HEART-SHAPED SKULL

SR 1 PAGE NINE SIDEWAYS PAGES! You’ll have to zoom, unfortunately. Sorry! I assure you this all worked very well in floppy print magazine form. And DANG those are some huge shoes on Sera. Big, bulky boots were such a thing in the goth/industrial scene of the early 2000’s. Everyone was rockin’ their New Rocks,…

SR 1 PAGE SEVEN Mary Ann! Her first appearance in the book! Not the first time I worked with the character, though. She was the co-star of my second Serenity Rose short film at CalArts, Good Guys Wear Black. In that film, Sera had to rescue Mary Ann from a boogeyman in her closet. The…

SR 1 PAGE FIVE The angriest page in the whole dang book? Probably! That whole “10 Commandments” thing is sorta painfully teenagery, right? (The third commandment just screams “freaked out Catholic kid.”) Definitely reflected how I was thinking about things at the time, though. And Sera’s dismissive comment about the list reflects my own growing…

SR 1 PAGE THREE “20-whatever?” She’s indifferent even to her own age! Impressive detachment levels there, Sera! (Nails her height and weight right on the nose, though.) Let’s take a look at some of these tiny little panels here. Real potent combination of “INTENSE FLASHBACK” and “whut?” going on in my brain here… MIDRIN CAPSULES…

SR 1 PAGE ONE THE FIRST ISSUE BEGINS. Blasting out of the gate with the most dynamic page in the whole book! You are welcome. I mentioned last week that Rikki Simons was one of the key people (along with Jhonen Vasquez) who encouraged me to make a Serenity Rose comic. For this I will…

PICTURE YOURSELF…  It’s October, 2003, and you’ve stumbled into the shadowy back corner of your local comic shop. You’re in the “goth” section, an irregularly-visited island of misfit comics featuring characters wearing black clothes. Johnny the Homicidal Maniac is there, along with Gloom Cookie, Lenore, Little Gloomy, Oh My Goth!, Kindergoth, MAYBE The Crow, definitely…