The Amazing and Fantastical Boston Comic Creators

Here is a short film about Boston comic creators. Frank Duran conducted interviews with Jesse Lonergan, Ming Doyle, Jerel Dye as well as myself. Enjoy!

Monarch Monkey

Review and The Greatest time of all Time

The Critiquing comics podcast did a review of Monarch Monkey and other Stories. I feel the critic was fair and will help me with future stories. The only thing the hosts are not sure of is the order of stories in the book are in the order I made them. You can listen to the podcast at Deconstructing Comics. The story they liked the best is the last work in the book called "The Greatest Time Of All Time". This story is indicative of the work I am doing now. These are the pages form that story.

Monarch Monkey

The panel with Monkey yawning is still on of my favorites from the "Monarch Monkey" comic. The sleeping monkeys in the background have an economy of line that will get lost in my newer work. I may try to go back to a more economic style in a future work.

Monarch Monkey

Page 8 is the earliest collage I have in print. I made this page form two or three "Previews" catalogs. I learned that the print quality differed greatly from month to month. I found that that worked in my favor because the different colors added to the textured look of the empty spaces.

Monarch Monkey

Monarch Monkey

These are the next two pages from "Monarch Monkey". Page 4 was a try at making a single image page with multiple panels. I think that if i did this page again I would have added another box showing the meteor closer to the crash zone. On the story I'm working on now I did a better job of incorporating the boxes into the over all composition. The thing I like about comics is that there are always thing to improve be it technique, storytelling or design.