As I write this, I’m finishing up the last 3 pages of the 180 page “More Doris Danger Giant Monster Adventures”, to take down to Comic-Con in San Diego next week! I can’t wait to share it all with you! Here are a couple panels, wonderfully colored by my best friend, Ricky Sprague:
So as you can imagine, it’s been pretty busy, BUT just the same, I wanted to be sure and get some fun goodies out to you!
First of all, free to everyone…
a few more Doris Danger pages at the semi-interactive web-comic, beginning with page 03-05 – Published.
Also free to everyone, at our www.youtube.com/DiaryOfAStrugglingComicsArtist, we are posting – every week – one new Diary of a Struggling Comics Artist video and one new PRETENTIOUS SELFIE of me talking about excruciatingly ponderous details of my Doris Danger comic. This last month:
Bill Sienkiewicz – The Most Mispronounced Name in Comics | DIARY OF A STRUGGLING COMICS ARTIST
Erik Larsen – Maintaining an Audience | DIARY OF A STRUGGLING COMICS ARTIST
Roy Thomas – Stan Lee’s Heir | DIARY OF ASTRUGGLING COMICS ARTIST
Frank Quitely – Against a Deadline | DIARY OF A STRUGGLING COMICS ARTIST
The Effect the 1970’s Marvel MONSTER Reprints
Also free to everyone, a quick little text essay on how I decided to begin Diary of a Struggling Comics Artist.
For YOU kind $1 Patrons…
I posted a chapter of Doris Danger in PDF form, for you to download (from the Patreon site): More Doris Danger (vol. 3) Chapter 2
I also posted a text feature: DIARY OF A STRUGGLING COMICS ARTIST – early emails on some of the correspondences I made in envisioning the documentary.
For YOU kind $4 Patrons…
I posted the original black and white scans – uncleaned, unedited – of More Doris Danger pages 3-6! Click on the “Pre-Edits” links for those pages, or click
front cover 003 – Pre-Edits
page 004 – Pre-Edits
page 005 – Pre-Edits
page 006 – Pre-Edits
Then click the “published” links on those pages to compare them to the completed, completely edited and colored images – sometimes with different text, panels moved around, and all sorts of fun like that!
In addition, $4-ers, I posted high res printables of the Lump’s Tabloia 573 cover and back cover – downloadable at the Patreon site! Don’t forget you can now read the full story at the $1 level, beginning HERE.
Doris Danger fans, I also posted a high-res printable of Gluh-Gwuh-Wee, Doris Danger (vol. 3, Chpt. 31), page 010.
YOU kind $7 Patrons…
there are a fair amount of videos for you this month! Click on over to my website, login into your Patreon account, and access the DIARY page (or peruse the Master List. Just scroll down for all the links of whatever interviews catch your fancy. Every week, we’ve been posting two interviews of each artist – one for free, one ONLY FOR YOU KIND $7 Patrons!
Likewise with the selfie-Doris Danger videos: go to the Doris Danger page and scroll down, or peruse the Videos Page.
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Next time I write you, I should be allowed to announce a top-secret, super-exciting project I was asked to contribute to, for the Criterion Collection!
Thanks as always for YOUR kind, kind support!
Sincerely,
Chris
