Nate Marcel is creating Comics
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Milestone Goals
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Move to a single book 24 page monthly subscription model.
Quit my day job.
That's it.
About
I am an artist and an art educator. I love drawing, I teach drawing, I dream of drawing.
check out my free webcomic
WXF
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fantasy illustrator
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check out my free webcomic
WXF
check out my portfolio site
fantasy illustrator
check out my blog
nates-notes
Location
Forest Grove, OR, USA
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What I want to make:
I am going to be making 8 page black and white comics in PDF format.
I may make color comics or longer comics in the future but I want to begin with black and white since the coloring process takes so much attention and time away from the drawing, inking, lettering and writing. I may do color covers or special color features, I won't rule that out. I feel the 8 page length is perfect to tell a short story, is manageable as a one person operation and will give you enough to leave you feeling satisfied for the money and hungry for more. (by the way you will never be able to eat that slice of pizza again but you will be able to read the comics over and over and over...)
When I want to make it:
I'm really busy with freelance illustration, teaching, family, sleeping, working on the house etc. etc. I'm actually not entirely sure how long the first comic will take to make. I have lots of ideas including layouts and some pages backed up in sketchbooks and on the blog waiting to see the light of day. I really don't want to overcommit to a scheduled release. I really want to take my time making the best stuff I can. If I had to venture a guess I would bet I can get a release out every one to three months depending on the demands of the homefront. I would love to release three every month which would be like the amount of content you would expect in standard comic. Unfortunately that is a completely unrealistic and far fetched Herculean task that I would not be able to pull off at this point.
Credentials:
I have been illustrating games freelance for about five years. I have been a drawing instructor at Portland Community College for a decade after having studied as a painter, printmaker and muralist. I have also dabbled in video and animation and...
I have been making comics as a hobby since grade school.
I am going to make the comics I want to make regardless, but I would like to level up my game and be held more accountable to the quality and the frequency of the work. The more support and interest I receive the more my momentum and enthusiasm will grow. I am anxious to see what happens, what is made and where the stories will lead.
Storys:
Here are the ideas I have on my drawing board at the moment:
1. "Heroes of Lemuria" (A working title)
Lin Carter, Robert E Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Michael Moorcock far-Out Pulp Barbarian adventures of sword and sorcery. Dinosaurs and giant bugs, a natural extension of a lot of my recent illustration jobs. Could include some pages of game aids, maps and fun peripherals.
2. "WXF: Origins" (A working title)
Will Eisner's Spirit meets EC and Hellboy short stories with some "informative" work ala Ripley's "Believe it or Not" and some "follow-throughs" ala Chris Ware thrown in. The eight pages could be broken up into smaller non sequitur sections. Based on my Tele-Gods mythos and my WXF Webcomic. This is a crossover, or may roll into #4 I won't be sure until it is actually moving.
3. "Dangertide"
Herge and Uderzo play D&D with R Crumb and Miyazaki on a sinking island. Kid Friendly, mysteries, strange monsters and lots of water. More in the funny "Big-foot" cartooning style. Wizards, animals and mud in high water fantasy. Could include some pages of game aids, maps and fun peripherals.
4. "Midnight of Blood"
Fellini's X-files and David Lynch's Dr. Who play chess with Werner Herzog's Dark Shadows and the conjoined twins Ed Wood and Wagner. Imagine Sigmund Freud drank a vat of Kirby Crackle and started crapping teen-age werewolves quoting Shakespeare. Imagine Vampirilla and Jodorowsky as Morticia and Gomez Addams. Imagine If Crowley and Hemingway had traded places and Hitchcock had been the leading man instead of the director. This story is built out of WXF and the Tele-Gods. This is a crossover, or may roll into #2 I won't be sure until it is actually moving. I've started this project a handful of times and have brooded on it for over ten years, it might be time to hook up the lightning rod. This story is an epic serialized graphic novel that spans the history of human evolution and mutation in a confusing parade of flashbacks, flashforwards, feints, poems and tangents. This is the most inaccessible and the most graphic of the four ideas and is not for the faint of heart or for those who are intolerant to the chaos of dreams and the confusion of the Orphean dope-sea. It is mostly a Fine-Art comic idea.
FYI: It's come to my attention that this will not be a black and white comic after all.
5. Something Else.
I reserve the right to follow and track eight pages of sweet smelling spores if I happen upon the scent while I'm out hunting. Could include some pages of game aids, maps and fun peripherals.
Later that same lifetime...
I plan to collect the "chapters" and make printed editions available.
I'll do the best I can.
I am going to be making 8 page black and white comics in PDF format.
I may make color comics or longer comics in the future but I want to begin with black and white since the coloring process takes so much attention and time away from the drawing, inking, lettering and writing. I may do color covers or special color features, I won't rule that out. I feel the 8 page length is perfect to tell a short story, is manageable as a one person operation and will give you enough to leave you feeling satisfied for the money and hungry for more. (by the way you will never be able to eat that slice of pizza again but you will be able to read the comics over and over and over...)
When I want to make it:
I'm really busy with freelance illustration, teaching, family, sleeping, working on the house etc. etc. I'm actually not entirely sure how long the first comic will take to make. I have lots of ideas including layouts and some pages backed up in sketchbooks and on the blog waiting to see the light of day. I really don't want to overcommit to a scheduled release. I really want to take my time making the best stuff I can. If I had to venture a guess I would bet I can get a release out every one to three months depending on the demands of the homefront. I would love to release three every month which would be like the amount of content you would expect in standard comic. Unfortunately that is a completely unrealistic and far fetched Herculean task that I would not be able to pull off at this point.
Credentials:
I have been illustrating games freelance for about five years. I have been a drawing instructor at Portland Community College for a decade after having studied as a painter, printmaker and muralist. I have also dabbled in video and animation and...
I have been making comics as a hobby since grade school.
I am going to make the comics I want to make regardless, but I would like to level up my game and be held more accountable to the quality and the frequency of the work. The more support and interest I receive the more my momentum and enthusiasm will grow. I am anxious to see what happens, what is made and where the stories will lead.
Storys:
Here are the ideas I have on my drawing board at the moment:
1. "Heroes of Lemuria" (A working title)
Lin Carter, Robert E Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Michael Moorcock far-Out Pulp Barbarian adventures of sword and sorcery. Dinosaurs and giant bugs, a natural extension of a lot of my recent illustration jobs. Could include some pages of game aids, maps and fun peripherals.
2. "WXF: Origins" (A working title)
Will Eisner's Spirit meets EC and Hellboy short stories with some "informative" work ala Ripley's "Believe it or Not" and some "follow-throughs" ala Chris Ware thrown in. The eight pages could be broken up into smaller non sequitur sections. Based on my Tele-Gods mythos and my WXF Webcomic. This is a crossover, or may roll into #4 I won't be sure until it is actually moving.
3. "Dangertide"
Herge and Uderzo play D&D with R Crumb and Miyazaki on a sinking island. Kid Friendly, mysteries, strange monsters and lots of water. More in the funny "Big-foot" cartooning style. Wizards, animals and mud in high water fantasy. Could include some pages of game aids, maps and fun peripherals.
4. "Midnight of Blood"
Fellini's X-files and David Lynch's Dr. Who play chess with Werner Herzog's Dark Shadows and the conjoined twins Ed Wood and Wagner. Imagine Sigmund Freud drank a vat of Kirby Crackle and started crapping teen-age werewolves quoting Shakespeare. Imagine Vampirilla and Jodorowsky as Morticia and Gomez Addams. Imagine If Crowley and Hemingway had traded places and Hitchcock had been the leading man instead of the director. This story is built out of WXF and the Tele-Gods. This is a crossover, or may roll into #2 I won't be sure until it is actually moving. I've started this project a handful of times and have brooded on it for over ten years, it might be time to hook up the lightning rod. This story is an epic serialized graphic novel that spans the history of human evolution and mutation in a confusing parade of flashbacks, flashforwards, feints, poems and tangents. This is the most inaccessible and the most graphic of the four ideas and is not for the faint of heart or for those who are intolerant to the chaos of dreams and the confusion of the Orphean dope-sea. It is mostly a Fine-Art comic idea.
FYI: It's come to my attention that this will not be a black and white comic after all.
5. Something Else.
I reserve the right to follow and track eight pages of sweet smelling spores if I happen upon the scent while I'm out hunting. Could include some pages of game aids, maps and fun peripherals.
Later that same lifetime...
I plan to collect the "chapters" and make printed editions available.
I'll do the best I can.