Underfold Comics
I made a family-friendly video for my brand-spanking new YouTube page! It stars me and my two girls. It’s basically my world in a nutshell.
Enjoy!
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Friday night I hosted a live drawing stream. After having a few hiccups during testing, I finally decided to just go for it. There were a few additional hiccups during the show… including me not turning on my mic at one point and the actual feed winding up roughly 40 minutes behind what I’d done. It was a strange thing to be able to wrap up the stream and then interact with people in the chat sort of from the future.
We did figure out the stream settings after that debacle though, so the next one should be more actual live. All in all it was fun even if it was a bit of a time warp.
Art was made. Fun was had. Below you’ll find the 2 hour long video from the stream and some art that was made during it.
It’s a new YouTube channel, so swing on by and subscribe! 😀
NASA just got new photos back from the New Horizon spacecraft that show what looks like giant trolls on the surface of Pluto. As you can see from the images above and below, the trolls are enormous, much larger than the ones spotted here in Norway.
It’s confirmed. Mars might have spoons and ghosts, but Pluto has giant trolls. Science backs it up. Ask NASA.
And spread the word! Mars is getting all the credit for having TOTALLY LEGITIMATE FINDINGS. It’s time to put Pluto back on the map!
Please wrap up a storyline in the first season unless you are guaranteed more seasons.
Write one solid season of a TV show and you’re awesome. You can have bonus mysteries to carry on. That’s really fun to have but quit writing cliffhangers when you don’t know if you’re coming back for a second season! It’s frustrating to your audience.
When I hear a show is good, but has a cliffhangers, I won’t watch until another season is greenlit. Why would I read half a book?
Writers (myself included) rely too heavily on cliffhangers as a function, but if you’re going to have one, the payoff better be good. Audiences are fatigued from cliffhangers that never resolve.
Firefly persists because it told great stories about well-written characters in a world we wanted to know more about, not for a cliffhanger.
You can write something people will talk about without it being open-ended in every episode and season of the show. It’s possible. We’ve seen it for years and it works more often than not.
If you want to be a show that people talk about for years, write a finished story and wow us all in the first season. Win our trust.
Television channels drop shows all the time. I’d rather be bummed that I lost a good show than angry you never finished (and angry at you, not the network).
Sincerely,
Brian Russell
Lover of Scripted TV
(This is a slightly modified post made from a recent Twitter rant of mine, but I wanted it to be somewhere more permanent.)
I just want to thank you for rating, sharing and liking and everything else Resonance Men for the LINE Webtoon science fiction comics contest. I did not make it to the next round, but it has been a ton of fun being in the contest. I really appreciate all the support and I know I got my comics in front of a lot more people for it, and the response has been great.
The worst part about the news for me is that the $30,000 is off the table. If anyone has that kind of money lying around… let me know. 😛
The worst part for everyone else… is that I am not going to continue posting 3 pages per week. I will be taking some time to get a buffer back into my life before posting more.
(Unless, of course, you’re a Patron. If you’re a patron, I’ll be posting pages as I complete them. So, if you want to get things before everyone else, you can pay what you want for the access (over $1) each month.)
Pushing out the first 5 pages of chapter 2 while getting rewrites done all while trying to update the website and everything has shown me that I can get more done than I thought I could do.  It’s also showed me that I can’t keep it up for long. I can feel the burnout on the horizon, and my solution is to stop. To take a breath. And take the advice of my friends and mentors and finish the book.
Really each chapter of Resonance Men has been telling one story arc. There’s 5 chapters in the graphic novel that is Resonance Men: The Tablet of Destiny. What I really want to do is make a book. I am not going to become a hermit and never post another page, but I do want to get a healthy buffer going before I start posting comics again.
The best traffic I’ve gotten in a while was posting three pages a week (just like the old times). It’s just a lot to handle with everything that’s going on in my life right now (baby number 3 on the waaaay!), and I want to make sure that I’m not skimping on the art to make these sorts of deadlines.
So, production continues… off line! Or just continues in general if you’re a Patron. Just saying. 🙂