We wanted it to feel like an old 'Space Ghost' is a bit more labor intensive, but that's about it. "It's an art direction choice more than anything. "There really isn't any advantage one way or the other," artist Lawrence Marvit told CBR News. Now that you know the process by which these books will be produced you have to wonder if there's any advantage to creating a comic this way. Finally, Mike and Laura Allred will assemble all these pieces on the computer at which point it'll be sent off to the printer and come this July you'll see the finished product in your favorite comic book store. Next, Marvit will pencil the figures on a vellum overlay attached to photocopies of the finished backgrounds and those will be sent to Allred, who'll finish them by inking the characters and adding in Spaceman himself.
Marvit will paint the background for each page which will then be scanned into a computer. I'm looking at all these backgrounds with no characters on it and I don't even know the story!" It's an interesting process because all I've really seen are the pages themselves I haven't read a script or anything. You'll have these amazingly painted backgrounds and then on top of that, as a separate layer, you will have hand drawn and inked characters that are then digitally colored. So, there will be this strange sort of animated look to the book. The project also evolved creatively as Lawrence is now penciling all the characters as well as the backgrounds and then Mike will ink the characters and will draw Spaceman. "A year later we are talking to Mike about 'It Girl' and taking over some of the AAA Pop stuff and what happened was that 'Spaceman' became the second collaboration between Oni and AAA Pop. "In the original genesis of this project Lawrence was going to paint all the backgrounds and Mike was going to do everything else," said Rich. While comic fans know him best for his work on the Slave Labor Graphics series "Sparks," Marvit's background is in animation and he'll bring a lot of that sensibility to "Spaceman." In the case of "Spaceman," the book will have a decidedly different feel from "It Girl" or any previous "Madman" project due to Marvit's association with the book.
These spin-offs were a way for Allred to keep those ginchy characters from "The Atomics" in front of readers while Allred's busy with his work on Marvel's "X-Force." Rich and Allred discovered the only way it was going to be possible to do this would be to have Allred write the books and someone else supply the art.
"If you look, almost a year ago, on the back of 'The Atomics,' Mike Allred started advertising this book and it was one of those cases where he had a character that was going to spin-out of the book and he had someone he wanted to work with, which was Lawrence Marvit." "'Spaceman' is a product that's been percolating for a while," Rich told CBR News.
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