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PRESS, PRESS, and MORE PRESS

There's now an interview I did a few weeks ago with Shaun Manning up on Comicbookresources.com. It's got a whole bunch of preview pages and interesting personal tidbits!

Swing on over and look it up!

"Jan's Atomic Heart" Review at Eyeoncomics!

The awesome Don MacPherson, resident critic at eyeoncomics.com, did an in-depth and very favourable review for JAH - 10/10!

Here's an excerpt:

Simon Roy brings a Euro-comics look to bear on this project, which makes sense given that it’s set in Frankfurt. His style here is easily comparable to that of Guy (B.P.R.D.) Davis, and the gruff, grizzled look of some of the characters also reminded me of similar characters in Paul Grist’s Kane and Jack Staff. The story presents a visual challenge in that the robotic facade of the main character isn’t the most emotive of visages, but Roy demonstrates his skills by conveying the appropriate feelings through the character’s body language. There’s a nice variety in his repertoire of storytelling techniques. He offers some convincing cityscapes and backgrounds, but there are other times when he isolates the characters in fields of white to emphasize a moment or to enhance a particular mood.

I'm feeling understandably good about this...

An... interview?

"SNEAK PEEK: THE BEATING OF JAN'S ATOMIC HEART 

An interview and 6-page .pdf preview of the upcoming sci-fi mystery, Jan's Atomic Heart. Fans of Blade Runner and I, Robot are in for a treat. Take a look inside the thought process of Simon Roy, who thinks robots may do more than just clean our house in the future."

I know, eh? Check it out!

(plus here's a dinosaur)

ART PARTY!

Alright folks! I've been drawing a lot lately... check it out.

First up, its DINOSAUR CAVE ART WITH NEMO RAMJET! 

Next up, adventures with the world's smallest hominids!

More later.

Sketch/Script

One of the sketch/script pages that preceded the second scene of "Jan's Atomic Heart". 

A picture for the inner covers of the book. I dunno how I feel about it. I think I kind of mucked up the lower right in the wreckage there.

RAISE THAT ROOF!

For the motherland!

A t-shirt graphic for the UVic russian club - a lot of fun to do.

Jan's Atomic Heart

AWW YEAH BOYS! Peep it:

POST UP ON THE PUBLISHER'S SITE FOR MY COMIC!

oh, and if y'got facebook, invite yourself to this.

Evolution of an idea...

So, late last August, I had just moved to Calgary. I had gone to Drumheller with my family that same month, home to the Royal Tyrell Museum, the pre-eminent Paleontological museum in western Canada, as far as I know. Now, most of my friends had gone to Drumheller at some point in their childhood - for whatever reason, I hadn't. Our family had a bunch of other great trips, but never to Drumheller. So when I went there, deeply suppressed feelings of paleo-wonder swept over me. I had never exorcised those prehistoric demons from my little-boy subconscious, and they began to nag at me. In early september, playing around with pen and ink, it started. I began to draw lizard-men, vaguely dinosaurian in appearance. Oh, how innocent it was. I hadn't even thought of evolutionary history or encephalization quotients yet...

Then I ran into Darren Naish and Nemo Ramjet in my journeys for a better dinosauroid. The full experience can be found at this post here, but needless to say, the seed was planted. I began to try to put together a more realistic intelligent therapod dinosaur. These following images are two of the very first corvid-like dinosauroids I drew.


The body plan was slowly changed and refined, but I simply ran out of steam. It was looking like the end result would just be a hooded crow with a deinonychosaurid tail and sereima's feet - not quite what I had been looking for. It all came to a head in december, where I flushed my system of dinosaurian thoughts with the construction of a feathered, three dimensional troodontid sculpture. I thought it was over.




But it wasn't. At the beginning of February, it all started again. After a week or two fiddling around with evolutionary history, I found a beast that I could be proud of. After a bit of chatting with the illustrious Nemo Ramjet (whose site is down right now, but when it resurrects itself, it's REALLY worth a look), I decided to dive in head-first (conceptually), and start working on developing a culture.

The results can be seen here, at my deviantart account. So here's the question:


WHAT in the FUCK am I going to do with this world once I've created it?

A comic, maybe?

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