LONNY AIR: REDBAND TRAILER

LONNY AIR: REDBAND was the "trailer" for a stupid cyberpunk comic thing that never really went anywhere.  I was using this green watercolour wash as a "greenscreen", so when I'd scan it I'd select the "gray" regions and translate them into screentone using a basic GIMP filter.

These are the only pages that survive the orignal project.  Enjoy, I guess?

 

The issue starts with "page 0", what I call the inside front cover of any comic I pick up.  I'm a big believer in using all the page space; I'd also already drawn page 1 and lettered a big fat ONE on it and wasn't going to re-draw it, when I realized I needed one more panel beat before page one.  I'd fucked up page one, so page 0 was how I fixed it.  Making a page 0 has become kind of a habit in every script since.  I plan to use all the real estate in any comic I print, and that includes front & back cover.  NO DEAD AIR is the rule in this studio.  I can't say that was true for Donny's studio:

Of course I can't actually demonstrate what page 1 & 2 look like, OR page 3, because they were all lost sometime around the time I started sleeping in a graveyard.  A lot of art went away when I lost my studio & home.  I can't say I'm too sad about losing most of it.  It wasn't the best art anyway.

 

Apologies, at any rate, for the in media res b.s. that follows:

 

All you missed was a robotic head w/ batwings disrupting Lonny's broadcast from their mobile studio.  Red, Lonny's agent, shot it down, and it landed on the hood of their car, freaking Lonny out.  (He doesn't wear his face when he DJs.)

....Then there's another gap of several pages.

Lonny & Red are talking to Aggarwal, their main mechanic, and his daughter's kind of touchy about her father being overprotective.  Red has some old beefs with some old talents he used to work with, and he's managing Lonny now, so that's his #1 concern.  Don't remember all the weird gang stuff I had worked out but there were a bunch of "god-mobs" vying for the turf Lonny needed to broadcast from.

 

This was where the project stalled out, basically, with several more pages pencilled, but I'd gotten tired of the watercolour wash technique and wanted to do more scratchboarding.

 

Anyhow.  Nostalgia tour's over.  Leave a nickel in the jar by the door.