Projects: WMD
Posted on March 12, 2010
I've been friends with Jeff Wamester for quite a while now.
I believe it was in 2008 when we actually met in person out at Wizard World Chicago. At the time, I had him doing a few things for my project Baeg Tobar and was totally blown away by the work he was doing. I think it's fair to say that I could tell Jeff was on his way to big things (and from all indications, this is indeed true).
Anyway, I introduced Jeff to Matt Jacobs (my business partner with Outland Entertainment) and we started talking about how we could all work together. It just so happened that Jeff had a personal project that he'd been working on for literally years (which is something I can totally relate too, heh) called WMD. Matt and I took a look at several of the pages he had with him, listened to the concept behind the story, and were blown away! We immediately sat down with Jeff and worked out a deal to produce WMD through Outland.
We agreed that Jeff would pencil and ink the project and I would color and letter the pages. Matt would assist with any editing or plot help. I also designed the website and Matt built it using our webcomic CMS Panel Flow. We completed 12 pages + a cover which would function as a sort of intro/prelude to the actual full epic story.
You can read all of those pages right here.
COLORS
(Pencils and inks by Jeff Wamester. Colors by me.)
Right now, the project is on hold due to other obligations that Jeff, Matt, and I have. We're actually kind of shopping around for a publisher, but either way I definitely believe we'll get back to WMD in the not too distant future. This is one of those stories that just has to be told.
Unfortunately, with the loss of my hard drive earlier this year, I lost all the high resolution copies of these pages, which really stinks. I may eventually put the pages up that I lettered, but I'm not sure. I kind of feel you should head over to the actual WMD website to read the comic rather than reading it here.
Jer
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Posted on February 8, 2010
The last year and a half has been nuts.
I went from being a single man to being married, buying a house, owning two dogs, and having a baby on the way. It's been exciting, wonderful, trying, and tiring. All at once. I hope it never changes. It is absolutely crazy how so much can happen in such a small amount of time.
Of course, through all that, work hasn't slowed down at all.
Over 2009, I completed a comic (based on Inuit folklore), relaunched Baeg Tobar, launched an Outland Entertainment project with Jeff Wamester and Matt Jacobs called WMD. Did a series of illustrations based on Alexander the Great. And colored a whole bunch of comic pages (again, over Jeff Wamester) for a company called Taylor Made Comics.
I'll be posting this material right here on this site over the next year. I think I'll go ahead and start with one of my Alexander the Great pieces completed for Pearson Educational Group. This was a really fun project to work on and I am very, very proud of the work. This is the first time I've posted it anywhere and I have four other pieces I'll be posting in the near future as well!
In addition, I also suffered a terrible loss. We laid to rest my former hard drive around the beginning of this month. Not only did my hard drive die, but it took just about everything on it with it to the grave. Nothing was recoverable. Due to what I laid out above, I have been terribly behind on backing up my data. Sometimes, lessons have to be learned the hard way and in this case, that's just what happened. I'm not going to ever go through this particular loss again. If you aren't making regular backups, take it from me - go back up your data now.
I will also be updating the projects section of the site with more information regarding my various projects. I will likely have news on several upcoming projects as well in the very near future (at least I hope too).
Anyway, I have a lot of plans for this website and I am going to work hard to keep up with maintaining the site and material. And I hope you all let me know what you think as well!
Thanks!
Jer
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