A shorter update from us this month! We'll boil it down to this: the team is continuing to work very hard.
We keep saying that, don't we. May: "we're working hard". June: "we're working hard". You ever feel like we're just typing words that don't really mean anything in real life while you keep waiting for this book to come together? WELL. We can give you a little behind the scenes tour of our production, and show off what hard work actually looks like.
Slackin' Off
Since members of Vault and the Croc creative teams are located around the country, we sync all of the work we do via an app called Slack. If you're not familiar, it's like Discord but for boring stuff :[ UNLESS !! you work at Vault Comics, then it's Discord for EXTREMELY COOL stuff :]
Every week, our Slack looks like this:
We blurred out the egregious spoilers to protect your collectively delicate sensibilities (you're welcome). But as you can see, we are continually buried in pages of amazing art for this book. From, the pages are reviewed by our Editorial team for many rounds of review and revisions ahead of final production.
This little slice of Slack represents a massive effort from everyone on the team who are not just creating Croc but also balancing work on other comics, covers, and attending conventions as well as living their non-comic lives. A huge round of applause to Brett and JP especially for doing everything they can to stick the landing on our production schedule.
Speaking of conventions...
Con season is now upon us. Godspeed to all of you who are about to have the time of your lives... we may even see some of you in the near future! For the Croc team:
Vault Comics won't be tabling at SDCC, but Nathan Gooden, Vault co-founder and DCC comic variant cover artist, will be hanging out at the Big Clutch booth. BC is a big supporter of DCC... maybe worth taking a look if you're in town!
You might see some Croc love at GenCon this year!
Our big event of the year will be NYCC in October. If you saw how huge we went last year (yes, we brought an actual big rig truck onto the show floor) you're gonna love what we're doing with Carl this year. You can be sure that we'll post pictures for those who aren't able to make it.
In the meantime...
We will see you again for next month's update, on August 13. Or, if you want to hear from us even sooner than that, go check out our BackerKit page to see what we've been up to while Croc is coalescing in the background. Fans of progression fantasy with a romantic twist might find a new project to love in our next campaign, launching in just a few days.
And for those who are really paying attention, we'll be announcing our next VERY cool dungeon-related comic project soon... you won't want to miss it. Stay tuned for more!
We'll leave you with the most recent versions of the DCC: Croc covers! Lookin' good, Florin.
