Reprieve

And so the deadline to Fully Booked's 1st Philippine Graphic/Fiction Awards has been extended up until the end of February. That means I have less than a week or so to bug perennial collaborator and artist of choice Allen and convince (or browbeat) him to draw the story. He signed on to this venture back in early December but had to beg off due to an increased workload in his ad jobs.

First things first, though, I still have to finish writing the story in full script. Broke down my treatment of the story into panels and pages just before Christmas but hit a wall when I realized I still had to do a bit of research (the story being a piece of historical fiction set in early 17th century Manila and starring a samurai). Add to that good pal and artist supreme Allen's departure from the project and the then-looming end of January deadline led me to figure that it could never be done in time even if I were to find a new artist so I held off completing the script.

We roughly have six and a half weeks to complete the damn thing. I have until the end of next week to finish writing the script and hand it to Allen to hopefully convince him to get back into the project. From there he'll have five weeks or so to draw the entire 12-page story.

It sounds quite easy, no?

Hah. I wish.