No.151 New Echelon

 Funny what can influence you when making art. I recently bought a Lava Lamp.

No153 Ahead of Time

 

Back in Time - No.154

Quite often, creating a new Echelon work starts with creating a new spaceship or Flying Thing. Then I build a scene around it. A ship will start as a simple shape or silhouette and I add just minimal features. They don’t get too involved as I am searching for a certain expression. Most Echelon works each have their own ‘new’ flying thing’ but sometimes I need to use one more than once, as in the Episode below. 

This scene below started with the large central looming object (which could be a ship or flying thing) but was created in tandem with the ground lines. Everything builds then forms. In this scene the ships were the last to arrive and were taken from a previous scene.

In The Coming Days Ahead.

 If I only waited a couple more days it would have been one whole year since my last post here. Geez. What have I been doing? Lots of things, but mostly comics…abstract comics. I have not stopped creating Echelon images! The cycle of Echelon has come around.  I think they are getting better and better. Yes the book will be coming out, now in November, and sadly I do not seem to be involved in the design mechanism for the mighty publisher. Everything is different now; size, format, design…. I can only hope for the best. In the meantime I have many many new Echelon works I hope to share in the coming days. There is nothing that can control my output of these beauties. Enjoy!

Teaser Taser Edition Is Blasting Through

Putting it in some form so it can be further transformed into a second state of being, the Twilight of Echelon teaser/ashcan exists on this plane. Limited copies are available through At Bay Press but be warned, there is a printing mistake. One page is printed twice and thereby taking the place of one page that is missing. You kinda don’t even notice it. Nobody else did until I thought something looked weird and pointed it out. At any rate, they will be printed again (I was told).

This edition is 20 pages, 6 x 6 inches, recycled gloss paper, fold-out front and back covers, all B&W and looks glorious.

It is still somewhat in the air on the books final size (7x7, 8x8)  page count (120pgs?) and form (whether hard or soft cover), silver printing on the cover possibly and the cover image my change. It is still scheduled for a spring 2024 release.

It’s Starting To Form

I am Starting to play around with some cover ideas, designs and images for the book, which is now scheduled to be out next spring 2024. I’ll continue to play around with it as we hash out the dimensions (I think it should be square) and the cover material. Will it be a soft or hard cover? Will there be foil stamping or embossing? How about all of the above! ??

I’ve chosen these three images for different reasons. They will each convey a different initial feeling response from the reader and the publisher, editor and I will have to figure out what we want.

The first one is more dynamic and explosive. The second is a bit quieter and is the first Echelon picture I made and kinda always thought this one would be the cover of the book if there ever was one. And the third image is very quiet, very meditative. I think all of these describe Echelon.