I'm here visiting my father and stepmother, who live in the foothills of the Santa Catalina mountains...and find myself musing on how many Concrete stories I've set in the desert, although I really haven't spent much time there. A new one is germinating...
I'll try to run some of my sketches once I return home to scan them.
In the meantime, here's a link to an interesting Andy Clarke article on comics design elements that can be used by web designers, which uses Dave Gibbons panels from Watchmen along with a couple from Concrete as illustrations. If only I always enjoyed such elevating association.
It reminds me of an interesting thing Gibbons said during his presentation on The Originals in San Diego a couple of years ago. When he was nineteen, he saw Barry Smith's first work for Marvel -- an Englishman of the same age. It made him realize he could do that, too.
So he sat down and took a Smith-illustrated comic (Nick Fury, I believe he said) and pencilled, inked and lettered all twenty pages of the story over -- his way. Same script, but different layouts. With those samples he got professional work.
Can you imagine having that discipline and motivation at nineteen? Twenty pages in continuity!
Me neither.
Hey Paul, good to hear how things are going. A lot of us here in the Matrix Online community are wondering when we might being seeing a new issue of The Sentinel. The previous issue came out over a year ago, and we're dying for a new one.
Posted by: starschwar | February 20, 2008 at 07:45 PM
Never. I've pretty much given up on that POS game. Don't know what I was thinking when I took the job to be honest. Sorry dudes!
Posted by: CHADWICK | February 21, 2008 at 05:43 AM
Yay for false identities?
Posted by: starschwar | February 21, 2008 at 07:38 AM
Paul it would be great if you could let us know if you're still focused on MxO in any capacity. Hey we're about to hit our three year Anniversary, maybe you can lend your talents to that in some fasion (Ie. a Sentinal).
Posted by: Villemar | February 21, 2008 at 07:24 PM
I don't really want to waste my time on it. I'd rather focus on writing my comics and such that make me some money. I haven't been payed by SOE in about 6 months, so until they pay up I'm not doing much for them. The fan made Sentinals seem to be much better in quality and writing anyhow.
Posted by: CHADWICK | February 22, 2008 at 04:20 PM
Riiight. Actual blog post, or its fake.
Posted by: starschwar | February 23, 2008 at 10:17 AM
Er... that was phrased poorly. If you are indeed the actual Paul Chadwick, could you please post something to the effect of your reply on the actual blog? There's no actual way to verify wether this is someone impersonating you, or the real deal. And I completely sympathize if you are indeed not being paid.
Posted by: starschwar | February 23, 2008 at 10:23 AM