Chapter 3 begins!
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Okay so, some updates on us.
We recently attended Amazing Comicon in Honolulu, and it was a hoot. We sold 23 comics! It was the second con I ever attended, and the first time I’d ever sat behind a table. I don’t know if I can compare attending a con, like Kawaii Con, with actually selling something at a con. The vibes are totally different – you end up vibing with other creators, rather than the people attending the con. Both are good experiences for me.
During the con, I sold one print – and it was this print. I bought about 200 postcards to contribute to the table, as well as Kim’s over 500 individual pieces (including some really cute buttons and stickers), so we have some stock now she’s going to put up on her Etsy (click here please), including a couple of limited run, hand-made comic prints of our Chapter 2, and a one-of-a-kind print of a partial-chapter of Salient which includes her Nicola short story.
She was cutting those out and snipping them until 2AM the first day of the con. Book-binding is a hobby of hers and she does it very well. The paper she used was heavy-weight paper, and they came out looking and feeling amazing. Seriously, wow.
So, this filler print is actually of a D&D character of mine that I was playing on the Neverwinter Nights Roleplaying Server, Arelith, in early 2019. The character in question, a Nizana Tel’ar, was an Elistraeean Harper – for anyone unfamiliar with Faerun lore, it basically translates to a divine spymaster. The dragon in the picture was played by a friend of mine, who needed some cheering up and really liked the interplay between our characters, and preferred to have his character represented in her polymorphed form – a dragon.
It’s kind of hard to do anything to someone with a pet dragon.
Anyway, this got printed for the comicon because of a conversation I had with Kim – “If you’re going to make postcards, go for something big, unique, beautiful on its own” was the summary of her instruction to me.
I stopped playing this character because my life got too busy and, honestly, it was too much work to play her. Some of these RP servers can get pretty time consuming and intensive. It’s because they’re engaging, and good, so if you’re into that sort of thing, check them out at http://www.arelith.com. Be warned; it’ll eat your productivity like the dragon in the picture eats sheep.
I’ll see you in a couple weeks.
Mahalo~
I didn’t realize that we had suddenly gone a little NSFW, despite having wrote that page my own self, until I saw Kim share the image with the NSFW tag on Twitter.
Then for some reason it clicked. Oooooooh. Riiiiight. Nudity.
I don’t know what that says about me (or us, really) as writers. But, hey. Whatever. It’s a mature comic with some mature topics hidden behind some really excellent drawing skill. Isn’t it beautiful? Look at that perspective.
Nicoy makes me want to throw my entire paycheck at her. This is not very wise, however, as I still need to eat actual food.
Anyway, next step for us will be the cover for Chapter 2, which will come next, and then Kim will work her wizardry and we’ll have the chapter published, just in time for next month’s con we hope. ^^
Thanks for sticking with us. Stay tuned for Chapter 3, Return of the Creature. (Or something like that; went to watch the latest Star Wars movie, and didn’t hate it.)
Happy New Year!
We’ve just got the final page under construction for the end of the second issue. So we’ll be seeing that next time the comic updates and then – bam. Done with the second issue. Two issues in a year (or so)! Not too bad if I do say so myself.
Also coming up; We’ll be attending Amazing Comic Con, Honolulu, on Feb 21st! That’s next month! Plan is to have the second issue out and about by the end of Feb. If you’re in the area make some plans and swing on by to say hello.
Like a pre-game maybe? I don’t know.
I was reading somewhere, and, I think it’s true that the Holidays can be a really hard time for some people. I know it’s been a hard time for me recently and, I hope if you’re reading this, I hope the comic update cheers you up some. If you’ve got a really happy holiday, good! If not, I think it all gets better in the Spring, so hold on!
Something really kind of cool happened to me this year. So, although I’ve been trying to straighten up my finances for a while, it hadn’t happened yet; Christmas bonus check was a little short, and the last quarterly bonus wasn’t much. So I had to tell my folks I wouldn’t make it home during the holidays. It’s been a few years since I saw them and I wanted to go, but couldn’t spare the couple thousand that the plane tickets cost. So, I had to make that call home.
My grandfather told me if I could just get the time off of work, he’d call up my brother – who handles the family finances – and ask him to buy the tickets. So it took a week or two of prodding but my company let me off the week (3 days without pay, but 2 vacation days) and so, on the 22nd, I’m flying out back to my home state! On top of that, an old friend of mine from High School ended up calling me last week, and once he learned I’d be back, he promised to drive up and spend an evening or two hanging out.
It will have been a few years. The last time I visited was when I’d just started driving, and that was 3 years ago or so.
Sometimes things work out.
Hope everyone can find a good holiday.
-Mike.
Hello again.
At least the comic updates on time?
I’ve been pretty sick this week. So hey, happy Thanksgiving guys, but like RIGHT AFTER THAT I got sick as a dog. Friday last week, I worked through my shift in a hoodie (at like 76 degrees in Hawaii) and ended up losing it when I got off shift, so I ended up calling out.
And calling out, and calling out.
Eventually on like Tuesday I went to a doctor and got told they really couldn’t do much except mitigate the symtoms. So I spent a lot of time in bed with my phone and sitting around on a computer.
Turns out being forced to do nothing for a long period of time gets you thinking about stuff which leads to weird mid-life criseses. Ever realized you never had goals? Like, whole life, not a single solid goal? Oof. A lot of oof.
Finishing this comic out is a pretty darn good goal to have though, so thanks for joining us! We’re almost at the end of our second issue so I’d say that in terms of “have we done a thing” we are certainly at “doing a thing”. :3
God (insert applicable deity here) bless,
-M.
