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				<h2>Sleep Walking &#8211; Step by step</h2>
				<h4>Sunday, April 29th, 2012</h4>

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					<p>Thought some of you might be interested to see how one panel in a comic goes from concept to final design. In this case I&#8217;ve chosen an arbitrary panel from The Sleeping King submission to MCM&#8217;s Huntsman&#8217;s challenge. Different team&#8217;s processes will vary of course, but it should give you an idea.</p>
<p>In this case, we start off with the script&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;which isn&#8217;t here right now &#8211; i&#8217;ll add this bit later. Basically after lots of fretting and umming and ahhing I&#8217;ll come up with a descriptor and some dialogue (which I&#8217;ll probably change later on).</p>
<p>My artist, Meirion, them comes up with some rough thumbnails to check we&#8217;re in the same ballpark&#8230;</p>
<div id="attachment_371" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://bombculture.com/?attachment_id=371" rel="attachment wp-att-371"><img class="size-medium wp-image-371" title="Page 2 - Rough" src="http://bombculture.com/http://home/vaultcom/public_html/www.bombculture.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Page-2-Rough-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="182" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Rough Thumbnail of idea, just checking both writer and artist are on the same page (so to speak)</p></div>
<p>Usually i&#8217;ll give the go-ahead unless i&#8217;ve had a radical change of mind &#8211; Alternatively what can happen is the artist interprets my script a totally different way and it works out better and we&#8217;ll discuss it through etc. Some panels are fairly self explanitory, others need a bit of back and forth before both artist and writer think they&#8217;ve milked all the drama out of it. The Artist will then pencil it, and in this case Ink it (though often the Inking is done by a seperate person who lives in a cave full of wet horsehair and muddy puddles).</p>
<div id="attachment_372" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://bombculture.com/?attachment_id=372" rel="attachment wp-att-372"><img class="size-medium wp-image-372" title="Page 2 - Black and White" src="http://bombculture.com/http://home/vaultcom/public_html/www.bombculture.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Page-2-Black-and-White-300x244.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="244" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Pencilled and Inked (in this case by the same person)</p></div>
<p>After this, it&#8217;s passed on to yet another person (again varies with your team &#8211; Adam Bolton went from thumbnail to finished colours and all the stages inbetween himself. He also burnt himself out doing so when we had uber tight deadlines &#8211; that being said, his work was epic on it). In this case Tanya and I had a crack at the flatting (hence it&#8217;s not as professional as it could be).</p>
<div id="attachment_373" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://bombculture.com/?attachment_id=373" rel="attachment wp-att-373"><img class="size-medium wp-image-373" title="Page 2 - Flats" src="http://bombculture.com/http://home/vaultcom/public_html/www.bombculture.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Page-2-Flats-300x247.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="247" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">My dodgy flatting - separating the colour areas up into usable chunks</p></div>
<p>From there it&#8217;s passed onto a <strong>real </strong>colourist who, thankful he doesn&#8217;t have to do the flatting (which can be a bit of a ball ache and dull as hell), goes to town and adds further depth and shading and broadens the colour palette.</p>
<div id="attachment_378" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://bombculture.com/?attachment_id=378" rel="attachment wp-att-378"><img class="size-medium wp-image-378" title="Page 2 - Coloured" src="http://bombculture.com/http://home/vaultcom/public_html/www.bombculture.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Page-2-Coloured-300x248.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="248" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Ciaran&#39;s colours make it &#39;pop&#39;</p></div>
<p>And the finally, the letterer &#8211; usually a different person again but in this case me, lays down the text and sound effects from the script. Or in my case has an 11th hour quandary about the script (it was for a competition and I&#8217;d meandered a bit) and re-drafts it on the fly while lettering.</p>
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<div id="attachment_382" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://bombculture.com/?attachment_id=382" rel="attachment wp-att-382"><img class="size-medium wp-image-382" title="Page 2 - Lettered" src="http://bombculture.com/http://home/vaultcom/public_html/www.bombculture.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Page-2-Lettered1-300x276.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="276" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Anthony lays down his shonky lettering style. A real letterer does it much better than this. A writer doing the lettering though has the advantage of being able to tweak and mess about.</p></div>
<p>And there you have it!</p>
<p>Add 1-8 panels per page, 22 pages and you&#8217;ve done your first comic!</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ant</p>
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				<h2>Love the Spam&#8230;love it!</h2>
				<h4>Thursday, April 26th, 2012</h4>

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					<p>Back contracting today on hopefully my last day of significant InDesign hell. Putting together a brief piece on the benefits of leeching off people&#8217;s misery for later this evening (stay tuned) but until then I&#8217;d like to share with you some of the excellent comments I&#8217;ve received about this site. I like looking through my spam folder, it makes me think I have millions of readers &#8211; much like Facebook makes me think I have millions of friends. Its gratifying in a transitory kind of way, the buzz without the high.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;Thank you so much for giving everyone such a pleasant opportunity to read from this website. It’s usually very useful and as well , packed with a good time for me and my office mates to visit the blog nearly thrice in 7 days to find out the latest things you have. And indeed, I am just at all times satisfied with your extraordinary information you give. Certain 1 ideas on this page are rather the finest I have ever had.&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Loving it <img src='http://bombculture.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  How about this one?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;Thank you for another excellent post. Where else could anybody get that kind of information in such a perfect way of writing? I’ve a presentation subsequent week, and I’m at the look for such info.&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Yeah, eat my perfect way of writing bitches!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;I’ve been exploring for a little bit for any high-quality articles or weblog posts in this kind of area . Exploring in Yahoo I finally stumbled upon this website. Studying this info So i’m satisfied to express that I’ve a very excellent uncanny feeling I discovered exactly what I needed. I most unquestionably will make certain to don?t forget this web site and provides it a look regularly.&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">No offers of sex or penis enlargement yet, but I live in hope!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">More later,</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Ant</p>
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				<h2>Trust the drug vendor, the drug vendor is your friend..</h2>
				<h4>Wednesday, April 25th, 2012</h4>

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					<p>Long day contracting, nothing exciting but it pays the bills (much like being a fluffer). Have had some really positive responses to the work online so far &#8211; as more is finished I&#8217;ll dump it up here again.</p>
<p>new post tomorrow about the joys of social vampirism.</p>
<p>Sleeeeeep</p>
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				<h2>Meanwhile&#8230;In Europe</h2>
				<h4>Tuesday, April 24th, 2012</h4>

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					<p>Re-acquainted myself with the work of one Sophian Cholet the other day.</p>
<p>You may (or may not) remember me talking about his &#8220;Zombies&#8221; comic which I stumbled across in an issue of Heavy Metal sometime last year.</p>
<p>The best way I can describe it it&#8217;s similar in theme to The Walking Dead but (in my opinion) better in many respects and the art is just gorgeous! I believe volume 1 is available in English and for those of you who have the ability to speak any other language, Volume 2 is out/will be out soon.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s an AWESOME trailer for the comic (done by Balthazart Michael, Raphael and Gaudin Quentin Sauvinet school ArtFx conducted for Sun edition &#8211; embedded without permission so I might change this to a link later)</p>
<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='500' height='312' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/aOzCHGU4u8U?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></p>
<p>Check out some of his work by checking out his blog &#8211; it&#8217;s got some great examples of his sketches, links to original art from Zombies and I imagine the ability to find the books themselves.</p>
<p><a title="Sophian Cholet" href="http://sophiancholet.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Sophian&#8217;s Blogspot</a></p>
<p>Ant</p>
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				<h2>There are time&#8217;s I wonder&#8230;</h2>
				<h4>Sunday, April 22nd, 2012</h4>

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					<p>Some great response for my/our effort in The Huntsman&#8217;s challenge (link to our submission <a title="Second Place for Writing!" href="https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B8Ud1v7J6PM6RjNIRkhRQV9MVTA" target="_blank">here</a>)- thanks for the feedback, both positive and sweary.</p>
<p>Working on my next short piece with Meirion Jones, though as i write it up I wonder if it&#8217;s going to get sent straight back with a simple message saying &#8220;get yourself some proper therapy&#8221;</p>
<p>Still, should be fun!</p>
<p><a href="http://bombculture.com/?attachment_id=281" rel="attachment wp-att-281"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-281" title="Killer" src="http://bombculture.com/http://home/vaultcom/public_html/www.bombculture.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Killer.jpg" alt="" width="484" height="161" /></a></p>
<p>This one&#8217;s just a break in the pace while I get the first few pages of Hood finished and start the next few pages of my other project.</p>
<p>That and while I provide tech support to my mum who has just discovered Office 2010&#8230;.save me please&#8230;</p>
<p>Ant</p>
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				<h2>Second Place is Last Place? Nah!</h2>
				<h4>Saturday, April 21st, 2012</h4>

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					<p>So the MCM &#8216;Huntsman&#8217;s challenge&#8217; competition for new talent was held and the results are in!</p>
<p>While I&#8217;m not in the top two (which would be the number 1 writing or number 1 art) I <span style="text-decoration: underline;">did</span> get second place in the writing category (for which I&#8217;m both surprised and grateful for).</p>
<p>The theme was &#8216;dark fantasy&#8217; so I drafted a script based on King Arthur together and thanks to the help of the ever talented artist Meirion Jones (who <em>should</em> have been in the top 5 for sure!), Tanya Baldwin on flats and Ciaran Lucas on Bass&#8230;I mean Colours &#8211; we put the thing together in record time and in truth any delays and loss in quality were due to my faffing and re-writing the script (which i realised belatedly had an idea that was &#8216;too big&#8217; for 5 pages).</p>
<p>Which is writer speak for, I came up with a good idea that was perhaps a bit beyond my ability to write well!</p>
<p>Still, I&#8217;m very happy with the result given the time constraints and am super thankful for having such a sterling artistic team to back up my somewhat sleep deprived prose!).</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The competition itself can be found at : <a title="Huntsmans Challenge" href="http://www.eagleawards.co.uk/category/news/" target="_blank">http://www.eagleawards.co.uk/category/news/</a></p>
<p>The top two entries are still competing against each other so I recommend you get over there and vote for the one that you think is the best! Both of them are deserving of your time and attention and it&#8217;s great that there&#8217;s such great new talent out there (so one day we can gang mob our elder peers and wear their skins like a victory totems).</p>
<p>In the mean time, i&#8217;ve tidied mine up a bit in terms of my shonky lettering and the revised (super compressed) version can be found <a title="Sleeping King (smaller) PDF" href="https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B8Ud1v7J6PM6RjNIRkhRQV9MVTA" target="_blank">here </a>or the slightly larger version <a title="Sleeping King (Large) PDF" href="https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B8Ud1v7J6PM6WTVnbl8wZ3lhcjg" target="_blank">here</a></p>
<p>Any abberations in colour quality are entirely my fault (my Acrobat/Illustrator skills are a bit scrappy at best &#8211; feel free to give me a clue how to do a better one).</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bombculture.com/?attachment_id=270" rel="attachment wp-att-270"><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-270" title="4am lettering" src="http://bombculture.com/http://home/vaultcom/public_html/www.bombculture.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/418275_10150823693311521_663496520_12246746_2066069056_n1.jpg" alt="" width="672" height="534" /></a></p>
<p>Meirion and I are going to be working on another 5 pager (for shits and giggles). My Hood project continues to pootle along (though I&#8217;m still looking for a colourist). I&#8217;ve just discovered Spotify and I&#8217;m working on another script this week which tears apart superheroes</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>All in all, a busy month!<br />
Ant</p>
<p>Emails and Comments as always to anthonyjones@bombculture.com</p>
<p><a href="https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B8Ud1v7J6PM6WTVnbl8wZ3lhcjg" target="_blank">Sleeping King (Revised) &#8211; Large</a></p>
<p><a href="https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B8Ud1v7J6PM6RjNIRkhRQV9MVTA" target="_blank">Sleeping King (Revised) &#8211; Small</a></p>
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				<h2>Hillgasm</h2>
				<h4>Friday, April 6th, 2012</h4>

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<p>Needed to escape and write. Headed to the highlands of Scotland.</p>
<p>This plan was correct to do.</p>
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				<h2>Start with the Money Shot</h2>
				<h4>Wednesday, March 28th, 2012</h4>

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					<p>Talking about projects again&#8230;</p>
<p>So spring has come and is rapidly drinking more than its fair share of the cocktails before being brutally panel beaten and thrown out of the club by Summer.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve started contracting again &#8211; making money from &#8216;the man&#8217; by doing corporate marketing and all that jazz. Not all of us can be Mark Morrison or Frank Ellis and live off the fruits of our little monsters.</p>
<p>In the mean time I&#8217;ve been working hard on not less than four seperate projects in an attempt to engender mild aroursal from the wide variety of Editors i&#8217;m bound to hassle over the coming year.</p>
<p>One of these, a modern Robin Hood story (in the same way that Sons of Anarchy can be considered a modern Macbeth story &#8211; inspired by but not tied by) has been coming together quite nicely and I should see the final pages for the pitch pack coming together over the next month or so.</p>
<p>Until then, enjoy the roughs and not so rough concept images which will also be going into said pack &#8211; more information on the characters to be coming in subsiquent posts but until then see if you can guess which are which (and which are entirely new characters),</p>
<p>While I&#8217;m typing, i&#8217;m still looking for a decent colourist (preferably with a small amount of inking skills) who is willing to come with me (and Jason) on this ride.We&#8217;re focussing on a 120pg OGN for now with the option of doing more or a sequel down the line.</p>
<p>In terms of style, I&#8217;m looking for Noir in general but i&#8217;m always happy to be suprised by interesting interpretations of the final look(spandex anyone?) &#8211; the reason I mention a bit of inking is if you want to tweak the images to fit parts of your vision (we&#8217;re not precious, we just want the best result for the project).</p>
<p>I can be contacted via Skype or email (anthonyjones@bombculture.com) if you&#8217;re interested in joining us.</p>
<p>Until next time, where i&#8217;ll go through the characters and plot in more detail, enjoy!</p>
<p>Ant</p>
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				<h2>Ah, my guilty looking love muffin</h2>
				<h4>Friday, December 9th, 2011</h4>

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					<p><em><strong>(Images at bottom of post)</strong></em></p>
<p>So..uh&#8230;yeah&#8230;how are things with you?</p>
<p>Time moves forward, despite Marty Mc Fly, I find myself welded once more to the desk of scribbles as I plough on through my projects.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Since we last rambled i&#8217;ve done a couple more conventions.</p>
<p>The excellent MCM was spent in the grand company of Cieron Lucas and Lee Bradley and Leeds Thoughtbubble, another excellent convention, was spent with the young Tony Lee and his lethal drawing weapon Dan Boultwood. Generally, as mentioned, I get little out of conventions as I don&#8217;t take anything to sell with me. However these last two have been great for meeting some top chaps in the industry as well as a well needed opportunity to escape my office and socialise with &#8216;normal&#8217; people.</p>
<p>Since I came back from travelling it feels like I spend more and more time locked in a small room covered in blankets (it&#8217;s cold here) typing away at a retina-burning screen. Such is the way of writing of course but it means the rare times someone calls you or you escape into the general populous things can get a little overwhelming. Ended up chatting to a sales call for a full 15 minutes the other week until they politely put the phone down on me. Still I have broken the back of the majority of my projects which puts me in a good position to pick up a little freelance/contract work guilt-free while keeping the old irons in the fire comics wise.</p>
<p>Ironically my girlfriend, who doesn&#8217;t write, managed to complete her Nanowrimo (look it up) on time this year whilst I lagged 10,000 words behind. I kid myself that it&#8217;s because I was so very busy with other stuff but the truth of the matter is that she&#8217;s just fantastically more organised than I. Still i&#8217;m reasonably happy with progress and I&#8217;m now getting to the all important stage of wooing and flirting with other artists and colourists who may be interested in jumping on board with my projects. I&#8217;ve got everything from cartoons, dark modern fantasy, action, comedy and an adventure story about a still born kid outlined so it&#8217;s just a case of finding the right people to help compile a professional looking pitch document.</p>
<p>Speaking of which, one of the projects (which you can probably guess is a modern take on the Robin Hood story &#8211; well, as much as Sons of Anarchy is Hamlet I guess) has started to move forward at a good pace and I include a few concept images below &#8211; drawn by the most excellent Jason Salisbury. Once i&#8217;ve got a selection of these images (coloured I hope) and 5-8 pages of sequential then they&#8217;ll be ready to join the script, synopsis and pitch into what I believe should be the bare minimum for a solid pitch pack. Unless of course you&#8217;re Mark Millar in which case you can just string a few words together and someone will start signing a cheque.</p>
<p>Blue Martians, Sex Addicts, The Krays!</p>
<p>*scribble scribble scribble* &#8220;here you go Mark&#8221;</p>
<p>In the comics and TV world generally though I&#8217;d recommend you look at &#8220;Boss&#8221; the new series with Kelsey Grammer. It&#8217;s a phenomenal concept and fast becoming my new favourite tv show next to The Wire (and Babylon 5 &#8211; don&#8217;t judge me). In comics I&#8217;ve been chewing through Wasteland by Antony Johnston and getting some inspiration from the Losers in terms of pacing.</p>
<p>There is more, but it&#8217;s December so it&#8217;ll have to wait.</p>
<p>Ant</p>
<p>(oh yeah, clicky on the thumbnails to make them go full size of course &#8211; more to come)</p>
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				<h2>Far from the maddening ham</h2>
				<h4>Tuesday, November 1st, 2011</h4>

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					<p>I have no excuses for not updating my blog of late. Blog writing, much like any career in creative writing suffers from a lack of deadlines (unless you are disciplined enough to bolt one into your life schedule) and as a result tends to trail behind anything else that happens to pop up in my face screaming &#8220;AVOID WORK!&#8221;.</p>
<p>So where am I?</p>
<p>Well since coming back into the country i&#8217;ve made it my mission to get as many projects fleshed out as possible before my finances and my girlfriend insist I get a proper job and start paying the bills.</p>
<p>A project in this context is a story idea, fully realised and developed to a point that I can a) pitch it confidently to publisher or artist and b) write it up at a moments notice with confidence.</p>
<p>I currently have 18 such projects developed. Go me.</p>
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<p>To add spice to an already loaded plate of badgers, I&#8217;m also taking part in this year&#8217;s <a title="nanowrimo" href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/whatisnano" target="_blank">Nanowrimo </a> in an attempt to both motivate regular prose out of me and also as an excuse to move into a non comics discipline for my story ideas. The key advantage being of course that I don&#8217;t have to suck off any artists to get them to do half the work. The disadvantage being along the same lines.</p>
<p>Still, I&#8217;m going to develop Brass House into a fully functional novel as an excuse to backtrack if needs be and use the added detail to flesh out the original comic idea (which has moved on somewhat from when Adam and I first worked on it).</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>In other news I&#8217;ve picked up a new kitten which has brought with it a number of exciting challenges including fleas, lice, a need to attention and a developing &#8216;musk&#8217; of cat shit in my study where it hangs around.</p>
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<p>More news when my fingers work.</p>
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<p>Ant</p>
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