nudity.

Click the image to read a nine-page preview.

Neon Girl #0: Secret Identity
by Dennis Pacheco

• 20 pages
• 6 7/8 X 5 1/2
• Black and white; Screen-printed cover
• $2.50
• Pigeonhole Press

Rated PG-13 for casual swearing, cartoonish violence, and some nudity.

Click the image to read the entire thing. For serious.

Bizcochito: A Tale of Sweet Revenge
by Dennis Pacheco

• 24 single-panel pages
• 4 1/4 X 4 1/4
• Black and white; Screen-printed cover
• $1.50
• Pigeonhole Press

Rated PG.

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