Graphic Novel Deadlines: Drawing 6 pages and 54 monsters in a day.
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Signed copies are 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 This is the first shout-out of my pals Kirt and Apple! What up! Follow Alyssa, Kirt, and me on Instagram! Me (for whoever) https://www.instagram.com/beancandan Kirt (for grown-ups) https://www.instagram.com/kirtburdick/ Alyssa (for grown-ups) https://www.instagram.com/supercoolawesomechicken/ 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? um... want to see the first thing I remember working really hard on? I was in middle school and I worked all summer to submit this flash animation to a festival. It didn't get in. I was competing with adults, and well the best I could do was not all that impressive. But they sent me a nice email. https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/173645
Rough Video Transcript:
[00:00:00] 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, um, 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. Let's fast forward to where we dropped off last time. So yeah, right now you have to remember. I'm working on the end pages. Uh, those pages that go in the beginning and end of the book. It's an element that I love a lot, uh, in, in the hardback books that I had as a kid. But I also have almost no time.
Because, uh, after waiting for months, I finally get, like, Hey, we need this, if you want to do it. Like, I did not have to do it. They could have just put blank colored endpages in. They could have had the case on the hardcopy of the book be the same as the general cover. But I really, you know, I wanted the book [00:01:00] to have as many bells and whistles as possible.
I spent a lot of time on that case cover we talked about and now i'm working on the end pages and I have like I don't know a day maybe two to do six pages and i'm very i'm already sleepy Here I wanted to make it playful fun And oh man, this was a really fast one so you can see i'm really uh, really moving through it.
Um, You The first monster I drew was a trace of the monster that appears as an action figure. Not action figure, sorry. Scale model in the beginning of Cloud Town. And then I, um, and just right now pulling kind of random ideas from my imagination, um, trying to make them, quick and clear and fun and kind of cute.
You can see the little monster kind of kicking over a house. I thought that was very funny, so I went with that. Um, thought of something a little dragony, a little fishy. Um, at [00:02:00] this point, I realized that I am short on time to like, uh, reiterate and do different random creatures. Um, often when I do a monster, I'll sketch a lot of imaginary monsters until I hit one I like, but I am again, on deadline.
So I I opened Netflix and I started pulling up every different creature show they had and I fast forward and looked at different creatures as inspiration. So you can see I have a shrimp creature, polar bear creature, um, and I would try to combine stuff, so there's stuff inspired by goats, um, and in the next chunk of this I'll have even more animal inspired creatures.
Um, alright, I don't know. Did I record? How was that? In other news, I am going to have, um, I don't think the next one, but in a couple of episodes of Cloudtown Tuesday, I do have a video I recorded with my friend Kirt, my friend Alyssa. New [00:03:00] Patreon! What up, Alyssa? Um, everybody say hello to Alyssa Appleberry.
She is a current employee of Mission Comics, uh, tattoo artist, and, uh, cartoonist. She's done her first few zines. So, um, congratulations and keep up the good work and, uh, yeah. If anybody else is working on comics and zines just holler at us And I can't wait to see them. Okay. Bye