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If you've been following my art, you will see I've been working on a new story. I'm finally working towards a long form story. Oscar the Otter is an adventure story about a bookish anthropomorphic otter who is given a time traveling pocket watch, and the opportunity to go on countless adventures across time and space.
He started out as me simply trying to fashion my own retro animation style character similar to Felix the Cat, Mickey Mouse, or even Oswald. Then I came up with a story, and it's been falling together nicely.
I've scripted a first teaser adventure story for Oscar. It will be a 24 page comic to help promote the story. I'm hoping to be done with it by May.
Currently, I'm preparing for Emerald City Comicon (Seattle WA May 1 -3). Time is short, but I'm plowing through with a fun western mini. It's essentially the same world as Oscar, but no time travel. Just a fun wild west shoot out.
I'm on page 5 of 8, hoping to wrap up and print next week. It will be a short run. It is a part of a Comics Projects minicomic challenge. Every few months the group puts up a theme, and everyone busts out a quick minicomic in that theme. I'll need to print 20 for the group, and then I'll probably print another 20 for the convention.
If you'd like to see all the completed pages, they are currently on my Tumblr page: jesseacosta.tumblr.com/post/42…
He started out as me simply trying to fashion my own retro animation style character similar to Felix the Cat, Mickey Mouse, or even Oswald. Then I came up with a story, and it's been falling together nicely.
I've scripted a first teaser adventure story for Oscar. It will be a 24 page comic to help promote the story. I'm hoping to be done with it by May.
Currently, I'm preparing for Emerald City Comicon (Seattle WA May 1 -3). Time is short, but I'm plowing through with a fun western mini. It's essentially the same world as Oscar, but no time travel. Just a fun wild west shoot out.
I'm on page 5 of 8, hoping to wrap up and print next week. It will be a short run. It is a part of a Comics Projects minicomic challenge. Every few months the group puts up a theme, and everyone busts out a quick minicomic in that theme. I'll need to print 20 for the group, and then I'll probably print another 20 for the convention.
If you'd like to see all the completed pages, they are currently on my Tumblr page: jesseacosta.tumblr.com/post/42…
Seeking a quality art group for cartoonists
One thing I've always been searching for, whether it's a group on deviantart, or even on Facebook, is a quality group of cartoonists that discuss work and give quality feedback to each other.
Time and time again, when I join possible cartoonist groups, they always end up places where people just share their sketches and half hearted works like a fourth grader putting new art on the refrigerator waiting for praise from mommy. I can't stand that one bit. I want people to share art that is something they are really putting all their effort into. Not just sketches either, actual work pertaining to comics. Character design, thumbnails and roughs
My Cancer Story
This last year has been very difficult for me, and my new little family. Last summer, a week after my wife found out she was pregnant with our first child, we learned that I had cancer. Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the tongue to be precise. Never been a drinker or smoker either, so it was a real shock to have oral cancer.
Over the last several months, Ive had four surgeries, lost 30% of my tongue from surgeries to remove tumors, had two neck dissections to remove tumors from when the cancer spread to my lymph nodes, a major muscle was removed from my neck in the process because of the cancer, lost my job because of all the surgeries and wasn
Last Day of Chemo
Today was my last day of Chemotherapy, and Thursday will be my last day of radiation therapy. Here's to a positive, bright, and long future with amazing new directions and wonder.
2014 Goals
I’d like to jot down some ideas while I have then in mind. I have a lot of goals for my art in 2014, and I don’t mind sharing them with the world. Hopefully it will keep me in check.
I have several comics in various stages of progress and I’d like to get them finished this year. Not only that, but I want to have them look 100% my best work. I’ve made comics in the past years, but I feel like I could have hit them up with a lot of revisions, and not just let the comic slide just because I want it done to have another finished comic. I want to have friends critique the pages, and I want to be diligent enough to redraw c
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Great designs on the characters. Wishing you well with the comic!