“I Never Forgot!” Issue 1, Page 19-20

“I Never Forgot!” Issue 1, Page 19-20

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These final pages for the first issue were my first run at ending what would become my first issue! A little adjusting and just leaving the one panel of the drifter hanging out in the forest meant moving the words to the other page which I think worked out much better. Kind of left everything on a nice note and somewhat calming nature..but a suspicious note. He seems to know where he is going, but at the same time its a shady looking place he’s just come upon. The final page layout was a nice trial at trying to change up the panels too. Going from a closeup and zooming out and then zooming out once more to give a sense of this story now getting into a path that this drifter is going down. With his machete…and backpack…and leaving the forest…what will he find now in this

‘Happytown’…

Thanks for coming with me on this journey of the first issue. I’ll be missing next week and then starting the second issue the following Monday. I will put up the page spreads and then do the behind the scenes blogs detailing the work behind them on that following thursday. This journey of mine has really become something amazing and the art and everything is getting much better! I’m now well into working on getting the fourth issue done up. Issue 2 picks up where the first one and finds the drifter in this new place. With one last thing weighing on his mind, is it even worth it to finish this one last thing?! Meeting new people along the way helps, but will it benefit him or hinder him in the long run?

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“I Never Forgot!” Issue 1, Page 17-18

“I Never Forgot!” Issue 1, Page 17-18

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So now with the first issue is winding down and getting ready to get it all published. I started sending out my newsletter and telling them that it was time to move forward with this project! This print was made for the campaign and a few other stretch goals brought the book an expanded and upgraded look! I soon had to find new pages and things to put in it. That’s when the actual book got the sketchbook pages and preview pages for the next comic. This was the first print I did for the comic too. The skull on the wall would become the actual tag for the corner of my comic book. There were only a few more things the book would need and it would be completed! But I feel like I’m getting ahead of myself…

So you can see below that I had an entire page that was still blank in the rough draft. I knew the story still needed something and couldn’t quite figure it out until lightning struck and in the form of a samurai. Well, seven samurai to be exact! A few of the concepts spilled over from the last page of notebook work, but the funeral and seven samurai panel where the big things and the rest of the pages fell together and soon I had a completed Issue. The ways of capturing a zombie was a fun page to make too. I knew I’d need that trap to spike a zombie and remains one of my favorite panels yet!

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“I Never Forgot!” Issue 1, Page 15-16

“I Never Forgot!” Issue 1, Page 15-16

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The transformation of a human into a zombie…unlike most zombies you see that change once they die, this shows the ones contained inside this world become that way. They are made and that terrifying and reassuring at the same time. Because it means its not contagious…but zombies exist now…Headaches lead to them gnawing on their own flesh and making it so they develop a taste for blood and flesh. This also was important to give this illusion of why these puppets have their teeth showing and separating them from the regular human puppets. When I made the zombie spread and expanded those panels, i realized this transformation needed built up too! The headache…and teeth showing through…and then finally attacking another human…

So then it was time to explain how to stop them. I’m not impressed with when people call zombies anything other than zombies. Walkers, deadites, or any other word – they are all a zombie. Why dance around the fact? We’ve seen countless shows and movies that explain how to get dispose of them, but I just wanted to show the ways I would do it! I knew I needed one more way of killing them, but just couldn’t figure it out. It wasn’t until I pitched the idea of the comic to friends that they had the idea of a woodchipper! Who doesn’t love a woodchipper and its brutal destruction of everything!! The blunt force trauma changed from a hammer to a shovel and I think it works better.

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“I Never Forgot!” Issue 1, Page 13-14

“I Never Forgot!” Issue 1, Page 13-14

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Originally meant to be one page but I realized there was too much going on and it needed to be split to two different pages. The nurse needed to be better proportions and a hospital feel designed to give life to this idea how these zombies were manufactured accidentally. A common idea of trying to prolong life and using medicine to extend this life we’re all given…and that backfiring and us being able to gain our immortality…but not how we expected to utilize it. Still no background to give a sense this was happening everywhere and had already passed. The nurse will be a person who returns in the story a little later…

This is another page out of the sketchbook pages that are in the back of the issues of the book. Inktober has begun again and this design was the second done of this little zombie guy. now with this better shadow design that was a little more modified for my ‘comic publisher’ tag. It was time to give this zombie a feeling of stopping to smell the roses even though he normally might not have actually been able to, the idea of him wanting to expanded this whole idea and theory even more. If you’d like to know more about Jake Parker’s Inktober, you can find his website here and more about Inktober on it’s actual site over HERE!

If you like what you are seeing or just want to get ahead of these pages – You can order the issues of “I Never Forgot!” directly from me over here: http://samuraiox.bigcartel.com/

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