FINALLY....

This awesome piece was done by Brian Roll of ODYSSEY ART.NET He does extraordinary work and captured ultimo perfectly.....

It has been a couple of years since I came up with the concept for COCKERS. For any new AOP fans out there lemme break down the history of these 2 titles.

I started with Bailey the scented wonder and Blitzen the lightning hound and rounded out the duo and made it a trio with Ultimo the ultra hound.

The original title COCKERS began as a 52 page pencil sketcth book. No ink, no color. After showing it to friends and pros alike the consensus was that I should ink and color it. I then enlisted the help of my highschool friend Katastrophe who is a photoshop wizard with color. By the time she was half way done coloring I had come up with 52 more pages and we added them together. After it was colored and lettered by REDWOLFS Marc Adona I realized I didnt have the money to print this 104 page monster.

That is when I came up with the concept of ULTIMO TALES.

ULTIMO TALES which on a timeline of events would occur before COCKERS.
I would also print it in 24to31 pages and in black and white because it was cheaper and flashbacks are usually done in black and white. I asked Katastrophe once again to come out of hiding to do the grey scale tonal seperations for ULTIMO TALES and she did issues one and two which are also available from comixpress or if you see me at this years BALTIMORE-CON!!!

I ended up taking the advice of a couple of friends who had suggested I could break the full color COCKERS novel into 4 smaller books since I had so many pages. It would be cheaper to print and I would have for issues of story before I had to jump to COCKERS volume 2. Sooooo I finally took the advice and chopped up the novel and now I have 1 issue of COCKERS and 2 issues of ULTIMO TALES in print. (no applause please, just by my books)

Thanks, Happy Fathers Day to any fathers out there!!!