tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950537705858806192024-03-13T07:29:23.916-07:00The Cosmic AllThe Keeper's Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06530156015052816794noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-495053770585880619.post-74556123369410402532013-04-03T19:29:00.004-07:002013-05-02T08:10:02.381-07:00William:Keeper Of The Cosmic All No. 7It's been over three years since the last post here, so time for a new one! I've actually had this sitting on my computer for over seven years (!) ready to post, but for whatever reason never got around to it.<br />
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There are 23 episodes in total for this comic, plus a few episodes in the continuation, 'The Chronicles Of William'...hopefully I'll upload some of those in the coming months. </div>
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The Keeper's Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06530156015052816794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-495053770585880619.post-28023542871872995232010-01-17T19:44:00.000-08:002010-01-17T20:10:31.137-08:00William : Keeper Of The Cosmic All No.6<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/S1PfM04mF_I/AAAAAAAACIA/861ZTbpMutw/s1600-h/WILLIAM-NO.6-100dpi.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 330px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/S1PfM04mF_I/AAAAAAAACIA/861ZTbpMutw/s400/WILLIAM-NO.6-100dpi.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427927387359025138" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/S1PdfWU-GdI/AAAAAAAACHo/U1xhiBEaru0/s1600-h/WILLIAM-NO.6-sketches.a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 224px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/S1PdfWU-GdI/AAAAAAAACHo/U1xhiBEaru0/s320/WILLIAM-NO.6-sketches.a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427925506550798802" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/S1PdbqaNQ5I/AAAAAAAACHg/fmqtnYY6s38/s1600-h/WILLIAM-NO.6-sketches.b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 219px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/S1PdbqaNQ5I/AAAAAAAACHg/fmqtnYY6s38/s320/WILLIAM-NO.6-sketches.b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427925443221996434" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/S1PdYbuI6_I/AAAAAAAACHY/tjDr-06wXpE/s1600-h/WILLIAM-NO.6-sketches.c.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 242px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/S1PdYbuI6_I/AAAAAAAACHY/tjDr-06wXpE/s320/WILLIAM-NO.6-sketches.c.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427925387739458546" /></a>The Keeper's Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06530156015052816794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-495053770585880619.post-84378757350783864242010-01-07T21:30:00.001-08:002010-01-07T21:36:53.812-08:00William : Keeper Of The Cosmic All No.5<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/S0bEcldEG6I/AAAAAAAACGY/vJOO1uefg_4/s1600-h/WILLIAM-NO.5-100dpi.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 262px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/S0bEcldEG6I/AAAAAAAACGY/vJOO1uefg_4/s400/WILLIAM-NO.5-100dpi.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424238796583738274" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/S0bDirB3pnI/AAAAAAAACGI/75x0IP21GQU/s1600-h/WILLIAM-NO.5-full_size_rough_scrn.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 260px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/S0bDirB3pnI/AAAAAAAACGI/75x0IP21GQU/s400/WILLIAM-NO.5-full_size_rough_scrn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424237801647875698" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/S0bDcSpb7RI/AAAAAAAACGA/F8MihCR49bw/s1600-h/WILLIAM-NO.5-priest_sketch.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 245px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/S0bDcSpb7RI/AAAAAAAACGA/F8MihCR49bw/s400/WILLIAM-NO.5-priest_sketch.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424237692023729426" /></a><br />The extras for this episode include a drawing of one of the priests, though I think this drawing is from around a year or two after I did the comic. I've also included a full-size layout rough I did of the whole comic. Not sure why I did the layout full-size like this, but it's the only one of the episodes I did this for.The Keeper's Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06530156015052816794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-495053770585880619.post-69143467422514673782009-12-28T21:27:00.001-08:002009-12-28T21:28:32.261-08:00William : Keeper Of The Cosmic All No.4<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/SzmTe52QxMI/AAAAAAAACEQ/5J6LF-jTHpk/s1600-h/WILLIAM-NO.4-100dpi.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 330px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/SzmTe52QxMI/AAAAAAAACEQ/5J6LF-jTHpk/s400/WILLIAM-NO.4-100dpi.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420525785650873538" /></a>The Keeper's Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06530156015052816794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-495053770585880619.post-32031700876866838712009-12-27T18:25:00.001-08:002009-12-28T21:27:01.884-08:00William : Keeper Of The Cosmic All No.3<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/SzgXdp96WnI/AAAAAAAACDw/dATn4P_Bjus/s1600-h/WILLIAM-NO.3-100dpi.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/SzgXdp96WnI/AAAAAAAACDw/dATn4P_Bjus/s400/WILLIAM-NO.3-100dpi.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420107949789567602" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/SzmTHSR90EI/AAAAAAAACEI/RTzabzwnVzI/s1600-h/WILLIAM-NO.3-layout.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 190px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/SzmTHSR90EI/AAAAAAAACEI/RTzabzwnVzI/s200/WILLIAM-NO.3-layout.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420525379892662338" /></a><br /><br />I noticed when I saw the layout page for this episode, that I had given William a last name, but never used it.The Keeper's Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06530156015052816794noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-495053770585880619.post-78582614758431873172009-12-20T20:46:00.000-08:002009-12-28T21:38:48.930-08:00William : Keeper Of The Cosmic All No.2<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/SzGQ69ssJiI/AAAAAAAACDg/K7cTk8A0W7U/s1600-h/WILLIAM-NO.2-100dpi.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 330px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/SzGQ69ssJiI/AAAAAAAACDg/K7cTk8A0W7U/s400/WILLIAM-NO.2-100dpi.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418271169372235298" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/SzmV1YdHfBI/AAAAAAAACEg/G9hPxTpv48c/s1600-h/WILLIAM-no_2-sketches.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 142px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/SzmV1YdHfBI/AAAAAAAACEg/G9hPxTpv48c/s200/WILLIAM-no_2-sketches.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420528370847284242" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/SzGQvTnmjnI/AAAAAAAACDY/eZxm_yc4Rsw/s1600-h/William-early_sketches-2_scrn.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 321px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/SzGQvTnmjnI/AAAAAAAACDY/eZxm_yc4Rsw/s400/William-early_sketches-2_scrn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418270969098047090" /></a><br />By the second episode, I was starting to get a better feel for the character. Here's a sketch from around the time I did the second early on. The Samurai blank face dude doesn't have anything to do with William, but I liked it so left it in the scan!The Keeper's Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06530156015052816794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-495053770585880619.post-23790530061131351192009-12-20T18:06:00.000-08:002009-12-28T21:17:33.187-08:00William : Keeper Of The Cosmic All No.1<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/Sy77h3NUF5I/AAAAAAAACBg/TZx8sfILkO4/s1600-h/WILLIAM-NO.1-100dpi_scrn_cln.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/Sy77h3NUF5I/AAAAAAAACBg/TZx8sfILkO4/s400/WILLIAM-NO.1-100dpi_scrn_cln.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417543960947333010" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/SzmQp7L6F9I/AAAAAAAACD4/1CoUEh3wAjA/s1600-h/WILLIAM-NO.1-layout.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 273px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/SzmQp7L6F9I/AAAAAAAACD4/1CoUEh3wAjA/s400/WILLIAM-NO.1-layout.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420522676453775314" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/SzBmk7Yq1_I/AAAAAAAACDQ/QagIcAKN8fk/s1600-h/WIlliam-No-1-early_panels-2_scrn.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 130px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/SzBmk7Yq1_I/AAAAAAAACDQ/QagIcAKN8fk/s400/WIlliam-No-1-early_panels-2_scrn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417943136329193458" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/Sy77oDwQI2I/AAAAAAAACBo/gAhrb-Nxi1c/s1600-h/early_sketches-1_scrn.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 185px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/Sy77oDwQI2I/AAAAAAAACBo/gAhrb-Nxi1c/s400/early_sketches-1_scrn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417544067394315106" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/SzBmggUYhWI/AAAAAAAACDI/nIJ1ogfAzC0/s1600-h/William-early_sketches-3_scrn.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/SzBmggUYhWI/AAAAAAAACDI/nIJ1ogfAzC0/s400/William-early_sketches-3_scrn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417943060343981410" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />Here's the very first episode of 'William,' along with a rough sketch of the first panels and an abandoned finished version of them. Also shown here are some early concept drawings I did of our protagonist. You can see from these early drawings I was drawing him with brown hair, which I later changed to blond. The style that I drew William in was a continuation of a character of myself I had been doing in High School. I had first been influenced to draw his head in that shape from some graffitti drawings I saw painted large across the top wall of one of my High School classes. I thought the style was very cool and sort of appropriated it for myself. I wonder sometimes if I'd never seen those drawings how differently my art my have looked.<br /><p> <br />As for the finished Episode 1 presented here; I won't be doing much playing around with the original art on the remaining episodes posted, but I felt compelled to go into this first episode a bit. Some of the art was very crude (and still is!) and the page itself wasn't in the greatest condition. I went in and cleaned up most of it, getting rid of lots of purple pencil marks, especially when it was making some of the words hard to read. I also did a bit of redrawing in a few panels. Not drawing the new stuff as I would today, though...just cleaning up and keeping in the style of the original art.The Keeper's Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06530156015052816794noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-495053770585880619.post-63403761878863058332009-12-18T19:38:00.000-08:002009-12-21T22:23:22.319-08:00William : Keeper of the Cosmic All - Preview Ad<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/SzBld66utUI/AAAAAAAACCg/649SazDIWuY/s1600-h/PREVIEW+AD-SPRING-1986.100dpi.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 379px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/SzBld66utUI/AAAAAAAACCg/649SazDIWuY/s400/PREVIEW+AD-SPRING-1986.100dpi.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417941916432905538" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/SzBlvbaesyI/AAAAAAAACC4/6gSvJMSxGDQ/s1600-h/preview_ad-first_scrn.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/SzBlvbaesyI/AAAAAAAACC4/6gSvJMSxGDQ/s400/preview_ad-first_scrn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417942217213784866" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/SzBlsHyvTUI/AAAAAAAACCw/yEJJomTSvvY/s1600-h/Preview_ad-pencils_scrn.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 308px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/SzBlsHyvTUI/AAAAAAAACCw/yEJJomTSvvY/s400/Preview_ad-pencils_scrn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417942160407219522" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/SzBlpKDNAyI/AAAAAAAACCo/DA48P033o_4/s1600-h/Preview_ad-ruffs_scrn.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 370px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZuJZ_IBoCYw/SzBlpKDNAyI/AAAAAAAACCo/DA48P033o_4/s400/Preview_ad-ruffs_scrn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417942109473538850" /></a><br /><br />Hey there, faithful readers and welcome to my new blog. Here you'll find the complete run of 24 episodes of 'William : Keeper Of The Cosmic All,' which ran in the Brooklyn College student newspaper, The Kingsman, from September of 1986 - May of 1987. <br /><p><br />The following semester I began a continuation of the strip, called 'The Chronicles Of William,' but I only wound up doing five or six episodes. In addition to doing the 'Keeper of the Cosmic All' strip, and some other cartoons, I eventually wrote a review column, called The Keepers Notes. By that time I was assistant arts editor to Jason Dubin, who wrote and drew the long running B.C.B.S. Later, I became co-arts editor with Mike Dellavechia, who also drew some wacked out comics for the paper, including his great Mastrogodinagopoly. There were even a few collaborations. Those were fun times at the Kingsman offices.<br /><p><br />In the twenty + years since the last William strip was published, I've done a few personal drawings and comics pages with the character; two of them are still only in pencils and the other, the only one fully inked, on 14" X 17" bristol, was destroyed when I had a flood in my basement in early 2008. I don't think I have a copy or record of it anywhere, although, I was able to save an undamaged sliver of the original artwork. Those comics will eventually be posted here, as well as other artwork and sketches related to William. <br /><p><br /> In case you were wondering - or not - the name for the character and strip, came from my long-time friend, Bill Akunevicz, Jr. Back in High School, where we met, he was known as William. One of our mutual friends for some reason took to calling him William : Keeper of the Cosmic All, and even made him a t-shirt with that name spelled out on the front, in classic felt Little League baseball team iron-on letters. Ironically, neither of them seem to remember that! I guess I had it in the back of my mind when I decided to come up with the comic, as I thought the title sounded cool. The character of William, in the comic, though, was much pretty much just myself. The real William and I collaborated on one episode; I did the writing and pencils, and he provided the inks. <br /><p><br />The preview ad shown here, ran in a May 1986 issue of the Kingsman, promoting the comic debuting in the next school semester, after the Summer break.The Keeper's Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06530156015052816794noreply@blogger.com0