Small Shen is Finished!

Posted onJuly 17, 2012September 14, 20134 Comments

But first, here’s an interview with me from the lovely Rowena Cory Daniells, a famous fantasy author. Fantasy authors unite! Also, I’m being featured in Cordite 39, the “Jackpot” issue!

I’ve also finished Small Shen, the prequel to Kylie Chan’s best-selling “White Tiger” Chinese fantasy series. I busted my spleen to finish it by the end of July, and now that I’ve finally made that date, I just feel exhausted. Not so much by Small Shen, but by having done House of Odd (the last Odd Thomas graphic novel) and this book back-to-back. The last time I did something similar was with The Dreaming v3 and In Odd We Trust (the first Odd Thomas graphic novel), and to be honest, I wasn’t as exhausted back then. I think that as I get older, my tolerance for stuff like this just goes down. (That said, what is it about the last book in a series that causes me to have to immediately start a new book in the next series?)

Small Shen will be out in December 2012!!

Either way, I’m going on a month long holiday, and will probably take a break, returning in September 2012. During this time, I’ll be reworking this site a bit, by integrating the front page with my tumblr account. WordPress is a good blogging platform, but I feel it just lacks the social component that a microblogging site like Tumblr has – so I’m attempting to change my front page to my Tumblr, while leaving all other aspects of the site as WordPress. How it’s going to work? I don’t know – I hope that the old site wouldn’t have to change too much.

Yunyu Tour – Sydney Leg

Posted onJune 24, 2012September 14, 20133 Comments

Hi all, I’ve been flat out busy working on the tail end of Small Shen… so much that I feel I’m going a little crazy. Luckily I only have 1 more week of inks to go, before I plow into the tones and then FINITO!! Wow, it’s been a sprint – doing 2 books back-to-back without a break. I need a 3-week holiday after this, and I don’t care what’s a-happening!!

I also set up a Tumblr account, just to see what the fuss was about. It seems an easy place to upload pictures, so that’s what I’ve done a few pics of (in whatever spare time I have), mostly for the next series I want to work on. I can’t reveal anything right now because (a) I need to finish Small Shen, and (b) I need a holiday, but I’m thinking of giving this site a bit of a facelift soon. We shall see.

Anyway, today I’ve got Yunyu’s Sydney concert to promote, which is happening 30th June! It’s the last leg of the tour, and here’s the tour poster I made for her. The Brisbane show at the Powerhouse was a big success (full house), so here’s hoping the Sydney one sells out too.

What: Yunyu: Twisted Tales Tour
Where: Carriageworks, 245 Wilson St, Sydney, NSW 2012 (Australia) – Map
When: 30th June, 8:00 pm
Cost: $25 – Buy

Small Shen: More Art

Posted onJune 2, 2012September 14, 20137 Comments

Hi all! I have finally finished all the pencils for the “Small Shen” book! It’s got 9 chapters in all, plus a prologue, making a total of about 163 illustrated pages, including the chapter covers (which I will be doing in an interesting and very different style for a particular purpose – ha! Not telling you!). The whole book is on track to be finished at the end of July, which will give it a Xmas 2012 release. It’s looking good so far!

Now that I’ll be working on the inks for the last part of the book, I will show you some art from chapters 3-4!

Doodles for Odd Thomas books

Posted onMay 7, 2012September 14, 20132 Comments

This week, I am blazing through the pencils for the last 3rd of Small Shen. I also went to Free Graphic Novel Day at Kinokuniya, which was a lot of fun. I signed some books and did some sketches for them, and here I show you a bunch of sketches I did for a series of signed (by me and Dean Kootz) books that I get to send back to someone who’s been doing this since the very first Odd Thomas graphic novel. This book is the last Odd Thomas book I’ll be doing, so I look back with some fondness.