A few weeks ago, Brock Heasley approached me to draw a 3 page SuperFogeys: Origins story. The story was originally intended for David Reddick to illustrate, but Dave had to bow out due to a very busy schedule.

I was nervous and excited about the opportunity. Nervous because it had been a very long time since I attempted a page-based comic layout. Excited because, deep down, I’d been jonesing to draw some action sequence based comics.

Brock was a total pleasure to work with. He sent me a very tight script, but left it up to me to pick camera angles. I broke the script down into thumbnails and sent him the roughs to get feedback. The whole process was exciting and fun – especially because I could just draw and not have to worry about writing for a change.

Below are the roughs for page 1. You can click on ‘em to see the larger version.

As page 2 and page 3 get published on SuperFogeys, I’ll post the roughs for those pages online.

Enjoy!

-Krishna

Here are the roughs for the second page of SuperFogeys Origins: Spy Gal vs Star Maiden. Click on the image to see the full-sized image.

The finished version is here

-Krishna

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In today’s Microcast, I talk about what it was like to work collaboratively with creator Brock Heasley on the SF Origins: Spy Gal vs Star Maiden story.

Page 3 of that story is now available for everyone to check out.

As a behind-the-scenes bonus, below are two versions of roughs I drew while mapping out the action from Brock’s script. In the first version, you can see a close-up of Captain Spectacular on the last panel, but the payoff – seeing the two ladies’ reactions, was missing.

So I went back and added that in.

Do check out SuperFogeys. It’s a wonderful, inventive, and purely cool comic series that you should be reading. And tell ‘em Krishna sent ya!

-Krishna

My cartooning buddy Brock Heasley asked me to spread the word, which I am more than happy to do. You may remember that a few moons ago I handled the art for Superfogeys: Origins (featuring Spy Gal vs Star Maiden).

If you’ve never read the SuperFogeys or it’s been a while since you have, now’s the time to check it out! Launched in September of 2006, the SuperFogeys has steadily developed into a hilarious and dramatic saga that’s far and away from its gag-a-day roots. Throughout its nearly four-year run, one villain has loomed over the residents of Valhalla-Home for the Supertired more than any other, the Third Man. We now know he’s secretly Dr. Klein, the founder of Valhalla, but what does he want? Who is he, really? And how do Spy Gal, Captain Spectacular, Swifty, Dr. Rocket and all the rest fit into his plans?

Everything has been leading up to the bomb creator Brock Heasley will be dropping on Thursday, August 19th. Early reactions to the revelation (by those lucky few) have varied from “That’s a total mind screw” to “Holy Sh—!” (Okay, so that’s not a lot of variety. Reactions are pretty much the same across the board!)

To celebrate, SuperFogeys will be running four updates August 16th-19th, Monday-Thursday. Then, in the week after that (after everyone’s had a chance to calm down!), seven consecutive daily updates August 23rd-29th, Monday-Sunday.

It’s time to catch back up with SF. What are you waiting for? Read it!

-Krishna