That there Wombat project...

Date: 18 January 2010 17:14:24

Another couple of pages from the Wombat side of things. Which, to clarify, is the sort of semi-sequel to the Dragon and Princess side of things. Although that may not have clarified. So, backtracking a little bit: For the past 5 years I've been doing a collaborative/community art day called the Big Book Draw. Basically a hundred or so people (sometimes more, sometimes a lot more) get together and draw a story together. It's been a lot of fun. There may be a sixth one (I've got the idea for it) but, at the moment, it's looking a little unlikely for various reasons. I'd love to do another one but we'll see, depends on other avenues. However this is the 'other' book draw that's in my mind: a four issue comic where a group of people, preferably teens, preferably ones who're not as enamoured with the school process as they could be, do the grand finale. A 20 plus page fight scene between a good guy and a bad guy. It's a long story and, the point of it is that the bad guy need not always be but why? That'll take fifty pages or so to tell before we get to that point. As ever it's drawn in Brushes, the iPhone/iPod touch application, and, so far, I've doodled out 20 odd pages with the next few getting drawn in my free time between now and Easter when I hope to get the collaborative stuff sorted. You can catch more details on the Big Book Draw at www.bigbookdraw.co.uk the Wombat stuff'll follow but it depends on my free time and there's precious little of that sometimes.