I don’t have a lot of favorite sites but when asked I always say Aintitcool.com is great and I visit it regularly for years. Now I totally missed they mentioned Maya over there. A huge THANK YOU to Ambush Bug for taking Maya to my favorite site! Click here and see for yourself!

Before I started working on Maya I worked on some Tales From The Crypt stories and I did two issues of a four-issue miniseries for Bluewater Productions. The series now becomes a graphic novel which will be out in November 2010. The graphic novel is the official sequel to the classic Ray Harryhausen movie: It Came From Beneath the Sea. You can already preorder it at amazon. Here you can find direct links: Preorder the graphic novel at amazon!. If you want to see my original cover for the series please click here to see the original cover. The book will be in stores with the following cover I did before the other one: Actual Cover for the graphic novel. And here is the solic text for the book:

This is the sequel to the cult film. In the 1950s, the U.S. Navy encountered and destroyed a gigantic octopus that attacked shipping and wreaked havoc on the west coast of the United States. American forces killed the creature and ended the threat once and for all. Or so they thought. They were wrong. Now, another monster is rising in the warm blue waters surrounding Taru Taru, a speck of land far out in the Pacific. And this time it’s worse than anyone ever imagined.

Did I mention when you preorder the book at amazon now!… you can save 5$ of the cover price. So… what are you waiting for?

There was a problem with the server and the site was down for the last days. Everything is working fine now and here we are… back online.

Over at Investcomics.com you can find a new interview: Chris Noeth on 10 for the Pros™!

I have added two images to the sketchbook. A really old concept I did of Maya showing her in a kitchen… but not cooking. And when you look closely you will notice I used the name Ringo originally as the name of a dog. The second image I’ve added is the quick brush test painting I did of Leviathan. This is the one from the last blog entry..

This long break wasn’t planned and I really thought I could start working on Maya again after a short break. So what happened?
My family and I had some health problems which took away a few weeks and getting things back to normal again took it’s time. Now everything is fine, the family is okay (my boy has a fever right now… but it’s already better then the day before), but my job is keeping me busy for the last months now because the game I’m working on as the art director will be out soon. Maybe it helps a little if I tell you the game is great and I think you all will like it a lot. Unfortunately I still can’t talk about details yet.
I have started to work on new Maya sequential pages and you can take a look at Maya and Leviathan in a brush test painting I did in Photoshop here: ‘Maya and Leviathan‘.
If you like my comic art and sequential storytelling you should think about pre-ordering my upcoming comic ‘It Came From Beneath The Sea… Again!‘, the comic sequel to the 1955 monster horror movie (with special effects by Ray Harryhausen). As I post this there is a special offer at amazon and when you order the trade right now you can save 5 dollars and you only pay 10$ instead 15$! Here is a little more information about the trade paperback: I did the first two issues of this four issue mini-series. The four issues will be out as a trade paperback in November 2010. I colored some of the pages and did the cover art for the book. The story is really entertaining and I enjoyed working on the scripts by Clay and Susan Griffith a lot. Unfortunately I had to pull the plug after issue two because this was the time I became a partner at Rough Sea Games and started working on games (again) as an art director. The last two issues of the trade are drawn by Todd Tennant who is known for his monster art.
Thank you very much for still checking the page and waiting for more Maya!
She will be back! I promise!

Best wishes,

Chris

A huge THANK YOU! to Axel Mende for creating a Maya advertising page in his comic Unheimlich: Asiatisch #2. Get a look at the comic at the Comic Salon Erlangen 2010 this weekend. You can find the comic at “Edition 52″ (booth 57). You can see the Maya advertising by clicking here: MAYA ad in ‘Unheimlich: Asiatisch’.

To make your wait for new Maya sequentials less stressful I thought I should post some interesting things here in the blog, like for example an Interview with Bill Nichols.
And the second link I want to share shows a photo of Mary Kelly’s Shoes. Mary is spreading the word about Maya her way… and I love it! .

A huge THANK YOU! too all comic fans and fans of Maya who made my signing at Hermkes Romanboutique in Wuerzburg a really fantastic experience! I have to thank the whole team from Hermkes Romanboutique who made this first German Free Comic Book Day a really great event for everyone. If you couldn’t make it there you can find some pictures from last Saturday here: Hermkes Romanboutique Signing – Pictures.
I was asked a lot about when I will start doing new pages for Maya. Here is my answer: “I still have a lot of game related work right now, and because MAYA is my unpaid side project I’m doing in my spare time this makes it the last project on my priority list. Paid jobs come first and right now it looks like it will take a few weeks more until I can continue the story. The game I’m working on is really great fun and I’m sure I can tell you more about it soon btw. So in just a few weeks you will get some exciting game news AND the long awaited new MAYA pages.”

For all German fans of Maya: I will be signing on May 8, 2010 at
Hermkes Romanboutique in Wuerzburg. Wohoo… take a look at the Shop Window… and you will see a page from Maya there. Wow! Can’t wait for the event!
This is the first German ‘Free Comic Book Day‘ and HERE! you can see a list of all free comics you can get on this weekend in May! Your chance to grab some free stuff and a sketch of Maya . The guy’s at Hermkes Romanboutique have printed a special booklet about the guest artists and it contains a page of Maya and a white page where I can sign it and draw a little sketch. So you don’t need to bring your sketchbooks to the event. But if there is enough time I will sketch in sketchbooks too of course… and I’m signing everything I have worked on, like for example my Tales From The Crypt comics and Maddrax covers if you want. Here you can see the location of Hermkes Romanboutique. Best comic shop in the world btw!