How It All Happened!
I’ve been doing this a
while now and it’s just struck me that no one really knows how I came to be
doing this, or even how I came up with the idea!
So in the interest of
transparency….Like it’s meant to be a secret!? I’m providing a little history;
It all started about
10 years ago, watching an episode of ‘Spaced’.
Describing a proposed
night out in the city, Tim puts forward his proposal in the form of some lovely
pencil illustrations. One in particular caught my attention, it was of him
throwing up! I don’t know why this grabbed me like it did, I suppose it was the
way in which the muscles in the neck portrayed such a violent expulsion from
the throat. It was so over the top, intense and expressive, the sinewy way in
which it was drawn fascinated me and ultimately started my little mind working.
Being a fan of comics
and having some imagination I started to wonder if once the liquid was expelled
from the body and landed in the toilet bowl if a strange chemical reaction
could take place and perhaps some creature would be produced. This was genesis!
From that point on I started to develop the idea, I’m interested in Evolution
and the advances in stem cell and genetic research, mapping the human genome
etc. and from this, with perhaps not too much research I started to develop the
world in which my characters would exist. I created a world where environmental
disaster resulting from human over population created a civil war resulting in
the rise of a totalitarian regime. This regime in control of its brutal police
force would ensure that the population would be tightly controlled to prevent
another severe disaster. Consequently people are unable to have children
without the express permission of the state. Due to this oppressive regime and
the advances in medical and genetic science and technology rogue scientists
experiment with gene splicing, mixing and mutating creating odd creatures which
in comic book world would give me plenty of scope for character creation and
push a story forward.
Once I’d figured out
the main character base I decided to write a script.
I’ve never written
extensively before and this was my first experiment with it. This I understand
doesn’t fill you all with confidence, but I can tell you all this, once I
started writing it all just flowed out of me. It took me about three months to
fully write the script and develop it into a story, which in turn developed
into 12 chapters and is now being formed into 12 issues!
Even now the end of
issue twelve can develop into more issues, I’ve got scenarios and characters in
my head ready for the script. I’ve always wanted to do this ever since I was a
child and I’m loving drawing new stuff. I thank you very much for taking a look
at my work and I hope you stick with me, because I assure you the story gets
more and more intense and exciting! If you have any comments or just want to
say hi, please get in touch!
Thank you
