14-B: Teaser 3

It's Monday morning and what better way to start off the week than another little tease for 14-B. Here's the second of JP's great character sketches. Enjoy and check back soon for another sneak preview.

14-B: Teaser 2

Well, it's been a week and I figured we were due for another 14-B teaser. So here you go.

Again, I'm not going to go into too much detail yet but here's one of the character sketches J.P. sent over. Enjoy

14-B: Teaser 1

So up until this point I've primarily done work in print comics. Sure, I've posted a lot of stories and previews of my work here on my site, but ultimately it was all intended for print and pretty much all of it has ended up there.

I'm trying something new though. I have decided to start my first true webcomic. It'll be an ongoing series written specifically for the net. Now I'm not gonna give away too much about it right now, cause let's be honest how much fun would that be? I will tell you that it's gonna be a weekly comic called 14-B and I'm working with an incredibly talented artist named J.P. Manzan. But for now, that's all you're getting. Be sure to check back often though as I'll be posting all sorts of little teaser items about the series, like this little item:


Okay, so this picture may or may not have anything to do with the series. It may very well just be some random picture I pulled off of Google Images when I searched 14-B. It's possible I'm just posting this image as a sort of red herring to toy with people because half way through writing this I decided to it'd be more fun to post something like that instead of some of the amazing concept art J.P. sent me this morning. After all, it's really good and in my opinion worth waiting for. So maybe you'll have to check back in a few days to see if I've actually posted it.

Or it could legitimately have something to do with the series. You'll have to start paying close attention to find out.

You Gotta See This

I haven't done one of these in a while, so here's a little Brian & Bobbi preview. Franco just sent me thirty pages, so I'll post three and let you try to fill in the blanks yourself. They may or may not be in order tough.

I Guess This Counts as a Good Review...

I took a trip to NYC last Wednesday to celebrate the release of Life (With Friends) and look what I came across by the registers over at Midtown Comics.



I'd say it was a pretty good Indy Comic Book Week.

Reviews!

Dead Future is now available in print over at Indy Planet, and for those of you who need a little more convincing that it's worth picking up, check out these review for the comic.

First up is a review from Project Fanboy. You can read the whole review here, but here's the bit about my contribution to the issue.

My favorite story this time around has to be “Roadtrip to the End of the World.” Writer Adam Wilson made clever use of the short story format and delivered a punchy ending to a fun story. It can be rather difficult to give a full sense of resolution to such a short tale, but Wilson nailed it.

Next is a review from Shelf Abuse. Here's what they have to say about Roadtrip. From what I can tell it's a positive review. Or at least I'm gonna take it that way.

Finally, Adam Wilson and Michael Stewart take us on a Road Trip to the End of the World, a brief but amusing tale told from the perspective of the begrudging chauffeur to two generic zombie slaying superheroes.


And Mike Kay and I get a little shout out over at Robot 6's Indy Comic Book Week Rundown. It's not necessarily a review, but it's always nice to be acknowledged.

I'm Featured!

Here's a screen cap from the front page of the Midtown Comics website. Not only will they'll be one of the stores carrying Life (With Friends) #1 as part of Indy Comic Book Week, but they've also made it one of the featured comics this week. Thanks a ton to the guys at Midtown Comics.

And to all of you in the New York area, make sure you head over to Midtown Comics and pick up a copy, or order it from their website here.

Attention Glendale

I bring this up because, while I won't be able to be in attendance, SpazDog Comics is one of the retailers who will be carrying issue 1 of Life (With Friends) during Indy Comic Book Week. So for those of you in the Arizona area, head on over and check out the event.

SpazDog Comics Hosts 27 Comic Creators For Indy Comic Book Week Signing

Every year comic book fans have the holiday blues. Due to the UPS holiday shipping schedule, comics get delayed. For the first time in recent history, new comic books won’t ship on the last week of the year. While some comic book shops threw their hands up in outrage, local comic book shop, SpazDog Comics, saw it as an opportunity to spotlight all of the local comic book creators who get lost in the shuffle the other 51 weeks of the year.

On December 30th from 11am to 5pm, they will be hosting an Indy Comic Book Week signing (http://www.indycomicbookweek.com). 27 comic book creators from all over Arizona will be signing and selling their latest comic book creations.

For Eric Esquivel and Dave Baker, it’s the first signing that they are doing for their new graphic novel, Horrible Little People outside their homebase of Tucson. They aren’t the only Tucson residents who are making the trip to participate in our Indy Comic Book Week Signing. Jonnie Allen, Ken Wright, Maggie Wright, Eric Schock and Taylor Garrity are all making the trip. Other Arizona out of town guests includes DC freelance artist Dave Beaty and Micah Stewart from Prescott. They are joined by 20 other Phoenix area comic book creators who want readers to set down Superman and Spider-man for a day and read one of their comics.

SpazDog Comics owner, Shawn Demumbrum, even got into the spirit of Indy Comic Book Week. One of my customer’s who is an artist asked me to take his idea and write a story said Shawn. The 8 page mini comic that he and artists, Ernie Najera and Derrick West, created will be available on December 30th. In addition to the local artist’s comic books, SpazDog Comics will have a huge assortment of independent comic books for sale from across the country and Canada created by participants in Indy Comic Book Week.

SpazDog Comics located at 21610 N. 35th Avenue on the southwest corner of 35th Avenue and Deer Valley Road near the junction of I-17 and Loop 101. SpazDog Comics will be open from 11am until 8pm! With creators appearing until 5pm.

For information about SpazDog Comics, go to http://www.spazdogcomics.com, email shawn@spazdogcomics.com or phone 623-582-3240.

Current Confirmed Creator Line-up:
Jonnie Allan
Dave Baker
Dave Beaty
Daniel Bradford
Daniel Davis
Eric M. Esquivel
Jay Fotos
Evil Robo Productions
Taylor Garrity
Ben Glendenning
Scott Godlewski
Jolene Houser
Eric Mengel
Christy Moeller
Albert Morales
Ernie Najera
Tony Parker
Denny Riccelli
Eric Schock
Micah Stewart
Christian Vilaire
Rianna Vilaire
Derrick West
World Wide Villains
Ken Wright
Maggie Wright

Digital is Dead

Or maybe that should be Dead is Digital.

Grim Crew's Zombie Anthology, Dead Future, which features my all new story Roadtrip to the End of the World is now available for digital download over at Drive-Thru Comics.com. It will be available in print, but for those of you who just can't wait that long, it's only 99 cents to download the entire issue.