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Monday, April 23, 2007

Giant Robot Warriors-The Sketches

This will be the last Buy-my-book blog on this subject. Here's a bunch of preliminary skeches for Giant Robot Warriors, seen here for the absolutely very first time in technocolor vision. These never before seen sketches were to foretell the amazing giant robot mayhem and carnage that would transpire in this masterpiece of literary robot visual splendor.

Look, I don't know what else to say anymore. This is one of the greatest robot graphic novels created in the last 600 years. They're Giant. They're Robots. They're Warriors. I'll add another adjective if you want.
Buy it here or at Amazon and witness the robot excellence for yourself, please. Take it the beach with you, The new dust cover will protect it from the sand and kelp. GIANT ROBOT WARRIORS. The time is now.

Negamon. Don't know what I was going for here, Danny Devito maybe, but I like it.


McManus. I love these sketches of her, but I didn't draw her as well in the first few pages of the book, and I don't know why because these sketches are so good in my opinion.


Killamon! I wanted my robots to look more animal-like as I was mainly influenced by 60's Japanese monster movies. So Killamon was a little like a turtle (like Gamera) and a beetle. I also intended Killamon to symbolize very American traits in his battle appearance: sleek, state-of-the-art, expensive, and way overloaded with the most advanced weopons, like he could tip over any second.
Sandy. Described early on as being made up of old Cold war-era Soviet and American parts, haphazardly put together with camel pelts and sand dripping from the robot. I slapped on some old sherman tanks on his back with duct tape and stuff. I really wanted him to look like a giant ant with two mouths, one on the top of his head. One of my best sketches ever.


Rufus. These were gawd-awful.

Rufus. A little better.

Eisenbecker.

Gina and Davy. My favorite characters in the book immediately after this sketch.

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Monday, March 26, 2007

Giant Robot Warriors-Cover Action!



Look! I received a box of comps of my lovely book, Giant Robot Warriors, with it's sparkling new cover! It looks better than ever, what a gem! Thanks to Larry Young! Exclamation points!!
Don't miss out on your chance to get this book, my first graphic novel. Buy it now!




Sketches for the new cover. The decision over which one to do was hard-fought and carefully mulled over for 16 hours in a smoked-filled room by 12 angry men. But we picked the right one!



Here is how the raw art looks with the hand-coloring before the digital effects. This original art is lying around somewhere if anyone wants to buy it.



Who Will Fight the Nesxt World War?

GIANT ROBOT WARRIORS

published by AIT/Planetlar

"Any resemblance between this wild satire and recent world events is strictly intentional…A graphic novel-sibling, brilliantly-drawn, of Dr. Strangelove."
--ALA Booklist



"A comedy that pokes more than a little fun at the media, the military, the government and the president. This is all done with tongue so firmly planted in cheek that it is funny and sharp and sort of endearing...Kelly’s art is realistic and does a great job of capturing both the humorous subtext and the weird tech of the eventual GRW showdown. The result is a real hoot: A strange but kind of charming military-industrial-complex romance — with giant robots. Grade: A- "
--Variety.com

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Friday, March 16, 2007

Giant Robot Warriors-The Reissue



Two new reviews have rolled in for the 2007 reissue of my first graphic novel, Giant Robot Warriors, so it's high-time I start ringing the dinner bell for my book.

The reissue is the original book with a new slip-on dust cover featuring new cover art by me!

From Randy Lander at Comic Pants:


"Giant robots and political satire. Not exactly the first two things you think of blending together, but happily, Stuart Moore did, and the result is a story with several fun characters, more than a few laugh-out-loud moments and some really interesting commentary on the modern day state of politics. Using giant robots as a metaphor. Moore is joined in this endeavor by a Ryan Kelly, whose work here shows signs of the amazing style he would show off two years later on Local, but also reminded me at the time of some of the best work of John McCrea… in other words, art that is right at home with over-the-top satire tinged with science-fiction elements...

...If you’re looking for a dose of Ryan Kelly art in between issues of Local, or just a fun, funny book about giant robot warfare with an undercurrent of political satire, Giant Robot Warriors is worth a look. You can find it by looking for the snazzy new cover from Ryan Kelly."


Beau Smith at SBC:

"It is cover to cover mind blowing, eye popping art and story."





The timing for the reissue of Giant Robot Warriors couldn't be better. Last week I was rereading my copy of GRW for the first time in a LONG time. I realized, again, how proud I am of this book and how much work I put into it. There are many instances where I'm still shocked at how much detail I put into the book and how much of an easy and fun read Stuart had crafted out of serious issues and robot warfare. I can't believe I draw ALL THAT!

This is my first Graphic Novel. To celebrate the reissue, i'm going to post some preliminary sketches and art soon.

Anyway, If you at all support what I do, and Stuart, then you'll go out and get this book. At your comic shop. Order it. Buy it.

Giant Robot Warriors (TPB)

Writer: Stuart Moore
Artist: Ryan Kelly
Company: AIT/Planet Lar


ISBN: 1-932051-19-8
Diamond: STAR20445

Giant Robot Warriors atAIT/Planetlar

Giant Robot Warriors atKhepri comics

Giant Robot Warriors atAmazon

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