If you’re not familiar with SkottieScott, you’re missing out one of the best art blogs on the internet from two of the best artists in the industry. It comes from Skottie Young, the recently anointed Eisner winner for Best Penciller/Inker, and Scott Morse, the mad man genius behind one of our favorite mini-series from 2010 – Strange Science Fantasy.
It’s a fantastic site as it stands, but today they launched something even more exciting: a web comic. I’ll let their post do the talking on that:
Welcome to the Big Experiment…here, twice weekly, you’ll thrill to the ongoing exploits of Asher and Spittle in their yet-to-be-officially-titled comic by Scott Morse and Skottie Young. We’ve decided to make a departure here at SkottieScott from the re-imagined character designs you’ve come to know and love. Instead, we’re opting to CREATE. We’re opting to OWN. We’re opting to contribute to the entertainment spectrum with something original and hopefully a load of fun for everyone. It is for us, anyhow.
Periodically you’ll find accompanying anecdotes about the creation of the story and characters, but mostly you’ll find the story pages themselves. We’re creating these one page at a time with no outline to work from: we’re shooting from the hip. This could backfire and destroy comics and the internet itself… or succeed and make the internet a better place and comics the medium of choice for storytellers. Or at the very least make you smile twice weekly.
Asher is Skottie’s creation, Spittle is Scott’s creation. The rest is a joint effort written and drawn as we see each other’s work just days before you do.
Scott’s pages will be updated every Monday while Skottie updates his every Friday. So you’ll start and end each week with new piece of the adventure.
Oh, and soon you’ll see the look of SkottieScott evolve to better suit the comics format we’re shooting for. Don’t be scared. It’s for your own good.
Buckle up.
Aww yeah! This is awesome news. If you’re a fan of comics, you have no reason not to bookmark this site now.
