Sunday, March 20, 2011

The Skinny on The Artwork in JT Neslo Book 1

The artwork is already a source of controversy, with critics calling it crude, etc.

Speaking as someone quite capable of drawing, I will explain.

It's DELIBERATE.

The point is, in the "higher entelechy" where the original writer resides, he's having every imaginable difficulty with his collaborators, editor and publisher. He is in fact on the verge of quitting over artistic differences with them. As a consequence, deadlines were missed and the whole comic he was working on- his within-universe of J.T. Neslo- is a mess. Guest artists drawing in the house style plough on until the conflict suffered by the writer is resolved. Then, in the tail end of Book 1, things settle down to the "standard" style- what we are calling Saturday Morning Cartoons For Adults. By using the term "Adults" we don't intend to imply the books are scatalogical or pornographic- they are not even as confronting as say Jaws 2- but rather that we're trying to get the sense of wonder back in comics- four-color epics, blazing color, hot topical stories or cosmic sentiments, basically what we felt was missing from the big publishers.

JT Neslo is an ongoing series of graphic novels- sort of like full-color manga in the sense that they are big books. We want you to get value for money.
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