Samadhi has been a student at Clearwater for 9 years--he enrolled when he was four and is now almost 14 years old. He has been drawing since he was six and began making comics two or three years ago.
This year he started writing and illustrating a science fiction graphic novel series titled Cosmos. He has completed 16 pages in the first of seven planned books in the series. Book one is subtitled "Sol System", and will be around 200 pages long. He is using Adobe Photoshop to color the comic.
Samadhi has another comic series in mind, also science fiction. He maintains he cannot make a comic series without outer space in it. He explained that the humor in his comic is inspired by Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which combined sci-fi and comedy so well.
Many graphic novels fill Samadhi's shelves at home. Some of his favorites are Bone, Usagi Yojimbo, Amulet, Missile Mouse and Lackadaisy. He admires the last one because it is well drawn and combines comedy and drama.
Without further ado, here is Cosmos. Many pages are followed by Samadhi's comments. Click on each image to enlarge for reading.
Comic Prologue page 001
Comic Prologue page 002
Page 003 Shipslicer!
(click to embiggen)
Page 004 The Vanishing...
(click to embiggen)
And, now The Title Page!
(Click to embiggen and discover the name of this Opus)
And The first page of the actual comic!
(Click to check out those awesome night time effects close up)
Page 007 (Sodalicious!)
Page 008 (Suddenly, better shading! Wow!)
Page 009 (Lamps with eyes are the best kind of lamps. I’d totally buy that lamp.)
Page 010 (Oh wait no that’s no lamp. Shocking twist. What is even this guy’s deal with these lamps.)
Page 011 (PLOT!! That’s a sound effect that needs to be used in comics more often.)
Page 012 (Shocking twist #2. Man Lekku what is even up with your mane in that last panel. Brush strokes eternal.)
Page 013 (Motion blur always. I have to draw those couches so many times
i will just drop a spaceship on one, which just actually happened. Oh
wait now it’s harder to draw. Dang)
Page 014 (See, when you cut something with a sword that looks like a
peeled banana it clearly can’t be fixed. This is what happens in my
world.)
How many couches CAN I destroy???????? Next on Cosmos!
Samadhi's comic was first published on his mother Roseanne's blog, Breaking Sod, in three installments: one, two and three.
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