2004 Comics: Bermuda Triangle, part 3

Last but not least, this final Bermuda Triangle book I made. It was a completely silent comic, no words or sound effects, all told visually. This had the same character of Judith but told a different story about her on Earth: a neglected child that meets a weirdo who trains her and leads her to the Bermuda Triangle.

It was done in ink and screentones, all of the architecture was painstakingly (for me) done with measurement and rulers in proper perspective. It was not fun to create but I enjoy looking at it. She's wearing my infamous BATS shirt that I bought at salvation army for $1. Some of the pages she looks waaay too much like me, but overall it was a good effort.

I printed out 20 copies at school and had them tape bound at Staples. I brought them to NY Comic Con and gave them out. I was dressed as Charlie Chaplin and was allowed to enter for free. I came in 2nd in the costume contest, an injustice since I lost to a little kid wearing an out of the box star wars costume. Another injustice was I was supposed to receive a year of free passes to comic con and I never got them. I gave one to ECW wrestler Sandman and he proceeded to draw in his own dialogue bubbles throughout the book, he created his own bizarre storyline about how Judith missed her boyfriend the Sandman. It was hilarious but I couldn't laugh lest I break character.

Around this time, I visited my good friend and amazing artist Jade Kuei at Cosmic Comics in midtown Manhattan, and her boss was kind enough to buy 6 copies from me! It was the first time I was paid in cash bills for my art, I was so happy.

I kept that money in a separate bank because that money was special to me. Alas, the end of that year I was so poor that I had to spend it on groceries :(

I told all of my friends my comic was being sold in the "Independents" section of Cosmic Comics and a bunch of them came through and bought copies, I specifically remember Rachel bought one, I think Jessica bought one too. They ALL sold! It was awesome.