Adventure Time #4 is out today! Featuring the end of the first arc, written by me and drawn super awesomely by Braden Lamb and Shelli Paroline, PLUS a backup story by Chris “Elio” Eliopoulos AND a special cover done by my bro Scott C AND a special cover done by Kassandra Heller AND a special cover done by Pen Ward’s mom Bettie. Click to see them AND read the first five pages! Different books have different covers though, we did not invent the five-dimensional book cover here.
In summary and in conclusion: you guys this is awesome you guuuuuuuys
Butts to this! Butts to alllll of this. I’m hoping that this phrase can soon be like aloha and mean ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye’.
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Braden and I were honored to create this year’s MeCAF poster! The Maine Comics Arts Festival is couldn’t be any more fun and welcoming to comic creators and fans, so come up to Portland, ME this Sunday, May 20th and fill up a lobster trap with comics!
Adventure Time sketch covers from Emerald City Comicon by Braden Lamb and Shelli Paroline.
Adventure Time color swatch humor.
How do we bring the Adventure Time comic to horrifying life? Let’s take a horrifying look!
Step 1: Based on Ryan’s script, we do a pencil sketch. By doing this on a computer rather than on paper, we can move things around, resize them, and generally make things easier to read. We also sketch in the word balloons, roughly as big as they’ll need to be, depending on the amount of text, to make sure everything fits in the panel. Why is it blue? SECRETS.
Step 2: We do inks on the computer as well. We generally do two layers: characters and other foreground elements, and the background. That way we can isolate the background lines and change their colors. How do we change those line colors? SECRETS.
Step 3: Colors are also done in layers. Excluding the two ink layers, there can be four or more layers of color on any given page. Backgrounds, foregrounds, drop shadows, shadows on the characters, lighting effects, and so on. How many layers made up this page? Four. I mean, SECRETS.
The finished digital image is flattened, compressed, and applied to the comic page through a process called “fossilization.” But that’s a topic for another day.
Enjoy!
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Listen, frog, it’s more Muppets! This time it’s a commissioned anniversary gift.
Preview for Issue 2 of Adventure Time out Wednesday 3/14!
Hi there lovely people of every color and creed! Shannon again! We’re continuing our exciting march toward ADVENTURE TIME #2, out next Wednesday, 3/14! Today, I’m sharing a few of my favorite panels from the issue with all of you fine folks! Shelli and Braden are magical art wizards.
Some of you had some questions on my last post! Specifically, “WHERE THE DEVIL CAN I GET MY HANDS ON THIS THING?!” Well, I’m here to tell you that YOU HAVE OPTIONS:
- Support your local comic shop! You can use this website to find the closest one to you. Perhaps you have never gone to one before! Trust me, there is so much good stuff happening in these places.
- Perhaps you live in the boonies! As someone who grew up in the mountains like a shoeless hobo, I can relate to this. Don’t worry your head about it! You can pre-order it online here! They’ll send it right to your house!
- Perhaps you own an electronic device! I hear they are the future. If so, next Wednesday you can buy it on Comixology here.
HOORAH! What a delight. More to come tomorrow!
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Guests Announced for Emerald City Comicon
If you can tear yourself away from the Internet for a few moments at the end of next month and can be in the Seattle area, hoof it on over to the Washington State Convention Center for Emerald City Comicon 2012. It’s going to be a lovefest for Adventure Time #1, the show’s premiere comic put out by our friends at BOOM! Not only will Pen Ward be on hand, but the issue’s writer, Ryan North, and artists, Braden Lamb and Shelly Paroline, will be there, too. And if that isn’t making your head spin fast enough, you’ll also be able to get your mitts on that debut issue with an exclusive Comicon cover by Chris Samnee (above). Read more about BOOM!’s Comicon plans at Comics Alliance. To the Great Northwest!
And we will be drawing ALL WEEKEND.
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Here are some sketches I did for the Desert Princess, a new character who appears in Adventure Time #1. I still kind of like the Middle Eastern-type one, if only because it diverges from the European-type princesses we see on the show, but I agree that the cake-head one was the best choice.
it was the little cape that put her over the edge.
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what are the haps: Adventure Time: from script to finished comic!
I thought it’d be fun, today — when the comic is out and you can buy it and you should!! — to share how the first page of Adventure Time #1 went from start to finish.
Initially I knew I wanted to tie the comic to the show and let people know, yes, this is the same thing you’ve been watching on…
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I took a break from the cartoon style of Finn here. Wish I could do more, but the second issue awaits!
The first issue of the Adventure Time comic is out Wednesday with art by myself and Braden Lamb (care for a preview?)
All of my friends are posting covers to their upcoming graphic novels. I’m stating it right now: 2012 will be the year of the GREAT, ALL-AGES GRAPHIC NOVEL! I hope mine finds a place near theirs! The cover is actually a full wrap-around, but I’m just going to post the front part first. Colored by Blastin’ Braden Lamb and designed by Crushin’ Colleen AF Venable. BROXO comes out from First Second books Fall 2012.
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