American Barbarian

Ever since I read George Lucas’s early drafts of Star Wars, I thought they’d make a good comic. The early script treatments read like Star Wars Apocrypha, with elements just familiar enough to resonate and just exotic enough to be exciting and new. When Dark Horse announced earlier this year that they’d be releasing a comic book series adapting these stories, I thought I’d better take a crack at it before I read them, knowing that the official version would probably obliterate the half-formed version I had in my head. For fun, I went into high-speed comics mode for an afternoon and drew 29 pages of bare bones comics. Check it out:

I just got this in the mail.

While in France I drew a picture of the superhero Le Garde Republicain (Guardian of the Republic) created by Delcourt publisher Thierry Mornet under the psuedonym Terry Stillborn. LGR is headquartered in Paris (that’s Notre Dame in the background). Le Garde is like Captain America if the “A” stood for France.

I did the pencils and inks, Reed Man did the colors. In the center of the book is a fold-out poster of the image.