Jason Todd © DC Comics . Artwork by Meredith McClaren
A cosplaying buddy of mine made a plea for Jason Todd, so I made room on the roster.
His outfit in general is actually not far off from being practical. It only takes a few tweaks to make it something you could pull together with some basic shopping.
AND OH MY GOODNESS! The Kickstarter is almost there! And as per usual, the original linework for this piece will be made available as a reward tier this evening (5.18.13) at 7:00 pm MST. There’s only one though, so good luck!
The Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/225641773/hinges-book-1-clockwork-city?ref=category
More Hopeless Savages Relevancy: New Hinges Tier
Hey all! Remember the other day when I was posting about Meredith McClaren, who is currently nearing completion on the latest installment of the Hopeless Savages (Volume 4: “Break”)?
Remember how I was plugging the Kickstarter campaign she’s currently running to print up her gorgeous webcomic, Hinges?
Well, last year, when she was attending the Stumptown Comics Fest here in Portland, Meredith printed up the sweet little poster below. And she just found some leftover in her art storage!
So they’ll be available, signed by us both, as premiums on her KS page any minute now. They are beautiful. I have one. If you want one, this is the way to get it.
XOXO
Hi Helenaisis!
Thank you so much for the support — I can’t tell you how good it feels to hear that. I’ll try anyway: it feels really good. Thank you.
About Hopeless Savages: the long wait is almost entirely down to me. I wrote V3, Too Much…, while I was pregnant with my daughter. She’s almost 10 now. I wrote “B-Sides,” the one-shot, a couple years after that. And then… and then I started to wonder if I’d reached a place in my life where I didn’t connect with the characters as much. And I kind of stuck them in the back of my imagination’s cabinet.
I think what was really going on was that I was starting to identify as much with Dirk and Nikki as I was with their kids, in a way that left me feeling a little rudderless about the stories I wanted to tell for all of them, about all of them.
Then I got an idea — I started to see it, and then I wrote about half a script and James at Oni started helping me look for an artist, which took a while. Then we found Meredith McClaren, and I fell in love with her style. But when I saw how she works, I wound up scrapping the script I had and going back to the beginning, to get it right for the characters and for her unique storytelling sense. And that took some time.
So. Long story endless, the script for Hopeless Savages v. 4: “Break,” has been done for a while now, and Meredith has been working on it, and she’s not very too far from done. Oni will schedule for publication, though, only when we can all be certain it’s going to be just right and that we’ll have plenty of time to get the word out about it.
In the meantime, if you want to see what it’ll look like, I recently posted about it here while trying to help promote Meredith’s Kickstarter to print her webcomic, Hinges.
Again, thank you so much for the support. It’s very kind of you, and I hope to keep deserving it.
Update 10: Kelly Thompson Incentives EXTENDED · Hinges Book 1: Clockwork City
New Incentives make me happy!
Check ‘em out!
ALSO-
The line work for Batgirl from my Practical Clothing for Powerful Ladies series will be offered at the LIAISON’S DELIGHT tier level tonight (5.16.13) at 7:00pm MST. There’s only one so good luck!
Here I have drawn Marvel’s Captain Marvel (aka Carol Danvers). #comics
I am reblogging this because it is fantastic, and also because #ruckawriter must see it.
Update 8: A Sentimental Journey · Lady Sabre & The Pirates of the Ineffable Aether Vol. 1
A new update, a new tier, and a Lady Sabre drawing by Meredith McClaren!
Hopeless Savages Fans: Relevant to Your Interests (& Mine)
Meredith McClaren, artist on Break, the fourth volume of Hopeless Savages, is doing a Kickstarter campaign to print up her gorgeous webcomic Hinges.
I am in total support of her campaign succeeding because I want this book in my hot little hands. Also because I want people to see her amazing work!
If you’ve seen the Hopeless Savages Omnibus edition, you’ll have already seen her delightful art illustrating the glossary we included there, but if not, here’s a taste of what’s to come:
I’ve been tweeting like mad to draw attention to the Hinges campaign, but here’s another incentive to go take a look-see: I’ve braved my basement to find original issues of the 2000 Oni Press Supercolor Fun Special, in which the Hopeless Savages first appeared, and the B-Sides floppy we did in 2005 (both of which are a little hard to come by these days) as well as a couple copies of the Omnibus that collects everything. I’m signing them up and sending them on to Meredith to add as incentives on the Hinges Kickstarter.
Added bonus for fans of #ruckawriter: the Supercolor Special has a funny little Whiteout pastiche in it that Greg did with Judd Winick—“Weenout”—and Greg’ll be signing that one too.
So there you go. It’s a terrific webcomic, and in supporting it, you’ll get a great book and you’ll know you’re supporting Hopeless Savages, too, by letting Meredith complete this campaign and get back to her drawing board!
badass.
Rockin’.
Hinges Book 1: Clockwork City
OK, last one for the day, I promise. Kickstarter was unreasonably good to us at Lady Sabre today.
Let’s see if we can’t get Kickstarter to be just as good to Meredith McClaren and get her webcomic into print. She’s remarkably talented, the comic is delightful, and, in the interests of full-disclosure, she’s drawing the new Hopeless-Savages story that @hopelessjen wrote. That last part is not nearly as important as the first two.
He’s right on all counts. Especially the parts about Meredith being enormously talented and Hinges being fantastic.
As with Lady Sabre, the webcomic is already there for you to read for free; the goal is to print Hinges up so it can get out there and meet even more readers.
ORSON WELLES’ SKETCHBOOK, episode 2: Critics
(shouts out to Lydia)
Love it. His voice and manner are so compelling.
(Source: cuntloaf)
LAZARUS promotion!
Coming in June! Pre-order!
Outside of Black Bolt and Medusa, Val and Bentley are my favorite power couple in the Marvel Universe…
