A Graphic Novel

     Some years back, artist Jeff Austin and I were collaborating on several projects to shop around to comic publishers.  We had quite of bit of interest and had we let go of a few of them on spec they could have seen publication.  Unfortunately, I am a pay as you go kind of creator.  These hit the files as my time was stretched thin enough through my business and Jeff had numerous deadlines.

     STRINGS was a projected graphic novel or twelve issue mini-series.  It has since transformed and streamlined into a better structured work with different title and changed plot elements.  I have scanned the original proposals to show the first draft and give the reader a glimpse into the genesis of the synopsis, characters, plot, script and artwork that goes into such an endeavor. 

     It is of interest to note that we threw together this raw original proposal in 3 days due to our time constraints (and it shows).  These images run in order left to right-forgive the bit of uneven placements and sizing as I'm still getting the hang of HTML posting.  Click on the images to enlarge.

STRINGS

CHARACTER PROFILES

These 2 pages lists the characters of

the story along with their story profiles.

PLOT PAGES

The following 4 pages are the encapsulated plot

 of the entire story and are edited for brevity.

SCRIPT PAGES

These 4 pages are the writer's visualization

of the story complete with written direction of the

action, caption placement, etc. to serve as a guide to the artist.

These are for the first 3 pages shown realized below

ORIGINAL ART

Three pages of the fully realized penciled art done from the script.

The "x"'s note where black is placed for the inker.

The word balloons and captions are pasted in

with black backgrounds already printed.

                             

This artwork is copyright @ 2002 by Jeff Austin

Jeff is an accomplished professional artist with 20 years published

experience in the comics industry.  For more of Jeff's work

click on his name in my Link section.