“Parker and Lieber offer up an extremely well-done (and in some scenes educational and informative) comic with a strong female protagonist and story ripe with realistic characters and situations.”

I particularly like this review at Powered By Pop Culture because writer Mike Cassella mentions Steve drawing our main character Wes Fischer three years ago at a show. And that’s a reality of these personal projects, just like me with my graphic novel The Interman back in ’03, we have to work on them in our spare time and wait until we’re far enough ahead to finally start talking about the book.

For retailers and the curious who want to see more reviews, there’s our Reviews page for more convincers.
-Parker

Steve here: now with crappy news!
My wife and I were just burgled. They stole our laptops, so we have no computers at home anymore, and we’ve got several days ahead of us of running around dealing with police, insurance, checking to make sure backups work, etc. This means that all the time at home I’d planned to spend doing promotion is gone, as are the machines I’d planned to it with.
Lots of folks have asked “what can I do to help?” The answer, if you have a comics audience, is blog or tweet something about the book. Send them to this site, or this specific post, or just tell them that Parker and I have a new Image book coming out. Your RTs and facebook posts can make a big difference.

Thanks!
Steve

First I scribble out a doodly layout. I scribble this out directly on my Cintiq. Layouts on this comic have been a breeze, probably because my writer used to support himself as an artist. Eagle-eyed readers will note that when I first drew Corey, the blonde guy in panel 5, I was working off my memory of Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Jack Lambert.

Then I turn it blue in Photoshop and add lettering- some digital and some by hand. The digital font I’m using in Underground was designed by the great Tom Orzechowski, based on hand-lettering I did in Whiteout.

I print the lettered blueline out onto bristol board and ink it with traditional tools: Winsor Newton brush and India ink. I might be a dinosaur, but I still love dipping a brush into a bottle of fresh ink.

Then a miracle happens. Actually, it’s Ron Chan, who does beautiful things with color in Photoshop.

We’re kicking off the UNDERGROUND website with an interview conducted by Zack Smith over at NEWSARAMA! Steve and I talk about how the project came about and some of the characters within.

Keep checking in here, we’re going to be filling this blog up with process-related posts, answering questions, and dropping caving tips in case you should ever find yourselves in a large hole in the ground. We appreciate any linkage you can spare on your own sites. And of course…

Call your local comics shop and preorder Now! Underground #1 comes out in September from Image Comics! And welcome to the site.

“Each bat was assigned two others it had to distinguish between,” Dr Yovel explained. “So we trained bat A on a platform, playing a sound from bat B on one side and from bat C on the other. He had crawl to where the ‘correct’ sound was coming from.” More at the BBC.

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