On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Preliminary pose work for Local Hero # 1, pencilled back in 2007.

Well, I didn't go to today's ByMUG meeting. This, per the doctor's strong suggestion that I try to take things relatively easy for one more week this past Friday. That's okay. I got to see my brother's family this weekend, lively bunch that they are, which was good for the soul in its way.

Seems like the Hallowe'en trick or treat traffic's still doing its slow year-to-year drop-off, further aggravated this year by the ongoing health scares in progress. It does look like the costuming's getting better among those keeping the tradition going. A good thing, that. The kids doing the rounds hereabouts could have done very well - or at least a lot better - without the high winds and the chills.

Maybe next year for that?

Oh, and a bit of Local Hero comics news to close out on: the inkwork for the second issue is done!

Our new inker delivered the last pages to Ian Gould this week, and I am in receipt of a bunch of scans which I need to get a look at via wi-fi download as soon as I feel up to hauling the laptop to the local library branch.

The work continues...

Can anyone here point me to a good photoreference resource(or more than one) on Cleveland? Yes, it's Local Hero-related.

Thank you in advance for any and all help!

One: Saw "Sometimes a Great Notion" on Galactica tonight. It worked. Not quite what I expected in places...but that's how it should be.

Two: Page One of Local Hero # 3 is tentatively tagged as done.

More to follow...

A little treat to kick off the New Year.

I've been busy with a few things over the last few weeks, including some character design work.

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The pencils of the last page of # 2 are now - for the most part - done. There may be some slight correction and reworking of this or that detail, but the bulk of that job is now Over and Done. I'm e-mailing it off to Ian Gould now.

More news to come...and next, a political news posting.

Back to you!

Ladies, gentlemen, and respected others, I've got some good news.

I'll be running a table at the Ottawa Small Press Book Fair on June 21st. I'll have copies of Evening Shift, Local Hero # 1, and a couple of comics-related ashcan "portfolio" booklets on offer, as well as a sketchpad or two handy for commissioned sketches for anyone who wants a Williams original.

(Okay, I'm not the only Williams in the comics business, but never mind that. I'm going to be the only one in Ottawa. So.)

Back to an old office job for another 4-5 months for me, playing keyboard jockey. More than that on that topic, I am not discussing here.

Meantime, I'm over 80% done on the pencils for Local Hero # 2 as I type this. So I'm in the home stretch there, and seeing some of the inked pages as they come over the e-mail. I honestly think we're going to top ourselves with the second issue, friends and neighbours.

A quick b-day shout to alexdecampi, and I hope you've had a good one today, Alex!

Always a good combination in the tail end of January in my neighbourhood. Just enough snow and just cold enough for winter to really be here, and just enough daylight for a human to keep feeling human in most cases. If that blasted Expedia TV ad were really on the money on Canadians' reactions to the weather at this time of year, then the US could claim our real estate under eminent domain law alone, as most of us would've suicided from clinical depression with Seasonal Affectedness Disorder on the side for real and for keeps by now.

No. We're mostly okay here, or getting there again shortly.

Some other news:

I'm 2/3-done on the pencils for # 2 of Local Hero as of yesterday. Looking forward to seeing how the inkwork looks, and I'll share excerpts of the results of that whenever I can in the months ahead. Sales are slow and steady so far on the first issue, which is good news as well.

For light reading recently, I've finished re-reading kradical's Star Trek: Articles of the Federation. I'll say it again: it's a damn good book, and if you like either Trek in its varied forms, The West Wing, or both, you should give it a look yourself if you haven't already. Test-drive your local library's copy first if need be, but do it soon.

My next light reading project? The Last Spike by Pierre Berton. I'm only a dozen pages in, and already I'm kicking myself for not looking into this one sooner. I can only plead the stupidity of youth on this tome on the last years of the process of building the original main line of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, Canada's first truly transcontinental line.

I'll be attending the OSFS Annual General Meeting this afternoon. We have a financial statement, previous AGMs' minutes, and a new board to approve, elect, acclaim, or whatever it is we need to do as a chartered non-profit under Ontario law. And entertainment to watch afterwards, too. Should be lively, whatever happens.

More to come...and over to you now.