Buy My Books

Robert Kirkman's new column on Comic Book Resources, titled "Buy My Books," debuted today. His first column includes an introduction, as well as details on what he plans to talk about every week:

Now, I'm not really just going to come in here every week and say "buy my books." That would be retarded. What I am going to do is show you what it's like being me for a week... kinda...

You see, I sit in front of a computer a minimum of 10 hours a day... sometimes more. I write like the dickens, day in and day out, but I'm the luckiest guy in the world because I get to see all kinds of cool art in various stages on my various books before just about anyone else. Penciled pages for Invincible, character designs for Marvel Team-Up, character redesigns for my new XXXXXX book at Marvel, "Walking Dead" covers. I live in jpeg heaven. Rarely does thirty minutes go by without me receiving some new illustrated gem.

So in essence this is going to be an art showcase, but that's not all, not nearly all. I'm going to explain the process, talk about the reason we're doing the things were doing. Why a character is getting redesigned, why a page needs to be redrawn, etc. I'll talk about scheduling and the steps I took to make a comic from start to finish, and stuff like that. So it'll be, in part, a how to column as well.