I know you may be wondering where all this Moon Town comickry is headed. Well, Moontowners, I’m happy to tell you that you are watching a graphic novel take shape, one fragment of a page at a time, which will build to one 36-page comic story at a time, and eventually build into a 150 page graphic novel.
Below, you can see the first comic under construction. Pages with question marks are the pages we haven’t gotten to yet. Anyway, I hope that satisfies your curiosity at least for now.
DETAILS:
Moon Town, Book One – Breaking Lane. 36 page story, the first three chapters of the Moon Town saga:
Remember, the Moon belongs to everybody, but very soon, you can get your very own copy of Moon Town in your own hot little hands. The first issue should be for sale in early 2010. Stay tuned!
I’ve never been a big fan of comics… I read mostly non-fiction science books and find it hard sometimes to get into fiction, let alone cartoon fiction… So when I heard about Moon Town on the 365 Days of Astronomy podcast, I was intrigued, but skeptical. I visited this site and was hooked from the first panel! I cannot get enough of Moon Town! I think it will be torture for me to have to wait every couple of days for an update!
PLEASE finish as soon as you can… I would pay lot’s of $ for this… Great work! Keep it up!
Hey, Jeffrey! Wow, what a great note! This is exactly the hurdle, to get people who don’t like comics and aren’t sure about sci-fi interested in Moon Town. I would like to think it’s more than your typical sci-fi, and more engaging than your typical comic. I’m so glad to hear you feel that way as well.
As for how quickly I’ll get ‘er done, more strips are on the way, and I’ll get it out to you just as quickly as I can.
Thanks again for the great note!
And just to clarify: I have nothing against comics at all… I had just never found one that I liked – until now!
I get slightly more than zero traffic, but thought I’d help in any way I can!
So, at the risk of sounding a little creepy, I’m slightly embarrassed to admit I actually had a dream about Moon Town last night, ha!
-At any rate, I wanted to let you know I linked your site to mine to try to spread the word -You don’t have to return the favor, I host from my house as a side project – not a great website
-BTW, I’m a (amateur) musician and have links to some music under the ‘audio’ link on the ‘About’ page on my website if you’re slightly interested…
http://jeffreys.boldlygoingnowhere.org
-Keep up the great work Steve… I’m looking forward to the next update!!
Maybe you want to change the ETA to something like Christmas/Holiday/End of 2009 or Q1 2010?
Looks a bit weird with a time that has already passed as the estimated release date.
Thanks, Sardtok!
Inspiring, Steve. I can see just how effective the layouts are now. It’s doubly impressive just how you break up the panels for the web-comic, and how they then fit on the page. The flow of each segment of panels, then the page flow, work equally well! But then, what am I thinking? You know a thing or two about this shtick!
Oh – and five pager? My money’s on MONKEYPANTS!!
It’s like making a movie… heh heh. MONKEYPANTS!
Wow! This looks awesome. I look forward to reading it.
You look at these pages all laid out like this and you can really see what a beautiful book it’s going to be.
Hey, thanks you guys! I am pretty pleased with it, Tom, and it’s getting excited. Mat – I’m glad you’re into it. Spread the word if you can – thanks!
Steve, you are a goddam genius.
‘Nuff Said.
–JMc
John – if the definition of “genius” is “guy who doesn’t know what he’s doing, makes it up as he goes along and then falls backwards into a bed of roses” then I hope you are right.
And also, glad you approve.
The new format is awesome. I really like how the large frames now fill a whole page.
But, three chapters? I thought there were two?
Heya, Sardtok – originally there were going to be two chapters, but I felt the first book would break better after three. The first chapter is called “New Sherriff in Town”, about Cassie’s arrival; the second is called Moon Men, about Simon, the VBL, and the prep for the dig; and the third is called Digging in the Dark, and is about the Mystery of Vin.
Ah, you’ve fixed the chapter forward link, but not the chapter back link in the menu.
Going forward you get to “Stop Mucking About”, but going back from the latest you skip straight to chapter 2’s “Rise and Shine”.
It’s not ideal, but I didn’t program it – the function comes with ComicPress – and that’s just the way that works. *shrug* I guess we’ll all just have to soldier on until the next CP release.
I know there is the visual archive, but it would be cool if there were image map links on these pages that went to each panel, because you know, you need one more thing to do.
Mark – actually, that would be awesome, and it is something I’m working on. But yeah. Time.