Shawn Weixelman lives with his wife Nannette and daughter Winter in Fairbanks Alaska. Fairbanks is located not far from the Arctic Circle, above which the sun does not set in the summer or rise in the winter. The idea of a world that does not rotate, and is thus similarly divided between summer and winter, has intrigued Shawn since he moved here in 1993.
Crossover was written to be definitively epic, both in the scope and imagery. Shawn wanted a story with everything from steampunk motorcycles, to telekinetic androids, to dragon riders.
To create the backstory, Shawn spent a year writing a 144 page script, and more than eight hundred pages of notes. In the future, he will write four more scripts, another two 144 pages (about the length of a feature film) and two 72 page prequels.
To create the imagery, Shawn uses actors in costume combined with computer graphics and digital photography, overpainted with a tablet to blend the different mediums. You can read a tutorial here .
The first hard copy issue was released December 2007. The next two issues are being developed simultaneously, and will be released with the first in a graphic novel format roughly 90 pages long.
