2. November 2008 by thebrister.

We just finished the APE convention in San Francisco. Our first convention actually having the printed comic to sell. It was great!!! We managed to sell a decent amount of issues of FROM HERE TO THERE #1, and we even sold some of the original pages.

Although I was glad that people wanted to buy the original pages from the comic, I almost didn’t want to let them go. I felt like they took a little piece of me when they walked away with those pages, even though I didn’t draw them.

To pass the down time at APE, Scott worked on drawing and inking some art that he planned to give to a friend of ours. For years, this friend has talked (jokingly) about starting a band called SGT. PIGEON. So Scott drew a page of a pigeon in a military uniform. Funnily enough, I had also emailed Scott a while ago with a joke idea for a comic. The title of the comic was  PIGEON TOE AND CLUBFOOT. The premise is…. there are two pigeon detectives, one of them is pigeon toed, and the other has a club foot. So we also did character sketches of some of the main characters, and do you know what?…..  I wouldn’t believe it myself if I hadn’t been there but…. PEOPLE LOVE PIGEONS!!!

I would say that most of the interest we got was from people that spotted the artwork for SGT. PIGEON, and then they saw the sketches for PIGEON TOE AND CLUBFOOT and went crazy for it. Scott was even asked to do a pigeon sketch.

So we decided that the “joke” comic of PIGEON TOE AND CLUBFOOT is no longer a joke. We are going to do a web comic for it. So look for it soon.

Brian.

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6. October 2008 by thebrister.

Hello to you all,

I (finally) finished the script for the new story I’ve been working on. I sent it off to Marc Jameson, who is doing the artwork, a few days ago. I’ve been pretty tight lipped about the project so far, but now that it’s “in the works” I’ll spill a few beans.

First, let me tell you how much I like zombies. Looooove them. Second, let me tell you how hard it is to come up with a GOOD zombie story that hasn’t already been told. In case you haven’t caught on yet, my new story is a zombie story. The title is “THE LAYFIELD INCIDENT”.

I wanted to do something different with zombies. I also think that any story worth reading is based around the characters. So… I decided to do a “zombie story” that doesn’t have all that many zombies in it.

It’s mostly about the people that are dealing with this “zombie crisis” and how they cope with it, or rather, how they can’t cope with it.

I’m so happy that Marc has agreed to do the art for this. I can’t believe how lucky I am. I had Stefano Cardoselli do the artwork for my story in “FROM HERE TO THERE” and now I have Marc Jameson Doing the artwork for “THE LAYFIELD INCIDENT”. I couldn’t  hope for two better artists. Not bad for a beginner. Hell, not bad for a pro.

I’ll keep you all up to date on the progress of “THE LAYFIELD INCIDENT”. I have a really good feeling about this comic.

Brian

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17. September 2008 by thebrister.

Wednesday, September 3rd 2008.

Scott and I had to catch our plane to Pennsylvania at 6:00 a.m. on Thursday morning. Which meant that I had to stay the night, or at least the few hours we would be sleeping, at his house.  But before I went to his house, I had to take care of a million last minute odds and ends. One of those errands was to finally pick up Scott’s birthday present (which was a month late). I got him The Absolute Batman : The Long Halloween. One of the best stories ever written if you ask me.

I got to his house around 7:00 p.m. and, as you already know, since we didn’t  have the comic printed yet, we had to get the preview copies ready to take with us. Scott already started on this but he had a little mishap (the first of many for us). He needed to print some more copies so he walked the 2 miles to the copy place only to discover that he had forgotten one of the pages, or so he thought. As it turns out, he actually had all the pages with him and just did some bad math. When I got to his house we made the 2 mile trek back to the copy place and printed that shit with only one small mishap. We ran out of paper 1/2 way through the printing and it took me forever to find the correct employee to give us more paper.

After we finished all of our printing we headed back to Scott’s house. By this time I was starving so I went to a little burger joint near his house  I think it’s called The Smoke House or something like that but I call it The Beef Shack. Scott went to his house while I was getting food to start putting the preview copies together.

When I got back to his place I ate my food and watched him work. After I finished eating I pitched in and we finally finished the preview copies.

We realized that we hadn’t set up a ride to the airport so we called a shuttle service to pick us up. We figured that we needed to be picked up at 3:30 in the morning, to get to the airport by 4:00, so we could be checked in and at the gate by the 6:00 flight.

Scott called the shuttle service and talked to the guy. When Scott told him we needed to be picked up at 3:30 a.m. the guy moaned and said “oooohhhh”. He was obviously not happy about a 3:30 a.m. pickup.

We went to bed at about 11:00 p.m. but I just laid there for hours. See, I work nights and I usually go to sleep around 2:00 or 3:00. I finally fell asleep at about 2:00 a.m. The next thing I know, Scott is Saying “wake up dude. we gotta go”.

Somehow I managed to drag my ass out of bed and be ready on time for our shuttle ride. We got to the airport in plenty of time. That’s when everything fell apart for us.

To be continued.

Brian

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12. September 2008 by thebrister.

So, we flew back from the CGS Super Show a couple of days ago (and boy are my arms tired). I’m exhausted, I have jet lag and my work schedule is not helping.

But it was a great trip, even without having the actual comic with us. We met a lot of awesome people and had a great time. We also had a lot of mishaps.

Scott and I will be posting our adventure day by day, so keep an eye out. There’s some good, crazy, stupid stuff coming your way soon. If I wasn’t falling asleep in front of my computer I would give you the events of day one right now, but yer just gonna have to wait until I get a good nights sleep.

Brian

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31. August 2008 by thebrister.

Like Scott said in his blog, We won’t have the printed, for real deal, comic ready for the Comic Geek Speak Super Show. It’s a shame. Who ever heard of an independent comic company being behind schedule?

However….. We wont let a little thing  like not actually having a comic to sell stop us from going to the convention. We’re printing out “preview” copies to bring with us. At least our table will look nice, thanks to Stefano’s work on some promo artwork that we will have.

We’re also bringing some of Scott’s and Stefano’s original pages to sell. Trust me, you want to get your hands on these.

The good news is that we have been confirmed for a table at the APE convention and “From Here to There” will definitely be printed and ready to go by then.

Like Scott said, we are working on a new project with Stefano and we could not be happier to work with him again. This guy is the best of the best.

We’re also bringing back the amazing talent of Marc Jameson, who will be doing the artwork for the one shot comic that I’ve been working on. I’m pleased and proud to be working on this with him. I’m glad we got a hold of him before he got snatched up by one of the big companies.

Scott and I are still working on “THE SOUND” and Scott also has another project in mind that he will be working on. We are also starting to put “FROM HERE TO THERE” #2 together. So don’t worry, There’s gonna be plenty of comics to chose from in the near future. Although, we hope you don’t chose just one comic, we want you to chose them all.

Brian

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16. August 2008 by thebrister.

We did it. We actually did it. “From Here To There” is at the printers as we speak. I guess as you read this is more accurate. I don’t care….. either way we’re DONE. You know what I’m doing right now????…. I’m having one of those many beers I said I would (more to come).

I’ve never worked so hard in my life, but you know what? I’ve never been so happy about working so hard. All those 16 hour days have finally paid off. Silly me, I thought that after I wrote my story I was done. That would have been the case if I was just a writer, but I’m  also a partner in Resolution Comics. Guess what that means. That’s right, I’m not done ’till the comics done.

I never, ever, a thousand times no, thought that I would letter a comic. I mean come on, I don’t know how to do that shit. At least I didn’t. Scott - So, your gonna letter this right? Me - Uh, yeah sure. That’s pretty much how it went. Scott lettered one of the stories and I lettered the other three. Don’t get me wrong, Scott wasn’t slacking. He was taking care of a WHOLE LOT of shit that I still need to learn how to do, but I had to learn how to letter a comic in about a week. NOT easy. But I’m glad I did it.

So now I’ve taken a few days off and I’m ready to get back to work. You know what that means….. Thats right, It’s back to work on “The Sound”. I’m also working on a one shot comic. I don’t want to say too much about it yet but it’s gonna be good. You heard it here first.

I’d love to stay and talk more but my beer must have a hole in it ’cause it’s empty now. Thank God they come in 6’s.

Brian

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14. July 2008 by thebrister.

My head hurts, my eyes are bleeding and every part of my body aches.

If you think that I just got in a fight you are wrong. This pain comes from being hunched over a computer screen for endless hours. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel…..We are almost done with FROM HERE TO THERE. Thats right, you heard me.

It’s been a lot of hard work (and it’s not over yet) but it’s also been a lot of fun. We were lucky enough to have a lot of talented people working on this comic with us. We couldn’t have done it without them.

My plan is to drink so much beer that all of my aches and pains just disappear. Hey, I’m a poet and I didn’t know it. But seriously, I plan on drinking a lot of beer.

Brian

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16. June 2008 by thebrister.

Hello the masses,

This is a long overdue update on the happenings of Resolution Comics. Scott and I have put THE SOUND on hold for the moment and are focusing our attention on a new project.

What is this new project called you ask? Well I’ll tell you……

“FROM HERE TO THERE’

Its a 32 page comic divided into four 8 page stories. The concept is four different stories involving four different modes of transportation.

We are doing a car story, a boat story, a plane story and a train story.

We are trying to do an EC comics/noir sort of feel for all the stories.

I’m writing the car story (and I have a great artist named Stefano Cardoselli doing the artwork for it). Scott is writing and drawing the boat story and we are getting two other writers and two other artists to do the other two stories.

For those of you that are losing sleep over the fact that The Sound has been put on hold…. I promise you that we will be getting back to it soon and it will be out in the next 8 or 9 months (or longer if we get lazy).

Brian

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28. April 2008 by thebrister.

Hi, I’m Brian, the guy that’s working with Scott to put this comic together. I felt it was time for the masses (or at least the two or three of you that are checking out this blog) to hear from me.

The way I see it is that Scott is pretty much covering all the details about the comic so that leaves me free to do the drunken rambling. And oh how I love to drink and ramble. But not necessarily in that order.

One thing I will say about the comic (because although Scott said he mentioned it in his blog I don’t see it) is that we decided on a name for it. Its called…. are you ready for this?… THE SOUND. Pretty catchy huh?

Now let me tell you a little bit about how Scott and I met.

It was 1991. We were seventeen years old…. and we hated each other instantly. Every time we saw each other it was a fight waiting to happen. Then one night…. Scott had a party at his house. A mutual friend of ours dragged me along to the party with her. I grudgingly went, prepared for the worst. But something amazing happened. Scott and I finally talked to each other and realized that we liked a lot of the same things, had a lot of the same ideas, shared a lot of the same goals.

And do you know what?… Because of that night a lot of our shared goals have been accomplished. At that time neither of us knew how to play an instrument and since then we’ve been in six bands together. Most of them VERY short lived but whatever.

We also (honest to God) had a sword fight that night. I still have the scars to prove it.

And now we are finally working on a comic together.

What started out as two young, dumb assholes became a lifelong friendship. So think about that the next time you hate someone.

Brian

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