workin the overnite

hey john here, no sketches on this post because I'm posting at work. Just wanted to say a few things that have been on my mind involving this comic. Let me just say to everyone who stuck by me, my friends and colleagues that encouraged me to stick by my guns, my parents and to all of us here at the W4S...thank you very much. I really mean that. Its not everyday one gets to see his destiny laid out in front of him so neatly. I'm finally doing what I love. So once again thank you all.

On a side note Id like to comment on the artwork in the first issue. I started this book a little more than a year ago. It was fully penciled in a month on really shitty 11x17 sketch paper without the aid of real guides, blue pencil, wacom tablet or any true sense of the scope and grandeur necessary to make a real comic. I jumped into this industry with both feet half cocked and without fear, ready to show the world what I knew in my heart, I was capable of.

I've gotten a lot of very positive criticism on the art in this issue from comic readers, peers and even other artists that have never read a comic, least of all a super hero comic in there lives. But as anyone who draws knows, you are your own worst critic, and believe me I am a total bastard. In all honestly the primary reason it took us this long is because of my self consciousness of my own art. Hell I cut out 6 whole pages from the final product before I finally decided that this thing either needs to be made or I give up entirely.

No surrender, no retreat. It was far to late to just give up and I had a complete book just waiting to be released. Besides that, my friends who put just as much effort in this project wanted it done just as bad. At one point last year, I'm sure we all must have considered giving up on D-Listers. But we didn't and now here we are a fully published Issue that I must say looks friggin awesome in print. And thats not me tooting my horn, it just feels damn good to not only have finished this project but to have people i don't know asking for signed copies that they wish to pay for 2 days before FCBD.

How many people can say they did this. Not many I'll tell you that. And just wait, right now(well not now now but six hours ago and as soon as i get home from work) I'm penciling NINETEEN additional pages for the real release of D-Listers #1, and she'll be in full color.

It's been one year and I got to tell you, from the bottom of my black critic heart, I have gotten generations better than I was starting this. And just to prove it, over the next few weeks I'll post some previews of the new pages and you can judge for yourselves. Until then...

///hinton