You've seen how the cover came about, now let's take a look at the guts of the book—some of 'em anyway...
Here's how the Athena Voltaire story kicks off.
The book is available for preorder now! Cover price of $2 and available with your choice of cover:
Black Coat cover: DEC083747
Athena Voltaire cover: DEC083748
Showing posts with label Athena Voltaire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Athena Voltaire. Show all posts
Friday, December 12, 2008
Black Coat/Athena Voltaire One-Shot Preview Pages!
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Evolution of a Cover, part 3
The next step in the project—Jason Millet adds his brilliant colors to the piece!
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Evolution of a Cover, part 2
Updating the pencils that I posted the yesterday, here are the inks from the Athena Voltaire/Black Coat Special.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Evolution of a Cover, part 1
It all started with the idea of doing a flip book.
Last Summer, I had been pestering Head Apes Brent Erwin and David Hedgecock about the Athena Voltaire relaunch and wanted to do an entry-level book; something inexpensive to remind longtime readers that AV wasn't gone, and to introduce the book to new readers.
It turns out that Black Coat mastermind Ben Lichius was thinking similar thoughts for everyone's favorite Revolutionary War super-spy.
While tearing down the Ape display at Comic-Con, David offhandedly remarked "You and Ben should do some kind of flip book crossover." And that was pretty much it.
In researching the concept further, we learned that Diamond would only include one cover in the catalog. So much for the idea of a flipbook, right? Since the book is an introduction to both universes, and since we're producing it at a loss, we opted to rethink our cover strategy. After all, how well does it serve both series if only one of them gets a picture in the Previews catalog?
The solution we went with was the multiple covers making up one larger image. Shown here are a concept sketch by Ben and a penciled version of that sketch by me.
More tomorrow...
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Peace in Our Time—Athena Voltaire Returns!
Ape's Aviatrix returns to the skies in 2008!
Paul Daly and I have settled our differences and have resolved to go our separate ways. The bottom line out of all of this is that Athena Voltaire will return!
Coming this Summer, we'll release the trade paperback collection of Flight of the Falcon.
Later this year, I'll be releasing the first of a series of standalone one-shots, graphic novellas, if you will. They'll be somewhere between 48 and 64 pages, perfect bound, and each one will be its own mini-trade. If you're the type who waits for the trade, you won't need to wait. If you're the bagging-and-boarding type, this is what you'll be getting, as well. I'm shooting for a $7–8 price on each volume.
Why the change? With the creator fallout between Paul and me last year, many retailers and readers alike don't know what the heck happened to our favorite aviatrix. If I produce complete done-in-one volumes, on time, I hope to earn back the consumer and retailer confidence we lost when the entire Mu-King miniseries was postponed and then eventually canceled.
The major change is that I'll be writing and drawing the adventures of our favorite aviatrix. Paul will continue to produce his webcomic, Terranauts, but will no longer be involved in Athena Voltaire. Paul's departure has resulted in a "taking his toys with him" scenario, so there will be some story modifications when the first one-shot releases. However, I can say that along with myself, editor Molly McBride and color artists Chad Fidler and Jason Millet are all happy with the tweaks to the comic and we're dying to share it with you.
Watch the skies! AV is back!
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