Comics Commentary: Secret Monster Reveal!
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Comics Commentary: Secret Monster Reveal!
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Signed copies available at: USA: CA--Mission: Comics and Art, Comix Experience, Silver Sprocket, Cape & Cowl, Sour Cherry Comics, Escapist Comics, Knowhere Games & Comics, The Comic Bug, Current Comics, Hicklebees GA-- Read It Again Bookstore MI--Vault of Midnight NC--Ssalefish, The Country Bookshop NY-- Books of Wonder, Gutter Pop Comics, Anyone Comics, Desert Island Comics, Everyone Comics IL-- Quimby's OR--Cosmic Monkey Comics PA-- The Copacetic Comics Company, Phantom of the Attic, FireFly Bookstore, Main Point Books TX-- Space Cadets Collection Collection VA-- Velocity Comics WA-- The Comics Place Not on this list and want to be? message me: https://danielmccloskey.com/press https://www.instagram.com/beancandan Praise for Cloud Town: "Weirdly and unexpectedly wonderful." Kirkus Reviews "A rollicking giant monster adventure will be a hit with fans of Hannah Templer's Cosmoknights and Tillie Walden's On a Sunbeam." School Library Journal "Meet Daniel McCloskey - a bold, new cartooning voice! Cloud Town is a beast! It's original. It's different. It's full of energy and life! Kaiju, skateboarding, manga, YA, so many ideas, and great cartooning! This is a special graphic novel. It feels like the future." Jim Rugg- The PLAIN Janes, Street Angel, Hulk Grand Design, Cartoonist Kayfabe channel "You're going to want to hold on tight for a wild ride from beginning to end! A thrilling adventure defined by Pen's strength and Olive's bravery," Eric Colossal- Rutabaga the Adventure Chef Holly heck, what are you still doing here? ..?
Rough Transcript:
[00:00:00] I unwittingly created the creature that will, in the prequel, destroy Cloud Town High. Welcome to Cloud Town Tuesday, the day where I share a page from my graphic novel, Cloud Town, and um, tell you about the process of making it. It's like a, , editor's commentary on a DVD. So, if you're a comics fan, if you're a friend of mine, if you are an artist, Looking for insights into the comics process.
Here it is. Let's go. Let's do it.
All right, so After this we're gonna get into the actual pages or at least the intro pages and we'll start working with my friends talking to you about it but This last end page. Uh, I gotta say I really like, uh, The little alligator buffalo guy I like the hump there I'm proud of this one. I was really getting in the swing of it.
Um, I took images from the story, some of the Hurricanes we interact with. Um, I [00:01:00] skipped, uh, the middle one there because I didn't want to reveal the end of the book. And I wanted to leave spaces for kids to draw on books, which is always fun. Name their own hurricanes. Um, yeah. And yeah, one of these creatures is going to be the monster that appears in the prequel.
One of the things that is fun about this, like as I was pitching sequels, prequels, daydreaming about what happens before and after, is um, what I just made up in this moment um, affects a lot of what I get to do or experiment with. So these creatures around here because they are close to the time when Cloud Town 1 takes place are going to By definition affect more of what happens in the world.
So that's pretty fun I'm excited for you guys to see more of me talking with other cartoonists about the drawing process because that seems [00:02:00] To be more exciting to me. Anyway, man I am bushwhicked from my day job. I worked like a 13 hour day biking people up hills in a tricycle yesterday. So I'm super exhausted.
Um, but I've got a lot on my plate. I've got to send some more pitches out. I've got to experiment with a different art style for one of these. The publishers I'm sending to . And, um, I've got a really cool vision for the prequel. Um, at least the small batch publishing method I'm excited to use. So, uh, thanks for stopping in.
This is a short one. They're gonna get a little more in depth again very soon. And, uh, have a great day. Hey guys, quick update that monster that I said ended up. Destroying cloud down high. Well, the comic about that is done and totally free on my email list. There's a link below. Just give me your email. I send you the comic [00:03:00] it's 24 pages tells the story of how Penn and olive become best friends.