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Apr02

The Escape of the Dead

by Richard on April 2, 2013 at 12:01 am

Well, that’s it!  39 comics in and we’ve come to the end of Chapter 1/2, which I’ve combined and mushed into one installment. Mostly because a lot of chapter 2 was redundant in a lot of ways, and works better as a pulp chapter than a comic, but also because I know everyone wants to get to Mars. Well, here we go!

In about a month. I’m taking a break to tighten up the script I’ve written for the next installment and to work on getting Chaper 1 reformatted into something that I can make available in a print editions for con season. So never fear – I’m still be producing APoM material, just behind the scenes.

Finally, here’s a video review of Chaper One from Webcomics Top 100:

I’ll see you all back here in a month for Chapter 2: Advent on Mars.

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Apr08

Heroes Con 2013 Pre-Con Commission List Open!

by Richard on April 8, 2013 at 1:35 pm
Posted In: Uncategorized

Hi everyone! I’m opening my schedule up for a limited number of pre-con commissions for delivery at Heroes Con 2013 (June 7-9). I’m guessing only 3-4, but if I can get them all finished early I will open up more slots. These are full commissions, NOT con sketches, and will all be completed in warm and cool grey COPIC markers, with no background.  I’m going to make a change from what I’ve offered in the past and give everyone two options:

11×14 $150, or 9×12 $100

If you’re interested just drop me a message and we’ll work out all of the details.

I’ll open my actual con sketch list for people a week or so before the convention, and thanks in advance!

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Feb06

John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood

by Richard on February 6, 2013 at 1:50 pm
Posted In: Blog

Amazon.com currently have the Kindle edition of John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood available for free.  The book description on Amazon:

It took 100 years to bring Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars to the big screen. It took Disney Studios just ten days to declare the film a flop and lock it away in the Disney vaults. How did this project, despite its quarter-billion dollar budget, the brilliance of director Andrew Stanton, and the creative talents of legendary Pixar Studios, become a calamity of historic proportions?

Michael Sellers, a filmmaker and Hollywood insider himself, saw the disaster approaching and fought to save the project – but without success. In John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood, Sellers details every blunder and betrayal that led to the doom of the motion picture – and that left countless Hollywood careers in the wreckage.

JOHN CARTER AND THE GODS OF HOLLYWOOD examines every aspect of Andrew Stanton’s adaptation and Disney’s marketing campaign and seeks to answer the question: What went wrong? it includes a history of Hollywood’s 100 year effort to bring the film to the screen, and examines the global fan movement spawned by the film.

You can pick it up here.  Should be an interesting read.

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Jan28

Chapter 1 in Print?

by Richard on January 28, 2013 at 3:05 pm
Posted In: Blog

Hi all;

As Chapter 1 of my adaptation is drawing to a close, I was wondering how many people would be interested in a print edition? It would be about the size of a standard comic, maybe 20 or 24 pages long, in full color.  If it fell short in pages – I’m going to have to re-lay a lot of pages out so am winging page count now – I would add extra stuff, sketches, etc. but I think it’ll fill the page count on its own.

My goal would be to have it ready for con season (May/June) and to keep the cost at or under $5/copy.  But I’m not going to undertake this without some sort of feedback, so please let me know!

Richard

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Jan15

Strip delays

by Richard on January 15, 2013 at 10:09 am
Posted In: Blog

Well, since it’s been like a bloody month since the last comic, I thought I would explain what’s been up.  Especially since I’ve gotten 2 snarky comments lately that people’s free entertainment has been late.  This was going to be long and detailed, but I figured, meh. let’s just sum it all up.

The holidays themselves didn’t really affect things much, which might have been everyone’s first guess.  Instead, there were 2 illnesses, which affected my deadlines a goodly bit. As I’ve said before, my deadlines come first — they pay the bills that let me keep APoM free — so I’ve been trying to catch up there.

The good news is that I think I’m getting back on track, and have even gotten much of the last comics of Chapter 1 thumbnailed. The next comic is completely laid out. So my hope is that by next week we’ll be good to go!

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Nov29

Orc Girl

by Richard on November 29, 2012 at 2:20 pm
Posted In: Blog, News

I can’t believe I’ve neglected mentioning this, but Tom Boatwright (my esteemed colorist) is the primary artist on the most recent Paul Allor comic, Orc Girl.

Orc Girl is a fantasy coming-of-age story… with orcs. Writer Gail Simone called it “one of the best comics I’ve read in ages” and “Funny, charming, bittersweet and moving…Absolutely lovely in story and art.”

This 48-page one-shot includes a 22-page story from writer Paul Allor and Tom, as well as four back-up stories with art from Boatwright, Ben Dewey, Jesse Hamm and Koong Koong.

You should really check it out.  It’s available in hard copy and digitally.

Don’t take my word for it? Here’s a preview, an interview, and a review. That’s a lot of positive views.

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I turned my gaze from the landscape to the heavens where the myriad stars formed a gorgeous and fitting canopy for the wonders of the earthly scene. My attention was quickly riveted by a large red star close to the distant horizon. As I gazed upon it I felt a spell of overpowering fascination—it was Mars, the god of war, and for me, the fighting man, it had always held the power of irresistible enchantment. As I gazed at it on that far-gone night it seemed to call across the unthinkable void, to lure me to it, to draw me as the lodestone attracts a particle of iron.

My longing was beyond the power of opposition; I closed my eyes, stretched out my arms toward the god of my vocation and felt myself drawn with the suddenness of thought through the trackless immensity of space. There was an instant of extreme cold and utter darkness.