MAIL!

Did you recently get one of THESE in the mail?  if so you may have just gotten a copy of the Wild West Was Here book.1

the Wild West Was Here (assembly)

here are some uncut and  unbound pages.

the Wild West Was Here book 1...ish @ Springcon

So its official.  I have the first few copies of the book in print.  It has three stories, the Bitter Cold, ...Said the Pilgrim to the Duke, and the Mirror Universe Affair.  I'll be at Springcon here in the twin cities this weekend so swing by and get one.  I'll also have the marvel cuties buttons, a few Yul Brynner t-shirts, and old stuff like post cards and even some of the old wyatt earp books.

Stop by and get a sketch.  I hate when people charge for sketches (not commissions... I'm totally okay with $$ for those, but I don't like paying for sketches) So I'll do some sketches for free or donations or whatever.  Maybe we'll do a sketch trade.  You do a sketch for me and I'll do one for you.  Either way, come one down.

Eventually the book will be available elsewhere.  Eventually.

Earp scraps

Here is a small sampling of some Wild West Pages

Earp scaps

here's a screen shot of page 1 from "the Bitter Cold"

Earp Scraps: the Bitter Cold pg1

...Said the Pilgrim to the Duke pg1

Earp Exceprt 20

Earp Excerpt 19

if you look down in the bottom corner you can see the toppings for a pizza I ordered while drawing this.  That probably won't make it into the book.

more reformatting

Comic formatting

So I've been going through and reformatting old Earp pages from a few years back.  When we started we were doing pages at 10.25x6.625 or 11x17. Recently however we switched over to the standard webcomic format.  This makes it easier to publish online as well as self publish.  Printing this size is much more cost effective.  Last time we printed books it cost about $4 per book and we were selling them at a loss.  But hopefully this newer batch will be cheaper to print.  Due to the size change though I've had to go back and edit old pages which is kind of like assembling a puzzle in the sense that they end up getting chopped down in PS and reassembled.  But it also means I have to fill in the gaps by drawing new content.  Here is an example from "Said the Pilgrim to the Duke".  The old page is on top, the reedit is on the bottom.

Also, if you are reading this you should go buy Justin's story in this magazine!

the Wild West Was Here... is almost here...

front and back cover for book 2... coming soon.


Wow, I don't know what browser you're using but Firefox does not handle these colors well.  I assure you the cmyk print version and even just the rgb jpeg don't look quite so oversaturated.  Try it in Chrome, Safari, Opera, IE, whatever.

Earp Cover Progress

Please note that some of those sketches are like 5 years old and drawn on chipotle napkins.

Earp Excerpt 18

Earp Excerpt 17

Earp Excerpt

More from "the Mirror Universe Affair"

Earp Excerpt

Some more panels from "the Mirror Universe Affair"

Earp excerpt

more earp progress

step by step, day by day...

Wild West Was Here progress shots