Good day all. I am Michael Colbert and I just discovered Stage 32. Currently I have a TV pilot script that has been doing pretty well with several festivals and I am now looking for a manager for that next, important step.
I also write comic books, have several columns and do a photo web comic.
I have been a union set lighting technician for nearly 25 years to boot.
Feel free to say "Hi", give advice and/or ask questions!
Included is an illustrated panel from the TV Pilot script "Mystech"
Thanks.
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HI Michael and welcome to Stage 32! What inspired your graphic novel?
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Hi Michael! Welcome.
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I thought up Mystech because I was grooving on the idea of mash-ups. That fun and interesting music sub-genre of taking two songs that have no business being together and making something that's synthesized (forgive me if you already know what that is).
I wanted to do something mash-up but with action genres and did it with cop action and fantasy action. The first version was for a TV pitch contest, then I adapted it for comics and then back into the TV pilot script it is now.
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Thank you Cherelynn and Heather
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Welcome to the community, Michael Robert Colbert. Congrats on the success you've had with the pilot. You can post your pilot in the logline section of your page. It could draw attention from managers, producers, etc. to your project.
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Welcome to 32!
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Welcome Michael Robert Colbert Love your art. Onward and upward.
Nice profile .I hope to learn a few things from you
I hope to have something worth learning. lol
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Hello Michael. Let's discuss. I'm interested in hearing more to see if I may be able to add some value to what you're working on.
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Wow! Michael, you definitely have that Marvel's Jack Kirby, Joe Sinnot, and Jim Starlin, "Splash Page" thingy going on there! (the 1990s' Image comics style did this as well) Good on you, mate!
Thanks. Wish I drew it but, alas, I just wrote the thing.
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You should definitely check out Image comics from the 1990s. Your style of writing and the coloring and artwork is amazingly similar!
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Yeah, I read a good amount of image in the 90's. I was drawn more to the vertigo material: The Invisibles, Preacher, Transmetropolitian. I've been a comic fan all my life.
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LOL! Michael, I was a Marvel comic collector at 7 years old before Marvel became this movie Juggernaut! I was THAT NERD, who sat on my porch reading comics, spending my $5 allowance every week. I amassed over 1000 comic books (oh yeah, titles like Journey into Mystery, Marvel-Teamups, What if? Annuals (FF especially) then Image comics (YoungBlood, Savage Dragon, Blood Strike, Spawn, etc) Lol. I could go and on all day! DC's "Legion of Superheroes" with for the life of me WHY no Movie Studio has tapped into this basically endless wealth of "Teen Superheroes with every power imaginable" (I mean they only can go so far with Superman, Batman, etc.) They've done everything (killed them, turned them evil, versus an undefeatable foe, I mean everything) The difference I think as an avid comic reader and collector that stands out between Marvel and DC "IS" Marvel was disciplined with "continuity" in their storytelling in the earlier days! DC, not so much outside of Supes and Bats