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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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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14. October 2008 by admin.

Hi!

Remember the web comics that I said Brian and I had kinda worked on last time I posted? Well, it’s available for viewing on the worldwide information superhighway now! Just surf on over to the brand new webcomics page on the website and check it out.

While your surfing around the ol’ Resolution website, you can always pick up a copy of From Here to There #1. Just click on the little “Buy Now” button. Unless of course, you’re waiting to order it from our friends at DCBS in November. Which I could totally understand, since it will be 25% off cover price.
Yes, I have been taking lessons in shilling.
Seriously, check out the webcomic. I’m sure from time to time we be putting up various different little webcomics. I’ll make sure to mention them here. One might involve some pigeon detectives. Brian’s got big ideas. Or at least ideas.

The APE convention is drawing closer. Please come and visit us there if you live in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Bye for now.

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3. October 2008 by admin.

Well,

When we went out to Pennsylvania for the Comic Geek Speek Super Show (’08), we had so many little mishaps and adventures that Brian and I had decided that we had to tell people about them. Brian had even suggested that we do some sort of mini comic. So, I dutifully started drawing one as soon as we got home. Then he told me that he had posted something about our first day on this here blog thingie. So, I said “well, my post will be the mini comic that we had talked about, I’ll just do it as an online thing”. So, as you can obviously tell, that didn’t really happen. Totally all my fault. Just like most of the mishaps on our trip. After we were dropped off at the airport, I tried to print out our boarding passes at the self checkin kiosk, to no avail. It turned out that we weren’t due to fly out until the next morning!  I started freaking out, because we were going to meet our ride at the Philly airport, we had to be on that plane! So, I paid double what we had originally paid for the ticket to get on a plane that was leaving just a little bit later. Hopefully our ride would stick around for a little while.After going through securit, I fired up my laptop to see if I had a phone number for the guy giving us a ride from Philly to Reading, the estimable Dave Dwonch of “Gnome” fame. It turned out that I didn’t have his number, but he also wasn’t flying until the next day! Bye bye hundreds of dollars. Ouch. Luckily the extremely gracious Bob Bretall of Comic Book Page podcast came through fo rus with a ride. Thanks again Bob! After a quick dinner at the TGI Fridays in Wyomissing, PA we headed over to Bryan Deemer of CGS’s house for a little party. I had a great time, and was excited to finally see both the studio where the Geeks record their podcast, as well as Brya’s awesome home theater setup. Brian and I were pretty beat though, and so quickly headed back to the hotel for some bad television and bedtime.

We’ll finish talking about the Super Show someday soon.

In more current news, the books finally arrived from the printers! That’s right, “From Here to There” is finally sitting in a giant pile of boxes at Brian’s house. I’ll be making it available for sale on the website in the next few days. We’re also happy to announce that it will be available through Discount Comic Book Service’s website in November (at 25% off cover price). Thanks to Cameron of DCBS for helping us out like that.

I’m continuing to work on “The Sound”. The pages are looking better with each one that I finish.

I’m also going to be handling art chores on a short story in the third Comic Geek Speak listener anthology. More on that later.

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30. August 2008 by admin.

So, we’re about to leave for the Comic Geek Speak Super Show 2008, which was supposed to be where “From Here to There” debuted. I say “supposed to”, because I talked to the printers yesterday and the book has been delayed. It won’t ship until the day after the Super Show. We are bummed. It’s going to be really sad to hang out at our table at the show, with only some photocopied “preview” copies to show for all the work we did this summer. I know it is a familiar story in the independent comics scene, but it still sucks. I can’t help but feel that, despite how hard we worked, if we had just worked a little harder (17 hour days instead of 16?) that we would have the books in our hot little hands already and be stoked.

That being said, we are excited because we just sent off a contract to artist Stefano Cardoselli for a 32 page one shot that he is writing and drawing titled “Pieces”. Hopefully he’ll be signing that this weekend and getting to work on the story. It’s going to be a suspense/horror story in the vein of movies like “Se7en” and “Saw”. We’re really looking forward to it. Stefano was a joy to work with on “From Here to There”. I’m planning to track down all his work from Heavy Metal, and you should too.

I’m hard at work, revising “The Sound”. It’s coming along nicely. I’ve settled into a groove. The style is a little more cartoony than I first thought, but I’m starting to think that that is my natural style. I’ve figured out the fastest way for me to work is to do pencils in revers on the back of the page, so I can be messy with the pencils (my pencils are super “sketchy”) and then just ink on a lightbox. I’m skipping tightening up the pencils before inking, which is cutting out a good amount of time.

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18. August 2008 by admin.

I feel like I have turned into a zombie.

I’m inarticulate, shuffling around, and have a strong hankering for brains.

In actuality, we’ve finished our first book, “From Here to There”. All it took was multiple 12 to 16 hour days in front of the computer, lettering, laying out, and at the drawing table. Totally worth it. I’m now waiting for a preview from the printers, and sweating that we’ll have copies at our first convention, coming up in a few weeks. It’s going to be really sad if we did all that work, trying to make a deadline (which we missed by 9 days, no further comment) only to be empty-handed at the con.

Anyway, I’m now back at the drawing table, since there’s no time to waste on “The Sound”. Here’s page one, version 2.0

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7. April 2008 by admin.

One of the myriad reasons that I haven’t finished more of this first comic is that my attention is split between comics & music. Way back when, in 1990 or so, I started playing music and really loved the immediate satisfaction it gave: pluck a string, hear a noise. This was awesome! Previously drawing had been my main hobby/addiction/whatever-particularly drawing comic book style stuff. So, the years went by and I neglected my comic drawing, only to wake up one day (with a sore back) and realize I was in my thirties and had totally given up on my old dream of drawing & writing comics. In the meantime, most of my life had come to revolve around music. It still does, to a large extent. A lot of my free time is spent playing and recording music. It is in the recording process that I found a similarity to drawing comics. One has the idea, then “sketches it out”, then records basic tracks of drums, guitar, whatever and proceeds to refine and build up from there. This is not unlike going from thumbnail sketches to pencils, to inks, to colors, lettering, etc. They are both very time consuming as well. I’m sure that I’ll write more about these twin hobbies of mine as time goes on, especially considering that music plays a role in this first full length comci that I’m working on.

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5. April 2008 by admin.

I “turned in” the first few pages to Brian to look over and give his critiques, etc. and am now waiting for the next batch of scripts for pages. In the meantime, I took a stab at coloring the first page, since I had scanned it in to post it anyway. Here it is. I think it really points to us having to get someone who knows what they’re doing to color the thing.

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24. March 2008 by admin.

Okay, the pace is still crawling along. Where do people find the time to do this sort of thing all the time? The progress on the comic is crawling along at pretty much the same pace. I think a lot of it has to do with fear, to tell you the truth. Fear that it will suck, mostly. I told myself going into this that the first project that I do is definitely going to suck. Even so, it’s against my general sensibilities to purposely send out something that I think I can do better. So, you run into endless re-writes, re-drawing pages, etc. I’ve finally given over the writing reins almost completely to Brian. I’m only kind of loosely giving him story points. The story has really morphed a lot since the beginning as well. What started off as a bunch of funny stories from various tours I’ve been on now looks to be some sort of Romantic Comedy-think “High Fidelity” but with live music instead of records. That’s pretty good, huh? I can imagine myself pitching that idea somewhere down the road. Anyway, the artwork is npt what I would really like, but that is just going to have to wait. I figure the 3rd or so project will start to look how I’d like it to. I’ll be posting some of these pages soon so that I can start the process of finding a color artist.

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13. October 2007 by admin.

Well, it’s been a little while since the last post. However, seeing as how no one has read it, no big deal right?

Since I last wrote, I went on a vacation/tour that ties in nicely with the still un-named tour comic. First stop was Wyomissing, PA for the recording of Comic Geek Speak Episode 300. This was truly an awesome experience. So many friendly people, all there to celebrate their love of comics and their connection through the podcast. It really was a shot in the arm for wanting to contribute to the comics community. I also got to see and talk to a couple of very talented indie creators, which was great.

After that, I spent some time in the birthplace of American comics; New York, NY. What an amazing city! And the pizza! Forget about it. I took a lot of pictures of buildings, for some reason. Probably imaging some day that I would need photo reference for my run on Amazing Spider-Man (that’ll never happen).

Then, the coup de grace, a week and a half long tour with indie rock juggernaut Still Flyin’. Classic tour. Scary, and fun. Lots of great shows, lots of drunken hi-jinks, lots of down time spent wishing you were home, lots of stomach aches.

I’m estimating two more weeks before I’ll post some pencilled pages of “the comic to be named”. Please, if anyone out there happens upopn my sad little blog here, email me a title idea.

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