KPP - The Challenge

When the Fantasy theme came around, I knew this comic would focus on some type of warrior, stepping up to vanquish their foe, but I purposely stayed away from making our hero male because the leads of all of my other comics had been males (except maybe the butterfly?) and I wanted to represent women as being strong, too. Check out the comic below:

I can't remember why I decided to name her Cornelia, but I recall naming her tribe The Ghastro after the gastrointestinal system of our bodies, which has to do with the stomach. This comes into play on Page 2 where she easily gulps down the giant steak without issue. Foreshadowing!

I played with the lettering a bit with this one, making Cornelia's dialogue look more regal, whereas the Dragon's dialogue looks a bit rough and is red because...his words are hot? I don't know, maybe I just thought it'd look cool.

I really don't have any clue what I'm doing , you guys.

But one thing I DO KNOW, it that I love dinosaurs, and dragons are like fantasy dinosaurs, so this was a ton of fun for me to make!

I also used these 2 pages as part of an entry for a Breaking Into Comics contest through Darby Pop publishing, and was one of the winners. It was the first time I've ever worked with an actual comics publisher, so thanks Cornelia!

KPP - The Ride

With the newest Star Wars film coming out at the time ("The Force Awakens"), we at Kids Prize Pack wanted to focus on the outer space/cosmic side of things, so naturally, I decided to do a story featuring aliens.

I went through many, many, MANY designs for the aliens and finally landed on the designs you see in the comic above. One of my favorite things is that the aliens, like people, have different skin tones and facial features, but they're still recognizable as aliens. For the color palette, since the aliens are in the green spectrum, I wanted to focus on the other side of the color wheel for the backgrounds, using much warmer reds & purples.

Oh, and I hate drawing vehicles, but when you make comics, it's necessary to include them at times. That said, I'm super happy with how the Hover Rover turned out!

KPP - A (Soon To Be) Mad World

For this Mad Science theme, I decided to create my own mad scientist character called The Mad Professor and also designed an Igor-like sidekick for him named Mortimer. Check them out below:

I ended up liking these characters quite a bit and would bring them back for later KPP comics. This is also the first time I used rounded rectangles for the word balloon shapes. They're not great, but they work for the style I'm going for (and I still use them to this day).



 
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