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• Brian Wood

  Pencils via Riccardo Burchielli

  07.06.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  There is such a beauty to an artist’s pencils sometimes… not just the cool behind-the-scenes nature of it, but a rawness and an energy to the line that is just never the same when inked.
  Riccardo Burchielli, for DMZ #47

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• Brian Wood

  DMZ Location Map

  06.13.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Click here for a map of key DMZ locations seen throughout the series.
  This is a work in progress.
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• Brian Wood

  Northlanders Production Crap

  06.09.09 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  settlement_map, originally uploaded by brianwood.
  I whipped this up for artist Leandro Fernandez, who is taking on the next long Northlanders story “The Plague Widow” (#21-28). It was far easier to give him this than put it into words.
  This is something I’ve not done yet in the book – set a story in what is [...]

• Brian Wood

  DMZ #40

  01.19.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Scene_In_DMZ40, originally uploaded by brianwood.

  This is the sort of thing I include in scripts for Riccardo.
  This photo helps us envision an entire scene.  It serves as a guide so we’re on the same page with angles and distances.  I can write “Matty looks left towards the copter” and he’ll know what the background buildings are [...]

• Brian Wood

  DMZ #41 Again – By Request

  01.14.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  At Will Dennis’ suggestion, I posted up some DMZ #41 logo mockups to explain the short process involved in working with JP’s cover art.
  -bri

• Brian Wood

  The New York Four: First Pass Proposal

  01.02.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Here is the first pass at the NY4 proposal, from January of 2006, such as it is. Obviously a lot changed, a lot just plain sucked, or was tweaked to better fit Minx. I always love this stage of the proposal process, when its more of a conversation, a stream-of-consciousness than a formal proposal:
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  bri

• Brian Wood

  Massimo Carnevale’s unused Northlanders painting

  09.02.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Sven , originally uploaded by Massimo Carnevale.

• Brian Wood

  Exclusive: full NORTHLANDERS story notes – spoilers!

  08.03.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Here’s my full set of handwritten notes for the Sven arc. Obviously there are spoilers here if you haven’t read the story yet.  Pornographic doodles have been removed from the margins.
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