Well, I'm not even going to try coloring anything in Astonishing Fiction for a while. The next few issues will be entirely in black and white without being colored and then printed in greyscale. The reasons for this vary, but basically, color cost more to print and thus cost more to buy. Also, since I can't compete with the Photoshop/Digital color stuff and the special effects possible only by a guy using a machine, I've decided not to even try. Besides, I've noticed, when original drawings of some of these machine colored comic pages are actually available (or exist to begin with), they're not very impressive without their digital coloring.

Black and white is an area where an artist's work has to stand on its own and many people seem more impressed with my work in black and white than in color.

Anyway, here's some pages from Astonishing Fiction #4. Although what's in the comic stores are the black and white greyscale versions, this is the last issue for a while with a color copy available. I was tempted to throw up a page or two from A.F #5 so you could get a preview of my black and white work, but I decided not to until later. Remember, this is a HAND colored comic. Don't expect to see anything like the Photoshop stuff you see everywhere else. Enjoy.