Project Status for May 19, 2006!

Big news, boppers! All twelve pages of "Sweet Black Angel" are penciled and inked. Hats off to the Inkslinger for his wonderful work on my pencils. The latest buzz is Hollywood and a number of his contemporaries and myself will be contributing to a compilation book of original material in the near future and SBA will be just one of the entries. This was how I'd originally wanted to do the story in the first place, with the second part of the story to be told at a later time in a different book.

Once he's not swarmed with his current work, Nik Havert will begin lettering SBA (yeah, Nik, I said "swarm").

Since nobody works in a bubble, I've tried to give as much credit where credit is due on this project, giving well-deserved shout-outs to the likes of Nik, The Inkslinger & of course The Man Himself, but I think it's past time to give a special thanks to an old friend Glen Evans, who helped me create my vampire mythology for SBA. Glen's forgotten more about the undead than most people should be allowed to know, so he was a natural choice to come to in an hour of need. Plus it just gave us an reason to work together.

Above is Glen (right) rubbing shoulders with the president of Palladium Books.

Don't worry, Glen, there's still time for Elasto.

And now for something completely different:

I posted this picture of the OTF over at my motherblog, but I just can't resist having just a little more fun with it. The more I look at it, the more it looks like the flip side of one of those great rock albums from the 1970s.

In keeping with Bill's "More Cowbell" shirt, here's a Nazareth cover as their "Hair of the Dog" song not only had a cowbell in it, but showed the rock-n-roll world it was an instrument not to be taken lightly.
Of course, this picture of Steppenwolf sort of sums it all up.

Look for more images from "Sweet Black Angel" to be posted soon.

But before I go, it's time to clear up a little confusion: The entire two-part story will once day be printed under the title "Up Jumped the Devil," with SBA being the title of part one and "Down On the Killin' Floor" being the title of the second part.

Keep it here, boppers...