Hello.  My name is Glenn Brewer and I am the creator of Askari Hodari.  I knew from a very young age that I wanted to draw comic books and that if I was to be good at it, I should probably go to school.  After receiving my Bachelors in Fine Arts, I went about the task of trying to put my $40,000 degree to use.  I sent out tones of samples to the major comic labels only to receive tones of rejections letters in return.  I became frustrated and disillusioned.  Comic book editors were telling me I had all of these problems with my art, yet some of the artists they hired had the same deficiencies.  I finally decided that I did not need these big comic companies to validate my work.  I felt that I could create stories that people wanted to read and illustrations that people wanted to see.  So with that Askari Hodari was Born.

Here is a quick rundown of how the book is produced.

Story
    I put my book together in very much the same way a movie is made.  First I write my script.  Since I draw my own book, my scripts are not very detailed.  They are comprised mostly of page breaks and dialogue with brief descriptions of action.  Next, I pass it on to my editors who check the content and also check for grammatical errors.

Art
    Working from my script, I shoot photos of my models to work from.  When there is a scene that my character is in, I let friends handle the photography.  The hardest part of this process is getting all the models together at the same time.  For this reason, I tend to draw some scenes from my head.  After I have all my photos, I sketch out the comic pages in pencil and finish them in ink.  Next I create my word balloons out and cut and paste them on photocopies of the comic page.

Printing
    I reduce the completed pages down to around 81/2 by 11 sheets.   Number them and send them off to the printer.  The turn around time is usually three to five days.