terence anthony

The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor - Jake Tapper
All Shot Up - Chester Himes

The Weir - Conor McPherson
Shining City - Conor McPherson

The Losers - Andy Diggle / Jock

User Manual - for my Numark Mixtrack Pro

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Immediately after snapping this picture of sunlight through the clouds, I felt like a sap. Now that Charles Ramsey is on it I feel much better.

juanromera:

Today’s work.  Protege.

Here is the script for the first issue of PROTEGE, written way back in ‘11. It’s exactly what I gave to Juan Romera — there were quite a few dialogue changes, I think, once I started messing around with lettering the art and learning on the fly.

I use a format for comic scripts passed on to me by Nunzio DeFilippis, who taught me there’s no “correct” way to format a comic script except to make it as clear for the artist and editor to figure out what you want the page to look like.

You can download the finished issue (and others) here, or read it online to see how it evolved.

Character study of Johnny and Chirs Chase, the two lead characters in a script by Radley, the ten-year old writer I’m mentoring for Young Storytellers. Johnny and Chase are spies who are trying to steal a diamond from a museum for a pyramid god named Dyiannis or something. I wish I was as genius as this kid.

Awesome art by Juan Romera from the latest PROTEGE page.

collectivehistory:

Kamikaze pilots playing with a puppy before their flights, 1945

Images like this one drive the writer in me nuts. I want every story I tell to own this kind of unexpected, bizarrely human moment.

This plan would’ve cut 100 minutes and 86 n-words from Django.

PROTEGE #3 is now available for download in PDF, CBZ and CBR formats. Aging operative Coltrane “Trane” Wallace tracks down Allumette, the assassin who killed his partner, only to find she’s suffering from amnesia and no longer remembers who she is or what her mission was. Other deadly forces are out for Allumette as well, as a squad of armed guards close in…

PROTEGE issues 1-3 are available for a pay-what-you-can contribution here. Or just send an email to protegecomic@gmail.com and ask nice and I’ll hook you up.

Leaving Ragdale to get back to L.A. today. Feels like a very quick two weeks. This is my second writing fellowship; then and now, leaving is a mix of excitement to get home and regret for not having more time to hammer at the writing in isolation. I got thru about two-thirds of what I wanted to work on here, but I’ve learned that I tend to be a little too ambitious when setting goals for these things.

Overall: feeling happy with the writing I wrought here, will miss the cool folks I met here and looking forward to a month-long writing fellowship in Santa Fe next year.

Eerie inspiration. I’ve been looking for things ghostly at Ragdale while I finish a draft of a play with supernatural elements. Some of these pics I shot while creeping around the 1897 craftsman home late at night. Others I shot early this morning, when a cool fog rolled in.

My lab at Ragdale for the next two weeks. On the schedule:  a Tombolo rewrite, finishing a draft of a new play and some graphic novel development.

This is what democracy looks like in Ohio. People wait in the cold outside a polling place for up to six hours, thanks to GOP lawmakers’ efforts to fuck with the vote.

Upcoming PROTEGE pages in progress. (l) Uzi returns to stir up more trouble. (r) Allumette finds the world is a scary place when you have no past. Pencils by Juan Romera.

Some of the PROTEGE stickers I was selling at APE 2012. Art by Juan Romera.

Endeavor flew by a few minutes ago. I’m not even gonna try and describe how damn cool it was to see it so close, and my phone pic doesn’t do the view justice (apologies for the dirty office window and smog).

Meet the talented cast of Paranormal Communications Specialist, the play I wrote for Watts Village Theatre Company’s location-based subway show Meet Me @ Metro III: Uncovering L.A.’s Hidden Treasures. The show starts at Union Station in downtown L.A., then continues at stops along the Gold Line into Boyle Heights and back. PCS was a fun piece to work on (one of the few family-friendly things I’ve written) and features an infamous figure in L.A.’s noir history.

Check it out this weekend, Angelenos — tix are available HERE. This post on la.streetsblog has some great pics and info about the show. (photo by Cece Tio)

Rehearsal for the play I wrote for Meet Me @ Metro III! @movingsarts @wattsvillage #m3III (Taken with Instagram)