Welcome to my musings on life, work and the creative life amidst teaching at the Center for Cartoon Studies. Posts are illustrated when I can manage it. Myrant is just that: MYrant! I post daily, for the most part, except when deadlines and workload constrict my time.
Labels: Alex Ness, Land of Frost, Popthought, Tyrant
posted by SRBissette at
8:42 AM
I'm a Native Vermonter who drew and wrote from a tender age and loved dinosaurs and monsters, none of which I've ever outgrown. I graduated in 1978 as a member of the first-ever class at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon & Graphic Art, Inc., entered the comics profession and carved out a career until my retirement from the field in 1999. I made (and left) my mark with SWAMP THING, TABOO, '1963,' and TYRANT, among others. As a writer, I've written for a variety of zines (including VIDEO WATCHDOG, DEEP RED, FANGORIA, etc.) and books (THE MONSTER BOOK: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, UNDERGROUND USA, etc.) amid occasional bouts of fiction (the Stoker Award winning novella ALIENS: TRIBES, short stories). My current pet project is GREEN MT CINEMA, dedicated to VT and New England films and filmmakers. I write constantly, draw occasionally, and now teach at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Jct., VT. I live with my wife Marjory, whom I love -- and I sure love my son Daniel and my daughter Maia, too.
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Since Tyrant was never completed (it wasn't, was it?), how could it be collected?
The images from TYRANT that I've never been able to forget involved that Cretaceous turtle (forgive me for not recalling the species). The mud it kicked up in the stream as it made its escape. Brilliant work. I once told Rick Hautala that I got the feeling you were channeling that hard-shelled critter.
Collection Vol. 1: Tyrant 1-3, from the egg-laying to the hatching -- a complete, satisfying read, and still unlike any comic, book or movie/video/animation anyone's ever done. It works. I'm working on some slight revisions (primarily to correct one sequence in Tyrant #1 that didn't work well, and to revise imagery for current paleontological science, ten years later), and hope to get it out some time in 2008. Wish me luck. If it flies, and it's conceivable I can help pay my monthly mortgage working on TYRANT anew, I'll continue. If not, c'est la vie.
Thanks for the kind words. That turtle has a solo one-shot story I'll be featuring in the collected.
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