Suits - The Webcomic Coming Soon! Maybe...

It look very close to actuallu hiring an artist to work on on my webcomic, Suits.  I know what you are thinking, and YES we have had a "few" false starts, but I think this one might be real. No really!  So before I announce the name of the artist, I just wanted to show you a sample of the artwork he sent me.  If everything works out we "should" have an announcement by next Friday.  Keep your fingers crossed.  Talk to you later...

Next week... MegaCon

MegaCon is next week and this is going to be another great year of meeting artists and talking about the entertainment business.  My goal this year is to meet Chris Stevens of White Wolf’s Exhalted fame and get him to do the artwork for my webcoming, Suits.  I also plan to talk to Laura DePuy Martin again about digital coloring and pitch here my Alpha Flight script to see if she might be interested in working on it to pitch to Marvel.  Cross your fingers.  Talk to you later...

I'm getting use to getting kicked in the nuts now...

Well it happened again, my artist for Suits just got an eight month gig from Oni Press. While I am happy for him (Congratulations! Good work!) this kind of kicks me in the nuts and now I am back to square one looking for an artist for Suits…again. I swear this webcomic is going to be the death of me. Oh well, back to looking for artists. Happy Fourth of July and talk to you later…

Graphic Design 101: The Cover Design of Suits

Because I can't find an artist who is not busy getting ready for San Diego Comic Con or Gen Con, I have decided to spend my time working on the design and look of the Suits graphic novel/trade paperback cover. I want to go with a very simple image that will easy make you understand what this book might be about. While there is type on the page, font sytle is not right. I am just using it for "for placement only" to get the graphic balance of the cover right. Now while this might be a bit premature on my part (since I estimate the Suits GN/TPB will be 180 roughly and he have done only a few panels) it gets me thinking of what the final version will be and what the fans should expect. Talk to you later...

It is like waiting for a baby to come…

Right now I am in an interesting position. I have completed the first whole 25-page comic book issue (roughly 90+ issues/episodes of the webcomics) of Suits. I have started writing the second comic book issue of Suits (about half way through) and I am doing the outline for issue #3 & 4 to start writing ASAP. The only thing I am waiting on is the “potential” artist. We have a verbal agreement, contingent on this job he may or may not be offered. Now I have no issue with this, he told me upfront about this and since being a comic book artist is his full time job I know he has to go where the money is. I hope we can work this all out. I REALLY want to get Suits out there. This is one of those that I am really proud of. Plus I need to start working on Ghostwalkers again. Since Ghostwalker is my long tern “epic novel”, I am happy If I can do a solid page done in it a day. I plan Ghostwalkers to be a color book while Suits is going to be complete black and white with grayscale tones. But the waiting is killing me. Like Fort Minor said, “I am like a struggling doctor; I have no patience and I hate waiting”. Talk to you later…

Two issues/episodes of the webcomic, Suits...DONE

I just finished the lettering on the #2 issue/episode (What do you think sound better issue or episode? Let me know.) of Suits. I have to find the artwork for #3. It is somewhere on my computer but I can't remember where I placed it. It is also the final issue Alex García P. because he became too busy on other projects to continue working on this one. I am so glad for all of his work on this project and helping me get this off the ground. If everything turns out right (keeping fingers crossed) the new artist on this project will be Jeff Wamester. I plan to start the webcoming on August 26 (That date is not set in stone, so totally don't hold me to it) and we will release the first four issues/episodes and then have weekly updates after that. Once again thanks to everyone support on this project. Talk to you later...

Comic Book Writing and MegaCon

I have been working on a few comic book scripts to get ready for next weekend’s MegaCon to pitch to comic companies. I have actually completed:

• 8 page Doctor Doom script (For Marvel Comics)
• 8 page Lex Luthor script (For DC Comics)
• 8 page Suicide Squad/Easy Company script (For DC Comics)
• 23 page Suits script (For Independent comic companies)

And the scripts I have in progress are:

• 8 page Infinity Inc. script (For DC Comics)
• 8 page Deathstroke the Terminator script (For DC Comics)
• 8 page Lethal Legion script (For Marvel Comics)
• 8 page Twilight Inc. script (For Marvel Comics)
• 8 page Agents of SHIELD script (For Marvel Comics)
• 12 issue limited Series Alpha Flight pitch (For Marvel Comics)
• Regular series Invaders pitch (My Dream Project) (For Marvel Comics)

I think I can get two of these scripts ready by the con. As you can see I have a lot of different things for both Marvel and DC Comics. Chuck Dixon of Batman and Nightwing fame had already read the Doctor Doom script and liked it he said it was goo enough to submit. Jamal Igle gave me some great feedback on the Suicide Squad/Easy Company script. I was told that the basic comic writer needs to write at least 8 pages a day. I am coming close to that but doing all the research on characters and sotylines take up a lot of time. So wish me luck at MegaCon.

My first love...

My first love will always be comic books. I have been a collector for nearly 30 years and love just about everything to do with them. I have been involved with comic books and comic book collecting longer than anything else in my life except eating, sleeping, going to the bathroom, watching TV and wasting time. I had planned to start this year with my weekly online come strip, Suits. Suits is an original comic series that I came up with on the concept of, "Why do super heroes wear silly looking costumes in public?" It is the kind of book I would want to see in DC Comics' Vertigo line or Marvel's Max line. Very adult and very edgy. The image is the first panel of the series and really sets the tone of what I am looking to create with this series. Now with me losing my job in December, that little event kind of killed this process. So until I get a new job (Wish me luck I have a very important interview on Wednesday) Suits with just be an unfulfilled dream. But don't worry, I will be releasing it. Someday. Talk to you later...

[LPJDesign] Projects X announced and revealed!!!

Louis Porter Jr. Design, in association with Devil’s Workshop, is revealing the details of its recent upcoming secret venture called Project X.

On December 1, 2008, Louis Porter Jr. Design, created and opened a new website, www.LouisPorterJr.com. LouisPorterJr.com was created to be the home of the all new free online webcomic / eGraphic Novel series created by Louis Porter Jr, owner of Louis Porter Jr. Design and Devil’s Workshop. The first eGraphic Novel series released at www.LouisPorterJr.com was the original Haven: City of Violence graphic novel, Three Way Dance. Three Way Dance was original released with the Haven: City of Violence Role Playing Game released nearly 8 years ago, but now it is available as a daily eGraphic Novel strip, which will be concluding at the end of December.

“Three Way Dance was my first attempt in to the arena of comic books in 2001. Being a lifelong comic books fan, I really enjoyed doing that project and hoped to do more in the comic field in the future, but at the time the Internet was not ready for what I wanted to do. Three Way Dance was the reason Haven: City of Violence received initial interest to be optioned as a movie by Brigade Entertainment owned by Barry Levine, currently publisher of Radical Comics. Now in 2009, the Internet, Louis Porter Jr. Design and the gaming and comic industry are in the perfect place to accomplish this goal of bringing this project to life,” comment Louis Porter Jr.

Starting January 1, 2009, www.LouisPorterJr.com will be releasing an all new never seen before free weekly online eGraphic Novel series called Suits. Suits in based off the RPG setting of Haven: City of Violence imprint, Haven: Full Metal Zero. The series, Suits, has been best described as “The X-Files meets the Wire”. The series will be written by Louis Porter Jr. with artwork from Alex Garcia (www.alexgpart.com). Alex and Louis have worked on several projects in the past including the upcoming patron-only RPG setting Obsidian Twilight, inspired by the RPG gaming setting of Wizards of the Coast’s Dark Sun and Ravenloft.

In addition to the weekly eGraphic Novel series, Louis Porter Jr. Design will be converting much of the material in Suits into D20 Modern / OGL gaming material that can be used for the modern version of the world’s most popular role playing game system. “We want to merge the world of comics and RPGs. They have had such a long relationship to each other, doing this in this way only seemed natural. I also hope to expand Suits to the world of animation shorts and possibly features. The realm of what is possible is really unlimited,” stated Porter. The Haven: City of Violence and Haven: Full Metal Zero series of RPG material is available at RPGNow.com.