24. April 2009 by thebrister.

Well, we’re back from the Stumptown Comics Fest in Portland, Oregon. What can I say…? One of the best things about doing a comic publishing company is traveling around to all the conventions. We stayed at an awesome hotel that I decided I want to live in. The only bad part of the hotel was an oddly locked closet door that I was sure was where they kept the Golem.

Now we’re back, and don’t have any conventions scheduled for the next two months. You know what that means… It’s time for us to get serious about finishing some of these “upcoming” comics that we’re always talking about. Our next convention is the Heroes con in North Carolina. It’s June 18th - the 20th, and we plan on debuting a couple of new comics there.  We’re finishing up the lettering for PIECES now, and it will most definitely be there. We also hope (and pray) that we will have THE LAYFIELD INCIDENT done by then. “LAYFIELD” will be our first color book, so we’re super excited about that.

And for you PIGEON TOE and CLUBFOOT fans out there… I (finally) got around to working on the script for page 03. I should be finished with it sometime next week, then it’s off to Scott for his magical touch. For those of you that haven’t checked out P.T and CF, it’s our ongoing web comic about two tough as nails detectives in San Francisco. Think Magnum p.i., The Rockford Files, The Spirit, and Dashiell Hammett all rolled into one. You can also through a little Simon and Simon in there. By the way, Did I mention that they’re pigeons? This is something that Scott and I worked up while doing the APE convention. People seem to love pigeons, so we said to ourselves - “who are we to deny these people pigeons?” I’ve been writing the scripts and Scott has been doing the pencils, inks, coloring and lettering. Wow, now I feel really lazy. You go, Scott, you multi talented bastard.

If you want to check P.T. and CF out,  just go to the comics link on our home page, then go to web comics.

Brian

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12. April 2009 by admin.

Wouldn’t it be nice if I could write these regularly and then just use the date as the title of the entry? Like a “real” blogger? Seriously, I don’t know how other people do this. I signed up for Twitter the other day and have written one tweet. One. I guess I’m just the quiet type. When it comes to Resolution, I’m never sure about how much info to divulge about our various projects because schedules change so much while we’re putting the books together. If I say that I think that a book is about done and then it takes us another 4 weeks to get the book together (for one reason or another) then I feel lame. So, for this post, I’m going to talk about other people’s projects and if those are late - it’s not my fault!

We’re really lucky to work with some really talented people (that luckily work for next to nothing) so I’m going to plug their various work.

First, Joe Sergi, who wrote “Economy of Scale” for the zero issue of From Here to There as well as Carnies (one of those upcoming things that we always talk about). He’s got a prose superhero story titled Psi-Kotic at Metahuman press. Check it out the link http://metahumanpress.com/metahumanpress/Psikotic/index.html

Second, Marc Jameson, who drew “Economy of Scale”, as well as “The Layfield Incident” (due June 19th from *ahem* Resolution Comics) and a story I can’t remember the title of right now for the next issue of From Here to There. He has an awesome blog where you can get the low-down on all things Marc and see his awesome artwork. Check it out, tell your friends and in the coming years smugly tell everyone “I knew Marc’s stuff before he was Vertigo’s latest superstar artist”. His blogs lives on the interwebs at http://www.autoganzfeld.blogspot.com/

Okay, more later. I have to go to my day job now. See you in Portland!

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10. April 2009 by thebrister.

Well, we’re back from the Emerald City Comicon in Seattle. I think Seattle is one of the best cities out there. I actually lived there for a couple of years, back in the day. Every time I think about where I might “settle down” Seattle comes to mind. It was great to see my old stomping ground again. If you ever get a chance to go to Seattle, you have to go to Dick’s Burgers on Broadway. Straight or gay, I don’t care…Everyone wants those Dick’s in their mouth. Okay, I’ll stop being nostalgic (and pornographic) now.

Next weekend Scott and I are headed back to the Pacific Northwest. This time it’s Portland, for the Stumptown Comicsfest. I can’t wait. I’ve passed through Portland many times, but I’ve never spent more than a day there. I have high hopes for what Portland has to offer me on an extended stay. Alas, they will not have Dick’s Burgers.

Brian

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1. April 2009 by admin.

Apologies to residents of Seattle that might be sick of people equating their local comic con, The Emerald City Con, with the Wizard of Oz. What can I say? I couldn’t resist. It’s tough coming up with the titles for these entries. We are off to the Emerald City Con this weekend. I’ve never been to this con before but have always heard good things about it. I do like visiting Seattle, so I have a feeling this will be pretty fun. We’ll be debuting From Here to There #1 there. Yes, we’ve decided to start numbering the series with the second issue. There’s a couple of different reasons. First, I stupidly forgot to put a number on the first issue. Second, we didn’t solicit the first issue through Diamond, but hope to do so with this issue (despite their new sales minimums…ever optimistic, huh?) and I’ve heard a rumor that #1 issues tend tell sell better than #2, especially when very few people knew that there was a #1 issue . And third, if Marvel and DC can do weird re-numbering things with their books; we can to! If you can’t make it to the Emerald City Con, but live in the Pacific Northwest, you’ll have another chance to say “hi” to us at the Stumptown Comicsfest in the wonderful city of Portland, OR. That’s only a few short weeks away, the weekend of April 18th. In other news, The Layfield Incident is currently being colored by the talented Ray Long and should be out in June. The plan is  to debut our charming little zombie story at Heroes Con which is Father’s Day weekend, June 19-21, 2009. That is supposed to be a really great con as well, and I can’t wait. Brian is going to have to handle the booth by himself for a little while so I can go and meet one of my all-time favorite artist, Guy Davis.

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