Featuring the works of Scott Reed
PERSONAL WORKS MAY 2024
I’m always on the lookout for obscure Jack Kirby drawings and found this one online. Actually, I’m not even sure if it’s obscure or not, but it seemed unusual to me and interesting enough to try my hand at inking and coloring it. Here’s a cropped view of the finished piece. You can view process shots, livestream my work-in-progress and the full view, high res art at my patreon page.
Scott
MAY 2024
It’s good to be back on Patreon and I hope you’ll stick around for what’s in store. As you can see when you visit that site, I’ve re-engineered it with all new rewards. My comic mini-series Hark had once been the central focus there, but since I’ve put that project on pause for the time being, I’ve decided to shift all of the work I typically publish via my site and social media channels to Patreon. I’ll still be offering glimpses in all the usual places, including this news page. However, the full, unlocked content will be for patrons only at www.patreon.com/beyondforwardcomics.
I hope you’ll consider joining, because for as little as $3 per month, you’ll have access to a long list of rewards, from original art to high res previews of fresh off the drawing board (or screen) art and a weekly live-stream of my works-in-progress.
I have some pretty exciting projects in the pipeline, including a sequel to Saga of a Doomed Universe and a fully restored edition of High Strangeness, my first graphic novel from 1999. You’ll get to see both projects take shape, as well as behind-the-scenes of commissioned comic art. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Scott
PERSONAL WORKS APRIL 2024 –
In some alternate universe, I hope there’s an older version of me that worked at Marvel during the 1980’s. Because that’s my favorite era in comics. But, since that’s not the case in this universe, I thought it would be fun to create a non-existent cover from that period, featuring a team that never got their own title. I imagined this Freedom Force as a subversive group of government sanctioned operatives, not smart enough to realize they secretly function as puppets for a sinister shadow government.
I’m also attempting something new here by mocking up the art on a bagged comic book, just to give it that extra layer of believability.
SR
PERSONAL WORKS MARCH 2024 –
Back in 2021 I wrote a spec script for Marvel, when they had the Conan license and were publishing a number of Conan comics. Although I had some inroads into the editorial dept at the time, the timing wasn’t right and so this project was shelved. Since Conan has been on my writers bucket list for many years, I had decided to follow through and complete the 2-issue story arc and produce cover art for both issues. That year, I posted the first issue script here along with the cover, with the intention of posting the second issue script as soon as I completed the second issue cover art. However, this labor of love project kept getting pushed to the back burner, as other commitments took priority. Issue 2 cover sat unfinished on my drafting table for a very long time. Fast forward to now, I finally completed the cover art and am re-posting both scripts, along with both covers (since issue 1 is now buried deep in the news page archive). The thought has occurred to me to rework the story and create a new character to fill Conan’s leather skin boots, thereby turning the entire thing into a creator-owned endeavor. But I think I’d rather keep this story intact and release it as it is intended: an homage to one of my favorite characters.
SR