Vector art reveal

Rebel Angels was built in a vector art drawing program called Adobe Illustrator. You lay down what are called Bezier points, which are attached by lines, and these define the shapes. It's quite different from photoshop.

Here you see the underlying structure being fleshed over with the final result as a mask is pulled back.  

The Lesser Key of Solomon demon collection

Came across some more wonderful artwork depicting this set of miscreants. It's fabulous stuff, riffing off of the Louis Le Breton originals. You can find those here.

Going down...

Stairway congestion in the Infernal Realm.

Is it Moment to Moment, or Aspect to Aspect?

The mind boggles!

Rebel Angels: The Card Game

Look! It's a book. Now it's a card game!

Rebel Angels now being solicited in Previews

A print edition of Rebel Angels is being solicited in this month's Previews. Head on down to your local comic retailer and order the book and make my dream of printed pages come true!

I am Charlie

Satire is a vital tool against rigid ideology, against the powerful and obdurate, for laughter can suck the wind out of tyrants and leave them bare before those they would oppress. 

The writers at Charlie Hebdo ridiculed everything and feared nothing. They were brave souls who gave their lives for principle. 

They will be missed.

io9 on Revolutions: Fact vs. Fiction

io9 has a good post on how fictional dystopias tend to ignore certain aspects of revolutionary movements: 10 Lessons From Real-Life Revolutions That Fictional Dystopias Ignore.

They're wrong: not every creator ignores such issues.

Just the popular ones.

I've been exploring several of them in Rebel Angels, which uses the original revolution as a platform to explore the phenomenon in general.

And I played with it even earlier, in Nil: A Land Beyond Belief. 

So there.