I have moved to the indian summer/yuppie infested city of Savannah with Ned from Woodbridge, VA/ Washington D.C. In my time here in Savannah (JAN-MAR) not only did I escape winter but I scripted 4 comics and began working on the penciled pages of a one-shot comic about karaoke called "Pew! Pew! Paralyzer!" which is about 25% done. It's about 70+ pages of karaoke battles featuring a Street Fighter meets Parrapa The Rapper aesthetic. The songs they sing are actually lyrics written by me and will be made into songs on an EP that will come free when you buy the comic. Teasers to come in the next month when pages begin getting inked.
"New karaoke machines have been installed in bars across the city but they have a major defect, spitting out monsters! This mixture of karaoke and battling is called Barraoke! Rpl Gadzap the Paralyzer! is a barhopping ninja renown for his Barraoke skills. Rumor is he has even gone as far as recruiting an entire singing mountain (Frankin Fuji Jr) as his party member in his well known band Immune Mifune. Word is they even have enraged Kitschfork the notorious independent music publication known for their pretentious critiques of bands. His band receiving the lowest rating in Kitschfork history has surprisingly stirred up a ton of unwanted status now everybody wants a piece of them!"
The second project at work is a journal comic about hitchhiking called "Take Back The Rad World" that will be half comic and narrative. Both of these will hopeful hit SPX in the fall and will be printed in a limited run.
More info about SPX here at http://www.spxpo.com/
Now time for a twist! In less than 2 weeks from this post we will be moving into the mummer parade on the broken bottle pie crust streets known as Philadelphia. If all goes well I will get a job doing caricatures at the National Zoo. MoCCa is next month in NYC and I may take a day trip to simply browse and meet new comics people.
Time for the backburner material to look out for later than sooner:
-I have scripted the first volume of an entire 180+ page OGN that will take over 7 Volumes to finish. It's basically a comic from high school I drew and kept reinventing and redrawing and now I am trying to iron out the wrinkles and make this a 'THING'.
-All my fears make me want to fall back on just making pokemon fanart like a sellout for the rest of my art career because it is user-friendly, but on the note of fanart I may erect a deviantart account to post my fanart of things I love, such as; RPG's (Golden Sun, Megaman, Chrono Trigger), Tokusatsu and chanbara films (Mothra, Kamen Rider, anything with Giant Monsters and Henshin warriors), my nakama and to post stuff from my comics.
-Getting a REAL website.
Small hobbies lately: Pokemon Black, Weightlifting, Dumpster Diving behind Little Ceasers, 'Bro' watching, and differentiating various southern accents from each other.
Everything is awesome!
-xo Johnny
