Deadline kept! Yea!

Well it’s been about two weeks since I had posted anything here so I thought that I should keep you updated on the workings of the box here. Deadline for the finished interior artwork has been completed on time! That’s a huge relief for me now Pandora’s Garage Volume 5 moves into it’s next phase- editing. This may make time for it's release a little harder than I was expecting but I don’t have big office space and lots of employees to deal with. Overhead as they say.
But I had changed the “Scratch” comic and incorporated into the fifth issue until Dan has the remainder of El Samurai ready to print.

Closing in on the deadline

Today is one of those days when you feel that you are closing in on a deadline that you set up for yourself. This is so true that it hurts. And hurt so good it does.
With today I realized that most of the artwork that I have been doing is closing in on four pages of scratchboard work and, yeah!, the art will be done. I am looking at having the Fifth issue of Pandora's Garage done by Halloween. At least that is my goal.
So here is a taste of what I have done most recently.

Pandora's Garage Vol. 5: UPDATE

The nearly finished "classic" pose of good V.S. evil. Guess who comes out on top in this one? This is page 34 out of a 36 page black and white and will probably be Johnny Vega last black and white outside of a sketchbook. I am looking at the possibly of making this into a painting and it will digitally re-done for the color comic. The chronology of Johnny Vega - Man of the Future is looking pretty damn good.
As to the the black and white itself, Pandora’s Garage volume 5 will be the last one that I put together until my other partner Dan Barton comes through with his story.
HOWEVER there are still stories that only a black and white can do justice to- a horror title. This has been something that my friend and my editor have toying around with over the last couple days or so. Halloween is just around the corner but I don’t think that I would have anything ready for that just yet, maybe next year.
I think that could be real fun.

New Art on the Way

Well there sports fans, Al here with the latest:
New images for volume 5 of Pandora's Garage. It was about time for another issue to be put together and since my other art partner has gotten back to me on some the topics of putting together another issue I decided like I did for the Volume 3 that I would make this an Alan Bennett issue.
Page count is a pain in the ass for everybody, especially when you are the one laying out a new book and realize "Ah jeez! I need more pages. Well this couldn't be more true than with the fifth volume and with the last black and white installment of Johnny Vega.
Printing up four pages just to complete the original story would have been a major let down and honestly I didn't like the way I had finished that story line in the first place. It seemed to rushed when, in fact, you should savor the final chapter of a book or the last few minute of a good movie.
So I added seven new pages to round out the rest of the story. Eventually this story will be reprinted but in a entirely different format, digital color like the color Johnny Vega books out right now. The other thing is that Johnny Vega is that these stories will be printed in chronological sequence as to jumping back and forth over the different periods in Johnny's life.

Check it OUT!

Hey there sportsfans, Al here with the latest:

The newest production from Black Box Comix. Check it out.

http://www.indyplanet.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1278.

That's the place!

Alan

New Work begins-part two

Work moves forward for the Box as the second issue of Johnny Vega now has arrived. As I have looked at it and the viewed the digital proof which I can only think is a way to save on paper to make sure everything is prefect. Well I like to think that any one of the books can stand on it’s own. Yes there are mistakes in each one of them I kinda like to think that they are like the mis woven threads in a Native American rug. The imperfections for rug show that we are not gods but mortal.
I seldom start writing philosophical for the blogs, I usually let the books do that for me because nobody wants to be preached at, especially from a comic book writer and artist.
But observation is what drives the art.
Transfers for both Misguided and the new additions for Johnny Vega, both slated for Pandora’s Garage Volume 5 are looking good. It is only working on Johnny that I am trying to go backwards capturing the flavor of the story that I worked on years ago. So far it’s been pretty cool.

Website is up and running

The Website is up and running! YEA, Black Box Comix! You should come by and check it out when you get the chance. Also you have two new images one is the Black Box Banner the other is a jpeg for the second part of the Misguided story that I am currently working on for the fifth issue of Pandora's Garage. Talk about being busy! Whew!
So stop by www.blackboxcomix.net when you get the chance.