{"id":5049,"date":"2014-09-24T10:26:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T15:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=5049"},"modified":"2014-09-24T10:26:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T15:26:04","slug":"the-hiizzztory-of-the-miizzzard-part-5-an-unfinished-battle-between-miizzz-and-woj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/24\/the-hiizzztory-of-the-miizzzard-part-5-an-unfinished-battle-between-miizzz-and-woj\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hiizzztory of the Miizzzard Part 5: An Unfinished Battle between Miizzz and Woj"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sparkplug Books is running a Kickstarter campaign to publish my graphic novel <\/em>Vortex and Elijah Brubaker\u2019s <\/em>Reich #12<\/a>. I\u2019m doing a series of blog posts called The Hiizzztory of the Miizzzard<\/a> that show how the protagonist of <\/em>Vortex has evolved over the years.<\/em><\/p>\n

In early 2011 I started but never finished a new Miizzzard comic. I planned to draw the whole thing in Photoshop and then color it like my acrylic paintings. Particularly, I wanted to tell the story of a battle between the Miizzzard and the Wojrollox, as depicted in this 2010 painting:<\/p>\n

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The Wojrollox Chomps the Miizzzard; the Miizzzard Attacks with Frogheads and Laser Vision<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here are the first 11 pages of the story:<\/p>\n

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I drew all these “pencils” in less than an hour in January 2011. I was going to go back later and color them but I never did. I’m not sure why I didn’t keep going on this comic after I exhausted my initial wave of excitement. I think that all that coloring seemed too time consuming. In June 2011 I started Vortex<\/em> on a whim. I revisited the idea of coloring a comic like my paintings for Skew<\/em> (with a much more simple process) and recycled part of the plot for my comic for Future Shock<\/em> #7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sparkplug Books is running a Kickstarter campaign to publish my graphic novel Vortex and Elijah Brubaker\u2019s Reich #12. I\u2019m doing a series of blog posts called The Hiizzztory of the Miizzzard that show how the protagonist of Vortex has evolved over the years. In early 2011 I started but never finished a new Miizzzard comic. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[446],"class_list":["post-5049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-comics","tag-miizzzard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}