Roaches: A Graphic Novel: graphicnovel

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Stature

Social Studies In Roach Culture
Why Can't These Bugs Seem To Get It Together?

When is this title not about biting perspective on cultural elitism? It works out that way a lot. Even when America is moving from a 1st world country towards a 3rd world country we still cling to our notions of superiority!

And us poor "hipster" bastards are aware of it. The only times we seem to get above the drag towards ruin that the country is clearly caught up in, in any obvious way, is in one or two places where we don't feel like a sweatier version of Quasimodo! These places are almost always bars and coffee shops.

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!

The Second Coming of Roach(es)

Underground Comic Returns From The Grave In A Second Edition
Publisher to world: "If we don't fund this childish drivel - the competition will."
Roaches Schmitt Comic

It's hard to admit but I have learned many, many lessons since I first published this book as a webcomic. The first one was that not everyone is a fan of low brow, underground comics. Go figure.

To illustrate this point: there are 1,000 Sonic and Nintendo based webcomics and only one about cockroaches. This also supports the second thing I learned since 2010: people do not like originality.

All kidding aside, the most important thing I learned is that people will give you the benefit of the doubt in order to improve your craft. This includes all the good folks who have stopped by my table at cons, comic shop management who took a chance on my book, record store owners who gave me the time of day and other artists who talked shop about art and marketing. This last part helped me develop a crumby webcomic into a better book.

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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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