The People’s Publisher

Hey there everyone out there in Internetland. How are yeh? I’m swell! And let me tell you, Jazzy Jason Cook’s Blake Undying is bananas! The script is hee-lariously dark, and Krazy Kuba Kujawa is kreating some of the sweetest, sickest art in Komics today!

Here, I’ll show you.

As you know from all the editors’ previous blogs, we here at Zeros2Heroes are creating comics following an original, creative, tried and true process developed by a passionate bunch of comics-lovin’ inkstuds here in the ‘Couve, Canada. So you know what I mean when I say that Page X was a breeze.

Sure, it took a number of iterations, but Page X is the money shot (actually Blake Undying has several money shots, this one just happened to truly represent the spirit of the book as a whole). Anyhoo, Jason and I we’re immediately on the same page when it came to choosing Page X. One of his first messages to me on the Dashboard was on Page 16 where he wrote: “Early contender for Page X”. He had one other page picked out, but I had already edited it with its facing partner into a two-page spread to make yer eyeballs ejacu-bobulate (like the Mask, another Zero to Hero). Gold!

So here is the page as thumbnailed by yours truly based on Jason’s description:

Kuba got the script and the Vision Document and created this rough based on the script and thumbnail:

Now Kuba doesn’t pencil. He just goes right into roughs that are blobs of colour. The page looked good, but Jason has a very vivid vision and requested the following revisions:

Subtle, but effective. As an editor I work with the creator/writer/client to translate their concepts into graphic narratives.

A few more revisions follwed, and the ta-dah! Nailed!

Once Jason approved the page I sent a message to Charismatic Chris Studebaker (who, by the way, is lettering the new ReBoot comic I edit) and let him know Blake Undying’s Page X is ready for his magic:

I tell yeh, this comic’s got the goods. And the bads!

Julian