After some thought, I have decided to stop running Carbon in weekly page installments here. With the series now becoming available on Comixology, I felt that maybe it was a bit redundant to be running them here as well. I will leave up some pages from Carbon Vol. 1 as a preview, but that’s it. That’s all I have to say ’bout that. Back to the drawing board.
The first volume of Carbon is now available for purchase on Comixology. Get it while the gettin’s good! I will be releasing the other Carbon books this way, as well, in the near future. So there you have it.
Carbon Vol. 1 |
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Written by: Justin Madson Multiple story-lines begin to unfold in episode 1, as mundane life mixes with science fiction, crime noir and supernatural elements, making it clear that Carbon a city unlike any other. |
Hello friends. It’s nice of you to stop by my little speck of a corner of the internet for a visit. Sorry I’ve been slacking on the weekly Carbon page updates here. Sometimes I forget. Sometimes I get the flu and lose track of days. Sometimes I just say “Fuck it. Nobody’s reading this shit anyway.” But, if you are reading it, I’ll try to keep the Friday updates coming.
I’m still working on Carbon #4. I have about 10 more pages to go. Something like that. I just take it a page at a time so as not to get too overwhelmed by the whole thing. I also spent some time this past week hammering out the plot for Carbon #5 and 6. It felt good to work all the different plot lines through to the end. I will probably change things a bit as I go, as I always do, but, for now, I feel like I have a good handle on the rest of the story.
I also have that Breathers sequel still knocking around in my head. It’s still just some loose strings of an idea, but they’re starting to slowly tie themselves together.
Guess that’s all for now.
I suppose I should post an update, seeing as it’s been probably too long since the last one. Work progresses on Carbon #4. The stack of completed pages is slowly growing, marking the passage of days, weeks, months. I’m pretty happy with how the story’s coming together and am becoming more and more comfortable with my art. I don’t even hate inking as much as I used to. I even kind of like it sometimes. Sometimes. Does that mean I’m maturing as a cartoonist?
Sadly, I’ve been neglecting “Tin Man.” But I will get back to it soon. Seems like working on that story needs the cold of winter for some reason.
I’ve also been tinkering with a new “Breathers” story. I don’t really want to get too distracted by that just yet. Not until Carbon is finished. But the story idea is there. And it’s not going away. That’s usually a good indicator that there’s something worth pursuing.
So, that’s an update. Now can I crawl back into my cave?
Finished two pages of Carbon this week. That’s my unwritten goal. Two pages a week. Minimum. One of those two pages was a real pain in the ass. A real ball buster. I don’t know why, exactly. It’s not a particularly exciting page or anything. Just one character getting off a bus and walking to an underpass. There’s not even any words. But, man, it gave me a hard time. I used a good deal of white-out (not the most I’ve ever had to use on a page, but still…) and even had to completely redraw and glue a panel on top of an existing already inked panel. But I powered through it and got it to a point where I can live with it. That’s the thing about comics: you just gotta keep moving. There’s always another page to draw. Don’t get stuck. Get it done, accept that it’s not perfect and move on to the next one.