Welcome Interruptions

[den]

I'm hacking away at a JAVA assignment when there's a knock at the door. It's the postman, and he has this:



It's kevinpease's book! And he signed it! I was expecting him to sign it with a "Hi Batty" sort of thing. What I wasn't expecting was:



The "check you out" puzzled me until I read this this bit in the intoduction by Steve Jackson. I was blown away:


How good is that? The text, that is. Not the poor scan. I'm grinning myself to death here.

I wrote that story while Kevin was having a serious burnout. I thought I'd send a comic script to him so "all he had to do" was draw it, and we Patient Ones would get 3 weeks worth of Absurd Notions while Kevin had a rest from thinking up stories and scripts. I didn't expect it to end up on the Art By Other's page, and I never dreamed I'd be mentioned in the book.

I bow to you yet again, oh sky-blue one!


Me, By Kevin Pease.

Comments

[ceruleanst.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to brighten your day. :=}

The question of why I never did turn that script into comics bears examining, for it was certainly deserving. I think it's because to make it canon, I would have had to iron out the mild Australian accents from the dialogue, and that would have robbed it of a lot of its charm. To me, a Story By Den Whitton (and all the distinguishing characteristics thereof) is every bit as valuable as a Comic Strip By Kevin Pease, so I felt it should be preserved in its original state.

Also, there's something special about the imagined visuals. When Craig read the introduction, he agreed and said that he had a very specific image in his head of the bats flitting around overhead that was unlikely to be matched by any drawing.

After all this, in spite of the reasons, I started to consider that maybe I should give it the treatment after all, but realized that if I did, I would be making a liar out of Steve Jackson in print.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I never thought I wrote with an accent. odd.

When I wrote the script I could see in my head each panel as though I was looking at a real strip. I've only ever written two "fan-ficts" for comics, and the other was a staight out short story. Steve Jackson is right; your characters work. And I think you should do the strip, but that's just me 8)