The People’s Publisher

Like a well oiled machine. That is how I would describe production on Hero High. Diego continues to produce consistently excellent and speedy pages week after week earning him the nickname Diego “the machine” Simone. After finishing pencils last week, Diego is up to page 7 on the inks and nailing it every time.

 One funny hiccup was that one of the panels called for someone to be eating a box of giant pretzels, like the ones that they sell at the carnival here. We had to send him a reference photo because they don’t have giant pretzels in Argentina. No giant pretzels, who’d a thunk it?

Something that wasn’t running like a well oiled machine last week was the outboard motor on my little boat. Take it from me peoples, if you buy a used motor, stay close to shore when you take it out for the first time. I did have a good couple hours on the water off of Gibsons Landing, and was starting to think I could trust it. After picking up my girlfriend, Amber, at the dock we headed out to do a  quick lap of Keats Island before it got dark. Well, we got about halfway back and the motor seized. After paddling for an hour, it began to rain. We were close enough to be able to use the cellphone to call for help and ended up getting towed in by the local coastguard. By this time it was raining really hard and I was feeling pretty darn embarassed.

Unfortunately, I realized the next day that the motor is well and truly finished (it threw a rod as well) which made me feel better in a way, as it proved that there wasn’t anything I could have done to get it working, but worse in that there was no way it was ever going to run again, and I would have to buy a new one.

And I don’t think Amber is very keen to go “boating” again anytime soon.

Here is one of the latest pages Diego has uploaded showing his mastery of  the character’s expression and action.