Reinventing Anime and other in-between jobs
An edition about lost projects, Inktober and some recommendations
HELLO AND WELCOME TO A NEW EDITION OF MY NEWSLETTER!
Halloween month is here! (because Halloween is no longer a day, and I have no problem with it, could you imagine a “Lent Month"?)
But now this newsletter begins and before I tell you one of my darkest secret projects, the spam:
KID MAROON #2 AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER
When the race to promote the issue 1 solicitations ends, then the promo for the issue 2 begins… Kid Maroon #2 will be released Dec 18, and like the previous one (and the rest of the 4-issue run) will be double-size. 44 pages of fun and excitement for all the family! (if all your family love dark noir and cruel plot twists).
Kid Maroon has something he's never really had before in his life: a friend. What's more is that Billy Beans is also a kid, albeit one that couldn't be more different than our hard-nosed 12-year-old detective. Can Kid relax and let himself be a boy for a minute, or will the gruesome murder mystery he's spiraling around swallow him down the drain? Meanwhile, Woody Gunk and Soup Nuts are moving in. Blockhead's trial heats up. And some weirdo with red spectacles keeps setting peculiar fires all over Crimeville.
Kid Maroon #2 Solicitations:
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT241957
Other interesting links about Kid Maroon:
Interview with Christopher Cantwell:
https://aiptcomics.com/2024/10/03/kid-maroon-interview/
A site about the legacy of Kid Maroon’s original creator Pep Shepard:
https://www.rememberingpep.com/
THE INKTOBER CONTINUES
October continues and so the #Toritober. As you know, I will be uploading the drawings in my facebook, twitter, bluesky and Instagram accounts (links at the bottom) and selling them in my bigcartel store victorsantos.bigcartel.com
And if you want to see all my scanned drawings of this edition and the editions of previous years you can find them in my blog/site:
victorsantoscomics.blogspot.com/search/label/inktober
I hope you are enjoying it!
FROM THE VAULT OF OLD PROJECTS, POLAR THE ANIME (PART 1)
Let me show you something funny from my personal files. After the Polar movie release in 2019, talking with Dark Horse Entertainment producer Chris Tongue, we were daydreaming about how cool a Polar anime would be. I had some free time, so I spent a couple of days working on the idea and the result was a bunch of concept art and character designs.
These are some designs I made of the main characters:
My idea was doing an adult animated series in the style of Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s movies like Ninja Scroll or Wicked City. The main reference for the character designs were obviously the movie, but I tried to find some point in the middle, adding some elements from the graphic novels.
The idea didn't cross the first barrier but here is now, for your delight. Is it possible to resume this project someday? Who knows.
In the next newsletter I’ll show you more graphic stuff about this funny project.
READING AND WATCHING
Now that summer ends and people can’t wait until Halloween, it’s when the third of the Omnibus that collects all The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror comics arrived at my home. Like in the previous volumes, you can find authors who come from the animation and use the show’s “standard” style, mixed with legends like Marv Wolfman & Gene Colan or Bernie Wrightson, popes of the indie like Gilbert Hernandez or Jeffrey Brown, and teams you would never expect to find in a Simpsons anthology like Garth Ennis & John McCrea.
Of all these authors, my favorite is Hilary Barta without doubt, who has made different stories of the yellow family finding a delicious style in a middle point between the Simpsons style and his own sensibilities.
I’ve begun the second season of Tulsa King, a show belonging to Sylvester Stallone's favorite genre: to explain to young people how to dress classy. It's really entertaining but I have a little problem with the main characters: Sly and his friends are a bunch of criminals and bullies, which it's fine, but they brag like they were some kind of blue-collar heroes. You know, “politicians steal more”. For this reason I end up feeling more sympathy for the antagonists, Domenick Lombardozzi and Ritchie Coster in the first season, and Frank Grillo and Neal McDonough in the second. They are criminals and are very proud of it and don't lie to themselves. I had the same problem with Sons of Anarchy. Yeah, I'm so picky. Occupational hazard.
But don't misunderstand me, I really enjoy the show. It's an old school macho amusement, a streaming update of the Men’s Adventure magazines that can fix you a hard day.
And that’s all for today, see you soon!
Victor
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