The Making my Graphic Novel, "Olisi Pares"

I just thought of keeping a journal for my journey on another road to success. Hah! I've been illustrating the comicbooks and cartoons of very talented authors ie, Mark Tuit's 125-page graphic novel, "Barnone", John Hill's 21-page action-hero genre comicbook,"AS-Guards", Nudefish/Calvinayre.com's selective comic strips, "Comic Timing".(The links are all in my Portfolio/Gallery at www.artsehub.com).

I have lots of stories to tell and its been in the shelf for years. It's high time to start sharing these for everyone to enjoy. I've chosen to work first on the Sequel of the 2007, TV Series, "Olisi", www.olisi-pares.com. Most of my friends and associates consider the main character, the first Cebuano super-hero. When the TV network requested for a follow-up after its success, I was thrilled. However, I declined to even think of accepting the idea due to the parts of violence and gore in the Sequel. The TV network is a Christian community-operated establishment and as directors and producers, we were obliged to produce shows that are wholesome in nature.

The above however, doesn't mean that the Sequel presents the aspect of going against good morals and practices or sound Christian doctrines. Having produced, "Olisi" which brought a lot of Christian values and teachings(specially on the aspect of the "Spiritual Warfare") in a general audience atmosphere, I discerned that the Sequel, having the necessity to show the horrors of World War II, will be better off shown outside the said TV network as a full-length movie.

So, it's now three(3) years from that successful TV Series and not a solid producer for the movie Sequel in sight. The crew, actors, stuntmen, followers and family members have been asking when they're going to see the Sequel. Everyone has been very excited about it. For the past three(3) years, I have been talking to potential sponsors and producers, cinematographers, actors, stuntmen, etc...in trying to organize the movie Sequel production. But, things have been slippery. There are a few offers of support and interest but not enough to lift the project to bring its realization. For the meantime while I'm shopping for the production needs of the movie project, I've decided to create its GN(graphic novel) and post it on my website, www.artsehub.com. For free? For a fee? Maybe for a Film Producer/Investor's interest? I'll decide on that later. What matters is, I've started doing it.

For the past two weeks, work has been slow on this GN project. I had to take care of my other freelance jobs for personal monthly bills. I've made pages 1 to 3 pencils already and I'm currently on pages 4 and 5(one page spread as Splash page to contain the title). But, alas! I still have to finalize on the character development. I doodled some already but looks like I'm "harassed"(term we used in our Christian community when the other side makes troubles in our daily tasks) and they're nowhere to be found. Well, better work on it again than spend precious time looking around. Just need to extract it from my head...or should I say from my heart:)