Works & Days, Chapter I, Page I - WIP (Patreon)

I consider Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet a seminal creative awakening. Before R+J I didn't realize you could reinterpret a dagger from a William Shakespeare play as a handgun with "dagger 9mm" branded on the side. I had no idea that Friar Laurence could send a letter through a modern day delivery service called "Post-Haste". I had no clue that Aloha shirts could have religious iconography weaved into their design or that Queen Mab could simply be a hit of acid placed on a character's tongue.

As a kid, I was a huge fan of Greek Mythology. I pored through my family's set of World Book encyclopedias for all the info I could get, I read Edith Hamilton's Mythology until the cover fell off and I loved it when the Greek Gods showed up in my TV shows, movies and comic books. Greek Mythology was something that had been told and retold so much that the way it was retold - and the way the characters were depicted - became as interesting as the source material. And way back then I knew I wanted to take all the knowledge I had collected into my own version, with my own retelling and my own depictions.

For a long time, I wanted it to be an animated TV show, but knew that would be an nigh impossible task for the expectation I had set for this idea, so within the last few years I've decided to visualize it in comic form. It's a big project that requires more consideration than anything else I've ever done  however I'm putting any concerns aside and pushing through.

To lighten my burden, my intention is to build what I'm calling a "visual script" - which looks remarkably like a rough comic book page - that contains the visual composition and the actual story but not necessarily the final line or color.

I will continue to post these here in my SFW channel and compile them in Collections.

Also... the more I look at this, the more this bubble placement is trying me insane...