So last Saturday I took a trip into the city, meet up with Jamie Broadley, one of the creative geniuses behind the brilliant series Ink: Alter Egos Exposed, and visited the Gladstone hotel to see the Guy Davis exhibit. There were some really cool pages on display from the current BPRD issue, The King of Fear #2, as well as work from The Sandman Mystery Theater and art featuring his creator owned character, The Marquis. Guy Davis did a walk through of the gallery, discussing his work and influences. Afterword Jamie and I had the pleasure of picking Guy’s brain over a Mill St. You could really tell Guy loves his time being apart of BPRD and it shows in the quality of the pages he’s been consistently producing since coming on board the series. He has a deep love of monsters and the horror genre, making him perfectly suited to the Dark Horse series. His designs are filled with such exquisitely macabre details it makes one wonder if he hasn’t take a brief personal tour of the inferno in the past. He was also gracious enough to sign my run of The Marquis.
The crowd consisted of a number of local comic fans, many recognizable from the cons, along with some notable creative talents like Ray Fawkes and Ramon Perez, who I had the pleasure of briefly chatting with. Sounds like good things are in store for TX Comics in the future. Hopefully, there will be another Butternut Squash strip soon, it being one of the funniest webcomics out there in my opinion.
On a side note I’m a little fired up politically of late. The budget came out in this country a couple of days ago. One of the keynote points was that by 2012, ironically enough, we’ll have the lowest corporate taxes of all the G8 nations. If you had asked me that question a few days ago ours would not have been the first country that came to mind. This current administration holds no love of, or respect for, nature. To cut down on red tape they decided to do away with environmental assessments related to the impact of new energy projects, leaving those assessments instead to be conducted by the industry ministry. I wonder how that will go. The environment has been weighing on my mind. Since Copenhagen I haven’t been able to shake this quote I read, “There are no jobs on a dead planet.” I’m also reminded of an interview on Ink: Alter Egos Exposed with Brian Azzarello, where he explained how it is a writer’s responsibility to incorporate what is going on around them in their work. That quote is going to play heavily on a futuristic sci-fi story I’ve begin to work on. That’s all I’ll say for now, better to keep my cards close to the chest.
Until next time.
Panel 1
Charlie is inside a wide room. There is a large window across from the door. There is a tree visible on the other side. To the right is the entrance to a closet. Its door is half open and the inside is dark. A half moon with a face has been carved onto it.
Charlie: I could fit my race car track in here easy.
Panel 2
View from the ceiling down into the room. Charlie’s mom is standing in the entrance way of the room. Charlie is standing in the doorway of the closet looking inside of it.
Mom: How you making out muffin?
Panel 3
Worms eye view. Charlie’s turned around, smiling. Beyond him we get a view of the closet ceiling. Sinister arcane ruins and symbols are burned into the wood.
Charlie: Great. Can I have this room?
Panel 4
It’s nighttime. Charlie is in bed sleeping, the covers are pulled up around him. Besides the bed, a dresser has been moved into the room. On the floor is a half constructed electric race car track. It’s raining hard outside. The closet door across from the foot of his bed is closed.
Caption: Sure. I don’t see why not.
Panel 5
Zoom in on Charlie. An unnatural light is being cast over him from the closet. He’s just starting to wake up.
Sound is coming from the closet across the room: Ia! Shoggoths!
