stellar young, im quite excited for this book, arts looking sweet, and sounds like your giving it your all- cheers

Can't wait to read this!
Congrats Skottie! Hope to see more and more books from you.
BTW, so you discovered Breccia? he was a true genius! try to find "el eternauta" or "perramus" (there are 2 versions of el eternauta and also a bunch of sequels, make sure to get his version).
Cheers!

And rightfully so people should be pleased with this book , from what I'v seen so far your doing an amazing job and the progression of your art has leaped to new high's.

I know what you mean about "Dark and Real," it's part of why the Manga community is so huge right now. (That's not me trying to convince anyone manga > normal comics, I don't think that myself)

In the Manga industry, especially right now, there number of Whimsical and funny stories and the like just exceed the current in normal comics market. And if in reality number wise it's about the same, popularity of comics would say Manga has the lead in that category.

Honestly, I read from both.
Ultimate Spiderman <3
Bleach <3
etc...

I'm not much of a comedy guy, but both of those have just enough of comedy/seriousness to fill my needs, along with whatever else I choose to read.

Skottie,

It's up to artist like you and the others out there to be pioneers and show that caricature and an animated drawing style can make a story just as good or better than any photo realistic rendering.

I think people should stop thinking of comic book artists as comic book artists and see them for what they truly are. Artists and story tellers who use the medium of comics to express themselves.

Keep fighting the good fight and keep up all the great work.

Skottie, Realistically, when is this project due to hit shelves?

Hey Skottie, your work is amazing. I know you have already developed your technique as far as inking is concerned and there is no greater satisfaction than inking your own work. I am trying to use Manga Debut to ink my stuff. What program do you use to ink? Any tips you can pass on? I wish I had the money to get that tablet you have, eventually I know I will, cause it's better to do digital work on it, instead of on a wacom standard tablet like mine. Any advice you can shed will be greatly appreciated.

Now this is just deeelishisssss! Im loving it all man, forreal, im stoked to go and grab a comic off the shelf that has a FRESH and original DIRECTION and purpose, its really a refreshing thing man, KEEP IT GOIN YO!

Skottie,
You Rock. I'm fired up to see the finished product. I'm a huge fan. It's nice to see someone of your caliber taking on this project. It's hard to find some of the lighter stuff that is good quality. keep up the good work.
Not sure if you are familiar with Mike Kunkel's Hero Bear and the Kid. It's a great story that would fall in this catagory.

man I seriously can't wait to read this book, from what you've been showing dude, looks like it going to be some of your best work, and liek you said, I can tell your just having fun with it, keep up the solid dude.

Some Dr. Seuss going on here! I love it. And so does Horton!

I love it , it 's fantastic

Oh heck yeah...Hero Bear is cool. Skottie, your stuff rocks. I've followed you since the new warriors. Actually was the first comic I bought my son, who is now into comics. Thanks dude.

You are changing the game my man! Pencil done digitally...inks on paper. Crazyness!
And you're right, people never expect much out of "cartoony, light, comics". You're about to hit them bitches with a brick. Keep it going man.
Peace.

love the cover man! and i can't wait to read the book.

i think your totally right about the comics (in the west at least, japan are more open), not in tights not a comic. a comic is a medium not a genre, you can tell any story you want via comics. i love how your out there pushing it man! we need people like you to help break new ground

I can't wait to have it at my farkin' home as well! BAH looks to be awesome. It's so cool that you're loving the work as much as you are.

Crazy cool cover.

Michael

Very nice work. Love composition and I see it will be really good book.

wow! fanfriggintastic.... GFreat stuff Skot as always...

matt

This is looking really amazing Mr. Young, so i'll look for it in december!
Have a great week!
Your friend,
Fabian :)

awesome art...and i love Sketchbook Pro, too. Beautifully organic reaction. Did you print the pencils off and lightbox them? The pencils are obviously on Marvel paper.

again, great stuff. lookin' forward 2 december...^_^

Skottie,

Great job as always. In your pencil sketch, I noticed that there were alot of rough lines at the edges and there is not a single line that defines the edges of your objects. I wanted to know, do you clean them up digitally and sort of decide and define the edges of the objects? OR do you define the objects while INKING? I remember you said you felt bored going over the same lines while inking your pencils. Is this your way of sort of keeping it fresh? I hope my question makes sense a bit? I guess I just wanted to know how you go about your transition from your pencils to inks.

bravo spettacolare magnifico. max from sicily

Skottie, when people call it the "superhero ghetto," they aren't kidding. Welcome to the real world. Extremely glad you could make it!

Best,
Eric

This really is a fantastic drawing. I've been through most of the blog and you've got some absolutely stellar work going on here. Very glad to hear you're getting positive feedback on this work in particular. It looks like great fun and that SHOULD be what it's all about. Keep going!

love the work... keep it coming.