Evan Dahm

May 22

Aspects of Tarrus

I don’t normally do this but I am happy with how this panel turned out! Read Vattu??!!

May 18

The King of Space and his personal guards.

May 15

bubble alien

have been feeling really “creatively frustrated” lately but here is an alien i saw in a dream on a bus! who knows man

May 2

robertmakesstuff asked: Do you plan on putting Vattu into a single volume like you did with OoT or do you think it will be much to long a story for that?

It will be too long to go in one book. I’m going to approach printing the individual Vattu books as I have the one-volume Rice Boy and Order of Tales books: basically as close to the ideal presentation of the story as possible, and with a corresponding fancy hardcover version of each book. Because of the long period of time over which these will be published, I’m thinking of making the hardcovers not expressly “limited edition,” though. I am not sure about all of this yet. Also I will be printing these in runs of thousands, not hundreds, so it’ll be easier to keep them all in print than the individual OoT books were.

May 1

sillymattface asked: Hi Evan, love all your work. In the most recent flashback, the War Man's blood is notably darker and more orange than Calirus's. Do the War Men have orange-ish blood, or it something to do with the sunset lighting? Cheers!

they bloods different

deucerific asked: Regarding the Vattu book, I'm not so sure about gray. I mean, I know Vattu herself is gray, but the comic has been so warm and vibrant and this cover is so cold! Are you going with this just because the Fluters a gray too?

That, and I need an overall neutral theme color that can have brighter accents throughout the series. So, book one would be white and yellow on gray, book two would be white and blue on gray… Not sure.

The white mark on gray field seems ideal to me as a front cover, and that might be confused a bit if the cover isn’t gray.

BUT I have been thinking about how cool it would be to have some book bound with brown kraft paper over board; could do that.

Still a while before this stuff has to be figured out.

Loose mockups for what I might like the Vattu book 1 hardcover and paperbacks look like. My current plan for this book (and the later Vattu books to match) is the most overtly “designed” of all of my books so far, and will require a whole bunch of extra illustration work! Looking forward to having some of this thing in print, finally…

Apr 25

A new character

Hmm what’s this

Apr 24

More Vattu development stuff

Working out the Tower and the outer/southernmost wall. I’ll post a couple more things later this week, and then part 3 starts on Monday.

Apr 23

Order of Tales book release!

The Order of Tales one-volume books are here, the signing is this Friday at Bergen Street Comics in Brooklyn. You should come! Might do a talk and a question and answer thing?? I don’t know.

Bigger delay on the arrival of the books than anticipated, but the process of sending out Kickstarter incentive orders begins TODAY.

My storage unit is full of 2000 Order of Tales and 1200 Rice Boy books now: