In case anyone is interested, I've posted five pages from a series proposal that Dave Rawson and I are pitching to various big, scary corporate publishers. The series stretches across much of the 19th century into the beginning of the twentieth. This sequence is set in the old west.

My freeware scanning software doesn't have a setting that can get me clean repro of my lettering, and shooting at 72 dpi does fascinating things to my crosshatching, but the pages her should give anyone interested an idea of what my art in the series would look like.

If anyone cares to sound off about the work, go for it. It might make for a nice change of pace from arguing about the relative ranking of Seattle's favorite funnybooks.

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/8914/shepherd1.html

Steve Lieber

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My web page: www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/8914/
Preview of WHITEOUT #1 at www.easystreet.com/~kodiak/Whiteout.html
WHITEOUT tpb ships in May. A sequel is coming later this year.





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Oh- I should note that the pages are about 100k each. If that's too much for your connection, don't click. Life's too short.

Beautiful stuff, Steve! I can't wait 'til the trade paperback of Whiteout comes out, I'm really looking forward to a good mystery comic in that great style of yours!

I hope the new series comes together, too-- although if it turns out I really like Whiteout, I won't want you to be doing anything except working on the sequel! [img]/resources/ubb/smile.gif[/img]

By the way, I'm a big fan of Jack Hamm's drawing books too!

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Joe Zabel

Was there something in my pages that reminded you of Jack Hamm? Or did I mention him in my "advice to young artists" essay?

Sincerely yours,
Perplexed in Portland

In my initial version of this response, I forgot to thank you for the compliments regarding these pages. Dave Rawson and I are crossing our fingers and thinking about next year's Eisner Award for Best Pitch.


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Steve-- I saw the Jack Hamm reference in your essay. Actually the artwork itself kind of reminds me of some really good Jeff Jones from his pre-IDYL days.

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Joe Zabel

I searched for Idyl, found this post, and am now linking this link:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=269930911

Great work. Storytelling was direct and the layouts are pleasing.
I'm glad to see your using the 3 tiered layout. It seems like it's been forgotten by most artists.
Looking forward to buying Whiteout (the first one) in a couple of weeks.
Good luck.

Note: My post dredged up 11 month old thread.

Good god. I'd have thought threads this old would've disppeared a long time ago, wiped away in the sort of electronic Stalinism that helps keep a net reader's mind in that vital perpetual "now."

I'm sure everyone will be pleased to learn that the pitch is still festering in a submission pile somewhere, and that Godot is going to show up any minute now.

Steve Lieber
http://www.unrewarding.com/steve Visit unrewarding.com, where a career can go and die in peace.

Steve ...
as always your stuff still amazes me. I sat next to you at the last chicago wizard con, and have been a fan since. i'll be putting my money down for any book your working on... i love that western feel. How long did you spend researching for this one? great stuff... (although you don't need to hear that from me...=P

Tony Moy www.dreamflux.com