{"id":6245,"date":"2020-01-08T00:13:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T05:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=6245"},"modified":"2020-01-08T00:13:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T05:13:38","slug":"2019-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/08\/2019-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

A year ago, when I wrote my 2018 in Review<\/a> post, I said, \u201cIn terms of my art and comics, 2018 was mixed. I wasn\u2019t as productive as I had hoped I would be.\u201d I\u2019m happy to report that I\u2019m feeling better about what I got done in 2019 than 2018, and I feel ready to draw a lot in 2020!<\/p>\n

The big reason I was feeling down on 2018 was because I intended to self-publish a mini-comic that year, but didn\u2019t get it done; however, in Spring 2019, the long-gestating Urscape<\/em> #1 finally saw the light of day. It got some positive<\/a> reviews<\/a> and is still available for y\u2019all to purchase from my shop<\/a>. I\u2019ve got some ideas and sketches for a sequel but I\u2019m putting it on the back burner for now while I work on some other projects. <\/p>\n

\"Urscape
\nUrscape<\/em> #1 interior photo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another exciting event in 2019 was when I presented on Constructing Pyschedelic Narratives in Comics<\/em> to my friend Tim Brown<\/a>\u2019s college class, Special Topics: Narrative and Comics in Art<\/em>. We recorded a video but I haven\u2019t gotten around to editing it down yet; sorry Tim, Jason, and anyone else who wanted to see it.<\/p>\n

One thing I can share is the jam comic I drew with ideas from the class, based on a Jim Starlin comics layout for depicting a psychedelic mind battle: <\/p>\n

\"Cardini<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And here’s the layout I used for that comic, with some Santoro-style arrows<\/a> on it, from Captain Marvel<\/em> #28 by Jim Starlin, Dan Green, and Tom Orzechowski.<\/p>\n

\"Captain<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I tabled at three shows this year, which was fun, and I sold my last contributor copy of Warmer<\/em>, a poetry comics anthology about climate change. If you missed snagging a physical copy, you can buy a digital one for $5 from one of the editors, Andrew White<\/a>. All proceeds from those sales will go to The Climate Mobilization<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Will
\nPhoto of me at my table at KC Zine Con 5. I was selling some Retrofit comics<\/a> in addition to my own stuff.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the summer, I finished drawing a short humor comic written by Mark Peters and posted it on this site. It\u2019s called Nothing<\/em>, you can read all four pages here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Nothing
\nNothing<\/em> page 3.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the fall, the first part of the video game I helped Zach Taylor with, Meanderthal<\/em> #1, came out! We’re already brainstorming more characters and plots for #2. You can still download #1 for free from Zach’s itch.io page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"The
\nScreenshot of The Meanderthal<\/em> #1. You can see how Zach incorporates his comic panels in the gameplay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And I had two pages in Universal Slime<\/em> #7, a comics anthology edited by fellow Missourian John Malta<\/a> which debuted at Comic Arts Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

\"Universal
\nScreenshot of the slime box from John’s instagram<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A big comics project I made some good progress on in 2019 is a continuation of a story in Tales from the Hyperverse<\/em> #1 that\u2019ll eventually go into a hypothetical Tales from the Hyperverse<\/em> #2 or come out on its own, depending on how long it ends up being (I don\u2019t do a lot of outlining in advance for my comics). The comic is called A Reluctant Oracle<\/em>. It\u2019s about a rainbow robot named Mim. Their head was stranded on a rat world in Tales from the Hyperverse<\/em> #1. In the sequel, Mim is rescued by the Floating Crystal Witch, who builds them a new body. The two pages from Tales from the Hyperverse<\/em> #1 that introduce Mim will be a prologue to A Reluctant Oracle<\/em> but I made some edits to that older comic to bulk up Mim\u2019s backstory. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an edited version of a page from Tales from the Hyperverse<\/em> #1: <\/p>\n

\"Reluctant<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here\u2019s a couple pages from A Reluctant Oracle<\/em>: <\/p>\n

\"Reluctant<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Reluctant<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A year ago, when I wrote my 2018 in Review post, I said, \u201cIn terms of my art and comics, 2018 was mixed. I wasn\u2019t as productive as I had hoped I would be.\u201d I\u2019m happy to report that I\u2019m feeling better about what I got done in 2019 than 2018, and I feel ready […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recaps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245","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=6245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}