Stray is a cat burglar. He's in the vein Catwoman, Black Cat, ect. His name is borrowed from the character he's an homage too: This Mistake of a Creation

He's 16. He's a rich asshole. He's a hokey super hero comic character. His mom and dad died in some tragic freak-super-villain-accident and left all their extensive wealth to him, but oh-no! its being gobbled up by his family company's evil board of directors. They're out to embezzle all the profits and buy yachts or something, now that daddy Weston is dead. Whats a poor land-rich boy to do? How will he keep paying for his parent's ridiculously huge mansion, and his servants? What about private school tuition? He can't access any of his trust fund until he's 18, oh whats a resourceful lad like him to do??

Strap on a mask and steal shit of course. His mother was a gallery curator and a collector of fine rococo era antiques and paintings. The boy's got an eye for the rich shit. So he'll just steal some paintings to fill the void in his heart and to keep heating his 13 bedroom 4.5 million dollar manor.

It's probably more heart felt than this, but you get the idea.




Fuckin' battle me Kent.

Oni-press has open submissions until the end of June and I'm going to be pitching a comic. I'm looking at it as a unique opportunity but I'm not heavily invested in my success (not to say I'm not invested in doing quality work, but that I won't be super let down when I inevitably don't get chosen.)

Me and Six were chatting and making a thread to keep track of my to-do list of the pitch and my art for it came up and it seemed like a good idea!

Heres my To-do List:

- A logline - [what’s the idea/concept]
- A one-page synopsis / overview - A short summary that contextualizes who your project is for and how it fits into the marketplace
- A 3-5 page outline - give us the full beginning, middle and end of your story so we can see your execution.
- A sample script containing at least two scenes, consisting of at least eight pages and no more than twenty pages.
- At least 8 sample pages of sequentials from the project being pitched.

I'm pitching a baseball comic called Crimson Bat about a Japanese freshman who moves to Texas and has to adapt the world of American Highschool Baseball.

I'll be posting art and outlines and ect in this thread to keep me going and motivated. Heres a bunch of concept work I've done for it:

The Protag, Takahashi, who is still lacking a first name.




Dallas, the jaded catcher whose pissed his highschool team is terrible after a golden run in little league.


Tate the centerfielder and dubious 'captain' of the team before Takahashi shows up. His father works in the oil refineries, and his sister is a cheerleader/brigadette/prom committee social butterfly who while younger tends to be the mother hen.



(tate's original last name was dallas but it's been swapped)


Elijawa is a Creole first baseman and with Tate acts as the tenative glue for the very lackluster team.



Warm ups and some ink tests.





I'm wrapping up my last week of finals in college right now but tomorrow's goal is to get the preview pages scripted and thumbed and start on the 3-5page outline.

Also if you played baseball in highschool man, please tell me, I've got a buncha questions to ask about that.

So my computer didn't get fixed until yesterday so I'm two days behind on the november dude a day thing, but heres my first one as well as some Jane and Gris being pseudo lesbians from a conversation on VoidChat.

Update: now has second DAD design.






Leavin' all this old stuff here so the comments make sense and visual improvement or something.

New art posted deeper in thread.