Back in Miami, Hit the Ground Running or DIE.

Moleskine Sketch from the Airport

Sort of like in Metroid, when you fall into the Lava, and your meter starts going down and all you do is freak out, smashing buttons to escape

That’s where I’m at.

Working on wrapping up Zombie Years for the year, which will be in January. I hope to put a nice 8 part short in there as a buffer for me while I work on some others projects (TOMMY, Dragonbreath, Steampunk Magazine)  and Act 2 of the series for next year.

Also working on a script for a short film, which may give away to a feature film, depending on what’s on the table for us, this coming year at Creature as far as film. We have plenty of comics to do, that’s for sure, but the film side has been bogged down with the usual stuff, so we want to get our pace again with a new film. Maybe we’ll do a comedy (that’s what i’m working on) or go into another  crime noir flick. We’re meeting soon, just to discuss the next step. it’s both aggravating and endearing the fact we have such great talent here and yet every little thing is pain in the arse to get done, it’s like shitting a Yugo. I guess thats just a fact of art, no?

Working out the VIGIL/Broadsheet project. It’s a very EXPANSIVE way of story telling, so I keep going back on it. Maybe a one-shot maybe a series, it all depends…

Have 2 or 3 crazy ideas I’m filing away for later with one that will be the spare time filler. It’ short and sweet, and hopefully, fucking HILARIOUS.

Also, I’m set up for a full ink series. Would be cool to have somewhere to show it once I’m done, maybe during Art Basil but if not….well fuck it then.

Trying to see about attending the Miami Book Fair comics courses thing, going on this Friday. I signed up for it, but didn’t think I would manning shop alone this week, so I think I’m shit out of luck. We’ll see, maybe i’ll go rape a Leprechaun or something. BLURG

File under getting shit done

File under getting shit done, originally uploaded by JuanNavarro.

BOOM
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“Let them be fucked by MAGIC!”

Now you know the line of an upcoming Graphic Novel of mine.

Originally Dragonbreath was going to be an online comic, much in the same way that ZOMBIE YEARS is, weekly installments, with a web page and overall awesomeness of it all.

But then I got thinking…

I have no editor, at the moment, and I  have no real deadline, all I have is time and the page. Why no go for a whole graphic novel? Why not go for a BOOK. Thinking about that alongside the hurdle of what the story was going to be, I thought that taking a year to make a Graphic Novel would work, would make a product that is one whole of an effort. So now I’m writing the script for it.

First, a name change: Dragonbreath. As cool and as METAL as that name is, once I decided to go for Graphic Novel, it just didn’t have the same energy for it. On top of that, I was actually sorta beat to the punch by another artist using the same title. I hate having any sort of confusion so I’m going a different direction.

“BASTERDS AND WENCHES” is going to be a bit of a nod, a slap, and tickle to good ol’ Dungeons and Dragons and fantasy in general. It’s going to be energetic to say the least, and hopefully funny while delivering a good story.

It’s going to be about a fantasy world, where all the fantasy HAS BEEN DONE. Thats it, it seems we’ve traveled and done it all, saved the princess, defeated the empire, and thrown the ring into the volcano, all that shit, and yet, when left to our own volition…..we’re jsut sitting on our ass waiting for the end.

Talk about a freaking parable.

It stars a pair of the nicest Scumbag losers you could know, Mermoz and Ridlee, asshole of the Underworld, and there adventures in Debauchery and just being…well.. assholes.

I know i’m not breaking any new ground or exceeding the limits of a genre with this idea, but I think in the execution and some dick jokes, will makes all the difference.

I may even set it up in some way to have a D20 Supplement in the back of each book. O f course then I would have to figure out what edition since by the time I finish it, which will be like what? 8th Edition? PPFFFT.

So stay tuned as I will be updating here and there as I go. Oh I will still be working on Zombie Years, TOMMY, and VIGIL while this happens…BRING ON THE PAIN.

Notebook Co. Design, Australia

Cahier Cover Drawing, originally uploaded by JuanNavarro.

Cahier Cover Drawing I did for Notebookco.au
They send you the Cahier, you draw it up, and just pictures back!

Damn…. I already feel like doing another one. Check this one out at http://www.notebookco.com.au/custom.html

TIRED

mustache thursday / wednesday, originally uploaded by hanne::.

But need to keep going. THISISJUAN.com

Daily Sundayze: EXTREME PILLOW SPORTS!

 

 

Daily Sundayze: EXTREME PILLOW SPORTS!.

That’s pretty much what he does..

..Nope he doesn't...

Still working out certain scripts and beginnings on VIGIL. I have such a HUGE problem with Beginnings on projects like any small thing out of place, is just going to shit the series. Working through it though, fuck it, hit it, love it, and FUCK IT AGAIN. BOOM.

A scene from “Lucky Jerk”

(Inside of a cluttered Apartment)

DIA
..You gotta go to the store

(Ed continues to dip his brush and ink.)

ED
What?

DIA
You got to go to the store

ED
In a little bit

DIA
no, now, I was about to take a shower but the tub is clogged you need to buy some Drayno or something

ED
Just let me finish inking this page…

DIA
Oh, c’mon Ed, I have to wake up early and I just want to shower and go to bed

ED
I’m in the GROOVE, here, hold on a sec…

(long pause)

DIA
It’s your fucking DICK HAIR THAT CLOGS UP THE TUB, ED. You can be responsible and get some drayno to dissolve all the curly dick hair from the tub!

ED
Geez, okay, let me swish my brush clean, gah!

(Takes a long time to “swish” his brush. The room is small and stacked with comics and junk. Ed stands up to get past Dia who is just giving him a hard look with a slight smile. Ed is still mad walking out)

ED
You know, your HAIRS aren’t exactly peach fuzz, so it’s not just me

DIA
UGH, GROSS! ED DON’T SAY SHIT LIKE THAT! GUH! I’m just telling you it’s your dick hair, Ed …

(interrupts)

ED
It’s not dick hair, its ball hair, what kind of freak has hair on his dick? geez

DIA
Whatever it is, it’s clogging the fucking the tub! Just go get something to unplug

(Reaches for keys as he walks out. ED is leaving in slippers and sweat pants, putting a hoodie over his crappy ink stained shirt.)

ED
Anything else?

(Dia is just standing in living room, arms folded.)

DIA
I guess some chocolate would be nice..

(Ed walking out with keys and wallet)

ED
Alright you sure you don’t want razors for your BIG HAIRY BUSH?

Doors slams

COOKIE MONSTER cupcakes?

 

COOKIE MONSTER cupcakes?, originally uploaded by JuanNavarro.

OOOOH
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VIGIL-THE ANARCH ARCHER

Anarch Archer, Steals from the Rich..... and that's pretty much it.

I love the idea of Robin Hood Character, but instead of being some ambiguously “good” dude with some shoddy mean streak what if he was truly an independent character causing problems for both Good and Bad depending on your agenda. I’m gonna fuck with it a bit more for VIGIL later on.

DAILY SUNDAYZE

For the theme "Act Your Age"

Been posting recently over at DAILY SUNDAYZE, a collection of Artist that happen to be good ol’ friends of mine from Miami, currently living the high life in LA. Dennis Pomares and Hildy “Phart Neck” Cruz are there, and we just text a them out to all, and then respond with images. It’s been fun so far and relaxed, so go and enjoy.

Notepad Scribble: MEATHOOK

Meathook Legal Pad Doodle

Side sketch on a Legal pad ( actually took a third of the page) while ordering some parts on the phone. That always seem to happen, when I’m distracted and in a whole other world, that’s when my hand sketches away the best. My doodles tend to rock, and here we see Meathook from VIGIL on there. Man I miss the big lug. I’m still working on the script but plotting and angling the whole thing for the next 5 years of the series. I know you might say “WHY?” but after doing the series for 3-4 years, while pretty much pulling things out my ass, I really want a structure before going full on.

Plus VIGIL is my baby, in the sense that I’m doing whatever the fuck I want on it. It’s not some ground breaking series or anything like that, no, this is just my big superhero wet dream.

I need an Iced Coffee I.V. drip or a friggin Time Machine

Moleskine Sketch of Tommy Cover

+At the shop trying to mill my way through a couple of small things. Recently had a big outage with my Macbook, which didn’t let me scan or print for shit. You couldn’t believe the anger bubbling in me over this. Luckily I got it working, have been chugging along, albeit a bit slow, until I can reinstall everything this weekend.

+Working on Movie script, and it’s a hard uphill climb right now. I’m writing into position, for better ideas to come, because at the moment I am fucking tired and stupid.

+I need to win the lotto. You’ll want me to win the lotto. I would do so much good…at least in comics. I would be a Benevolent dictator.

+ New ZY yesterday it’s starting to build towards the Meat of the series. Amazing I haven’t gone nuts yet.

Junkyards

Junkyards, originally uploaded by JuanNavarro.

The smell of Grease, Rubber Rot, Dirty Water and Welding torches just remind of childhood, of walking with my dad in these heaping jungle of twisted metal. "Rastros" are a huge influence on me and being in one again today, brought an odd smile and energy to me.
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Ink series I’m getting started

Ink series I’m getting started, originally uploaded by JuanNavarro.

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