Life is Funny, complete, for your reading pleasure

The shorty story I wrote for Ape's UFO anthology, "Life is Funny," with fantastic art from Jason Copland and Osmarco Valladao, and fine lettering by Josh Aitken, has come to a close. All 8 pages are now available for your viewing and reading pleasure at the Ape webcomic portal. Page 1 is here.

Go check it out. If you've got the time, scroll down past the creator bios and rate and comment on the story or a particular page (pp. 5 & 6 are really good) and look for more work at some point in the future.

thanks,
chris

Aint It Cool News says LIFE IS FUNNY is "pretty damn harrowing"

Over at the Ain't It Cool News site, they've thrown up their latest comic reviews. Scroll down about 2/3 of the way to the "dot.comics" section and you'll find Vroom Socko's quick review of three of Ape's web comics.

The first one he tackles is the UFO anthology, where the short story I did with Jason Copland, Osmarco Valladao, and Josh Aitken - "Life is Funny" - is currently being serialized. Vroom says of the story so far: "[it's] pretty damn harrowing" and that he's "especially interested in seeing more art from [Jason]," which makes complete sense. Go on over and check it out through the link below:

AICN reviews

and check back tomorrow for the next to last page in our tale at www.apecmx.com/ufo.

thanks,
chris

Pages 1-4 of Life is Funny, live now @ Apecmx

My entry for the Ape UFO anthology started up a week and a half ago. I wrote it as a complete story (which sounds pretentious, but hear me out), and unlike the previous tale written by Raphael Moran, “Life is Funny” is more of a slow burn leading up to the climax. Raph’s “Angst” had twists and turns with each page and worked better as an online serialization.

Anyway. The first four – of eight – pages are now live on the Ape comix site. If you’ve got the time, go check them out, (from page one) and if you’re so inclined, down past the bios are links for rating the pages and making comments. I would greatly appreciate it if you took a moment to click the stars or the thumbs up/down– if only for the art from Jason and Osmarco, which I think is beautiful. The more positive feedback, the better.

And I promise, with the next couple of pages, the tension gets amped up and it will be worth your while. Or your money back ;)

Page 2 above.

Thanks,
chris

Life is Funny begins

The story I began in December, 2008 (at which point it was a 6-page script) is finally seeing the light of day. The artwork by Jason Copland and lush colors from Osmarco Valladao are amazing, in my opinion. And Josh Aitken's lettering rounds it out so nicely. It's very cool to see the word I wrote come to life on the page (screen).

I'm very proud of this, and though the overall story is a slow burn, you should check out page 1 at the link below over at the Apecomix site.

LINK

Thanks,
chris

COLOR

I'm working up a superhero pitch for a number of prospective publishers, and am lucky enough to have Osmarco Valladao, who did the coloring on my forthcoming short story in ape's UFO anthology, signed on to color this story if it ever gets picked up. He has a lot on his plate right now and was not able to color the proposal pages, but he did give me some options regarding the coloring of the costume thanks to his coloring for the proposed cover, which also has a new log Osmarco used that makes this cover looks a hundred times better than the b/w mock-up I did, which I threw in for comparison's sake.

Now I just need to decide on a final coloring scheme.


Enjoy,
chris

UFOS land @ Newsarama

Hey all,

The online anthology - U.F.O. Encounters with the Unknown - from Ape Entertainment, which will feature my first professional writing credit, got a little love from the folks at Newsarama. They did a feature interview with Troy Dye, the editor of the project, and Elton Pruitt, who wrote the first story "Anything For You."

The article can be found here. The above image is the "cover" for the anthology by Jason Copland and Osmarco Valladao. My story with Jason and Osmarco should begin serialization around January 13. I'll drop a link in when it hits. Looking forward to it and thanks for checking us out.

chris

Preview cover image

So,

I'll be taking a b/w preview of the short story I wrote for Ape's forthcoming UFO anthology. The art was from Jason Copland, with colors by Osmarco Valladao and letters by Josh Aitken (I lettered the b/w preview pages but am including a sample of a colored/lettered page for editors and publishers to check out). Here's the cover I created for the preview chapbook. Hope you enjoy.

chris

COMING SOON

It's been too long since the last post. Hoping to remedy that going forward, but we'll see. Below is page one of the upcoming short story I'll have published in Ape's forthcoming UFO anthology, which will see publication initially online at ApeCMX. Story by me, Pencil & Inks by Jason Copland, colors by Osmarco Valladao, and lettering by Josh Aitken. Hope this whets your appetites a bit. Click the image for a larger version.

Enjoy!