PROGRESSIONS update 10/19/2004
Had an extremely productive chat with my working partner Stephen Greenwood-Hyde tonight, and we have plenty of irons in the fire.
Work continues apace on SPARK-TOWER WILSON'S SILENT SONG Part 3. This roughly 90-page color story was originally created for the now-defunct web anthology E-volution Comics. Parts 1 and 2 are complete, and I have drawn the first eight pages or so of Part 3 and done layouts for the second eight pages. I'll be inking and coloring several of those this week.
THE DAY THE LORD GOT BUSTED, our 70's blaxploitation story of an avenging priest, has a complete plot outline now. We're crafting it as a film script first, and will be making it into a comic next, and ideally into a novel and film at some point after that.
I've been wanting to work on a screenplay for a while and I have a couple of good opportunities now. Here's the short pitch for BUSTED:
We've started discussing plans to relaunch the PROGRESSIONS minicomic, serializing THE ANTON-SAGE MYSTERIES, our high-school teen detective series starring Progressions characters Henry Anton and Pam Sage. It's something like Slam Dunk mixed with Nancy Drew mixed with Jack Hill movies.
We'll be posting it on www.progressions.org as we complete the chapters of the first volume starting next year. The website will be getting an overhaul in the next couple of months as well.
Our story DEATH-BLOW OF THE MIRACLE MASTERS was very well received when appeared as a backup in Rafer Roberts' Plastic Farm. We've got a plot for its sequel, 1001 VICIOUS BLOWS, which we'll be turning into another short story before the end of 2004. No word yet on where it will be appearing, but I'm looking forward to drawing some more kung fu.
We also have the plot outline for the first TALES OF THE EIGHT-LEGGED SAMURAI. This science-fiction/fantasy series about a race of warrior arachnoids will be broader in scope than anything we've done, but each of the individual stories will be pretty grounded and tight. Miyazaki's Nausicaa is a big influence here, as well as the alien races of Edgar Rice Burroughs and the sweeping scale of Tezuka's PHOENIX.
I have another screenplay project underway with my good friend Reed Oliver, but I need to discuss it a bit more with him before making it public and posting about it. Reed's an extremely creative guy and it's been a thrill to be working on something with him.
Jeff
Work continues apace on SPARK-TOWER WILSON'S SILENT SONG Part 3. This roughly 90-page color story was originally created for the now-defunct web anthology E-volution Comics. Parts 1 and 2 are complete, and I have drawn the first eight pages or so of Part 3 and done layouts for the second eight pages. I'll be inking and coloring several of those this week.
THE DAY THE LORD GOT BUSTED, our 70's blaxploitation story of an avenging priest, has a complete plot outline now. We're crafting it as a film script first, and will be making it into a comic next, and ideally into a novel and film at some point after that.
I've been wanting to work on a screenplay for a while and I have a couple of good opportunities now. Here's the short pitch for BUSTED:
He's come back to his parish after serving ten years in prison for looking the other way. The town is run by the gangsters who framed him, and he's determined to make every last bastard pay--and take over control of the underworld for himself!
We've started discussing plans to relaunch the PROGRESSIONS minicomic, serializing THE ANTON-SAGE MYSTERIES, our high-school teen detective series starring Progressions characters Henry Anton and Pam Sage. It's something like Slam Dunk mixed with Nancy Drew mixed with Jack Hill movies.
We'll be posting it on www.progressions.org as we complete the chapters of the first volume starting next year. The website will be getting an overhaul in the next couple of months as well.
Our story DEATH-BLOW OF THE MIRACLE MASTERS was very well received when appeared as a backup in Rafer Roberts' Plastic Farm. We've got a plot for its sequel, 1001 VICIOUS BLOWS, which we'll be turning into another short story before the end of 2004. No word yet on where it will be appearing, but I'm looking forward to drawing some more kung fu.
We also have the plot outline for the first TALES OF THE EIGHT-LEGGED SAMURAI. This science-fiction/fantasy series about a race of warrior arachnoids will be broader in scope than anything we've done, but each of the individual stories will be pretty grounded and tight. Miyazaki's Nausicaa is a big influence here, as well as the alien races of Edgar Rice Burroughs and the sweeping scale of Tezuka's PHOENIX.
I have another screenplay project underway with my good friend Reed Oliver, but I need to discuss it a bit more with him before making it public and posting about it. Reed's an extremely creative guy and it's been a thrill to be working on something with him.
Jeff
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