Page 10 Comments and A VERY Special Notice

We want to appologize for the lack of a new Rookie page last week. This time it wasn’t the fault of “the World’s Slowest Comic Artist.  We actually had page 10 ready to go but Mother Nature had other plans. This is one the really does fall under the “Act of God” catagory.

Be sure to read the entire frigid story — with Photos — over at the Addictive Comics Blog.

And don’t forget to visit the Art of Addictive Comics Blog. It also suffered from the Winter Storm of 2009, but should have new content very soon. So be sure to pay it a visit frequently.

VERY SPECIAL NOTICE

This is the last page of The Rookie for a few weeks.  

It’s unfortunate that it comes just after we missed a week for snow and were postponed a couple of times due to my work load (outside of the comics.)

But this is the End of Chapter One and this has been planned all along.

Scott is back from touring and we are going to take a while to discuss the upcoming storyline and things that went right and wrong in our first few weeks.

I (Mark) also want to take the opportunity to “retool” the artwork a bit.  I’m really not as happy with it as I would like to be.  I enjoy pencilling and inking (I ink the Black Jack Justice comic.  If you haven’t checked that out yet, now is the perfect time) but I’m not liking what I am producing when I pencil and ink together.  I am taking too many “shortcuts.”

With that in mind we are bringing in Bill Nichols to handle the inking chores on the next chapter (and possibly further.)  Bill is a good friend of mine and a 20 year veteran of all aspects of the comic field.  He is  currently the editor of the comics magazine, Sketch (which this month features one of my favorite artists, Ryan Ottley of Invincible) and a beautiful inker. 

He may even be professional enough to make my pencils look good.  We’ll see.

We’ll be introducing Bill more fully in the coming weeks here at The Rookie Blog and on the Art of Addictive Comics Blog.  Even though we won’t have any new pages for a while, we will have things for you to enjoy.  So be sure to keep checking the Blogs.

We ain’t going away — just slowing up to get a better start.

Now, please let us know what you think of page 10 — and Chapter One.

Mark and Scott

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