How do we create the bad guys? Join us for an exploration into the darkness of the Bruise-Black, as a wicked tear in space unleashes the tangled, mangled force upon the unwitting planet of the Quilt and we gather the forces of the Indie Comic Union to figure out how to tell a story with […]
Category: The Quilt News
Informational posts regarding the development of the Indie Comic Union’s collaborative comic The Quilt.
Once again the Indie Comic Union travels to the patchwork planet of the collaborative comic project The Quilt. This time we are zooming in for a close up on the design process for Thunk!, the metallic leader of the Crater Critters and a character with a transformation and a destiny in their future! Participating Indie […]
The Indie Comic Union’s collaborative comic project continues with more production designs and worldbuilding for The Quilt. This time we explore the Crater, an alien oasis and reprieve from the hardships of the Quilt’s harsh patchwork landscape… until everything changes! Watch us develop ideas and concept art for the Critters to flesh out our script […]
New YouTube video! Indie Comic Union’s collaborative project continues with the Quilt. This time we are gathering to develop the look of the Starbreakers, fallen space knights in decline struggling to retain their dying ways on the harsh world of the Quilt. We run the gamut from John Osborne’s archetypal main character Apannon to Matt […]
Design info for scene III Barnacle Fruit Medieval folktales mention barnacle trees encrusted with barnacles that gave birth to baby geese. The legends were thought to have arisen over misunderstandings about the migration of geese and driftwood bedazzled with barnacles, but for our purposes it makes for an amazing alien flora that gives us the […]
Quilt Layouts
More Indie Comic Union goodness is up on our YouTube channel as our diligent Quilters go into overtime on our meeting and break out this second half conversation to cover panel layout systems that work well on Instagram and for our Quilt comic collaboration. Drew F. Lee talks about Erik Larsen’s innovative modular system, and […]
Indie Comic Union members get together and discuss the nitty gritty details of how we are going to use Magma Studio, Zoom, our own Indie Comic Union website and other tools to pool our collective talents and build a world together called The Quilt. Indie Comic Union Roll Call for this video: MattDrawsDnDThe SeahorsieThe AuthorbotIncandescence […]
Script: God Fruit Page 2
Three double panels (or two-squares each on the Kirby grid).Full script for Issue One is here Page 2 Panel 1 and 2 wide panoramic establishing shot of the cityscape of the barbarians. The skyline is visible with that tear in the fabric of the universe from the previous page. There is a small terrace on […]
Space Barbarian Drawjam
The Quilt’s first Drawjam was a nice get together, and one of two meetups that will get shared to YouTube just as soon as we get the video edited so we can all see the ideas flying from all angles as the Quilt begins to take shape!For now, we just wanted to get some of […]
Dreaming up the Quilt
The first of our YouTube videos documenting the making of the Quilt arrives today. We will be hopping into meetings regularly to begin all the worldbuilding, character designing, and assembly of this crazy new indie comic collaboration that is The Quilt! As Conner says so well, “Be sure to like and subscribe!” so you don’t […]