New Webcomics at Yocomics.net

charles_yo · Post by **charles_yo** » Wed May 20, 2009 2:03 am

hey guys, finally put my money where my wouth was and decided to do the comics that have been in my head forever. I've created Yocomics.net to host all the work that I'll be doing. The first story, The Carnival: The Human Hourglass is starting and I'll be putting more pages up each week.

Take a look and let me knwo what you think. Under the commission pages you find a few that I've done for the kind folks here, and some cool stuff under inks as well.

http://www.yocomics.net/

thanks all for taking the time to click over~!

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Wed May 20, 2009 10:05 am

Great artwork as usual, Charles. The story has a gritty and kinda seedy feel to it, like an old detective movie. Good luck with the book.

robb77 · Post by **robb77** » Thu May 21, 2009 7:46 pm

sweet

charles_yo · Post by **charles_yo** » Fri May 22, 2009 1:49 pm

thanks guys. definitely going for the old "detective movie" look, except that there are sci fi elements that will come in. not on this story, which is a getting the feet wet story, but on a bunch of the others that i've planned.

Now finding the time to get to them is another matter. but i'm trying. I've had the basis for one of the stories from back when I was at Valiant!

I'll post when the next pages are up

geocarr · Post by **geocarr** » Fri May 22, 2009 3:38 pm

I enjoyed waht you've posted so far. Be sure to keep posing here when you've loaded more pages. I like your Valiant commissions too! Rai and Bloodshot is my favorite one!

BloodOfHeroes · Post by **BloodOfHeroes** » Mon May 25, 2009 4:52 am

Noir done well is a rarity these days.

Excellent tale, this. Of course, we all knew you had the artistic chops, but I'm very impressed with your scribing, as well. You are a Rennaissance man, sir!

What I've read has good pacing, nice setting and what promise to be some very colorful characters--color me intrigued and along for the ride!

Congrats on taking the plunge and thanks for sharing!

BOH

charles_yo · Post by **charles_yo** » Tue May 26, 2009 1:22 am

thanks for all the encouragement guys. always a little scary to put it all out there. especially when you can't blame the sucky story on someone else.

just linked to the correct page 3 with the tones. i had only the line art up mistakenly.

new pages this week!

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Tue May 26, 2009 10:34 am

Keep those pages coming, Charles.

charles_yo · Post by **charles_yo** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 2:12 pm

page 5 is up! follow story here if you're so inclined!

http://www.yocomics.net/thh/page5.html

the tones on this one took a while, a lot longer than i thought...

BloodOfHeroes · Post by **BloodOfHeroes** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 2:23 pm

Well worth the alleged extra time. Pages 4 and 5 have both left me hanging. I'm not sure if this is your intent, but it's working!

Keep 'em coming. I'm in it for the duration, sir!

charles_yo · Post by **charles_yo** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 12:41 am

seriously the intent!

i subscribe to the old theory that you will do almost a minor cliffhanger on the end of each page to get the person to turn the page.

thanks for lookin' guys...really means a lot when you're doing this for the first time.

BloodOfHeroes · Post by **BloodOfHeroes** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 4:38 am

charles_yo wrote:seriously the intent!

i subscribe to the old theory that you will do almost a minor cliffhanger on the end of each page to get the person to turn the page.

Then take all the praise I gave about pacing and the writing and triple it. It's working!

MoonChild · Post by **MoonChild** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 4:57 am

amazing valiant commissions!

super cool website, real nice layout, the the online comic is brilliant; idea and content.

I wish more artists did this like Jim Shooter & Sean Chen.

charles_yo · Post by **charles_yo** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 3:10 am

thanks for the patience and not hating emails....

Page 6 is now up. I'm trying to get ahead on my own self imposed deadlines and this is... well... a whole learning process it what this is. Thanks for being patient.

http://www.yocomics.net/thh/page6.html

Also, I'll be sketching to benefit the Cartoon Art Museum at booth #1930 on sunday from 2pm - 3pm down in San Diego should anyone be going. Might also be sketching on thursday, haven't heard yet.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:42 am

Page six looks good. Can't wait to see more.

charles_yo · Post by **charles_yo** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 7:45 pm

next page is up as of last night... we're moving into the meat of the story!

the mystery of lauren staedtler is continuing to build. What has Santiago gotten himself into ?

www.yocomics.net

Also, for all the Valiant fans, I'll be sketching to raise money for the Cartoon Art Museum Thursday 2-3pm at booth #1930 and also the same time and place on sunday. Drop on by the say hello!

charles

charles_yo · Post by **charles_yo** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 12:12 am

all right! been working hard to get ahead of the my own self imposed deadline so we should have a steady flow of pages for a while.

Page 8 is up at http://www.yocomics.net/thh/title.html! Almost halfway through the story and hopefully the gap between pages hasn't put everyone off it yet.

I fully admit taking time with the art, mostly because of the day job and being a good husband and dad, but also i haven't gone this far to put out art that i'm not proud of, so i'm really trying to make this art kick some butt.

let me know what you guys think!

c

charles_yo · Post by **charles_yo** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 2:54 am

two new pages up to check out. One of them is reproduced below.

here is reality: there are only some many hours in the day, and while i've been concentrating on making art, i've been not doing some of the things that i need to be doing in the real world. I'll be posting the rest of the pages as they exist up to the point that i have to stop production, just to get them out there. Just in black and white, no tones. That way you all can at least see how far it went. Hopefully i'll get to finish things later. http://www.yocomics.net/thh/page9.html

sadly, the real world with a terrible economy is calling right now.

geocarr · Post by **geocarr** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 3:07 pm

Seems like a good mystery and conspiracy story that I'd like to see how it twists and ends. Hope things get better for you!

BloodOfHeroes · Post by **BloodOfHeroes** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 7:47 pm

I know too well about the demands of the so-called "real world." I've really enjoyed the tale to date and can't wait until you're able to get back to it. Good luck and thanks for sharing!

charles_yo · Post by **charles_yo** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 1:02 am

thanks, i really appreciate hearing that. another page going up!

You know, thats why i do it. so that someone will read it.

robb77 · Post by **robb77** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 3:00 pm

very nice