Hello friends, fans and visitors!!
Thank you for taking your time to stop by and look in again on this new blog for Kodi the Starfish! I have been crazy with a lot of tasks behind the scene so I am sorry for the long amount of time between this post and the first one. I will do my best to make this one worth the wait!
Alright, to start I will tell you what this post brings with it. First, thanks to the awesome online community of storytellers that I am a part of, Paper Wings Podcast, I now have a strong pitch to help me quickly introduce the story of Kodi the Starfish to newcomers. We had an awesome blog post on the site about creating a solid pitch that had almost 150 comments and cycling responses! It was an awesome week!
Well, with the help of the community and especially a wonderful and experienced webcomics writer and artist, Robin Dempsey of the comic Ley Lines, here is the new Kodi pitch!
Kodi the Starfish is a rare living star traveling the galaxies in search of new friends and adventures. When relentless black-hole monsters start gobbling up the universe, Kodi must learn to harness his unique abilities in time to protect his friends & family before everything is devoured…even light itself!
Whew! That is just awesome! I am very thankful to the community and how it has supported the character and story like they have!
Secondly, this post is to show the very first layouts for the second story of Kodi's saga! This will go into the second space themed book from the online illustrator community call Illopond.com. Kodi's debut was in their first space-themed anthology called "8 in Spaaace!" and that will be available both digitally and in print around early to mid June this year. For this second anthology, I was asked and accepted the position of project lead and I am looking forward to the experience!
This short story is titled "Kodi the Starfish and the Stellar City!" It follows Kodi as his family picks him up from Earth from the last story (8 in Spaace Book #1) and this is the tale of Kodi's trip to and arrival at the Stellar City called Lumaeus! I wanted to use this as an opportunity to flesh out the star world setting and to introduce both new characters and an emphasis on just how special Kodi is. From start to end the story is really supposed to be about how there are "people" excited to meet Kodi and they give him an opportunity to tell stories to them about Earth, a place they had not visited yet. I wanted this to be a complete little story that would still tie into the bigger epic that I have planned for Kodi the Starfish. Click through, read and enjoy!
Pages 1-2
Here we see a conversation between Kodi and his dad, a Giant Red Starfish! You can see him in full color and size from page 8 of Kodi's debut story here.
Pages 3-4
Here we will see the Stellar City Lumaeus for the first time. Imagine a giant asteroid floating through space teeming with life of all sorts of shapes and sizes.
Pages 5-6
Here we see one of the city's guides and ambassadors, Molly Mander, for the first time. She is based on an awesome little pink aquatic salamander called an axolotl . She will be a blast to draw (hopefully)!
Pages 7-8
And here Molly brings Kodi to the Lumaeus' Grand Hall where the Elders deliberate. They have been waiting to see him and look forward to the all the time they can get to hear all of his amazing stories about Earth and his friends there.
Well my friends, I believe that will do it for tonight and for the Kodi the Starfish Art & Story post.
Please check in when you can and I will have more for you as I work through the new art for this anthology contribution and the many amazing stories that Kodi has in store!
Thank you and please continue to seek what amazes you,
till then, much love
Derrick Utz
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