Today, I want to tell you what this Google hosted & powered blog is about.
I will be serializing an entire children's picture book on this blog for the whole world to read. It is a picture book that I have written and illustrated. Doing a picture book is something I've meant to do for ages.
The title of this work is Hilda and Richie. This is about a pair of anthropomorphic foxes that live in the tiny, fictitious country of Foxville. Hilda is a very wealthy woman who lives in a huge mansion and has millions of dollars to her name. Living with her is a small fox pup named Richie. These two will get into quite a sticky predicament and I do emphasize "sticky"...but I'm getting ahead of myself.
From now till next week on Thursday, I'll be putting up posts daily such as introductions of our stars, a title image, and so on. Then on Thursday of next week and from each Thursday on, I will share pages of illustration and text that tell the story of Hilda and Richie.
The illustrations were done by myself, a skilled artist experience in drawing comics, using drawing pens and professional design markers.
Now some of you may be wondering why am I doing this. Why am I giving away a children's picture book for free online? The idea for this came from Jason Brubaker. Brubaker serialized his entire graphic novel reMIND online for everyone to see. I'm doing this to share my work with the world, make you aware of who I am & what I do and perhaps even somehow produce an actual print edition of Hilda and Richie.
If you're interested in contacting me, my information is listed here on the blog. And now without further ado...
On this blog, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls...you will be taking a trip...an adventure, perhaps. From this point onward, on this very blog, you will meet two very intrepid foxes. We hope you will travel with these foxes not only today but into the future as well...
Picture books about two foxes in Foxland
Friday, February 10, 2017
Thursday, February 9, 2017
About Me
My real legal name is my own business. You can call me by my professional name, Max West.
I was born in New York City on January 4, 1980. I grew up watching a lot of cable television, like HBO and Nickelodeon, where I was exposed to fantastic animation and specials. These, along with regular trips to my local library, helped to spark a spectacular imagination and an absorbing creativity in myself.
I've been doing creative things all my life. I wrote poetry in the first grade and enjoyed art classes in sixth grade. While I did not have the technical skill of other creative individuals, I had a powerful drive to keep going and unlimited imagination.
I graduated in 2003 from Baruch College in New York City with a degree in creative writing. Then in 2009, I started taking night classes at the School of Visual Arts. I learned basic drawing, painting and how to make comics.
Speaking of comics, I'm active in the small press comics scene. I have created a series titled Sunnyville Stories; that has its own blog.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy my creation. Feel free to drop me a line sometime. I can be reached at maxwestart(at)gmail(dot)com or by snail mail at:
DIFFERENT MOUSETRAP PRESS LLC
1100 19TH AVENUE N, #108
UNIT J
FARGO ND 58102-2269 USA
I was born in New York City on January 4, 1980. I grew up watching a lot of cable television, like HBO and Nickelodeon, where I was exposed to fantastic animation and specials. These, along with regular trips to my local library, helped to spark a spectacular imagination and an absorbing creativity in myself.
I've been doing creative things all my life. I wrote poetry in the first grade and enjoyed art classes in sixth grade. While I did not have the technical skill of other creative individuals, I had a powerful drive to keep going and unlimited imagination.
I graduated in 2003 from Baruch College in New York City with a degree in creative writing. Then in 2009, I started taking night classes at the School of Visual Arts. I learned basic drawing, painting and how to make comics.
Speaking of comics, I'm active in the small press comics scene. I have created a series titled Sunnyville Stories; that has its own blog.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy my creation. Feel free to drop me a line sometime. I can be reached at maxwestart(at)gmail(dot)com or by snail mail at:
DIFFERENT MOUSETRAP PRESS LLC
1100 19TH AVENUE N, #108
UNIT J
FARGO ND 58102-2269 USA
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Welcome!
Good day, readers. I'm Max West and I want to welcome you to this secret project of mine. It's something that I've been working on for awhile now.
What I aim to do is something unique. On this blog, I will share with you an entire children's picture book that I have created!
Since late November, I've been posting up sketches and concept art of the two protagonists, the wealthy blue blood Hilda and the young boy Richie. Every Thursday (starting next week), I will be posting up pages with illustration and text from my debut picture book Hilda and Richie.
I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did creating it.
What I aim to do is something unique. On this blog, I will share with you an entire children's picture book that I have created!
Since late November, I've been posting up sketches and concept art of the two protagonists, the wealthy blue blood Hilda and the young boy Richie. Every Thursday (starting next week), I will be posting up pages with illustration and text from my debut picture book Hilda and Richie.
I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did creating it.
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Thursday, January 26, 2017
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