Category: Colleen Brice
A little look at Lionface The Artist
Come in, come in. Gather round, that's it. All of you. Now then. Listen. I'm going to show you a secret. You must promise to be astonished.
The secret is a new comic currently being developed in our steel labs. Its code name is LIONFACE THE ARTIST. It is being tended to and looked after by Head Technician Colleen Brice. She's like a sock full of pennies and each penny is a dream. The sock is a woman. Named Colleen.
This is the fourth comic she's cooked up for Semiotic Cohesion. Her other tiny masterpieces are 'DJ Last Human,' 'Stegosaurus & Me' and the ever so slightly epic 'Rhino.' So now you know.
Also - while you're here - I'll give you a sliver of insight into the goddamn creative process. Lionface isn't quite finished yet, so you can see here a comic on the verge of coming into being. For a more embryonic approach, you can see the roughs/storyboards/thumbnails I made from which Colleen has been working.
Okay. It's coming.
Here's Colleen's first page. Lionface wants more from life than sitting in the Savannah and working at the factory. He wants to go to Art School.
These are my roughs for the first page.
This is the central spread. Lionface's colleague at the factory advises him to see the boss about this art school thing. The boss is oddly enthusiastic.
The roughs for the spread.
So Lionface goes to art school. But he's shocked to find out that girls are allowed to draw. Oh Lionface! You're such a fish out of water. You're like Star Trek Four!
And some more roughs.
The script for 'Lionface the Artist' was concocted, of course, by myself and Sebastian. Sebastian, by the way, has gone missing. So it'll just be me here on this blog for a little while. I think we can all handle that.
All right. I think you've seen enough for one day. Go and play!
- Tom
