ComicConfidential

OK, one week away from ComicCon and the pressure is on. These images are actually from a children's book I'm working on with the woman I did my first book with. Our first collaboration was a pirate book for children, entitled "Prissy Pink and Pirate Purple". This new book is about an elementary school girl in the 3rd grade with a bunch of monster children training to be witches and warlocks. She becomes upset because the other monster children have two eyes and she has only one. The first image is from the line in the story, "Kati is a little shy and hides her head in books, because she only has one eye, she is bothered by her looks".   I spent more time on the book titles than I did with the illustration. I'm pretty proud of "Witches are from Mars; Warlocks are from Venus". 

This second image is supposed to be a class photo. I really didn't want to come up with an entire classroom of monster kids, so this became a photo of the kids mentioned in the poem. "All of Kati's other friends have so many things, all eyes and legs and tentacles some even have three wings. Bella has a skinny tail that she swings around the room. Leon has six tentacles that glue him to his broom. Feta has a slimy tongue; it drags down to the floor, and instead of having two wings, Spindle she has four. Kati always felt so odd and very out of place. Why is she the only one with one eye on her face?"

Off to San Diego in one week. I promoted this on Facebook and I thought I would throw it out to blogreaders. These two pieces below will be something I will be handing out as a business card at ComicCon. Come by the SLG booth, buy an autographed issue of Sanctuary, and get a model sheet!

And of course, Cleo has to have her own. I have some big plans for Cleo in the next story arc....

I will be in San Diego for ComicCon from Thursday, July 12th until Saturday, July 14th. Please come by and say hi!