{"id":655,"date":"2009-02-07T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=655"},"modified":"2009-02-07T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T16:51:00","slug":"tranz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/07\/tranz\/","title":{"rendered":"TRANZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working on a new comic called TRANZ that I plan on having ready for <a href=\"http:\/\/staple-austin.org\/\">Staple 2009<\/a> (March 7th at the Monarch Event Center here in Austin). I started drawing it with Faber Castelli markers but now I&#8217;m going to do the whole thing in india ink with a 00 Windsor Sable Watercolor brush. Here&#8217;s the old version of the cover:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hypercastle\/3261155374\/\" title=\"TRANZ by M I I Z Z Z A R D, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3446\/3261155374_0447a8715a_b.jpg\" width=\"774\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"TRANZ\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The idea is to do a lot of one to four page comics that depict a single transformation governed by a concise action verb. Here&#8217;s an example page, called &#8220;Melt&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hypercastle\/3261161702\/\" title=\"&quot;Melt&quot; by M I I Z Z Z A R D, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3437\/3261161702_63fc08c114_b.jpg\" width=\"732\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"&quot;Melt&quot;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m doing the comic this way to practice my craft. Every page will be six panels &#8211; I&#8217;ve already cut the pages and drawn the grid with a pencil. I&#8217;m trying to explore transformation and repetition through the medium of cartooning. I&#8217;m really excited about this project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working on a new comic called TRANZ that I plan on having ready for Staple 2009 (March 7th at the Monarch Event Center here in Austin). I started drawing it with Faber Castelli markers but now I&#8217;m going to do the whole thing in india ink with a 00 Windsor Sable Watercolor brush. Here&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-print-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","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=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}