Monday, January 01, 1990
Seraphim (Innovation)
Way, way back in the misty days of college I sold my first
published work, a three issue science-fiction comic that was later
compiled into a graphic novel.
Unfortunately the combination of my own
youthful inexperience, a first-time comic artist, and a publisher that
could best be described as "marginally competent" resulted in a work
that didn't exactly begin my meteoric rise to the ranks of comics
stardom. The plot was a mix of my interests at the time -- cyberpunk and
anime, mostly -- and told the story of two operatives for a galactic
security agency assigned to protect a religious leader targeted for
assasination. Of course virtual reality figured prominently in the
story, as did aliens, and there was even a bit of
Alice In Wonderland
for street cred. The end result was mixed at best (printing one of the issues
with the pages out of order probably didn't help), but it's the ugly
ducklings you love sometimes.