Ooof.

Okay, off to New York for a few days.

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I'm sure I will regret this 11:00pm coffee, but I need to push to get this chapter in the can.

It's true what they say, the last 10% of any project is always the hardest. No idea who “they” are, but I'm pretty sure it's a thing.

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Inking with a Q-tip to get them fat cap feels. Always a challenge to recreate the look of one medium using another, but I think it turned out alright.

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Promised myself I wouldn't travel until the entire TSG is in the can, but this chapter has genuinely sapped the lifeforce out of me and I think a recharge is very much in order. Considering fucking off for a few days as soon as its wrapped. Either Mexico City or NYC, can't decide. Mexico City is closer, more my vibe, and kinder on the wallet. I do know more people in New York though, some of whom I haven't seen in a couple years.

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Another day of surviving on a mere three hours sleep after awaking at 3:00am for no good reason. Orders dropped off at post office though, and a quick visit to the lab for bloodwork checked off (I'm rather particular about my health and try to get tested fairly regularly). These are now the very last remaining copies of THE SOLAR GRID #1 in existence:

Cover for the print edition of #9 underway today.

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Early on in my work on THE SOLAR GRID, I used to pencil pretty tight, with the inking process constituting little more than tracing. Now, I pencil very loosely.

And then work in much of the drawing directly in ink:

Also, this panel right here:

I definitely wouldn't have had the confidence to put that in there early on. I've always loved Godard's rear-view driving sequence in BREATHLESS though. How I'd love to several pages of that sort of thing in comix.

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Almost can't believe I'm this close to the finish line. But then again, it's only been 9 years.

Unwise to get distracted by the big picture at this stage though. Moving along, methodically, one page at a time is all that needs to be done right now.

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Mad graffiti in the ghetto of Orson Wells on Mars.

For all the scenes on Mars in TSG, I've been inking with a brush as a sort of rule, but I may just have to make an exception for all that graffiti.

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Little dude's mouth needed a do-over, was a little to agape. The more subtle the expression, the harder it is to pull off. It's why the Mona Lisa's such a big deal.

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Sometimes you just gotta bust out that glue stick.

Nothing about how I approach comix is conventional, and it's going to get weirder and weirder.

Inboxes zero. Glorious day.

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