The comic is coming along nicely…..well not to nice. Carlos has been hard at work writing while I’ve been penciling. here’s a panel form page 4 of the Dark New World zombie comic. Just a taste of the carnage of new landscape found in Las Cruces after the zombie infestation.

Carnie in a zombie outbeak

Dark New World has always been showcases and hyped  very well in Las Cruces. The Newspapers have always giving the movie a lot of press from the casting to the premier. But last Monday I was interviewed for a well known magazine called Living In Las Cruces. This was a little different, because I able to plug the comic book. I feel like a kid talking about Christmas and the presents I’ll be getting when I talk about comics. There is a special place for comics in my heart. Anyway after the interview I started sketching a carnie and then playing in Photoshop So here is a teaser of my rendition a Carnie in DNW. When I created the Carnies, I had inspiration from my favorite media’s; Comics and Movies. So there is a little… I better wait until the comic comes out. Enjoy!!

Finally cleaned my office and added a drafting table top so I can Illustrate the Alternative covers to the Dark New World Comic!

Drawing COMICS!!!!!!!!!!

Apple, Painter X and a Wacom

Toys and Swords

Here are the initial character design sketches for Private Andrew Martinez, one of the new characters from the mind of Carlos Parra. The character is a veteran of the recent Iraq war. He uses the skills and training he received from the armed forces to survive this Dark New World

With these character design sketches I took into consideration Martinez’s military knowledge. Carlos sent me several photos of solders in uniform for the general look he wanted for Martinez. I used these references and modified them a bit to come up with his look while still keeping to the standard U.S. Army desert uniform. He’s in 30′s so I tried to show that in these sketches. He doesn’t look to old or to young.

My next post will have some character design sketches of the Carnies, so keep an eye out.

I meet with a great client this afternoon and learned a bit of Chicano History today. The client informed me about the Brown Berets, what a wonderful opportunity to introduce this to the readers. One of our new Heroes in Dark New World is Chicano and served in the military. I’m kind of thinking of including this into Dark New World.

It’s official! The critically acclaimed independent zombie horror film “Dark New World“ by writer/director Carlos Parra will continue it’s story as a comic book. The comic will be written by creator Carlos Parra and penciled/digitally inked by Ralph Contreras. The story will take place after the events of the original film. We’ll see some familiar faces like Sam & Kat, and the introduction of new characters to the Dark New World mythology

This website/blog was created to keep all fans of the DNW story up to date with the progress of the comic book. We will be posting new developments to the story, character design sketches,  script updates, and the latest news about this exciting new comic book.

We’ve also set up a Fan Mail Page where you can message us your thoughts of the comic book and it’s characters. Don’t forget to go to to our Store section, where you can purchase the comic book and all the other cool merchandise for the DNW comic.

So check the site regularly as we’ll be updating it often with all the cool developments to the ongoing Dark New World story.