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Comics That Never Were

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One of the things I did upon turning 40 was to think about the things I’ve done so far. I went to the old house earlier today and rummaged through my boxes of documents, artworks, letters, photos, etc. I’m a pack rat. I keep a lot of seemingly inconsequential things like bus tickets, receipts, and yet more often than not, I can tell you a story behind each of those things. In those boxes I saw a lot of photocopies or originals of comics that I had worked on, but they were comics that were not meant to be for one reason or another.

I thought I’d put up a few of them here.

Pencilled by Whilce Portacio and inked by me sometime in 1998. This was a project that was called “Jinn“, but after a while the concept was reworked, characters redesigned and I eventually inked Whilce on an 11 page story, still called “Jinn”, which saw print in Frank Frazetta’s Fantasy Illustrated #6. The drawing above was never published.

I remember being very excited to be asked to ink Whilce again on a whole new project. I think this might have been before Stone. Outside of the 11 pages that eventually saw print, Whilce and I never got to work on it further. It was picked up by a whole new creative team and they came out with a couple of issues of it.

I don’t remember the title of this proposed comics series now, but I was working on it with both Karen Kunawicz and David Hontiveros sometime in the late 90′s. All I remember is that the character’s name was Jeff, and he suddenly gained super powers in the height of a storm. I remember drawing this because I was so gung ho about using techniques that I’ve recently learned, that of scratching off ink with a nail or cutter to produce rain lines, as well as using white out for effects.

This is the unpublished cover to Hazard #8, pencilled by Roy Allan Martinez and inked by me. As is usual industry practice, covers are finished a long time before we even get to work on the pages for the purposes of using the cover for solicitations. Unfortunately, Hazard was canceled after issue #7. Roy and I worked on this cover sometime in late 1996, and when the book was canceled, we went from there straight to Wildstorm Spotlight #2 and 3 featuring Loner.

Comments

5 Responses to “Comics That Never Were”

  1. Reno on January 21st, 2008 10:30 pm

    Sayang yung Hazard. I collected that series from start to finish. I was a big fan of Roy Allan Martinez’ local work back then and was stoked to see him on a regular gig for US comics.

    That Jeff thing looks interesting. Did you do that drawing all by yourself? It doesn’t look like your typical style.

  2. Rod Samonte on January 22nd, 2008 6:51 am

    Gerry,
    That’s an amazing Portacio/Alanguilan work. Is that the original or a photocopy? I have not seen Jinn. Another comics to look for. Thanks for sharing. By the way, does Whilce pencil tight or do you have to fill in?
    Rod

  3. Gerry Alanguilan on January 22nd, 2008 9:07 am

    Hello Reno… yes the drawing is all me. :)

    Rod, it’s a photocopy. The comic book itself was drawn by other artists, I think they were from South America. The Jinn story Whilce and I worked on only came out in the Frazetta magazine. :)

  4. Ed on January 23rd, 2008 11:31 am

    Chicken Scratchings are cool. That’s what I call it, and I’m sure you wanna call it that too, Gerry. :P I remember we’ve beaten up one page in early Wolverine days that Leinil and I drew. Haha! Okay ang technique, ginagawa ko pa rin on some pages with rain scenes.

    Sana meron ulit JINN, ako na magdodrawing. Haha. (dream on) Ngayon ko lang nakita yang mga drawings na yan ah, Gerry.

  5. Gerry Alanguilan on January 23rd, 2008 11:59 am

    Ikaw ang gumawa ng cover ng Jinn #3 diba? :D