Kingdoms

New Surreal Fantasy Webcomic
Warring factions in the insect kingdoms fight for a valuable prize.


Kingdoms is an adventure webcomic with cartoony charters. The wars and battles contain insect blood, gore and violence. Kingdoms takes the lead character from the first book, The Grand Roach, and sets up a story with him as King and the leader of a belligerent roach army. I am planning on releasing the first two chapters. Then, I'll release the third chapter pages weekly.

The new idea for this story got itself together on a giant drafting table in my first studio space that I set up here when I got back into Indiana.

The first chapters feature medieval warfare with arrows, bows, spears... I've currently finishing the webcomic pages in Photoshop using an extended version. It has better brushes to digitally ink and color than Illustrator could do in a timely manner.

Let me know if you like the bug guts or if the action scenes are too much, or perfect, or what.

Underming Operation: Hero

Expanding Story And Terrain
Chapter Two is a deep tale set underground.


Some of the current art from the pages that I've scanned and begun cleaning up. While the line art part is flying - the color and lighting for an underground setting is challenging to make.

Chapter Two skips from the tower and Grand Roach's trial to an underground subterranean area. Check out the early line and tone artwork right here.

Kingdom In Crisis Art

Satire Gets An Upgrade In New Volume
Webcomic Veers Into Fantasy Direction

The Exuvian villagers have a very different culture from the roaches we've seen before.

The story for the next book is a new direction for a series that began as a humble black-and-white webcomic. Instead of the gag/page-a-week format I've moved into a fantasy approach for the art and a more traditional approach to story. This arc turns the Roach kingdom upside down. It reveals intrigues and introduces fascinating new characters.

This book has been penciled. I'm in the process of cleaning it up and digitally inking now. Colors for the book seem to need more attention. The flat and slightly shaded style used in book one is now a thing of the past. The early results for book two look very good.


New production art from the new book promises more edgy adventures in the Insect Kingdom.

New types of roaches and insects are coming up in the next book. I really wish I could say more! Subscribe to this site for upcoming announcements.

Infestation

Upcoming Guest Strip At Social Vermyn
Featuring all original webcomic characters in a title cross-over.


Here is my guest comic page with the Roaches happily spoiling Victor Vermyn's lunch break. It that will be appearing at John Hageman's Social Vermyn.com webcomic this week, the week of June 28th.

More Roaches pages are heatedly underway for the full-color digital edition of the Roaches book available this Fall. Please subscribe and follow to keep these pages coming!

Animation Art

Updated art for the Roaches with a clearly formatted "gold and bronze" style for the titles.

There have been some developments for an animated short based on my book. I've been talking to local animators, voice talent and recording studios about getting some work put in for an animated short based on the Roaches characters. I'm happy to report that this is going really well.

The short's art direction is called "Temple of Doom" due to the pose of the king of the roaches. He looks like an evil priest. This inspired the gold and bronze look for the rest of the title elements.

Once the next set of motion tests are put together I will post them in order to decide on a direction for the rest of the short. Stay tuned for more on animation news for Roaches.


A look at the updated art for the pompous leader of the roaches, Mr. The Grand Roach.

Above is a "turn-around" showing all sides of the character. In this case, The Grand Roach - the pompous leader of the roaches. I have a few more of these character sheets to finish and then I will be able to move on and get some motion tests together.

In the meantime, I'm getting several more character sheets together with a wide variety from the insect world of roaches including Ampluex Wasps - the roaches natural predator in the wild, Pill bugs which work as messengers in the insect kingdom, and a few new roaches species including Blaberus Giganteus and Aptera Fusca. Also there is a good chance of that infamous rock 'n roller Johnny Rocko will have also a sheet produced in the near future.

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Ash Con Book Signings

Hello to all you folks and thank you for subscribing to my first book, Roaches. It's been great for me to talk with so many of you including the small businesses and retailers that have worked with me on getting my book into local stores. I have been a fan of underground books like Zap, Weirdo as well as Mad and Cracked my whole life - so we always have a great to deal to talk about, right? Right!

My first official Con appearance and book signing for Roaches will be at long-time comic con institution Ash Con at the Ramada (I-70) 6990 E. 21st Street Indianapolis IN 46219.

Ash Con began in January of 1987 when the Hulk was Gray and an amazingly life-like robot named Ronald Reagan ruled Earth with a cruel, metallic fist. Today, in futuristic 2012, democracy has returned to the Land Of Lincoln and Ash Con has developed into a monthly Con aimed at Midwest and local creators and dealers of comics, books, gaming, cards and graphic novels - that last part is where I fit in.



I will be there all day starting at 9:30 AM. At the table. All day. Look for the bright orange banners and Roach signage. You will be able to find me just fine. And just think of it, man! Now, you will be able to complain to me about how racist/sexist/chauvinist my book is - directly to my face! It is SO gonna be on.