Monkey Biz and Original Oz Art

Who liked DOROTHY OF OZ: PREQUEL #1? Who likes original art? Who wants to own part of that?

For those who have been following my art for a bit, you'll know I'm mostly digital nowadays. My creator-owned comic, THE RAPTOR, when completed, will be entirely digital.

However, on DOROTHY OF OZ, I did what I did with my 2010 run on DOCTOR WHO - I kept specific pages partially traditional.

Lemme explain; as I work almost entirely digitally, most of my comic pages are never on paper (save for my layout roughs, which I always do on paper - but they serve mostly to let my editor know the plan for my page).

So while most pages are never drawn traditionally, and none are traditionally inked, I do pencil certain splash pages on BlueLine comic pages. They're just pencil, which I then scan, then digitally ink atop of (sometimes filling in missing info, or making corrections as I go - kinda like when I traditionally ink my own pencils).

I did this with three and a half pages on DOROTHY OF OZ: PREQUEL #1. The example above sold today (cropped to shield y'all from spoilers).

While I won't reveal what the remaining two-and-a-half pages depict, in a week or two, I'll start listing them on eBay for sale. Each is pencil on 11"x17" BlueLine comic book art board.

If you are interested in purchasing a page before they're listed on eBay for public sale, email me at info [at] oneGemini.com, and I can give you a list of what's available and the price.

There won't necessarily be four pages available every issue. For instance, issue #2 only has two traditionally penciled pages (and one of those pages already may be spoken for).

So... buy early, buy often?

Maybe not.

Anyway, there will be original art for sale. Help a freelancer out. We don't get health insurance... so buy me groceries instead. ;)

Cheers!

~B