Next Tuesday is the official release date for my new book “Rescue Me! What Superheroes Can Teach Us about the Power of Faith”. If you haven't already heard about it, “Rescue Me!” is a comic book/devotional that helps kids connect classic superhero themes with the amazing message of the Bible. Check it out at www.itscaptainsun.com. (available on Amazon.com and a deluxe edition from Lulu.com)
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Hi all ! Looking for an artist to continue some steampunk character development work I had started a while back. I have a budget to work with (cash money!! whoa!), so please email me links to your portfolio and we can talk! I have a minimum of 4 characters I need developed and if it works out maybe some continuous freelance. I have 3 characters complete I can send those as art direction.
It has been a while since we had a post, but at least this one will be filled with lots of news. First off this Friday we will begin production of our TOP SECRET project "Broken Wings." While this will be held under wraps until it's release, we will release some details about the project.
- It will be a full color comic book featuring the artwork of Jamie Cosley.
- It will be our first comic book available in print in both English and Spanish.
- It will be free in digital format (in English) via the iBooks store, readable on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch.
In case you missed it we have some of our titles in the iBooks store simply search "JMG STUDIO"
We have also launched Lil' Priscilla, we hope you are enjoying the comic strip (www.LilPriscilla.com), if you have an newsletter, magazine or other media and would like Lil' Priscilla to appear in it, please contact us crownjrcomics (at) gmail (dot) com. We offer amazing rates and offering six free months of strips when you sign up for a year.
If you are on Facebook you can follow us there at www.Facebook.com/crownjr and at www.Facebook.com/salinasslugger
Have a great week, and God Bless
-Peter-
I am working with a company that is creating an App SOLELY for Christian Comics! I am helping to gather all of the content we can. We are using the Comics+ framework, and all comics will be showcased on this app -- Christian Comics Universe (CCU) -- as well as on the Comics+ app, AND sold individually on the iBooks bookstore!
Lamp Post will be putting it's entire line up, and we expect involvement from the Action Bible as well (they are doing their app as well), and have interest from other larger publishers.
We will handle all file manipulation to fit the format, either full page on the iPad, or panel by panel for the iPhone. This is a great opportunity to draw new readers from the Comics+ crowd, and to point readers to a unique place to find the wide array of Christian content we all offer.
CCU will be the sole provider of Christian content through Comics+.
If you are interested, send me an email to brett@christiancomicsuniverse.com.
Brett Burner, Lamp Post Inc.
In an effort to make its stories more accessible to new readers, DC recently launched The New 52, cancelling all of its existing titles and starting 52 new series with revamped and rebooted versions of its major characters. But how will the New 52 affect the DC universe? Will new readers
actually be attracted? Will old fans still be interested? Will the new titles
be fresh and new, or disappointing and unfaithful to the original continuity?
After buying and reading all but a few of the 52 new #1s that DC released over
the course of a month, I have set out to review some of the major ones and let
potential readers know which new titles are and are not worth reading. So, without further
ado…
Flashpoint #5
Writer: Geoff Johns
Penciler: Andy Kubert
Review by Samuel N. Harris
Okay, so, technically, Flashpoint #5 is not part of The New 52—but it did lead into the whole thing. If you’re not familiar with what happened, then allow me to explain.
This most recent reboot is certainly not the first time—or even the second—that DC has decided to revamp their whole universe as an attempt to bring on new readers and make their characters seem fresh and
original again. It began with the classic Crisis on Infinite Earths back in the mid-80s, and happened again (although to a
somewhat lesser degree) with the similarly named Infinite Crisis in 2005. And what better way could there be to revamp and entire universe full of years of continuity than to create some sort
of infinite crisis—a crisis that spanned all of space and time and multiple
different alternate realities and happened to end with some of those realities
and timelines getting drastically changed?
It may sound epic and dramatic on paper, but longtime comics fans who have seen this kind of thing before often have another word for it: gimmicky. And, as far as I can tell, that’s what Flashpoint also was: a huge, reality-spanning crossover event that may have seemed epic, but was only concocted as an in-story excuse for the
creators to reboot the whole universe and pick and choose with no restrictions
what they did and didn’t want to keep in continuity or in the status quo of the
new DC universe.
Now, in all fairness, I could be wrong about Flashpoint. I will admit that, before this reboot, I had been a little behind on following DC comics, and so I hadn’t actually read the entire Flashpoint series or any of the tie-ins to the event in other series. In fact, the only Flashpoint
issue I got or read was #5, the final one of the 5-issue miniseries, because it
was the only other in-continuity DC comic that came out on the same week as the
newly rebooted Justice League #1. I
had decided I wanted to see what the reboot would be like and would try
(keyword: try) to reserve judgment
about the whole ordeal until after I had actually read the new issues. And so I
figured, even though I hadn’t read the beginning or middle of the Flashpoint story, it wouldn’t hurt to
buy the end and see exactly how it led into the beginning of the new universe.
Well, it turned out that I was right. It didn’t hurt to read the ending of Flashpoint without having read the beginning, because the ending was a lot like other
reality-spanning crises I’ve read in comics: a whole bunch of different heroes
and villains fighting for a while, appearing and disappearing seemingly at
random, and sometimes even meeting alternate versions of each other, while a
few of the heroes desperately try to put reality back together before it all
falls apart. Again, maybe it’s my own fault for reading the end without the
beginning, but the story of Flashpoint
#5 really didn’t grab or impress me too much, especially since I already knew
exactly where the ending was headed: towards a fresh and new DC universe where
everything that happened before may or may not be canon anymore. Since I
already knew that the end of the story would potentially negate everything that
had come before it, specific plot details and characters involved in this story
didn’t really seem terribly important to me.
However, one aspect of Flashpoint did indeed confuse me: the very ending, in which, for the last few pages of the comic, the Flash and Batman are hanging out in the Batcave together, reflecting on the crisis they’ve just been through and
remembering the different alternate realities they’ve just seen. This scene
confused me because it was my understanding that it wasn’t supposed to be
possible in light of the universe being rebooted. I thought the superheroes’
stories were more or less starting anew with no regards to previous
continuity—so how do Batman and the Flash still know each other, and how do
they remember everything that’s just happened? How does the story end on a
peaceful note, as if nothing had changed, when in fact all of reality was
supposed to have changed? And how does this last scene fit in with the newly
rebooted DC universe as it is supposed to be after the events of Flashpoint? I don’t have the answers to
any of these questions. But since the whole universe has been rebooted anyway
and the continuity may or may not be the same anymore, I’m guessing it doesn’t
really matter a whole lot and won’t have any bearing on the rest of the DC universe from here on out.
So, here’s my advice. If you want to get into DC comics, then skip Flashpoint and just jump into any of the newly rebooted series—which seems to be what DC wanted people
to do anyway. Maybe Flashpoint would
make more sense if you read the whole series, but knowing what I know of previous
huge, reality-spanning comic book crossovers that lead into universe-wide
reboots, I’m guessing that I wasn’t missing a whole lot and that the real focus
was supposed to be on the newly rebooted comics coming out afterward. Sure, the
whole thing may be a big marketing gimmick to attempt to boost sales and bring
on new readers, but if you’re still interested in reading after this, then
don’t confuse yourself with Flashpoint.
You’re better off just starting with one or more of the new series—which I
shall proceed to review next.
So I decided to do my pages in 3D (or at least one of them).
I may do radically different approaches. I still think there's a few pages left in the Prodigal Son thing. If anyone wants to add a page mention it in the Prodigal Son thread.
Anyway - here's the sculpt, a work in progress. If anyone has insights or commentary have at it. The shoes and hands need some serious work - but it's coming along.
Should I go with "more realistic hair" or sculpted hair?
Martin
Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
Psalm 105:15
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
Matthew 7:5
Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
Luke 6:37
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
John 7:24
The Bible
I'm finally getting my pages done for the Prodigal Son - And the opening shot is the home office...just wondering if there was a way to make a full vertical page more cinematic...
Suggestions?
Well, we are in the final days of pre-production of "Rescue Me: What Superheroes Can Teach Us About the Power of Faith". The final chapter is almost complete! After that, we will have few weeks of editing and tweaking (if necessary) the final proof copies (of both the standard version, and the "Super Nova" premium edition). Thanks for your prayers and support! While you wait, enjoy a few sneak preview panels of the book! And let us know if you like what you see!!!
My hopes for joining this site are grand but completely attainable. Is there an artist out there with a passion for Christ in need of a storyteller and friend? I would like to partner with that person/those people and make the most compelling, soul-stretching manga/comic of its time.
The template for this idea is my completed novel Radon Valley. You can read it here (free with no gimmicks) and imagine how many youth and young adults we would impact by making this novel a graphic rather than just a book: http://www.authonomy.com/books/36572/radon-valley/
Consider glancing at a few chapters. Get a feel for the characters and the story. Help me spread the Word of God to the people unreached; they are not unreachable, but they are unreached - the manga generation.
With love,
- TMN
Parents (and even Aunts, Uncles, Grandparents!),
Just one more week before the deadline (Sept 16th) for our Captain Sun drawing contest for boys and girls, ages 5-12! The winner will have his or her drawing printed in the new book, "Rescue Me! What Superheroes Can Teach Us about the Power of Faith", and the top three finalists will each receive an autographed copy of the book! For all the details see below or visit Captain Sun on the web (itscaptainsun.com).
And if you haven't done so already, subscribe to the site or "Like" us on Facebook (facebook.com/itscaptainsun) to stay up to date!
Please don't miss this exciting new track of the Call2All Congress. Register today at:
http://www.call2all.org
For more information contact Calvin and Carol Conkey, Create International, creategcrc@gmail.com
Hope you guys ready for this, don't know if any one has posted this already. For all you illustrators, animators, doodles, which includes me. :) This is for us.
Wacom has just made our life much easier. Check out Inkling. INKLING BY WACOM
Not available till mid September though, and for only $199.00
Got to get me one. Beautiful isn't it? Let me know what you think.
Click below to check out the Doctor Doom & Darth Vader character mash-up in Jack Kirby fashion!
Thanks for your support/vote!
The company Jobs founded, along with tech whiz Steve Wozniak, earned a reputation in the public eye as the premier technology innovator of the 21st. century. Most notable among those innovations are the iPhone and iPad. But long before he was a household name, he was a star among the creative community over three decades ago.
Job's loyal legion of followers were enamored in part by the sexy computers Apple manufactured, such as the original Macintosh. The corporate world was slow to accept the Mac into their work environment. Many battles were fought by in-house designers in favor of Macs over PC's. I recall, as art director of a California corporation, the struggle I had to purchase Macs for my department. We settled on a compromise by putting both a Mac and PC in my office. As you can imagine, the PC collected dust.
Also highly favored by designers and other creatives was Apple's user-friendly operating systems. Those operating systems certainly came from talented engineers working at Apple, but its success could ultimately be traced back to the unique operating system known as Steve Jobs. Mr. Jobs had earned a reputation of being very meticulous, demanding and somewhat difficult to work with, but we who use his products are the beneficiaries of his high standards.
Jobs most recent public appearance was at the World Developer Conference in June. He appeared thin and seemed to move with some effort, nevertheless, he still commanded the audience in his signature jeans, tennis shoes and turtle neck. His presentation was that of a master showman and confident salesman.
We at ur-toast.com offer our prayers for Mr. Job's health.
me and js earls has tried to make copies of my artwork off my page on here to put together on a file for
please tell me what to do to get it done
That must have been what an assistant priest of St. Nicolas of Myrna Church in Encino, California thought when he discovered an original Rembrandt drawing, 'The Judgement' in the church. After deeper consideration, he called police and reported the item.
The drawing, valued at $250,000, had been stolen from the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Marina del Rey in an unguarded moment as it was being hung for an exhibit.
Authorities speculate that the crime was possibly committed by someone who did not have the connections to fence such a high profile work of art. In order to not get caught with the drawing, they disposed of it in the church. Neither the pastor nor others associated with the church are suspects.
There are several things worth noting about this case. First, that the pastor recognized the artwork as a Rembrandt. Secondly, that he was honest in returning the drawing.
One might think, of course I too would return it. However, have you ever received too much change on a small purchase and thought, "God is blessing me," as you slip the coins into your pocket and walk briskly out of the store?
