Fantasy Realms on WOWIO

Clay and I decided to start offering high resolution PDFs of our fantasy comic Fantasy Realms at WOWIO.com.

Here is what the official site has to say:

WOWIO is a new kind of online bookstore that enables readers to download ebooks for free, using commercial sponsorships to compensate authors and publishers. Readers get free ebooks. Sponsors get a powerful new channel to communicate their message to precisely the people they want to reach. Publishers get a new means of distributing their books, expanding their readership, and monetizing their intellectual property.

You can download issues of Fantasy Realms, featuring pages at much higher quality and resolution than what you see on the official homepage -- all for free once you sign up. You will be supporting the comic, too, since we get paid a small commission for every download. Unfortunately user registration is limited to U.S. residents at the current time.


P.S. Our arrangement with WOWIO will have no effect whatsoever on our website. All of the content will remain in our archive, and you can still find new pages every Monday.

The Legendary Green Land

One of the projects Clay and I have been working on for a pretty long time now is Green: A Terra Verde Lendária. I think it has been years since we first announced the project -- an illustrated novella, possibly to be serialized online before we release the print edition -- and we're both very excited about being able to finally dedicate some time to it (as a matter of fact, Clay finished the first draft of the story a while ago, and is very close to completing the second draft).

There have been a lot of revisions since then, mostly on the art side. I was never quite content with the style. The original illustrations were done in a painted sketchy style which looked decent enough, but it didn't seem to click with the story. Even with monochromatic palettes, it didn't convey the harsh and depressing atmosphere of the world that these characters live in.

We decided to take a much more graphic approach after that: Solid black inks, some greyscale flats, and painted backgrounds. Unfortunately I was never able to pull that one off properly. The art ended up looking very stiff and the whole setting appeared fake due to the conflicting styles. I eventually grew frustrated with it and decided to shelve the whole project until I would be able to solve that dilemma.

Which just happens to be today!


It will still be a while before I can set aside some serious time to work on the actual illustrations for the book, but that doesn't seem to matter anymore. It'll work out, even it it's going to take a while. For the first time since we started working on this story does everything feel right to me.