“It makes it easier so that you don’t have to reference back to anything. “The thing that separates it from working on something mainstream is that there is nothing like it before,” he says. Every month it comes out, every time I draw a painting, I go, ‘Well, I hope I got this one right.’ “You do this and you hope someone likes it, Unlike Batman, where there’s that built-in history, this one you’re just kind of swinging. (He’d previously been nominated for “Li’l Gotham.”) Nguyen’s watercolor work on it won him his first two Eisner Awards as best painter/multimedia artist. The creator-owned sci-fi series “Descender” followed the adventures of the robot Tim-21 in space. Nguyen has worked for DC since 2000, having left a solid career in 3-D engineering for his true love of comics, but like many in the comic business he’s also branched to work on other projects, most prominently as the co-creator with Jeff Lemire of “Descender,” and now its sequel, “Ascender,” at Image Comics. “We did the entire story in prose every single page was a splash (full-page illustration). Freeze and the Snow Queen, really stepped away from traditional comic books,” Nguyen says.
“Batman Tales” continues the same watercolor illustration style of “Li’l Gotham,” painted on smaller pages so that the chunkier Li’l Gotham character designs don’t lose the crisp lines Nguyen adds with color pencils. “And our first Batman issue together we did a thing where it tied in the Wonderland Gang, which is like the Mad Hatter and all the (Alice in Wonderland) stuff.” “Derek loves fairy tales and so do I,” Nguyen says.
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