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Crossover with Our Sister Magazine Write Now! Was More Than a Year in the Planning and the Making THE PROFESSIONAL “HOW-TO” MAGAZINE ON COMICS, CARTOONING AND ANIMATION IN THIS ISSUE! How to create a comic from script-to-print by MIKE MANLEY See the process from pencils, inks, & coloring to lettering, printing, and NUMBER 9 distribution! FALL 2004 95 PLUS: $5. Illustrator IN THE U.S.A. tutorials with ALBERTO RUIZ PVP’s SCOTT KURTZ y e l n a M Bringing characters e k i to life with M & h t TOM BANCROFT o r e g n and i F y n ROBERT CORLEY n a D 4 0 0 Product 2 © & reviews with M T e m ANDE PARKS i T f o f e i h NOEL SICKLES, T Father of realistic cartooning by BRET BLEVINS CROS SOVER WITH 11994 --2004 www.drawmagazine.com THE PROFESSIONAL “HOW-TO” MAGAZINE ON COMICS & CARTOONING WWW.DRAWMAGAZINE.COM FALL 2004 • VOL. 1, NO. 9 FEATURES Editor-in Chief/Designer • Michael Manley Publisher • John Morrow COVER STORY Logo Design • John Costanza CREATING COMICS FROM SCRIPT TO PRINT WITH MIKE MANLEY Proofreaders • John Morrow & Eric Nolen-Weathington 3 Transcription • Steven Tice For more great information on cartooning and animation, visit our Web site at: http://www.drawmagazine.com Front Cover THE CRUSTY CRITIC PRODUCT REVIEWS BY ANDE PARKS Illustration by 18 Mike Manley NOEL SICKLES 22 BY BRET BLEVINS CHARACTER DESIGN BRINGING YOUR CHARACTERS TO LIFE 34 BY TOM BANCROFT AND ROB CORLEY SUBSCRIBE TO DRAW! Four quarterly issues: $20 US Standard Mail, $32 US First Class Mail ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR ($40 Canada, Elsewhere: $44 Surface, $60 Airmail). TIPS: BITMAP TEXTURE FUN We accept US check, money order, Visa and Mastercard at 41 BY ALBERTO RUIZ TwoMorrows, 10407 Bedfordtown Dr., Raleigh, NC 27614, (919) 449-0344, E-mail: [email protected] ADVERTISE IN DRAW! See page 2 for ad rates and specifications. DRAW! FALL 2004, Vol. 1, No. 9 was produced by Action Planet Inc. and published by TwoMorrows Publishing. Michael Manley, Editor, John Morrow, Publisher. Editorial Address is PO Box 2129, Upper Darby, PA 19082. 49 Subscription Address: TwoMorrows Publishing, 10407 Bedfordtown Dr., Raleigh, PRE-PRESS, PRINTING NC 27614. DRAW! and its logo are trademarks of Action Planet Inc. All contribu - tions herein are copyright 2004 by their respective contributors. Action Planet & DISTRIBUTION Inc. and TwoMorrows Publishing accept no responsibility for unsolicited submis - BY JOHN MORROW sions. All artwork herein is copyright the year of production, its creator (if work- for-hire, the entity which contracted said artwork); the characters featured in said artwork are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners; and PvP’s SCOTT KURTZ said artwork or other trademarked material is printed in these pages with the consent of the copyright holder and/or for journalistic, educational and historical INTERVIEWED BY JAMAR NICOLAS purposes with no infringement intended or implied. Batman,Superman are TM 56 and © 2004 DC Comics • The Dazzler TM and © 2004 Marvel Characters, Inc. • PvP TM and © 2004 Scott Kurtz •The Thief of Time © 2004 Danny Fingeroth and Mike Manley. This entire issue is © 2004 Action Planet Inc. and TwoMorrows Publishing and may not be reprinted or retransmitted without written permission of the copyright holders. Printed in Canada. FIRST PRINTING. FROM THE EDITOR This issue of Draw! and the crossover with our sister magazine write Now! was more than a year in the planning and the making. And what could be more natural than a re-teaming of write Now! editor and old Darkhawk writer Danny Fingeroth and myself, I ask you? A s n DVD! Danny and I worked together back in halcyon days of the ’90s at Marvel on Darkhawk, i v e with Danny on the writing and me on the art. When we both ended up working for the same l B publisher again some ten years later, both doing “how-to” magazines, it seemed like a great t e r idea to combine the thrust of both of our mags to give the aspiring cartoonists and writers a B y complete overview of the creative process of a comic, from the script to the printed page, from b the Pro perspective. Do a real in-depth coverage of our process. After some good give and take, n o i Danny and I came up with our character The Thief of Time, and documented each step of the t a t creative process which you can read about in write Now! #8 and in this issue of Draw! e r p As Danny and I got underway and were working on The Thief of Time , preparing to r e t have both issues of our magazines ready to premiere at this summer’s San Diego Comicon, I n i was contacted by Sputnik Studios from Toronto, Canada to see if I was interested in producing e v i a “how-to” DVD. “Heck yes!” was my answer. A rapid series of e-mails and phone calls ensued t a r between our publisher John Morrow, Danny, Sputnik and myself, and the deal was worked out. u g We would now produce a “how-to” DVD covering our process and filming me live as I drew. i F This also meant we had a very short time to do this in order to get everything done to debut the DVD in San Diego. As you know by now, Draw! #9 was delayed in order to produce the art for the DVD shoot and John and I decided it was best to concentrate on the DVD. Shane McCracken, Jeremy McCracken and cameraman Sevan Frank piled into their car and headed south to my studio here outside of Philadelphia to film the DVD. Danny came down for an afternoon to shoot our discussion on scripts and plotting for the DVD, as well. Over the next three days in the humid Philadelphia summer, the swell guys from Sputnik filmed over 40 hours of video here in my studio documenting my working process, and the result is the How to Draw Comics from Script to Print DVD. I’m really proud of how it turned out! But the race was not over yet. As the Sputnik crew headed back to Toronto and their editing suite, I still had to finish the rest of the art and do extra work on the lettering and coloring segments and some extra voiceovers, as well as finish the rest of the The Thief of Time comic which had to be held off till the filming was done. So now you hold in your hands the fruit of all of our labors: Draw! #9, the second part of the crossover with write Now!, containing the complete The Thief of Time comic inside. The DVD premiered with great success in San Diego and the Chicago Con, so much so we are already planning several more DVDs on drawing fea - turing some of your favorite Draw! contributors. I also want to say thanks to this issue’s contributors Tom Bancroft, Rob Corley, and Scott Kurtz, who was interviewed by new Draw! interviewer and fellow Philly cartoonist Jamar Nicholas. Be sure to check our Jamar’s weekly web strip Detective Boogaloo— Hip Hop Cop on moviepoopshoot.com. Big thanks to Alberto Ruiz, Ande Parks, my pal Bret Blevins, and to my brother Dave and his friend Antony Bell for doing the music on the DVD, and of course to Danny and John. A tip of the hat to Ryan D’Angelo for redesigning the Draw! website, and of course you the readers and supporters of Draw! magazine. See you in February! Mike Manley , Editor E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.drawmagazine.com Snail mail: PO Box 2129, Upper Darby, PA 19082 ADVERTISE with TWOMORROWS FULL PAGE : 7.5” wide x 10” tall — $300 Rates at left are for black-&-white ads, supplied on disk HALF PAGE : 7.5” wide x 4.875” tall — $175 (TIF, EPS, or QuarkXPress files acceptable) or as camera-ready QUARTER PAGE : 3.75” wide x 4.875” tall — $100 art. Typesetting service available at 20% markup. Due to our INSIDE COVER OR BACK COVER : Please Inquire already low ad rates, no agency discounts apply. GET THE TWOMORROWS TWO-FER! Send ad copy and check or Prepay for two same-size ads in DRAW!, Back Issue, money order in US funds to: We also accept Visa Alter Ego, Write Now!, or any combination, and save! TwoMorrows and MasterCard! Please (Display ads are not available for The Jack Kirby Collector .) 10407 Bedfordtown Drive include card number Raleigh NC 27614 FULL PAGE : 7.5” wide x 10” tall — $500 ($100 savings) and expiration date. HALF PAGE : 7.5” wide x 4.875” tall — $300 ($50 savings) Questions? QUARTER PAGE : 3.75” wide x 4.875” tall — $175 ($25 savings) Phone: (919) 449-0344 INSIDE COVER OR COLOR BACK COVER : Inquire for availability Fax: (919) 449-0327 BULK AD PACKAGES ALSO AVAILABLE : Please Inquire E-Mail: [email protected] 2 DRAW! • FALL 2004 TALKING THIEF OF TIME Danny and Mike discuss the creative process PART 2 What follows is the conclu - sion of the conversation between Write Now! editor PART 2 Danny Fingeroth and myself (begun in Write Now! #8) out - lining how we came up with our Thief of Time character. We discuss what issues we were dealing with as we tried to make something original yet not completely unfamiliar, mixing genres to come up with new takes on well-traveled archetypes. Combined with the notes and e-mails printed in Write Now! #8 we pick up on the conversation in this issue as we conclude the dis - cussion of our creative process.
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