Electric Team

I haven’t written many blog posts lately because, man, I can’t even explain how busy I’ve been with work lately. But even though I am caught up in the business of public education, Samantha Albert continues to turn out new and beautiful pages.

Page 30 is up, and I am thrilled to show off the work of Electric Team co-creator Abigail Connor. So far Abby has worked on the writing end of things, but now she’s contributed to the artwork, with her dynamic rendition of Mr. Amazing.  She did the lettering, too.

Not many words on this page, but fortunately we’ve returned to our twice-a-week update schedule, so this and the previous page should balance out.

Page 30 also marks the end of our four page look into Mr. Amazing’s childhood; on Tuesday we return to the present, and see what the Electric Team is up to.  What are they up to? Action! Adventure! And walking. Lots of walking.

Page 27 shimmers with the golden haze of nostalgia, thanks to Sam Albert’s electrical color palette.

The first chapter of our story was conceived and plotted well over a year ago, when Abby was too young to help plan things out in detail. Now that she is older and wiser and almost seven, however, she has taken a more active role in planning.

A few weeks ago Abby and I sat down to plot Chapter 2. Abby was not content just to talk things over; she took it on herself to draw a panel-by-panel breakdown of the first page, shown here:

As you can see, I stuck closely to Abby’s plan when I typed up the script for Sam. We still begin with an establishing shot of the mountains, and then show the house, and then a boy carrying two buckets of water home . . . I did cut the panel where Mom sends him out to get the water, but don’t worry, she’ll show up on the next page. Despite the changes, I think the essence of the scene is preserved.

There’s plenty more to come, gentle reader, so be sure to tune in on Thursday!