Elmore Leonard (1925-2013)

About 10 years ago, Mr. Leonard's book Rum Punch started my obsession with crime fiction. One of my literary heroes. Rest in peace, Dutch! You will be missed...

Pulp

I love pulp heroes! They are a combination of 2 things that I love... noir / crime stories & superheroes. I still listen to my Shadow radio drama recordings by Orson Welles from time to time. They are awesome! Didn't like the movie. I have yet to read the comics. Heard some good things about the Howard Chaykin run.

The Shadow knows!

I loved the Phantom strips in the Sunday paper (I think the strip is still being published in one of the local papers). Also, he was the only thing that I loved about the politically correct cartoon, Defenders of the Earth. The Phantom 2040 cartoon was pretty good, too.

The Ghost Who Walks!

Some practice sketches I did for Baro Investigations during office meetings. Trying to get his face right. BAH! The comic is still coming out, but it will not make it to the last Komikon of this year. Been preoccupied with thoughts of babies lately...

My Melon contribution...

Drawing the female figure / face is hard. Every time I draw a woman she ends up kinda sorta looking like my wife. I don't even know if this could pass as a pinup since its only half a lady. Liked how it turned out tho. Did this while doing some film-noir research for Baro. See the cross-promotional thing going on in the background? :)

If you weren't able to get a copy of Melon last Saturday at Komikon. Too bad. I don't have a copy as well since I was too busy with my husband-soon-to-be-dad-pre-baby duties during the weekend. Get a copy at the next 'Kon!

P.S. - Thanks Happy Lockjaw crew! Benj! Mike!

Another poster for Baro Investigations... sort of lost my momentum drawing pages. Needed to get motivated again. Been looking at film noir / 40's - 60's movie posters & they are inspiring! Particularly these Polish movie posters from the 40's - 80's.

Here's a film noir inspired poster for my crime comic project, Baro Investigations. Needed to take a break from doing pages. Guess what movie poster I ripped this off from :)

More posters soon...

Baro Investigations (Update I)

So far finished outlining the plot & thumbnailing almost half of the story already. Also done penciling two pages, i'll just be adding the dialogue once the pages are finished. It's taking a lot of time just to write the talki talki stuff. Research is still ongoing, been reading criminal law and it has been inspiring. got a lot of future story ideas off of it. Hoping to publish the komik by November in time for the next Komikon.

For now, tease number 2!

Baro Investigations

Is a crime-noir-pulp-70's/80's-pinoy-action-b-movie komik project i'm working on. Born out of my love for crime / pulp fiction & the fond memories of them crazy Pinoy action movies. Already have an idea for the plot, still need to hammer out the details. So far i've been doing a lot of research. Police procedurals, PI guidelines, gun handling, CSI stuff, etc. On top of this, i've been reading on tips / guides on how to write a (at least, a decent enough) crime story. On top of ALL these things, still have a lot of work to be done in the office.

Research is HARD! Really excited for this. Hope i can pull it off.

Update: Update!