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There might’ve been a point earlier in my professional life where I resigned to the notion that I may never get paid to draw Star Wars images, the kind of illustrations I slaved over as a kid, devouring vehicle blueprints and lightsaber schematics just so I could get the little details right, and committed to memory.

I don’t know what’s more surprising: that I was wrong, or the context in which I’d be drawing my favorite characters and settings: namely, in service of depicting the hypothetical consequences of hypothetical Luke and hypothetical Leia having hypothetical incestual sex, and birthing a hypothetical inbred baby.

Animated by yours truly, Gree-Morr: The Inbred Jedi is the first of what hopefully will be a cartoon webseries written and directed by Mike and Mike, two of the funniest, nicest, most lowest-paying writers/producers at G4TV, for whom I’d worked as a PA on three different occasions (twice for X-Play,  and once for Attack of the Show; coincidentally, the two shows that Mike and Mike work on, though we’d never worked together in a G4-professional capacity).

Introduced in May of 2009 to Mike (no, not that Mike, the other one) by good friend and then-G4-production-coordinator Rachel Hadisurjo (who had written and directed All-Moles Perfect), Mike attended the Newport Beach Film Festival screening of My Suicide, after which we spent the evening talking about how much of a manipulative asshole Obi-Wan Kenobi seemed when viewing all six Star Wars movies in context.

Afterwards I met up with him and the other Mike and we discussed their own little malformed baby, this time in the form of a script. They showed me an even more malformed Flash animatic, from an original, then aborted attempt at tackling the subject matter (the puns are just writing themselves at this point).

Working with a meager budget, I told the Mikes that they would have no choice but to accomodate my haphazard schedule, to which they agreed. Little did they know I would not turn in a final draft until May of 2010, a full year after we first discussed the project! Gree-Morr would’ve been conceived and born in such a time (though from the looks of it he probably could’ve stayed in a little longer).

A labor of love by all counts, I was thrilled to be able to finally draw my favorite subject matter; as much as I wanted to be accurate to the saga’s visuals, I also dared myself to draw everything from memory… the X-Wings and the Falcon were the easiest to hit, as was Han Solo’s trademark smirk. I got about 95% of the Nebulon-B Frigate before I became to anxious and looked up reference. I loved every hundred hours of it.

Post-Mortem note: While Gree-Morr lost out to being the first time I’d ever had my work featured on cable-or-better TV by a few weeks (a few months if you counted a few seconds’ worth of promo graphics for the Gameshow Network), when Morgan Webb introduced a clip of it on Attack of The Show, it WAS the first time something I did on an almost strictly creative level was shown on TV.