Page one of my upcoming graphic novel 'Hip Deep, Mountain High'

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I'll be working more and more on my graphic novel as summer dies out and we dive into fall and winter. But don't worry my bloggy friends, I won't ever desert you. There will always be something new here every day, there just may not be as much of it as there used to be. And honestly, even though this graphic novel project is one of the hardest things I have ever attempted creatively speaking, it's also one of the most fun. I'm having a great time taking the photos, editing them, doing the layouts, and writing the dialogue and story. The whole process really really rocks.

And while I'm gushing about this thing I've been doing, let me gush about all the people who are donating their time to be in it. It's amazing to me how all the people I've cast have come together and have done such great work so far. Everybody have been great sports about doing what I've asked of them and making time to be in my project. I owe them all big time for all they've done.

Rust never sleeps

I've been learning how to use the Photo Explosion 4 software. I'll be using it extensively in my graphic novel project. I like this image I made, it's a forced perspective shot that I doctored and cropped.

My inner geek is rejoicing

I peruse the 5 for a $1 bins at my local comic book store a couple of times a month and the other day I ran across a comic book that had a bunch of purposely blank pages in it. They're templates for people to make their own comic books. Here's one of them:
I snapped that comic book up and I've begun making some of my own comic pages. Here's one I made:
It's a bit of an esoteric page, esoteric seems to be the word of the week here, so I changed one picture and I came up with this one:
Oh the possibilities!

No worries, I'll share all my creations with you as I make them.