Chapter 1: Concoction
Chapter 2: Cache
Chapter 3: Newton's Apple
Chapter 4: Ache
Chapter 5: Yolk
Chapter 6: Wayfarer
Chapter 7: cops 'n robbers
Chapter 8: Ill Repute
Chapter 9: Cleanup
A big “Thank You!” to all who helped make the False Positive debut at WonderCon a massive success.
We sold out of all the mini-comics and had a ball meeting and visiting with everyone who stopped by the booth.
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A small number of artist proof mini-comics have been lovingly hand bound and made ready for WonderCon.
#1 features the stories Concoction and Cache.
#2 features the stories Newton’s Apple and Ache.
#3 features the story Yolk.
Attendees can pick them up, with a personalized sketch and/ or an offensive inscription by yours truly, for just 5 bucks each .
Cheers!
Big Mike
False Positive will be live and in person at WONDERCON 2012 in Anaheim, St. Patrick’s Day weekend. Attendees will be able to steer clear find me and my cohorts at exhibitor booth 249.
We’ll have hard-copy mini-comics, t-shirts, poster-prints, buttons, & bookmarks. I’ll be sketching and making some art.
Stop on by. Hope to see you there!
Psst. Check back here before the show or follow me on twitter for special booth give-aways.
Cheers!
Big Mike
I heart movies.
Frustrated after watching hi-lights of the Golden Globes and reading some critics’ lists, I decided to author my own list. Overall, 2011 was not a very prolific year for great movies, but there were a several gems. The films I most enjoyed this last year:
7. 
6. Young Adult
5. Submarine
(*Submarine is now steaming on Netflix.)
4. Hesher
Time travel has been a trifling obsession of mine since the age of 8. In fairly short succession at that impressionable age, I was introduced to Bradbury’s A Sound of Thunder, the film version of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, Time Bandits, and reruns of The Time Tunnel TV series from the 1960’s. A cursory academic investigation soon followed with discovery of Einstein’s theories regarding relativity and potential forward time travel as well as Schrödinger’s Cat theory and other fanciful concepts dealing with worm holes, the multi-verse, and alternate realities. My developing brain spent a lot of energy meditating over the dreams of time travel.
In this short story, I wanted to indulge my inner 8 year old, without over-indulging. I did manage to touch on something I feel is often overlooked when considering time travel: the relation between space, as a location, and time travel. But other bits of the character’s time travel discussion were cut out of various drafts of the script.
The last draft of the script did have a few elements of tangent dialogue I didn’t cut until I began to illustrate the story, realizing they dragged down the pacing too much.
To indulge my inner child/ nerd, I present the cut script here. This would have gone on page 4:
I follow 3 major steps for creating the digital comic art for False Positive:
Click on the thumbnail to see larger image.
Step 1. First, using a stylus & tablet with Corel Painter, I create a loose sketch and quickly take it to finished black & white digital inks. When at home, I use my Wacom Cintiq Monitor and when on the go, I use a tiny Wacom Bamboo tablet.
Step 2. Next, I open the file in Adobe Photoshop and create the values, grey-tones, and textures.
Step 3. Then, while still using Photoshop, I adjust the hues to bring tints and color saturation to the illustration.
You can see some crude time-lapse examples of my process demonstrated on my You Tube Channel.
P.S. Chiefly, I letter using the great Wild & Crazy font from: http://www.comicbookfonts.com.
Comic Book Font
When I find tiem, I will try to post more specific run through of how I use the programs. If you have any questions, please comment.
Cheers!
Big Mike
This crude collage offers a simulated peek inside my cabeza at some of the most influential sources of inspiration as this project materialized.
31 of 31 days of Halloween.
Cthulhu.
To extend the holiday celebration, I decided to churn out a daily Halloween inspired sketch all October long. You can see the entire batch here: Thirty-One
