16. November 2008 by thebrister.

So… Scott has been producing a recording project this weekend in San Francisco. Scott lives in the East Bay, and he doesn’t drive. B.A.R.T. (basically, the bay area subway for those of you not in the know) Stops running at about 12:30. I live in S.F.

So Scott stayed at my house over the weekend. Of course we stayed up way too late every night talking about comics, music, and every other geeky thing you can imagine.

I had to work all weekend. You know what that means? It means I barely slept. I’ve been going on about 3- 4 hours of sleep a night.  Not so bad for a night (or two) but when you do that for 3 or more nights, that’s bad news. I’m actually so tired right now that I’m starting to hallucinate. No really, I am.

Damn you Scott and your evil ways of making me stay awake…..I WILL HAVE REVENGE!!!!

Brian

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9. November 2008 by thebrister.

A few posts ago I said that I would keep you all updated on the progress of THE LAYFIELD INCIDENT, and so I shall.

Marc Jameson is hard at work doing the pencils and inks for this comic as we speak, unless he’s asleep right now, in which case he’ll be hard at work on these pages as soon as he wakes up.

We also have the multi talented Christopher Barker lined up (I hope) to do the color for this comic. That’s right…. it’s gonna be in full fledged, glorious color.

I’ve also been talking to a cover artist for this project. Her name is Irene (I’m a bad man for forgetting her last name). She  does a lot of work with Azurek Studios. In case that doesn’t ring a bell, Stefano Cardoselli (Hitching a Ride) is from Azurek Studios. She does photo manipulation art, and believe me, SHE IS AWESOME!!! She also did the cover art for Stefano Cardoselli’s PIECES, soon to be released by Resolution Comics.

One more thing…. I finished writing the first installment of PIGEON TOE & CLUBFOOT, and Scott is drawing  it as we speak, unless he’s also asleep. WAKE UP!!! It will be posted on our web comic link by the end of the week, I hope.

Brian

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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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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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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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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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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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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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