Luke vs Imperial Walker
— EDIT — BRAND NEW voting incentive cartoon available RIGHT NOW.
Last Saturday Blue Milk Special enjoyed its first appearance at Virginia Comic Con. We drove down to Richmond, only 1 hour 30 min drive from Southern Maryland, early Saturday morning. We rendezvoused with our friends Matt and Suzanne Wieringo (and Charlie) and went on to the show at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. We had a great time meeting people and converting them into new readers, but it’s even greater to meet our existing readers. Two such readers, Jon and his son, were among the first to seek us out as the show opened and were kind enough to request two commissions: G.I. Joe AND Star Wars. One of those commissions, Slave-1, will be posted on FB and Twitter soon. This was Leanne’s first space ship commission. Thanks Jon! You really made the show for us!
I put pen to paper as well and drew Leanne a Robin which I inked. First serious non digital drawing I’ve done in over a decade. One or two people tried to entice us to come to the two day Virginia Comic Con on October 29th and 30th. We decided, what the hell, and will be back in Virginia once again in late October in what will surely mark our final convention appearance this year. So, no excuses. If you live in California then make it a road trip!
I decided to end the current poll. This poll had to be recreated when the website screw up interrupted everything. New poll should be up to replace it. Check the side bar.
OK, OK, With a margin of error of 30 or so votes, BIGGS is still the winner (or so he thinks). 😉
October, Virginia, Hmmmmm?
Biggs is like that annoying kid that always shows up when you are trying to do something important!
:lol
You’d think he’d be a little more jubilant to find Luke now that he’s found him after all these years. Perhaps he never intended to find him and rescue all this time.
Pity I can’t convince y’all to head over to NY Comic con; that’s where I’ll be.
Love to do NYCC again, but Amtrak, Hotel for two nights, Convention food, and NYCC artist alley table costs totalled over $1000 dollars in expenses for us. We covered part of that with commissions and selling of various comic related prints, but to do that show yearly along with Baltimore and others is just too expensive for us. We are skipping it this year for that reason. Another reason though, is that we don’t mind THAT much if we don’t quite cover the expenses as every show is also an investment in terms of promoting our names and our work, but considering that we are still trying very hard to find the free time to complete our own ORIGINAL husband and wife project it would make more sense for us to do a bunch of shows next year to promote a finished product.
I am currently involved in a comic project set in the wild west with Brian Brinlee called “Runeslingers” and a fantasy sci-fi project with Danielle Ellison called “Adeline”. Both projects are coming along slowly, though Runeslingers should be ready to debut with some previews as early as Christmas. However, the project I am most excited about is the one I want to do with Leanne that she promises me to start later this month. It does not yet have a title, but it will be a 100% manga style fantasy romance that criss-crosses between our modern mundane world and a DnD type world from the Dungeon Keeper’s perspective.
On top of that, there is a comedy webcomic I want to start about the children of an Intergalactic Council of Evil, who basically take over from their incompetent parents in an effort to conquer this galaxy. Very cartoony and playing with the cliches of the retro sci-fi genre.
There’s Leanne’s and my own children’s illustrated book, which we so desperately want to complete, tentatively titled Hippo’s Adventures.
Finally, there’s my long overdue children’s novel, drawing on the classics of children’s literature like the works of Baum, Barrie and Lewis.
If we keep going to expensive shows before we have any of this material to bring with us and promote then… well we could really be saving that money for a big push next year. There’s a reasonable chance we will return to NYCC next year. So, we might see you then.
It’s really a shame you and Leanne don’t fill your time with interesting projects, you have so much talent. Hehe sorry, bad joke, anyways all your projects sound awesome, especially the ones you’re doing with your kids. That sounds like a lot of fun.
Thanks. We don’t have any kids. But maybe someday.
Sorry I misread that I thought you said a book with your kids, not a children’s novel. My bad.
No problem. Perhaps you were being prophetic? 🙂
Whew! Quite the mouthful, take a breath Rod! Hah! Anyway, completely understood. The main reason I’m going is because my Dad is paying my way; otherwise I’d likely have to skip it again. I don’t know if I’ll make it next year, but if I do, perhaps I might still be in cartooning that I might get myself a booth as well. I tell yus I’d be there on the cheap with my paper bag with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. OK that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but you get my point.
The other projects you have on hand sound intriguing. I’ll be looking for them, so let us know when they’re ready to go.
Been playing catch up. So far it’s all smashing 🙂
Hey, I can make the Virginia Comic Con. I’ll try to bring my brother and some of his kids, many of whom are allegedly comic book fans, and get some commissions for you!
LOVE the Kill Bill reference.
LOVE. IT.
There’s my boy! It’s been too long Biggs! ^_^
Also, the incentive is just absolutely phenomenal. I love the coloring job, especially the background! 🙂
Thank you! You’re too kind! Actually, please don’t stop.
Catching up on your comic strips. You are getting to some really fun stuff in Empire!
That is a CLASSIC (voting incentive) poster!
XD
Yeah, that poster is great. Says it all, doesn’t it? 😉
Yeah, we avoided putting the tweaked title on there. That might give Lucasfilm the wrong message.
I think a good question is “What is HE doing there?”
But that would miss the point of Bigg’s confused perspective entirely! 😉