Preparatory Sketches List

I have re-read Chris' original synopsis/short story, that is the basis for our graphic novel collaboration, as research for who and what I need to do some development work and preparatory sketches of, before actually drawing the first episode.

I talked to Chris about doing these sketches and he said "What do you mean? I'll just tell you what they look like."  This made me think of hearing Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons talk at a comics convention in Birmingham, years ago, just after the first issue of Watchmen was published.  They continually talked as if they were both the joint authors of both the narrative and the layout of the book.  They used the word "we" a lot.

Anyway, I noted everything I felt I ought to do a bit of work on, if the comic stays true to the original story.  

Characters & Creatures:

the journalist

the cabbie

the old italian

the suitable monk

the 'n' (alien race)

the 'x' (alien race)

a goat

the previously most deadly carnivorous birds on the face of the planet (who are now shivering and cowardly)

noah

noah's son

monks (in general)

nuns

the liquorice novice

the peruvian monk (who has 'the face of an owl' and a haircut 'like captain kirk') 

the infinity monk

the rogue monks

huskies

the huskie team boss

stalin

estonian factory workers

polish eunuchs

surfers

Places, Objects, Things:

the broken laptop

the library

the books

the citadel of dunarkin

noah's ark

mount ararat

yerevan (in general)

the old italian's house/shack

the 'n''s space craft

the 'x''s space craft 

jupiter

mars

charon (moon of pluto, not guardian of the river styx)

a trabant taxi

the nazca lines

a supermarket in yerevan

an estonian factory

detonators

moscow

sexy but strange flying machines

the peruvian embassy, yerevan

the orkneys

a top top secret research station

the andes

So, there aren't many women in this story, apart from the nuns.  I think this is one of the areas I'd like to develop, if I am able to influence the direction the narrative takes as Chris is re-working and re-writing, and the process becomes more collaborative.  Although I find women harder to draw than men, so we don't want to introduce too many of them.