Judith

So this was a bit of a stumbling first start at a comic. I scripted the thing after very little sleep in a stroke of inspiration at around 3 in the morning, and I sat back on my heels and thought to myself, "Hah! This will be both brilliant and hilarious!". 48 hours later after pencils and the inking, I realized that ...this wasn't the case. I'm not sure if the lack of dialogue after the first two pages is jarring or not either. I actually like telling stories without it much more, and I think the piece gets much stronger without it.

I'm still missing pages here and there (I might post the sketchy progress work later), but I really like the sort of cartoony art style, and the way guard 2 looks a lot like my very old and very good friend Jon, who was visiting me that weekend.

Einherjar

This was my final comic for my graphic novels class, about a little old lady who dies and ends up being taken to Valhalla.

Oh man, this one was on the tightest deadline ever, I had a notion of what I wanted in my head and then whipped out the pages after doing some quick character design and figuring out how to draw old ladies. I didn't get terribly far story-wise (and for someone who likes to write quite a lot I have a really hard time with comic dialogue (to be honest, Kiera Wolfe always collaborates with me on the successful ones)), but I was really happy with the art style and all the crazy different things I got to experiment with. I was really looking forward to having Granny interacting with the Vikings/Valkyries, and maybe this will end up being one of the projects I slave on for the summer.

Valhalla does not agree with Granny, and she ends up leading the Einherjar against raving frost giant hordes so she can't get to a proper afterlife, with tea, scones, and her husband.

The Various Misadventures of the Wolfe Girls

This is a short (semi fictional) comic about my sister, Erin. These are still the raw inks, I need to clean them up a bit and color away, but I'm quite happy with it. Click on (read more) and then the first image for best viewing

Revised Skoll Storyboard

My Skoll storyboard got through to the next round of voting to be made into an actual animation. Here are the revised storyboards that flesh out the story a bit. Caroline Record was partnered with me to help, and the first few new slides are hers :)

You can view the original storyboard way back here :)

Copy of Skoll on Prezi

A Birthday Card for Kiera

Skoll Storyboard

the following is a storyboard for my Animation class that is loosely based on the Norse myth of Sol and Skoll.

Sol was a Norse goddess who was given the task of bearing the sun across the sky, while her brother Mani was entrusted with the moon. Each day and night they are hotly pursued by a pair of wolves Skoll and Hati, the children of Fenrir. Skoll desires to swallow the sun whole, plunging the world into darkness and bringing about Ragnorok, the end of days, upon which their father will break free of the binds the gods placed on him and devour Odin. On the rare occasion Skoll does succeed, the gods, eager to prevent Ragnorok, hotly pursue him and force him to cough it up. Until they catch him however, there is a solar eclipse.

Here Sol climbs up the branches of the World Tree to place the sun in the firmament, while Skoll is a bit more wily (and highly inspired by Coyote of Tom Siddel's brilliant Gunnerkrigg Court)

grievous.

"cool new moves"

Ah it pains me these are terrible terrible smart phone "snaps", but I really wanted to post this page of comic I've been inking for the last hour. It may be because I am entering the grimmer portion of the night, but I have to suppress a huge grin whenever I step back and look at it.

The story is loosely based off of a fencing class that I taught once. In this page Luke, the kid in green, is showing the instructor the "cool new moves" he picked up over the weekend.

This one is by far my favorite, both for Luke's facial expression and the complete uselessness of this particular pose for fencing or anything else.

Graphic

A one shot warm up for my graphic novels class. Haha this is pretty much how every ballet lesson I ever had at the esteemed princton academy panned out