Tyler Niccum’s “Hinterlife”
A little over a year ago I was approached by artist/writer Tyler Niccum to do the colors for his impressive 250 page graphic novel Hinterlife. He’d seen some of my art on the Flight Comics forums and thought our art styles would be a good fit. I’d seen his work on there as well and thought the same. Hinterlife is autobiographical in nature, covering Tyler’s decision to leave his home and best friend behind to ride the rails as a vagabond. It’s full of insights into friendship, love, and personal tragedy. He’s one prolific writer and artist — it was all I could do to keep up. You can download the whole thing right here for free! Find the rest of Tyler Niccum’s work at thedeafguy.com.
Wow…that is stunning work (both on pencils/inks and your colors). Great combo!
I just started reading and LOVE the art. Beautiful job coloring! But it’s too difficult to read after page 24 due to the text. I don’t know if it’s a font or hand-lettering but it’s too condensed and scratchy to be easily readable in a pdf format, especially in the colors it’s used in. I gave up after one page of it. To bad because the rest of it looks great and the intro grabbed me immediately.
Hey John,
My apologies. Hinterlife was a major learning curve for me. When I started out the story, originally they were to be individual mini-comics until someone suggested I combined them all into one graphic novel, hence the different styles and formats. After the NYC story, I started staying within one size font which worked better for reading.
Thanks for attempting to read, anyways! Take care.