The Endling on Comixology

The Endling Collections 6 (featuring chapters 21-24) and 7 (feat. chapters 25-28) are finally on Comixology! They include lots of bonus material.

 

The End of the Endling

Eh, uhm, somehow I have to acknowledge that THE ENDLING has finished, last Thursday.

It is somehow bittersweet to write this, after all this time. Jonathan was more eloquent than me, in his Thrillbent blog post. We stil, have the Collections to complete, but for the moment,

that's all, folks!

After one year and a half...

... I sent the pages for The Endling's last chapter this morning.

The Endling 34

The one issue I didn't wish to draw, finally online on Thrillbent.

The Endling 33/2.13

 Now on Thrillbent!

Rafe fb cover

Yesterday I quarrelled with Photoshop, trying to settle on a background for this...

I tried following a tutoria for colouring the character, but my skills with Photoshop are still a long way to go. Eh.

The Endling 29/2.09

I'm quite pleased with how this issue turned out, I felt like I could share a few pages. Read the whole issue on Thrillbent: http://thrillbent.com/comics/the-endling/the-endling-volume-2-chapter-9/#1

Featured on CBR!

I got featured on Comic Book Resources, for the Month of Women in Comics!
Read the article here:  http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2014/03/24/month-of-women-in-comics-the-endling-volume-1/

An excerpt:
Latella nails Amber’s personality so well. I think her depiction of Amber really sells the book the best. Latella makes Amber feel like a real person. Meanwhile, Latella also does a great job depicting all the crazy evolutionary enhancements that the Endling has, like the ability to cut off his own toe and control it to kill people. It’s sick but also awesome (and also based, kind of, on the properties of a real life animal).

You can read The Endling every Thursday on Thrillbent.com :D

The Endling collection 4

Cover for The Endling Collection 4 (featuring issues 13-16 + bonus material) now available on ComiXology.

The Endling 23/2.03 online

Some angst from a chapter devoted mainly to action.

The Endling Issue 23/2.03 is readable online on Thrillbent: http://thrillbent.com/comics/the-endling/the-endling-volume-2-chapter-3/#1

Jonathan interviewed by Matt O'Keefe

Matt O'Keefe, the author of Deadless (for which I drew a short episode some time ago) has interviewed Jonathan about The Endling for The Beat. You can read the interview here:

Interview: For Jonathan Larsen, The Endling is only the Beginning

 I've also just read a very interesting article on Multiversity Comics (which was reblogged by Fiona Staples on tumblr),

What To Look For When You’re Talking About Comic Art, From Pro Reviewers and Pro Artists

"- It’s a story first: Reviewers often treat writers like the primary storytellers, but so much of the story – from the pacing and mood to the subtle bits that elevate the material – is created by the artist. The story isn’t a writer telling the story, but the writer and the artist doing that together."

 

 

The Endling 22/2.02

Now on Thrillbent! http://thrillbent.com/comics/the-endling/the-endling-volume-2-chapter-2/#1

Brian Le Tendre spoke kindly of the Endling in his latest podcast (here). The part about Thrillbent and The Endling starts around minute 47. Thanks, Brian!

The Endling is back!

The Endling is coming back tomorrow!

Hi guys,

A short entry just to let you know that THE ENDLING, the digital comic I'm drawing for Thrillbent, will relaunch tomorrow after a four-months hiatus! This second half will pick up exactly where we left, with Amber and Zavi being chased in the lab building by Lee's men. 

You can find a recap of what happened so far here.

And an interview with our writer Jonathan Larsen plus a preview of Issue 21 here on Bleeding Cool.

Please join us on facebook and on twitter for more updates and discussions!

Use Comixology? You can buy the Endling here.

See you tomorrow!

The Endling news

I lost tracks for so long of what happened regarding The Endling in the last few months... Yes, we went on hiatus, but that only means we're working on it so it can flow (hopefully) without interruption in 2014. I've just handed in Issue 28 and working is going on. Anyway, just to recap:

The Endling is now available on Comixology! The first three collections, at least, each one featuring four chapters plus afterwords and bonus materials (layouts, pencils, etc.)

 

Jonathan, me and Paul Mounts at the NYCC

Jonathan and I were interviewed by Pipedream Comics: “Anything that expands the number of outlets for storytelling will open doors for more people to come on through” Jonathan Larsen and Cecilia Latella discuss digital publishing with Thrillbent and their sci-fi fairytale The Endling

 Pipedream Comics also published a review of The Endling. Have and excerpt:


Reminiscent at time of IDW Pubishing’s Memorial, it has a soft gentle pace, with an almost feminine feel to it – which in part is thanks to the influence of Italian artist Cecilia Latella. Her strong simple line work gives the book a very smart classic feel – especially when it comes to the characterisation of the Endling – and as well as mastering the modern world of the science lab, she also has a great grasp of the split world of the savagary of the Endling’s world juxtaposing the simulated world’s barbarity with the modern world’s tranquility.

By the way, I'd love to share also what a reader, Robin, wrote in the Thrillbent comments:

Loving everything on this site but so far this is the stand out comic for me. Genuinely thought Z was going to be replaced by the endling in the tank. Proper feeling of tension and only one innocent to root for with no idea who the true bad guy is. Keep coming guys.

The Endling will be back at the end of the month. Hold on, it will be worth it! 

The Endling break and NYCC

I've been lacking in updating every Thursday news of the Endling, but this is a big one, and the few people who pass from here probably know that already. The weekly publication of the Endling on Thrillbent.com had almost reached the production, so we had to make calculations and decide to take a break, so we could stack a decent number of chapters before starting publishing again.

So the production hasn't stopped: I've sent the last pages for Issue 22 right this morning, I'm preparing the bonus material for Collection #3 and working proceeds as usual.

We will be back online at the end of January.

In the meantime, please join the Endling on facebook or on Twitter to keep up with updates!

The second, necessary update is that I'm coming to New York! I'll be touring the NY Comicon in company of a very good friend, and hopefully we'll see something of the city as well. We are organizing with other Thrillbent authors, to see if we can recognize each other in first place, and then eventually do something. We'll keep you informed!

I have seriously, horribly neglected this blog. Whenever a new chapter of The Endling is up, I try to share it on facebook, on tumblr and on deviantArt, but once I do all that tour I'm usually too tired to share it here as well. But I took two days off drawing for Ferragosto, so I thought I could as well update the blog too.

So, the Endling.

The series reached Issue 14 yesterday (always on Thrillbent.com), and I finished inking Issue 17 a couple of days ago. We are about to reach the core arc of the story - all set during one long night - and I'm quite anxious to see how I will deal with that all (ahah).

Since I reached my family's house in the middle of July, I was able to produce just two aside drawings, one featuring Zatanna

and the second one Harley Queen:

The Endling Issue 7

Is now online!

The Endling 6

The Endling 6 is online on Thrillbent!

Story by Jonathan Larsen
Colors by Jenn Manley Lee
Lettering by Troy Peteri

and art by me.

The Endling issue 5

Is now online! A super-long chapter, with NEW colors by Jenn Manley Lee!