This just in...

Wayne sent me this sneak peek at the colors he's working on. He's still in a bit of an experimental mode right now, trying to refine the look and feel.

So, not a whole lot to say about this except, wow!

Wayne's first three pencilled pages, version one. Being the perfectionist he is, he's already planning to go back to pages one and three and "fix" some things he's not happy with.

Next up: colors!

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The first two pencilled pages for your viewing pleasure.

Note that this is not the same thing as, "the first two pages in the story." Much like a big-budget Hollywood blockbuster, the scenes in Descartes the Zombie are drawn out of sequence, depending on factors such as location, weather, and what Wayne feels like drawing that day.

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Here are a few samples of Wayne's work on character designs for the Descartes the Zombie cast.

Welcome to the official production blog for Descartes the Zombie. I'm Elton Pruitt, programmer by day and writer by night. The guy chained to the drawing table in the Land Down Under is Wayne Nichols, the absurdly talented artist I'm privileged to be working with on this project.

Let's get the basics out of the way, so we can get to the good stuff!

• WHO:
  We already covered that one, so one down! But seriously, folks, click the links under the Creators heading to the right to learn all you could ever want to know about Elton and Wayne.
  
• WHAT:
  Descartes the Zombie is a four-issue limited series (aka mini-series) that Wayne and I are developing to pitch to a major comics publisher.
  
• WHEN:
  We'll hopefully have the pitch ready to drop in the mail by late summer. In the meantime, you can follow our progress right here.
• WHERE:
  Now that's a nebulous question! I'm in Little Rock, Wayne's in Australia, but the most important where is, where will you be able to buy Descartes the Zombie's first issue a few months from now? The answer, of course, is your local comic book store. It's never too early to start bugging them! (apologies to all you store owners out there)
• WHY:
  Ah, the $25,000 question. The answer's simple, really. I love zombie stories, and I wanted to tell a zombie story that turned the traditions of the genre upside down and inside out. So, instead of an apocalyptic setting in which hordes of zombies roam the earth, we have a present-day setting in which there's a single zombie. And instead of a small group of survivors fighting for their lives against the zombie hordes, we have one man, fighting for his life against... himself. Or rather, against the zombie he has become.
  

Thanks for stopping by. Check back often, as we'll be updating this site as work progresses. There will be preview pages aplenty, not to mention cool behind-the-scenes stuff, like snippets of email conversations between Wayne and me discussing various aspects of the project, and even some script-to-page comparisons so you can see just how we get from words on paper to the printed comic book page.