I Sold A Book To A Major Publisher While Living In A Van: Cloud Town Tuesday p. 3
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Cloud Town Tuesday part 11 comic book author commentary
[00:00:00] But I'm gonna probably edit that part out. Yeah, don't You should keep it all in, it's authentic to your, your process. 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.
Here it is, let's go, let's do it.
So yeah, this was the earlier version. And then you just trace your zines. For this, for these pages I did, yeah. Okay, yeah, it is a very different style. Like, of the characters, not so much monsters. Yeah, they're just quicker and rougher, they were like, Yeah. And, it took me so long, so remember talking about those 17 hour pages?
Mm hmm. The zine, I took like three days a page to draw those, and I tried so hard. I was living in a van, drawing on like a broken Wacom that would crash all the time, And I was just like, trying to outdo my previous abilities, [00:01:00] And like, I was like, working outside a dog park. Uh, because then I could leave with my dog and throw the ball for a while and then everyone would cycle out and I could go back in my van and people wouldn't know I was there.
And uh, there's also a bathroom there. So I was just working like every day and it would take me, yeah, again, three days a page. So a 60 page comic probably took me like a couple of years, months. Yeah. It would have been like six months. So it would have been a half a year to just draw that. Um. And then you're like, oh, could you do 224 pages written and scripted and everything in a single year?
And you're like, oh, I need to get a lot faster. Yeah, you got way more efficient if you took three days to make this one. And then this one, yeah, at this point I'm redoing it, I already know what's happening, but I'm an hour in, you can kinda see what's happening. It's kinda done. But I like this as a way to introduce the character, and I like the little gag I've always enjoyed.
I had this from the very beginning, [00:02:00] basically. You gotta stop bringing action figures to school, it's embarrassing. It's not an action figure, it's a scale model. And, like, that's the way to be like, these are real, but also people are like that. They're like, this dinosaur is accurate to the whatever. Yeah, I was like that with toys.
Like, um, I always try to get the baby dinosaur toys, because I want it to actually match, actually match the size. And then this having, like, the Face inside the word bubble from off screen. I must have read a manga that had that finally like that is a technology in comics that I hadn't experienced for a long time.
It'll be a face of this character inside that word bubble. Oh, yeah, but like that's something I use a ton now. Is that an inverted tag? Yeah, going to the head. Oh, that's neat in manga like generally even if you don't have a head like we're in modern manga and inverted tag means they're off panel. Oh, like they're speaking, so it's another character grounding.
That's interesting, I like that. It's really, [00:03:00] it's really, once you get used to it, it makes a ton of sense and it's really grounding and helpful. Yeah, that's super good. You did the, you did the hand really well up there too. Thanks. That's the one thing I'm, uh, started confident in. Like, I drew my hands a ton when I was young.
Really? Yeah, I was the only thing I was good at drawing. But because other people weren't good at it. Yeah, I mean, hands are so hard to draw. Like, to get down to a different person, you know. But everyone's got some. Gestures. Well, not everyone, but most people have some to look at. Most people that are drawing.
Excuse me. Not everyone has hands. Well, everyone has hands. I know, I don't, I don't, listen, let's, I'll stop! Take it easy! This guy! What do you got against my friend, Walter? He's a good guy. He's an amazing artist. They can do a lot of cool stuff. And write with anything, really. I don't know. Alright, well, this has been a page of actual comics [00:04:00] on Cloud Town Tuesday.
I feel like that's enough for this week. Looks good. Yeah, chugging along. I wonder if we'll have less and less to say. This is why we need to get other artists stuff to look at. Yeah, let's do like a I suddenly am like wait, maybe oh, yeah. Oh, that's neat I was like, maybe it should be this other character from before to have less characters There's this panic moment where I was told to remove more characters I thought from the book and I was like already done and I called my agent I was like, can I just hand can I just print this book myself and just do a new book for them?
Like if they want me to do this much work, yeah, that's cool. Like with the inverted tag and the expression Yeah, that totally works. I use that so much now Interesting Wait, why were you adding another character here to make less of them? Yeah, so that, the person with the other haircut is a character that you'll see later.
So they were like, yeah, and if you could consolidate as many characters as possible, but which the editor meant apparently was like, in future, like when writing another book, like how, like [00:05:00] consolidate as many characters as you can. Um, so we get more time with each character. That's, and it's less confusing.
Yeah. It's good advice. Yeah. Yeah. But I thought that they were.