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Tyr Wyrmwood: Dragon Hunter #1 (Full Issue Released)

May 11, 2011 Comic Stuff, Tyr Wyrmwood

I’ve been meaning to get these pages set up and ready for the web for weeks now!

Tyr Wyrmwood: Dragon Hunter was a comic book issue I wrote about a year ago. I found an artist online named Giannis Milonogiannis, a young artist from Greece with the kind of talent and work ethics that are more likely found in well-seasoned commercial pros. I have no doubt he’ll find a sweet corner all his own in that space, but in the meanwhile I’ve been previleged to have had him lend his skills to bring Tyr Wyrmwood alive. A very stong recommendation of mine is for people to check out his future sci-fi cyberpunk series Old City Blues; there are 4 issues online to be read for free, and the series just got collected into a hardcover by Archaia coming in June.

Right off the bat I keyed into Giannis’s personality and ws stoked! I wanted to figure something out that was modeled to what he’d like to work on. We struck up an email conversation about some ideas and after a few suggestions, and a few days later, the Tyr Wyrmwood premise was set to roll out with concept art coming in.

I think I wrote the script in 3 days and Giannis spit out the pages like a machine and was done in about 3 weeks. Later on the script got re-written here and there while lettering and Giannis dropped in some tones that really helped kick the art up a notch above awesome, to “more awesome”!

This was one of those great collaborative experiences that make me confident about following the dream I’m following right now with XEI Books. The short of the dream is: Get shit done. It’s a crude way to put it, sure, but it’s concise.

I hope you all enjoy this 22-page introduction to a series I’d LOVE to find a place for so that I can keep it going (preferably with Giannis Milonogiannis of course). Pages will be released every Monday, Wednesday and Friday so stay tuned!

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New Project in the Works: Tyr Wyrmwood, Dragon Hunter

May 26, 2010 Comic Stuff, Tyr Wyrmwood

Well, I can’t contain myself any longer and I must put this somewhere. I wrote a script a few months back while taking a break from Raven Nevermore. I wanted something more episodic-based that I could come to here and there and tell closed stories with a threaded main arc–much like television episodes. The two day brainstorm and concept crunch document put together this baby: Tyr Wyrmwood: Dragon Hunter!

I found an artist via the web–I think on ConceptArt.com after seeing his portfolio–and reached out to him because I loved his dynamic line work and felt it’d be perfect for a new project of some sort… even though I had no idea what. His name is Giannis Milonogiannis, an artist from Greece, with a style I just had to have on SOMEthing. he has both a DeviantArt site and  Flickr gallery worth checking out. You can say that his art somehow influenced my brainstorm since I was back-and-forthing with him to iron out what HE would be interested in taking on before “Tyr Wyrmwood” was even figured out as a title and name of the main character.

He is an extremely quick artist due to his loose linework, very responsive and creative with design requests, and most importantly a positive joy to work with! The first issue was done in just over 2 weeks, maybe 3. It’s a 22-page black and white comic and I will likely letter this one.

I’m very certain I’ll be releasing this one free on the web somehow–not sure yet, but I’ll keep you informed! In the mean time, Giannis finished the cover and I tweaked it and did layout for what might be a final version… also, no idea yet as it’s still early on.

I just know I am eager to keep this one going. It’s a fun departure from the intensive “high concept” story threading that exists in Raven Nevermore.

PS: The above image is the SECOND design I tweaked after saving over the first one by accident with another file then closing Photoshop. Ya… noob mistake, but in the end I kinda like the second round better anyways. I’ll post the first as it exists only in jpg form now for kicks below.