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30 June 2009 : New Artist: Roedy Rillf

Roedy Rillf
Inspired by Kazu Kibuishi's Copper, Jamal has returned to write, letter, and color the adventures of Thomas. We put a call on the Internet via DeviantArt, Penciljack and Digital Webbing for a new Thomas artist. Many applied and we managed to finally whittle it down to just Roedy Rillf.

Roedy has completed the new designs for the main Thomas crew (KAtherine, Carl and Thomas) and has begun working on his first Thomas strip. After he has finished the pencils and inks, Jamal will jump in and complete the lettering and coloring. Our blog post on 15 June showcases Rillf's design for Thomad with Jamal's colors.

The new adventures of Thomas wil be a monthly feature updated on the 1st of every month starting in August and continuing every month until Jamal and Roedy run out of Thomas stories to tell.

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TAGS : Roedy Rillf, Unpublished Art

22 June 2009 : Eirian and Orumil: Process

With all our continuing strips, we are working to establish a comfortable process that leads to a a comfortable buffer. Right now with Eirian and Orumil Season 3, we have 8 completed strips, 8 more strips pencilled and Tyler Richlen is hard at work with the next set of strips. Richard Nelson has delivered the scripts for the first 36 strips of the new season and we are expecting this season the first story arc to run about 72 strips.

The process begins with a script completed by Richard Nelson and approved by the Warmageddon editors. From that script Tyler draws in pencil the complete strip. The new strips are square. Tyler emails Jamal a file that's roughly 11"x11" (28 cm x 28 cm).

pencilled panel by Tyler Richlen

Once the file is received by Jamal. He starts to work his magic. First, he goes in and adds the panel borders and lettering based upon the script. The lettering is all done in Adobe Illustrator. After the lettering is complete, Jamal loads the pencils, borders and lettering into Adobe Photoshop. In Photoshop, Jamal uses a series of brushes to digital ink the strip.

lettered and inked strips by Jamal Walton

After the lettering and inking is done, the strip is almost complete. With the new adventures of Eirian and Orumil, we've decided to add gray tones to the images. Jamal does this as well, so after lettering, it's back to Photoshop where Jamal works his magic with grayscales. First, Jamal lays out all the flat gray tones and does the background colors. The backgrounds are mostly gradients. After the flat tones have been laid out, Jamal then lays in the shadows to complete the strip.

The process from start to finish takes the crew a little over 2 days (as the juggle other tasks), so we expect no problem maintaining a weekly strip.

Ultimately, the goal for our online comics, is to have 3 weekly strips featuring Rowan, Tiegre, and Eirian and Orumil. In addition to the weekly features, there will also be several full updates of stories of 8-12 pages featuring all your favorites from Asar to the Senior Council and everyone in between.

Lots of excitement and lots of things to come.

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TAGS : Eirian and Orumil, Richard Nelson, Step-By-Step, Tyler Richlen

15 June 2009 : Warmageddon State Address 15 June 2009

Excuse the dust as we complete this new site. Over the last year, our team of programmers have been transforming the Warmageddon web site to ready it for our online comics. Starting on the first of August, we will be begin releasing the complete line of Warmageddon comics (old and new).

There will be complete stories that will be later collected in print versions.

There will be a new monthly Thomas strip by Jamal and Roedy Rillf (see the new Thomas on the left).

Grant Perkins joins us to complete the second season of Eirian and Orumil just in time for us to launch an all new third season.

The third season will be a new weekly Eirian and Orumil adventure strip by Richard Nelson and Tyler Richlen. (see the image to the right).

On top of all that there is Tiegre, Asar, Izzy and Gunnar, the Senior Council and much, much more including the introduction of Rowan the Jungle Thief!

We have been working hard here at Warmageddon central during our year off and we hope that you take the time to see the wonderful new things to come.

As always, you can head over to our friends a Bull City Comics and purchase all the great Warmageddon comics, prints, original art and more.

Our next print project will be a reprint of the Warmageddon: Foundations TPB and an all new collected volume of Eirian and Orumil Season One and Two. Below are the finished covers for the Eirian and Orumil collection.

Eirian and Orumil: Televised Regular Cover
by Jason Williams and Jamal Walton

Eirian and Orumil: Televised Alternate Cover
by Grant Perkins and Jamie Roberts

August also marks 5 years of Warmageddon. In celebration, Jamie Roberts is preparing 25 of Warmageddon inspired bean characters. In the store, there are prints of his versions of Tiegre, Izzy and Gunnar. This special set of bean characters will feature Tiegre, Izzy. Gunnar, Kiara, Ulmragha, Lilith, THF, Dorian, Carl, Kri'lang, Asar and many of your favorite Warmageddon characters.

Barbarian Pirate Asar by Jamie Roberts

As mentioned earlier, there will be regular updates on the State of Warmageddon. Stay tuned.

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TAGS : comics, covers, Eirian and Orumil, Grant Perkins, Jamie Roberts, Richard Nelson, Roedy Rillf, Rowan, Thomas, Unpublished Art

21 May 2009 : Warmageddon State Address 21 May 2001

Every week on Thursday, we will be delivering a Warmageddon State Address. This will give you the latest information on the many happenings here at Warmageddon headquarters and give you a sneak peak at the art and stories that are on the way.

It's done. Gerry Fernandez has delivered all 8 pages of Raven's Town and all that's left is for Jamal to letter the pages. This story has been in the works for a while and has passed through the hands of 3 different artists.

Hannu Lipponen and Mike Imboden are hard at work on the next episode of Izzy and Gunnar that stars Python Manning and zombies, zombies, and more zombies.

Jamal, Grant Perkins, and Jamie Roberts are putting the final touches on a variant cover for Eirian and Orumil: Televised while Jamie begins on a new project just in time for Warmageddon's 5 year anniversary!

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TAGS : Geraldo Fernandez, Grant Perkins, Hannu Lipponen, Jamie Roberts, Mike Imboden, Stephen Forbes

14 April 2009 : Return to Raven's Town

Artist, Gerry Fernandez, has started turning in layouts for Raven's Town. Raven's Town was written by Stephen Forbes.

Bwang characters

Raven

Page One Panel One

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TAGS : Geraldo Fernandez, Stephen Forbes, Unpublished Art

3 September 2007 : Eirian and Orumil Invade Digital Webbing

When summer comes to Digital Webbing, it means it's time for the annual Draw-Off tournament. This year's tournament involved 4 previously un-drawn strips from E and O season 2. Below are some of the top drawings.

After seeing the art below, it took us very little time to offer DW user OZ! aka Tyler Richlen a chance to pencil the upcoming Season 3 over E and O.

In other E and O news, Jason Williams will be returning (in his spare time) to pencil the remaining strip from season 2 and will be drawing a couple covers to the E and O comic book.

So keep your eyes peeled for more Eirian and Orumil.

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TAGS : Digital Webbing, Eirian and Orumil, Tyler Richlen

30 August 2007 : Not Any Asar at All Thursday

First things, first ... we'd like to thanks all the Warmageddon fans that went out and voted for Gunplay. Jorge and Dominic put together a great project and they very much deserve all the votes they received. Oh yeah... they won, so congrats to Jorge and Dominic and keep an eye out for Gunplay. Of course, that means there will be no more Warmageddon art from Dominic in the near future, but that's okay as we're all happy to for Dominic because he's such a great guy.

Enough talk about Gunplay, let's get to the next topic which is ...

Join Jamal "Warmageddon" Walton, Dominic "The artist formerly drawing Tiegre" Vivono, Mike "Fist of Justice" Imboden and the Boys (Ken Haesar and Buz Hasson of "The Living Corpse") at tables 30-32. There you will find goodies from The Living Corpse, Fist of Justice and, of course, WARMAGEDDON!!!

At Baltimore, there will be a fair amount of new prints and a display of all the most recent Warmageddon projects. Below are just a sampling of the new artwork from the next season of Eirian and Orumil.

Logo design by Jámal Walton

The art below is
pencilled by Tyler Richlen
inked and colored by Jámal Walton

Join us next weekend at Baltimore!!!! Below is just a logo for Thomas, Son of Marcus which is coming this winter to the web.

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TAGS : Baltimore Comic-Con, Buz Hasson, Dominic Vivona, Eirian and Orumil, Gunplay, Jorge Vega, Ken Haesar, Mike Imboden, Thomas, Tyler Richlen

24 August 2007 : Vote for Gunplay

Here's yet another reason to vote Gunplay as the Comic Book Challenge winner. If you haven't voted yet, click on the graphic below. Gunplay is by our Warmageddon friends, Jorge Vega and Dominic Vivona, who brought to life some of our favorite Warmageddon characters including Milayna (Ahead of the Game) and Tiegre.

Vote now and vote often.

If you wish, you can also vote for friend of Warmageddon, Shawn Granger with Grey Shades. He hasn't done anything for Warmageddon, but he's still a long time friend of Jámal's so he should be a friend of yours as well..

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TAGS : Dominic Vivona, Gunplay, Jorge Vega

16 August 2007 : ~~Asar~~ Gunplay Thursday

Normally... we'd be showing something Warmageddon related and on Thursday something Asar related ... but today we have something special, Gunplay.

Gunplay is a story brought to you by Warmageddon creators, Jorge Vega (Ahead of the Game) and Dominic Vivona (In Forest Kirby Lives the Tribe of Drakul) as part of the 2007 Comic Book Challenge. Normally, this is where we would go in depth describing the comic, but since this is their baby we're going to let the the work do it for them.

Saddlewood, nickle and blood; folks say that's how the West was won. For one man, Abner Meeks, that';s how his soul was lost. Gunplay is a haunting, bullet riddled tale of a Buffalo soldier condemned to roam the Big EMpty with a hellish curse slung at his waist -- a demonic shooting iron that forces Abner to kill once a day or suffer soul searing pain. His only salvation lies in earning the trust of a boy he's never met, a boy with an agonizing secret of his own... and Abner his just gunned down that boy's father.

To support this fine concept, we ask that between now and August 25, you click on any of the images. Each image will bring you to one of three (3) videos promoting Gunplay. Under each video is a simple voting poll. You can support Gunplay by choosing it in the poll, putting in the code, and clicking the submit button. The great thing is you can vote as many times as you wish (without limit) AND it costs you nothing but the short amount of time it takes to vote.

Please do your part to support our Warmageddon brethren. You're still reading this? Have you voted? If not, go vote for Gunplay now! If so, go vote for Gunplay again.

Now, I'm sure you've voted.Right?. Well of you have we thank you. If not, GO VOTE.

Next week, we'll bring you more about Gunplay and maybe Jámal will tell the tale of how Jorge and Dominic got together for Gunplay.

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TAGS : Dominic Vivona, Gunplay, Jorge Vega

15 August 2007 : The Return of Shane Nitzsche

Shane Nitzsche was one of the early artist of Warmageddon. He's responsible for number of designs including Tiegre. He left a while ago to pursue other opportunities and now he's back and working on layouts for a short Warmageddon story (Raven's Town) written by Stephen Forbes. Below are a few pages of thumbnails by Shane.