Social A sherbro writes comic book stories

[koquerelle]

I've posted some of the things I work on like my Conan spoof. I decided to make a thread for the 2-3 sherbros who care about what I do.

Karl Richardson (Warhammer 40k, Judge Dredd, 2000 AD) concept art for my Conan parody.

John Himmelstein designs for Lonsala the witch, one of the baddies for our graphic novel Bereft.

John Himmelstein art for our Kickstarter campaign.

Bereft (@bereftcomix) • Instagram photos and videos
Bereft Comic Book (@BereftComix) / X (twitter.com)

 

[HUGHPHUG]

Those witches are dope as fuck

 

[Prefect]

Cool shit. Does it have any trannies?

 

[koquerelle]

Cool shit. Does it have any trannies?

Sorry. No trannies. Maybe in the next story.

 

[Prefect]

Sorry. No trannies. Maybe in the next story.

I wish I could draw though. My favorite artist are Moebius, Wrightson, Tony Harris, Sean Phillips, Frank Miller, Alex Ross, and Ben Templesmith.

 

[Rob Battisti]

I've posted some of things I work on like my Conan spoof. I decided to make a thread for the 2-3 sherbros who care about what I do.

Karl Richardson (Warhammer 40k, Judge Dredd, 2000 AD) concept art for my Conan parody.

John Himmelstein designs for Lonsala the witch, one of the baddies for our graphic novel Bereft.

John Himmelstein art for our Kickstarter campaign.

Bereft (@bereftcomix) • Instagram photos and videos
Bereft Comic Book (@BereftComix) / X (twitter.com)

Can you give more context? Do you write or draw? How did you find the artist? Did you simply have an idea and contact them?

 

[KALEWYTEE]

That is awesome man. I will definitely give this a read. Let me know when you make more Sir

 

[Crawler89]

thats dope, but my first thought was "oh its danzig as connan" haha

 

[koquerelle]

Can you give more context? Do you write or draw? How did you find the artist? Did you simply have an idea and contact them?

I'm the writer and I pay for everything. I found the first artist (John Himmelstein) on ArtStation. He's a Daytona tattoo artist.

I found the other 2 artists I work with on Instagram.

I had a 24-page script and wanted to keep it simple. John and I both have a dream of having our own graphic novel so we decided to go for it.

Concept art - John Himmelstein

 

[koquerelle]

thats dope, but my first thought was "oh its danzig as connan" haha

lol
too tall for Danzig

 

[Rob Battisti]

I'm the writer and I pay for everything. I found the first artist (John Himmelstein) on ArtStation. He's a Daytona tattoo artist.

I found the other 2 artists I work with on Instagram.

I had a 24-page script and wanted to keep it simple. John and I both have a dream of having our own graphic novel so we decided to go for it.

Concept art - John Himmelstein

Was the script like a play or movie script format? Or more novella style?

 

[koquerelle]

Was the script like a play or movie script format? Or more novella style?

John sends me rough drafts of the pages. My wife and I are co-editors, so we look at the art and make sure everything makes sense.

The letterer usually does the SFX, but John and I wanted them to be an integral part of the art. John took up the challenge and did quite well.

The letterer works with Illustrator. He sends the AI files and I use InDesign to place them on the top of the art which is in TIFF format.

 

[SmilinDesperado]

John sends me rough drafts of the pages. My wife and I are co-editors, so we look at the art and make sure everything makes sense.

The letterer usually does the SFX, but John and I wanted them to be an integral part of the art. John took up the challenge and did quite well.

The letterer works with Illustrator. He sends the AI files and I use InDesign to place them on the top of the art which is in TIFF format.

How long does a page like this take to create?

 

[toasty]

we may have to talk one day. How deep in the hole financially are you on this so far or is your artist working free?

 

[koquerelle]

How long does a page like this take to create?

A bit less than a day if all goes well.

 

[Sano]

John sends me rough drafts of the pages. My wife and I are co-editors, so we look at the art and make sure everything makes sense.

The letterer usually does the SFX, but John and I wanted them to be an integral part of the art. John took up the challenge and did quite well.

The letterer works with Illustrator. He sends the AI files and I use InDesign to place them on the top of the art which is in TIFF format.

That is effing dope dude. Nothing better than having a creative outlet and it looks great.

 

[koquerelle]

we may have to talk one day. How deep in the hole financially are you on this so far or is your artist working free?

I'd be happy to.

A bit more than 20K. The weak Canadian dollar is killing me.
-Illustrator: 175US per page for Bereft #1 (28 pages)
-Letterer: 10£ per page
-Limited printing of #1 (in English and in French): 1500CAN
-Illustrator for Chonan: 225£ per page (11 pages)
plus hiring voice actors for promos, the softwares and so much more

John H doesn't work for free, but I've stopped paying him full price after issue 1. I give him what I can and he really wants a graphic novel.

 

[Long Dark Blues]

Really cool!

Nice work, Sherbrah!

 

[Slothbroth]

Reminds me of this snes game

 

[Fox by the Sea]

that's pretty cool.
gives me french/belgian bande dessinée vibes