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REVOLUTION on the PLANET OF THE APES

Published by Mr Comics

Script by Ty Templeton & Joe O'Brien.
Colouring by Bernie Mireault

#1: For the last twenty four hours, there have been rumours and unofficial reports that San Diego is in flames, that the governor of California is dead, and that the cause of all this chaos is a talking ape named Caesar. But when the President of the United States announces that the whole thing is a hoax, no one knows what to believe.

#2: As the embattled American President struggles to stop Caesar's simian revolution from spreading across the country, pentagon reporter Nora Rhodes decides to go to San Diego to discover the truth behind this ape uprising and why apes everywhere are getting smarter!

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Hey you monkeys! Spread the word, Caesar is on the move!

All the Rage, Sunday, September 25 : The Mr. Mister [Ty talks to Blair Marnell about plans for Mr Comics' line up in 2006, and his plans for world Ape conquest]

Sequential, September 28 : Ty "The Guy" Speaks [Friend to apes, Bryan Munn covers the coverage]

PULSE does POTA, September 29 : TEMPLETON CREATING ON THE PLANET OF THE APES [Longish interview by Jennifer "Damn, Dirty Apes!" Contino, with the hardest working cartoonist in a bunny suit - funny humans - Ty the guy Templton!]

September 30 : Diamond [ed:shows solidarity!] and recommends Revolution on the Planet of the Apes #1

I'm not a the biggest sci-fi film fanatic, but I watch way more than the average monkey. Of all the properties I'd choose to work on, this is one of the top three I would've picked. Fun stuff as WFH gigs go! And it's something I have more of an affinity with than say, Star Wars or something.

It was a significant part of my childhood diet of Sci-Fi films/TV. It and Galactica were probably my favourites for a few years there, till I saw Bladerunner. Hard to pick out a favourite moment, but the one that has always stuck with me was the scene in Escape when Zira is tested by the humans; insulted by the childish peg game they ask her to do. A very short time after I saw that I found myself in a small room at the school board being tested just before I got streamed into a Special Ed program. I was asked to do a bunch of tests, the first looked a lot like that one Zira did and the first thing in my head was, “They think I'm a monkey?” That left a mark. I already felt a lot of affinity with the characters, but after that much more so.

So here\s the art. It's credited so far as pencils, but that's not quite accurate. I do the layouts from the script, they look like this....

This is an eight and half by eleven sheet of paper.
Sometimes my layouts are very loose, they all start loose. But usually i work them up to this point, to get the bulk of the mechanics of the drawing done quickly and keep from over packing the page. The result is these, which really are more like loose pencils. I scan them, and then print them out on bristol and then work the finished page with both pencils and ink. I was only contracted to do the pencil work but i find that using a pen for the contour lines and the blacks is faster and neater. I do a lot of details and much of the shading and building up of forms with pencils, but really I'm inking these pages too.

...And then Bernie does his thing...



Here are a few more in B&W and Colour from #1, colouring by BEM!

For now, you can find more samples of art from this project here,

and at the Mr Comics site...>>>