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The Presidential Election is less than a week away! This is possibly the most important election in our history, not because of who is running but because of the time frame we are in. We are at a Juncture of Change and regardless of who wins the change is going to come. We have been in it for several years now, we are moving from one age to another. On the surface is the obvious change of moving from the Industrial Age into the Digital Age and all the facets of it. On a deeper level we are changing as a people, a culture, a nation and most importantly as individuals. It is the individual role which is key and how the individual is accountable to the people, culture and nations. Politics as usual are dead on every level. We won’t take any more excuses. We won’t accept any more scape goats. Our leaders will either stop the blame game and accept the responsibility to do what they promised, as we have, or we will vote someone in who will. Individual character will be the guide for accountability, not Party Affiliation, race, gender or any of the Old School stereotypes. People everywhere are realizing these things and you can bet it will be apparent come November 4th, but it won’t stop there. Whoever wins will be under constant scrutiny,  this is after all the Digital Age. Every second counts, ever vote counts, and we are all accountable.

End of soapbox, time to do the comics update!

Humants #3:

This pin-up of The Herald was done while we were on our 1991 Convention Tour. I penciled it in the motel room the night before we were to make one of our appearances. I don’t remember which convention it was. I sat at the table the next day inking it as comic fans came by to talk with Freazie and I. I got a lot of compliments and interest in what I was doing. We made copies and sold them at the next convention and planned on using it as a cover on one of the Humants books. It would have been the cover on issue 4 but Christopher Torres came up with something we felt was more appealing for the time to use as the cover for number 4.

Coming up next: We’ll a look at those Christopher Torres Humants pencils for the cover of #4, then our next issue preview and the color back cover. Next Tuesday Humants # 4 will be unleashed!

Project New Man # 4:

These pencils are for page 13. I had 3 panels at the top of this page which showed an action I wanted to zero in on in the story telling. The drawing of Cyber-Tech is actually the background, the main action is what’s happening with his eyes and the circuit jammer module which was attached to him in issue 3 to render him immobile.

I could have have penciled each panel just as I did on my original breakdowns, but we live in the age of PhotoShop, so to save time and to create a stronger sense of continuity and even motion in these 3 panels I copied and pasted the drawing of Cyber-Tech I drew in panel one to panels 2 and 3. The same thing can be done at the inking stage as well.

Some artists don’t like this, they think every panel should be drawn out as an original. My question is always “Why? What is the purpose of what we are doing, telling a story or doing a piece of art to hang on a wall?” First of all it’s to tell the story and as I wrote yesterday we don’t want the art to become a distraction from the story. We need balance.  I think it would be more distracting to draw Cyber-tech in the same position, as best I could, in each panel because each would be different. To bring the action of the story to the forefront I only wanted to change the key elements. Plus it speeds up production so I can do even more stories if I take advantage of all the tools I have at my disposal!

Any questions of comments? All are welcome.

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