Zuda - Rejection!

I got my first Zuda rejection in my email the other day. Here's what it said...

Thank you for taking the time and effort to prepare your comic and for submitting it to Zuda Comics.
We here at Zuda are fortunate enough to have dozens of excellent submissions, from a wide variety of artists, to review each week. Our editorial team carefully reads each and every submission. After much consideration, we have determined that other comics are a better fit for our editorial needs at this time.
Please accept our best wishes and thank you for your interest in Zuda.
Sincerely,
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Team Zuda
www.zudacomics.com
READ. VOTE. CREATE.

The only thing that bummed me out was...what took 'em so long! It was a 3 month wait. The artwork wasn't too bad...better than some of the stuff that passes as webstrips these days. I understand why they rejected it. Nothing really happens till the 7th 'page'.

I'll post the failed entry later this week.

Vex - Blood Brothers - Page 7

More horrible old stuff. Check out that amazingly bad dialogue! Sheesh!

Zombie - Page 3

I like the Zombies on this page. Did a decent effort on them.

Zombie - Page 2

I like this page. There's a good bit going on. I love part of Rich's description of the last panel...

'One on right wears a turban because I’ve never seen a zombie in a turban.'

Thats' a good enough reason to draw it, I reckon. I'm having lots of fun doing this story.

Zombie - Page 1

Ta-Da!
The first page of the second story in 'The Caretakers Uncannily Nasty Tales' anthology.

I should have the second page up in the next day or two.
It's already pencilled...just have to ink it.

I'm enjoying drawing this story too.
Rich's scripts are fantastic to work with.

Very flexible.

Vex - Blood Brothers - Page 6

More cornball Vex stuff.

Vex - Blood Brothers - Page 5

While I'm busy laying out the pages for the next Caretakers Tale...here's page 5 of that Vex strip to keep you all occupied and rolling in the aisles with laughter

As soon as I get a decent start on the the Caretakers 'Zombie' story...I'll start posting ASAP.

Vex - Blood Brothers - Page 4

At last! I just finished up the last page of the 'Miserable' strip for the Caretakers Tales. Again, I can't post it here...not until the book is released. So, I've posted page 4 of that Vex strip from the 80's.

Vex - Blood Brothers - Page 3

Yep...definitely a strong Breyfogle influence.

Vex - Blood Brothers - Page 2

Here's page 2 of that late 80's Vex strip.

I'll post the whole strip to keep the blog updated while I'm finishing off the 'Miserable' story.
As you can see I was heavily influenced by Norm Breyfogle. Probably one the greatest 'Batman' artist of the modern era...and so underrated.

His artwork on 'Detective Comics' was simply amazing...not since Will Eisner has there been anyone that breaks the mold in panel layout like Breyfogle.

Just my opinion anyways..for what it's worth.

Another Vex Splash!

I think this one might have been done in '89.
It was the second part of a story that appeared in a self-published comic 'White Heat'.
I named the book after my favorite James Cagney movie.

80's 'Vex' again!

Another 80's 'Vex' piece.

Notice the writers name. That's right...'Frank Moore' and combination of Frank Miller and Alan Moore. Yep, I was such a pretentious so-so back then.

I'm not that bad (At least I think I'm not!) today.

Miserable - Page 15 - Inked Panel!

Only one more page of 'Miserable' left and then I move on to the second tale of the anthology. It's a pretty funny one too and it's got Zombies in it.

Sweet!

Another 80's Oldie

Yep.
Another piece from the 80's.
This was going to be a poster with one of the 'MainStream' issues.
Looking back...I like some elements of the picture. Theres a nice balance between dark and light and I love the simple pattern I used on Danielles jacket. I look back at a lot of my old artwork and realise that the older I've gotten the less creative I've become in certain areas...either that or I'm just gettin' old and jaded.
I wish I still had that same gusto and enthusiasm I had years ago. Oh well.

Miserable - Page 14 - Inked Panel 1

Another image before the weekend begins.

Miserable - Page 13 - Panel 2 Inked!

I'm nearing the finish line on this tale. Only 3 pages left!

Miserable - Page 12 - Inked panel!

Page 11 done and dusted. Didn't show a panel from that page...but here's a panel from page 12.
Only four pages left on this tale and then a really cool 'zombie' second tale.

Miserable - Page 10 - Inked panel!

Another snippet. This one from page 10. Page 10 is complete on this story. The next few pages are a lot of fun to draw too. Again...I can only show teaser images.

Another oldie!

Another oldie but goodie. This is from 1989!

I was obviously trying to imitate a Creepy/Eerie/Vampirella vibe on this. I think I used a panel from one of thoses books and put in my own characters. I wanted to see if I could learn something by doing something similar. Might have used Gonalez for this. Can't remember...it's all muddy!

Anyways, the character is 'Vex' (Jason Velacroix) and his 'sidekick' Danielle Kowalski. This was going to be a cover for 'Mainstream'.

I later revamped 'Vex'...moved him into an alternate stempunk type future and renamed the strip 'Inquisitor Vex'. I have some pages from that revamp...I'll post them at some stage.

Miserable - Page 9 - Inked Panel!

First post of the New Year.

Another inked panel from 'Miserable'.