ON NINJAK.

  Hi everyone, Javier here.  Turns out I'm not in the book anymore, this is the last On Ninjak post. The blog has tried making visible some of the work that I've been doing on the series, let's end it in the same way.  My work on issue # 4 was already made, and it is included here, to finalize the post. The official issue #4 was released one week ago, so this one is a fan-fiction now, or a What If, even so, its existence should still be of interest to anyone interested in how comics work and are made. Two comics that come from the same script are a privileged window into storytelling on their own.    The only thing that I'd ask for is to do the first reading of every one of them separately, dedicating the necessary time to properly enjoy the reading experience that each comic provides. That experience is, in the end, what it's all about, and should be at the center of any possible analysis.    This has been a blog about comic storytellin...

                                                                        Fig 1. Hi everyone, Javier here.  The drawing above (fig 1) is the only cover I've ever done for a Ninjak comic, it was done in 2017.  This is an advance of next month's post, in which I'll talk about covers, among other things.   This time I'm starting with another comic-related matter. It is the first thing that the reader finds when the book is opened, and so many times it gets unnoticed, and rightly so. I'm talking a bit about the CREDITS .  L et's take a look at actual credit. Easy, number 1: Parker & Pulido, no specific credit (although in ...

    Hey there.      Javier here. Before starting the post, and just in case, a warning: the articles contained here are intended to be read after having read the stories, the comics themselves. The articles are a complement to that reading, and they will stay here waiting for everyone, do not worry about that. Let us begin.  In the first post, I commented that the articles would be built around the analysis of a page or scene, and that from time to time other work-related things could appear. Today is one of those days, I'll share some thoughts on a key piece in the storytelling process: character . A solid character concept is a necessary condition on the path to story, especially when working on a series. Much of the time I spend on approaching storytelling is devoted to this topic. The talk will be related to the previous post, specifically the choices I made on page 6 of Ninjak issue # 1, and how things developed from there.  In shor...