Sunday Comics "Mt Auburn Night" 12 page Abridged

Mt Auburn Night is a story I wrote and drew. It is based in Mt Auburn Cemetery in Watertown MA. The story is about graveyard sculptures that dig up the bones of the sculptor who carved them. This is an abridged version the entire story is about 19 pages. It is published in Hellbound 2, 2011 in a Boston Comics Roundtable Anthology. http://hellboundinboston.blogspot.com/p/hellbound2.html

As a bonus for smartphones and tablets, below is the direct link to the story.
This is a story that is formatted for a tablet or smartphone. Email the link below to someone to read on their phone or tablet.

http://joshua-hoaglund.com/MtAuburnNight/MtAuburnNight_P0-P12_ABRIDGED.jpg

Here is a link to the Mount Auburn Cemetery's webpage

http://www.mountauburn.org/

Wikipedia info on the cemetery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Auburn_Cemetery

2012 New Year New Comics

I am working on comic books these days(aka Graphic Novels)

I love comics and graphic novels and I have narrative work beside my story "Mt Auburn Night" in my sketchbooks. I have work that is scanned and ready for polish. Then it will be presented as comics.

Although I have read tons of comics I am a newbie to writing and drawing them. I have found that most of the comics that I have worked on have little or no words. Thinking about this I realize that I feel self-conscious writing dialog. Now I am working on using dialog and text for story telling. Most of the stories I have made I preferred to use only pictures to tell the story. However, I find it not enough to not use pictures without words. I am still working on my process writing and drawing narratives. I tend to draw lots of pages only to return to them later for edit after edit in order to make the story more clear. This is frustrating when the final edit stage happens and there are drawings that do not get used. I need to concern myself with story first. It seems the visual narrative has a flow that reads well when edited. When I write down the story with pictures and words there is usually more than is needed. During the editing phase I ask myself why didn't I think of that in the first place.

In reference to graphic storytelling Here are some things I have been recently reading:
Stephen King: On Writing a Memoir of the Craft
Grant Morrison: Supergods What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

Here are two samples of comics I am working on.

Darth Vader vs Abe Lincoln. (Hopefully I won't get an angry note for this one from Lucas Arts...) I just intended this as a parody. Before now I have not ever made an attempt at fan art.

The Adventures of Jack Maggot

Jack Maggot is a deviant who lives in a world with zombies,underground chambers and vampires. I want to create a supernatural world for him to live in. The story is based on a dream I had. Now I am putting work in to fill in more of the story for the characters.

None of the artwork is ready to post yet. I am still editing the pages that I have.
Here is the thumbnail sketch of the story. I have 6 pages inked and ready for cleanup on the computer.

Where to Buy Hellbound 2 Limited Edition

http://hellboundinboston.blogspot.com/p/hellbound2.html

http://hellboundinboston.blogspot.com/2011/10/buy-hellbound-2-limited-art-edition.html

There are only 25 of these limited edition box sets ever produced. Each box is crafted in hand made paper, made by Boston Paper Collective. The cover art is silk screened and the box is hand folded. The limited edition is 104 pages hand bound within handmade paper covers in two books within the box. The stories are printed in black digitally on Butcher White 50 lb paper.

Contributing artists are:
Nathan Kitler and Jerel Dye, Clayton McCormack, John Hilliard, Joshua Hoaglund, JL Bell and Andy Wong, Caitlin Plovnick, Ansis Purins, Gabriel Robinson, Patrick Flaherty and EJ Barnes, Logan Faerber, Gregery Miller, and Lindsay Moore and Alex Cormack. The book also features illustrations by the artists Bob Flynn, Erik Heumiller, Carl Tsui, Nate Furman, Cherry Ogata, Laurel Leake, Jesse Lonergan and Roho.

Hellbound2 interview for Mt Auburn Night

Interview
See you there my friends!

Cambridge local press announcement

Mt Auburn Night will be published in Hellbound 2 The Boston Comics Roundtable Horror Anthology

http://www.bostoncomicsroundtable.com/

http://hellbound.riverbirdcomics.com/p/submissions.html

I am excited to post that my Mt Auburn Night will be published in Hellbound 2, from Boston Comics Roundtable. I have been posting updates to Mt Auburn Night on this blog since I started it in March. I am really excited to work with Boston Comics Roundtable. Their comics are solid good work, and they are in comic shops throughout the metro Boston area and New England. Check them out, read the comics.

http://riverbirdcomics.com/

Mt Auburn Night Pages 0-6

Here is a recap of the Mt Auburn Night Graphic novel pages I have posted on this blog.

I converted pages 0 through 6 to be easily readable on an smart phone or tablet. I need to create a html page to center the image then I need to add a share button on the bottom of the page. Please share this comic with your friends if you like it. Test it on your tablet or smart phone.

http://joshua-hoaglund.com/MtAuburnNight/MtAuburnNight_P0-P6.jpg

Mt Auburn Night Page 6

Page 6 of my Graphic Novel Mt Auburn night.

I'm doing some experiments with this for the Ipod. I may post an Ipod/Tablet version of all these pages so the reader can catchup with the story all in one format.

Mt Auburn Night Inked Pages

Mt Auburn Night Graphic Novel Work in progress. This is a shot of the first version of the graphic novel. I edited this and did a complete re-layout.
Here is shot of 7 inked in pages. I shot these side by side to get an idea how they looked.
All of this inked in work was used to rebuild version 2. I still redrew and added pages where ever the story needed.

Chowder is the guest cat on the right. The skull model I used is on the shelf to the left.

Mt Auburn Night Page 5

This is page 5 which is probably one of the pages that has gone through the most changes. There are still some things I am planning on polishing on all these pages. I am not sure what looks best in terms of the gutter lines. Those white border edges between frames may need an outline.

Page 4 Mt Auburn Night

Here is a page 4 preview for my graphic novel.

Page 3 Mt Auburn Night

Here is the updated Page 3 for the Graphic novel. I redrew the hat on the top panel for hours. I'm sticking with this version for now.

First Post

I am starting this blog to get some of the work I have stashed away seen.

Graphic Novel

Right now I am working on a Graphic Novel/ Short story.  I have about 19 pages of layout. Most are completed,but I am pushing to get the last few pages finished. The setting of the story is Mt Auburn Cemetery in Watertown MA. I don't want to say to much about the details and spoil the end.