Saturday, January 9, 2010

The Electric Ant

 



 


Okay so a few months ago I teamed up with writer Anthony Ha to make a short comic for the Electric Ant 2 zine, edited by Ryan Sands.  Anthony (Ha) gave me this wonderful script that was reminiscent of Asimov and Phillip K. Dick.  He wrote about steely business dudes playing hardball over space-commodities and the ethics of their ventures, set amidst a backdrop of man's early colonization of the solar system. Our story is called "Empire."


 


 


 


It was great to to do some sci-fi work (which I love) without lasers and mecha (which I also love) - whose absence was a nice reminder that future-space can be populated by the same characters that inhabit our more subtle fictions.  Um, I guess it felt good to draw a story about people trying to make money instead of lasering their enemies.  In the words of Captain Hammer, "not my usual, but nice."  I want to do more stuff like this for sure.


 



 


Space surgery - uuggghh!!  Happy new Decade, everybody!


 


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