Hey kids,
How have you been? It’s been a little while since we’ve talked but I’ve got some good news for y’all. “But, Greathouse! Where have you been? Is Scotty Over? Who is Leonard? Have you given up? Is underwater basket weaving your new passion? Have the bears finally won? Why do I cry at night? Where are the answers?!” Now I know it’s been a minute (Or two…or five…or a while) since I wrote a blog and a couple of months since a comic has gone up. For that I do apologize. The Blog I’ve let slip before, but the comic… never. So let’s tackle some of these questions I’ve been getting.
First off, Who is Leonard? Some of you might have notice on top of the logo is my name and the mysterious Leonard. Well, Hannah Leonard (in the two images above) is the editor of Scotty Odyssey. If you’ve been a fan of mine for a while, you know that spelling and grammar is *not* (Here Leonard illustrates her role as editor! Stay tunes for more, folks!) my strong suit. She is helping with that but more importantly she’s forcing me to think about story and characters in a new light. Ideas are like gems, they need time and pressure to create something magical. Having a second person on board means I have to convey even my most basic ideas to make sense to her. She then helps me turn the weak ideas to strong ones and the strong ones a little stronger. An idea is ever growing. Also she might say something that sparks a ton of ideas in me. She really has been a lifesaver and if you are looking for an editor, I can’t recommend her enough. Hannah’s had the titanic job of going through my old scripts and making sense of them. Especially since I wrote the scripts back in the day by paper and pen. Here’s an example of some of her work.
133:2 – “The “Lord” here’s real name is Billy.”
133:3 – Change “childhood” to “early years.” “Animals were scared of him and other children tended to avoid him.”
133:4 – “”Billy was a genius but the curriculum bored him. He was obsessed with his own endeavors.”
133:6 – “I discovered I was wrong… very wrong.”
134:1 – “Billy’s grades began to slip and he was threatened with expulsion.”
135:4 – “Billy kidnapped me and demanded my help. He threatened my life and the safety of my family.”
She’s done that for a 164 strips. She also asked me if I would stop making new Scotty till she caught up with all the back logs. She knows this would be hard on me, but it’s not fair to keep adding to her work load. We’ve been talking and have some great stories in store for you guys. You can also find her on twitter.
Now if that wasn’t enough, my mentor Brian Stelfreeze has told me my head structure sucks (well, not that gently, but you get the idea). So he has me drawing hundreds and hundreds of heads. I’m happy to say it is paying off but it’s been a lot of work and eats up a lot of time. Then I still have all the art to do with Jason and the Argonauts from Blue Water Studios. Then in between that I’ve moved, pulled my back (again), went to NYCC, did samples for NYCC, dealt with family trouble and then began healing my back. Which means going to the gym more. I can now swim 3/4 a lap underwater in one breath. Impressive, no? Needless to say, it’s been busy here.
“Okay Greathouse. Comics we can read without error and better story line is good news in the future, but what about now?” Well, I’ve opened up a couple of stores. The first is an Esty to sell off my original art. A lot of my originial paintings. I’m hoping to grow it in the coming year with more pen and ink work, and hopefully commissions. This store going to be bit more on the pricy side but it’s all original art; these are all one-of-a-kind, no prints or second-hand stuff here.
The second good news is Scotty is going to be entering the Ebooks market soon. Starting with “Softening the Stone” storyline, then going back and doing each story as a book. Why “Softening the Stone” first? Well, for one it’s the Holiday season. Two, it’s one of my favorite stories. It’s also when my art started to take a big turn, I feel. It will be hopefully on Comixology, Amazon and iTunes soon. However, I wanted to offer it to you, my fans, first. Not only that, but I want to give you guys a discount. So the first 100 fans that buy the book here get a dollar off the 2.99 book.
That’s the news for now. I don’t know when new Scotty’s will be coming but I know two things. One, it’s soon and two it’s going to be better art and writing. Thank you again for all the support. I couldn’t keep doing this without the love from you guys. Hannah and I are working on making 2015 a very big year for Scotty.
Thank you again for all the love and support. I couldn’t do this without you guys.
-Greathouse
P.S. Hannah didn’t edit this, so if there are mistakes. Sorry about that.
P.S. Leonard has now edited this. As I am unfamiliar with the site there’s going to be a bit of an adjustment period, so please bear with me as I stumble clumsily through my first couple posts. The first of which I will write… well, now, I guess.
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