New readers welcome, welcome, welcome to SHOOTING WAR. Getting linked to by überblog BoingBoing.net today has brought many new faces, eyes, minds right here to SMITH and to SHOOTING WAR… and now that we’re sitting round the LCD fire together, I’ve something I’d like to share with you:

These are the barely-legible beginnings of this week’s chapter of SHOOTING WAR; hopefully they’ll make sense when laid side-by-side with the finished art for “Disco Inferno” (I recommend a hearty Ctrl/Command-T for those purposes). These layouts are scribbled in caffeinated blasts during script meetings with Anthony in my small and nearly-full moleskine and used to block out the story. Nine times out of 10, they wind up being remarkably close to the finished layouts.

The process is interesting to me… how my brain chops the story and time into squiggles and and blocks. It takes my fingers/computer a week to make it gel into a finished chapter, like the one you’re reading today.

More process later. Love to hear from you, as always, as ever, forever.

posted Tuesday, June 6th, 2006