So, lot’s of progress has been made on Rage 4.5. I’ve been trying to get it down to one page a week. Sometimes I can pull it off, other times not so much. When you work a steady job with set hours you can have little left in the tank for the creative arts.
The main thing is focus. Focus is what you need to keep you on task and away from distraction. I know I’ve mentioned it here before so I won’t over expand on it again…
Update: The penciling on Rage #4.5 has finished and I’ve finally moved onto Rage #5. Now the thumbnails aren’t done yet, but I can’t wait for them all to be done first because I have an tentative deadline of mid April (15th) of 2025 to get it done. I’ve mostly been doing a page a week but I need to do at least 2 pages a week at the very least to hit the deadline.
Also, I have a new website focused on Rage and my 10-Second Drawing book.
It’s ragingcomics.com. It’s a pretty basic Wordpress website. Normally, I would never do Wordpress but in this case I had to because it was the cheapest. I did this from a recommendation of a colleague of mine. He said it’s a good name for a website so I went with it. Let me know what you think. I plan to update it more with tidbits about Rage and his world. So far I have a short bio that includes his physical appearance and powers. I might draw up some other characters and list their powers and abilities too.
I wish it was easier to update the website but it's still pretty frustrating. It’s not as intuitive as it should be. Wix is much easier with its drag n’ drop but it costs a lot more per month/year.
You can buy Rage #4 here for print or digital download.
https://www.indyplanet.com/rage-4
In the meantime, great ideas for Rage #6 & 7 are slowly taking shape. So like David Lynch would recommend, I’ll get the net out, catch those fishes and write them down for later. So grateful that the ideas are coming. Rage really has a story that he wants to convey and I got more direction about how to get there. Of course, I still gotta figure out as a storyteller how the characters get from A to B to C. That will all come in time. I gotta whole lot of work cut out for me with inking, doing sound effects and word balloons PLUS I gotta put the first 5-6 issues in a graphic novel collection. That’s not as easy as one would think! File uploads to Lulu anyone?
Anyway, thanks for reading this. It’s been easily a year since I’ve written anything here which is terrible. Do you draw reader? Do you draw comics? What are some of your stumbling blocks to finishing them? Comment below if anybody’s reading this and remember movin’ slow is still movin’.
