Last year, I met the client who gave me most of my freelance employment while here at the Gideon Arts Media Conference.
This year, I'm here with him again, and there's some interesting comic book news going on.
First, Ken Raney is here. He's the head of the comic book track. He and I taught a seminar on a brief overview of the comic book medium and another seminar about how to script comics. (I taught a seminar about how to adapt other media into comics by myself as well.) Ken Raney is the creator of
http://clashentertainment.com/ which spotlights all sorts of media, including comics. He also is part of Clash Creative, which packaged a book for Voice of the Martyrs (based on a true story of a family in Indonesia in 2000, and written by me, with INSANELY AWESOME ART by Rob Woodrum!) which is going to print this week or next week, so sadly Ken didn't have any one hand. A book he DID have on hand was simply titled "Martyrs", an anthology of four historical stories of martyrs (again, I was involved in this -- I wrote the Stephen story).
That last book was published by Kingstone Media, the client I mentioned above. I wrote Esther, The Christ (the project w/ Sergo), and The Book of God for Kingstone. Kingstone is publishing a LOT of material. A lot. Bible adaptations (beyond the ones I've worked on, there's Moses, Revelation, etc.), science fiction (a book called 2048), and more. Art Ayris, the man behind Kingstone (also a pastor in Florida) is building a media company that includes publishing and film, starting with comics.
So Art and Ken are here with me at the media arts conference. I've had some interesting conversations with different people while here -- film producers, script writers, novelists, and the like. The devotions and sessions and film festival entries have been fantastic!
Anyway, from North Carolina, this is Ben Avery signing off!
