Thursday, December 20, 2007

School Life In Singapore

special Behind the Scenes - Names on hand

There is one thing that everyone start making comics we hear from people who make them for some time: you give a name to your characters, past and character, since the first stories are stories of characters and credibility and ability to arouse curiosity will have your characters, the greater the possibility of keeping the reader glued to your story.

E 'is a rule that also in the film and everyone who writes books and then tries to decline according to their needs and demands expression.

Personally, in my brief experience, they almost always been led to expect the moment when baptizing my characters and find him a name (and maybe a last name), preferring to use the opening bars of the names of convenience, even very conventional, and thus focus more on what they were and what they did / should do.
For this reason, after I came easier to find a name that I would make them more easily recognize, but without thereby reach the ultimate limit to justify the name on the basis the role of the character.
names that I chose to leave for the stars of Once Were Criminals stemmed from my usual habits and as usual I had given up with solutions very simple and immediately recognizable. So then you change , I thought.
John, Frank , Patrick, Neil , Montez, Maria and Sal ( Vincent arrived much later and in concert with Gianfranco) are easy names, names that have met many times in comics, movies, books and television series and which were so close at hand as to be missed.
do not deny that laziness has had its weight, but mainly because I felt much more important to focus on what wanted to tell and how , rather than on the question of names. When Gianfranco

then began to discuss all issues related to the project, both continued to seem secondary crack head too, at that moment, on the issues that we could easily deal with it later.
The problem, however, is that the more time passed, it proceeds to try to learn more about those people that we can begin to narrate the story and these names started out as more turned into temporary need.
If we thought one of the characters, we thought of him by that name and that name was sewn on the possession and any alternatives there seemed cold, distant and unrelated.
A nice paradox, considering the extreme-media dissemination and tracing of names so immediate, but so be it. Even so, every time we got to investigate further with John, Frank and the other their stories, we have carefully refrained from asking the family (all but one, actually).

[emo]


Monday, December 17, 2007

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Flashback - the diner



-
You should put a peephole on the door ...

- Why do you need to prick each time, Vince? Burns your ass because you were not invited?

- at the sewing club? But not even to dream, I have my own business and those are enough for me.

- Well, good. Then think of your business and do not break!

- Sal, if a little Ludo 'you'll be a hit, but those serious ...

- careful that the blow did not come to you. But when will give you a straightened? You will end up bad ...

- Thanks for your concern, but I look after myself, I do not need a nanny.

- You're such a sight, eh? Ok, Vince, you do what you like, I do not say more shit.

- would be better. It would be even better to serve a decent coffee more of this slop.

- Go fuck yourself, Vince.

- Oh, that's for sure. Tonight. Nice tits, nice ass and hot mouth. Nothing better.


Monday, December 10, 2007

Whats Good For Stomach Flu?

players - Sal


Junior plays to the cowboy and Sal thinks that you are putting cold.
It remains only to give the last pass of the broom, and then close the accounts you will enjoy an afternoon of rest. Almost imagine the faces of customers who read the sign.

closed for today.

Junior pretends to shoot while Sal pulls the last cigarette and puffs away the idea of \u200b\u200bhim now a speech that would not make sense and that Junior would not understand.
Maybe someday. Or any year.

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players - Vincent


Vincent has the heavy breathing that chokes my throat, curses cigarettes and thought it strange for a so stupid now that it has a much more serious problem to solve.

The image of the corpse in the alley stuns the rhythm of the strobe lights of the room, just wanted to understand the bastard can not mess with him, the gun started shooting before the brain stopped thinking.

continues running to dispel the confusion that continues to chase him, the stiff legs and eats the stomach to the beat of the drum, which has become rampant in his heart. As Frank
take his shit again?

Friday, December 7, 2007

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Distances







How far do you fled? What
see now, around my profile, my order uncertain?
observed, the ring destiny?
I can not, see this, and I'm not mistaken
,
on the color that you date,
far away
presence.
you have fun, with words
thirsty, with a glare of light in blood.
But you, my hidden land dizziness, while ensuring that the form of envy. You
distant
in your sweetness, in the sudden weakness

which captures still, where are you, what remains

quell'esploso hints of stars.







words: Venetian
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Mohammad Heydari-Malayer (Observatoire de Paris) et al.

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

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the wind is december, too


The wind is December, too.
December.
It is early.
The cold wind that rain brought supports a feeling in December.
A heart is calm in tasteful scenery on the streetcar after a long absence.
graphics and words: tacaco matsuoka http://www.tacacom.net/

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Astrology Julian Calendor

Flashback - Montez house



-
How come you're home?
- The latest arrivals are the first to be sent away when things go wrong, but tomorrow I'll try something else.

- Mary, we can get along with the taking down from Sal ...
- No, Fredo. I did not come here to New York to get by. I do not want limousine or jewelry, but I will not get along, and you're already doing too much for me by hosting them here. I want to do my part.
- For me there is a problem, you're part of my family. You're my family.
- Fredo, I want to work. Do you think Sal needs a maid?
- I might ask, is a time when things are running well, though ...
- Although?
- Although maybe I could ask him if he knows someone who can help ...
- not want to work where you work?
- No, Maria, is not that I do not want ...
- Fredo, what's the problem?
- No problem, you're right. Tomorrow I'll ask him.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

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players - Montez


not even remember how many attempts did it. Hotels, restaurants, car washes, construction sites.
No spick.
No spick.
At first he had only to take no, but as derogatory expressions collected Fredo felt that other word was not anything good.
Only later will be asked if you really can look like a Mexican a Puerto Rican.

His head is hard and want to work, Mexico seems a lifetime away now and do not want to go back and certainly could not do it with three dollars and pennies that are still in your pocket.
decide to invest in a hot meal and teaching of Sal's Diner seems the most inviting of the hot-dog kiosk, especially now that it started to rain.

Friday, November 23, 2007

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players - Maria


off the train, Mary crosses the vast hall of Grand Central Terminal, trying to stand behind the people begin pouring.
's all very different from Ciudad Juarez and it's all very different from what one expected.
Other colors, other smells, other noises. Try not to get carried away by the current and struggles to find the meeting place. The waiting room is teeming with people who look like very little thought to find the gringos that just arrived in New York, it seems that all escaping not knowing where to go. Or maybe she just feels that way, but do not have time to find an answer to that seen in the distance get Fredo.
He remembered more fat, but give it a mustache.


Thursday, November 15, 2007

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Behind the Scenes - Physiognomy


It is said that the history of each person is imprinted on his face. Every face tells a different story.
Not so strange then start to tell our own from this point. Emo
The first time I presented these characters I was immediately fascinated by the potential still contained between the lines of a word document. Although they were already established hubs narrative main, one I had in my hands was not a story, but a map.
Obviously the first time I lost.
I tried the X treasure convinced that this was the protagonist, the 'hero'. A hero is sui generis, but still the main reason for everything.
Those on the left are the very first sketch of this hero.
You will not find in the pages of comics.
And my mistake was gross whereas gender, themes and inspirations pushing in the opposite direction, namely that of the chorus. We were talking about people at the bottom.
were paper and ink agree, but those wrinkles on the forehead were the thoughts, concerns, perhaps, for some, those at the corners and below the mouth were the result of smiles directed or denied, the wrinkles on the sides of the eyes were the result of anger, pain, anxiety, joy. All the emotions that have always addressed. It was there that I had to try. Then we drove
moving on the wire reports that linked the protagonists of our history. A thread that was going to weave a plot that is superimposed on the map above. The X of the Treasury began to be clearer.
Those below are the initial sketches of the two main characters of the first cards of this blog. How can 'cast out are still far from that found in the next column, but we were approaching. Some features have changed, others have moved on the face of other characters, others are simply disappeared.




continues to move for concentric waves spreading more and more the scene until we were able to cover all the initial map. The picture below, while his naive enthusiasm, marks the point where we started to get serious.


Women obviously deserve a separate discussion, so it's all for now.

Gianfranco

Monday, November 12, 2007

Compatibility With Same Birthdays

Flashback - Outside the church



- Were you waiting long?
- No ... I have just arrived.
- So you're late. Should no longer happen on days like this.
- But ...
- Nothing but. You learn quickly how it works and you will not have problems. Create and be dicks.
- ...
- John and Frank are already there?
- I think so.
- John and Frank are already there, trust me. And wake up.
- Ok ...
- Neil, you should relax and stay calm. It 'like I do, find a hobby for the moments before this, or go' to church to pray. Free your mind, I'm serious.
- Do not go to church for years ... and I did not think that you, well ...
- What's wrong? All we have to believe in something, otherwise it makes no sense.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

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players - Neil


'Bon appetit' says Sara and Neil smiles as he goes away because the smell that tickles the sense of smell is unmistakable. Smacks of home.
first tasted the stew, tasting and swallowing slowly with eyes closed and her lips were still hanging on the greeting to Sara, but the rest of the meal is fast, always faster to get nervous towards the end, without the taste more Neil bites.

His mind has already returned to the accounts to be recorded, receipts and more demeaning how to rebuild his hardware store, knowing that - despite the years that it wears - is destined to outlive him.
hoping for a different age, he hoped to have left behind the temptations and instincts, but some things are not quite sure screws or bolts.

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players - Patrick


's just the second punch that Patrick feels the pain on the knuckles and shoulder. The first
reached on a human face on the ground and to launch another had to bend forward without being able to control all the momentum.

might have been better to leave the matter to attend to Dave and Michael, but the man on the ground is out several thousand dollars and has played the last date on the latest delay.
's one of those situations that Patrick loves to solve alone, with his usual determination. Clear. Direct. Simple.
owe me the money - he thinks - and I need them for days. Why do not you?

Lets lay down the lane and leaves the question unresolved, while you clean blood from his knuckles, distracted by the reflection on the crucifix around his neck.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

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Flashback -




- From thee came face another good point.
- If you want to see you can only do one thing, not talking ...
- I have not yet figured out if you're a good player or just a blowhard with a big ass!
- There are many things you have not yet understood, starting with how to play this hand. You do not have many alternatives, you know. O distance and win the pot or pay to see.
- I could also see and re-launch and you'd have to decide what to do.
- I told you, you chat too. Make your move, then I do mine.
- You are a blowhard, John, you know?
- Frank, I want to finish this before hand ...
fifty years - that I was stupid helmet. I see your twenty.
- Full of kings.
- Fuck you.
- Something tells me that I won ... You who were you?
- Manco I answer. Get a couple more beers, and pay, braggart!

Monday, October 29, 2007

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backroom players - Frank


Frank followed the passage of the razor blade out of the corner of the eye. He trusted the firm hand of Antonio, but did not like surprises, never liked.

When staring his own face on the big mirror in front of him, his eyes focused on the skin of the blade back to the light taking away the hairs grew and shaving foam. Overtook him always a degree of amazement in seeing wrinkles that perhaps had not noticed the previous morning.
Moreover, the only time of day where Frank accepted the idea of \u200b\u200blooking in the mirror was one in which he went to the shop of Antonio for daily shaving.

The surprise of the wrinkles that had become another habit, like that of healthy Antonio quietly once you've finished shaving and that of the rindossare leather jacket just crossing the threshold.

Saturday, October 27, 2007

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players - John



When he realized the time, John was undecided whether to continue what he started.
was delayed by at least twenty minutes and threatened to undermine everything, given that it had no escape and no possibility of recovering time he had lost.
He thought that even as he continued staring at the clock and the minute hand snapped around 4:22.
He looked around, as if to seek the support of someone who could not be there and knew at that moment that nothing would serve to continue that task alone.

Maybe he always knew from the beginning, but as thirty years before, it certainly would not have stopped now considered defeated only after trying all the way to do something.


Friday, October 26, 2007

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- Intro




who usually follow or at least occasionally our their blog has certainly heard several times OWC (those who do not know us, can get an idea of \u200b\u200bwho we are by clicking here and here).

Behind the acronym OWC hides the title of the long history that we started working at a bland almost a year and a half ago, before increasing the pace in the months ahead.
Now that the pre-production work has been completed and we are well on the actual production, we decided to start a blog dedicated to OWC in order to have a bank dedicated to the web on which you can put all those materials that could not be accommodated on the volume and - At the same time - can stimulate your curiosity.

As for other comics, including OWC's blog will work in progress, studies, drawings, tables in preview, but also of material designed specifically for these pages, beginning with the boards of the main characters.
You can read them one at a time from now and gradually in the coming days. We hope you
involving at least what we enjoyed to be achieved in a little 'different than usual.
The main players in the whole affair are portrayed in the image that illustrates quest'intro and passport size photograph in columns that you see on your right.

Also in the column on your right have already seen a mini jukebox: the songs that were chosen can photograph perfectly good part of the atmosphere we would like to recall in OWC.

In closing this brief introduction we post the first real advance on the volume, revealing that the title is hidden behind the acronym OWC: Once Were Criminals (but will have the most acute insight by reading the headers blog) .

We hope to have an increasing number of participants along these tracks that will lead us to the exit of the balloon.

Emiliano and Gianfranco