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As the Kickstarter for the new Footprints wears on, I thought it’d be fun to take a look at what goes into a page of the book. Here you see the full script for Page 1, which Jonathan followed pretty much exactly (next time we’ll look at Page 2, where he deviates from the script and makes it better).
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Over the weekend, the kind folks at Bleeding Cool asked me to write something about Footprints. This is the piece I wrote, but you can read it over at Bleeding Cool as well along with the pages of Footprints: Bad Luck Charm.
We all remember our first true love. It’s the one that made your heart blossom. The one that cut deepest when it was betrayed. The one that still lingers somewhere inside of you, every single day, no matter how far you’ve come since the time you felt that first unmistakable flutter. You’ll love other things in your lifetime, of course you will, but the first will always be your first and nothing can change that.
When it comes to my career making comics, Footprints is my first true love. It certainly wasn’t the first comic I made, but it’s the first one that felt right, that felt special, and that I was truly proud of. It was a creator-owned mini-series by me and friend/co-creator/artist Jonathan Moore that we began working on in 2010 and released in 2011. It’s an amalgam of everything I love; a noir whodunit starring Bigfoot as a private eye trying to track down his brother’s killer with the help of his old pals Jersey Devil, Nessy, Choop, and Megalodon. It’s weird, it’s funny, it’s scary, and it’s us.
Back in 2011, co-creator Jonathan Moore and I crowd-funded our series FOOTPRINTS on Kickstarter — a story about Bigfoot as a private eye trying to hunt down his brother’s killer alongside Jersey Devil, Loch Ness Monster, Chupacabra, and Megalodon. A few years later, and we’re ready to return to this wonderful, bizarre world.
Today we launched a Kickstarter for Footprints: Bad Luck Charm, a new one-shot that features two stories. One of them is set before Footprints Vol. 1 and the other is set afterwards. The best part is you can read one of those stories RIGHT NOW over at the Kickstarter page.
Please click the image below and check it out, considering backing us, and share it with every single person you know!
Back when the Footprints trade came out and I was doing interviews and stuff, I was pretty adamant that we wouldn’t be doing any follow-up. But never say never, I guess.
As you may have seen on Twitter the last couple of weeks, Jonathan Moore and I have been teasing a new FP story, and well, I figured it was time to stop being coy about it. So yes, you’ll be seeing the return of Foot, Devil, Choop, and Nessy, along with some new friends and old enemies (as you’ll see below) in a brand new one-shot. Here’s a peek:
But wait, that’s not all:
Hey guys, I just wanted to write a quick post and let you know that friend, ally, and co-creator of Footprints Jonathan Moore, has an EPIC entry for the official Hobbit art contest, with his beautiful painting of Smaug. It’s a voting-based thing, so please follow this link and vote him up.
He deserves it.