Here we are for issue #2! Issue 2 features a story by Josh Nelson, of Comixbrew, a rollicking podcast that talks about all things comics and beer, a wonderful combination if ever there was one. If you drink enough beer, some of Marvel’s editorial decisions in the nineties make a hell of a lot more […]
So this page returns to “traditional media.” This story very much evolved in bits and pieces over a 30 year time span. I want to say that I penciled this page around 2012 and inked it by hand in 2013. I was still very much into that cross hatching, James O’Barr look. I still dig […]
Page 20 is actually an addition the original story. I felt like I needed a quiet scene between my hero and his mentor. This may sound corny, but a child’s belief in you is very powerful. To a child, an adult is a fearsome and powerful thing to behold. This is a lesson I have […]
This page comes from a time when I was attempting to ape the style of James O’Barr of The Crow. I have always been a fan of cross hatching, but I have since adopted a cleaner style as evidenced by digital “surgery” in the upper left of this page. Here, our hero comments on the plot […]
I have been doing more experimenting with re-doing my original attempts to publish this comic. For a look at my first attempt check out castlecomics@tumblr.com. Back in those days, I was still using my stick down lettering and hand drawing the balloons. This page is a bit of a nod to the old Batman TV […]
Ah! Another “Frankenpage.” This page had quite a bit of digital “surgery” in the lower left corner. The other “boo boo” I made was the German spelling of nein. I originally spelled it “nine.” And up that went in the dreaded comic sans onto Tumblr. It stayed misspelled for about a year before a friend […]
This is what I call a “Frankenpage.” So this was my process: I drew this page in late 2002 in an 81/2 by 11 inch sketch book. Rather than re-draw it, I enlarged it to 11 x 17 on a copy machine. This was 2012. I than inked the page by hand and lettered it […]
In response to criticism about the villain of Basic Instinct being a lesbian, Michael Douglass had this to say: “Someone has to be the bad guy and it can’t always be the Italians.” Vying for the top spot of most overused bad guy in film, literature or comics is no doubt the Nazis. It is well […]
This page is a homage to Peanuts. One of the cool things about the Peanut’s strip is that it was a kid’s view of the world. The reader almost never SAW the adults. So it is here…