Posted by Mark Melton on November 11, 2009 at 10:12pm
I'll be posting all the preview art for issue #4 in this threadSome will be just inks and others will be colors. Some will be just random panels others will be full pages.Issue #4 is penciled, inked and colored by me (still working on the colors)Some will notice a different style than the art I did in issue #1. Went back to the cartoony stuff...like my art from issue #0. It's so much more fun for my brain.If you like what you see, be sure to pick up issue #0, 1, 2 & 3!PAGE 01:PAGE 02 PANEL 3:PAGE 03 PANEL 6:That's all for now.
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Veterans DaySalute! To all our vets. Regardless of the branch serve or the time of duty. We are proud of you all, and thankful that because of the effort that you and many other men and women of this country, who have drop blood in the battlefields of the world, today we can enjoy our freedoms, and express our self. Keep up the good work. Thou you may not always be recognized, there are many of us that pray for you and admire your effort end courage.
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working on a comic book for charity i need volunteers to give me at least one page each got about 8-10 pages left to do.not sure if i have anyone left who hasnt helped yet so please respond
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I was in D.C. yesterday visiting a friend and his family. Went to the zoo and ate at an Italian restaurant. It was fun. I also received a phone call from my publisher and I should be getting the demo copies of Volume 1 in a week or so. My publisher had changed a few things with the printer which will make the prodution much cheaper.I'm also waiting to hear back from ComicXP to see if they are done formating the Samplers. If you haven't read it on my site, the Samplers will be electronic versions of each volume seperated in three lower priced parts. The covers will be different from the printed version and other slight things will be different. I'm hoping also to get Allegories on comixology in time.I'm very excited, but also less stressed and burdened. The reason why is due to some good advice from a fellow Christian busnessman. He told me he allows God to determine how his business will become and how much money it will make. That takes off the burden of you controling things, You still have your labor to do, but you give it up to God to lead it. That has helped me a lot. Also listening to Creflo Dollar and Andrew Womak preach about faith, that we have the blessings already and we can claim it and wait patiently and confidently for the blessings to manifest. The way God has renewed my mind by these truths the last couple of weeks have been life changing! I can still have small struggles to think how I use to or want to control everything, but the renewing of my mind is set and I'm moving foward in freedom and joy. God bless.
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Well I'm that funeral is done and over with. All week long before Grandma's funeral has been a bunch of fighting. The day before the funeral my Grandpa and his family decided to change the location of the funeral from Maryneal(about 12 miles south of town) to Littlefield(about 40 minutes northwest of Lubbock). That really pissed my sister and my mom off. The funeral was pretty short, it only lasted like 8 minutes tops. Grandpa said he wanted her funeral to be short n sweet, which is how she wanted it. My oldest brother, Michael and my sister Amber took it the hardest. After the funeral we visited Aunt Rosie for about an hour. Then we went back home to eat brisket with my second oldest brother Billy.The thing I found strange was the fact that Granny's funeral was on Halloween. But I think she would've liked that; Granny liked Halloween. She loved putting up home-made Halloween decorations out on the front lawn and having trick-or-treaters come by. She even had a Halloween vest she liked to wear.I'm just glad it's over with.
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My comic series, "Silly Daddy," posts its 500th online cartoon November 9th, 2009. I posted five reasons why you should take note of this 500 webcomics milestone:1) Silly Daddy is one of the oldest autobiographical comics still releasing new material. It's definitely the longest running autobiographical comic about family by a father.For full story, go to http://tiny.cc/sillydaddy223 and let me know what you think.
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Posted by Bob Luedke on October 29, 2009 at 6:28am
Well, at least that's how I feel this morning (obscure Steve Martin reference #1), after reading...Comixology just released the first book in the Eye Witness series (A Fictional Tale of Absolute Truth) in their iphone application.This is the first place outside of our website, where fans of comics and graphic novels can have a chance to purchase and read the revised and remastered edition of the first book in the award-winning series.For this application they have formated this first book into 3 segments. Each chapter costs 99 cents, so it's quite a bargin!Comixology is a wonderful tool for reading comics and GN's on your phone (who's of lunk it, a few years ago), which allows to to view by panel, page, go forward, back, zoom in-out and even provides a link to purchase a hard copy from a local retailer.To learn more about how the comixology app works, visit their video tutorial at: http://www.comixology.com/iphoneapp/To purchase the app for your iphone, go to: http://www.comixology.com/iphoneapp/Once the comixology app is in place you can find Eye Witness by name, publisher (Head Press Publishing) or genre (Christian).Since I don't have an iphone, I love it if someone who does at CCAS would please post your review of the format and how Eye Witness looks on it.Thanks and enjoy!R.J. Luedkewww.headpress.infoRead more…
Posted by Kris Bather on October 29, 2009 at 4:00am
What a blessing this is! At the start of the year myself and a friend started Extra Sequential, a free on-line mag all about comics. After 3 issues we were picked up by Arcana Comics from Canada. For the last few months we've been working on the transition of ES to print, and it's now arrived! Well, sort of. Arcana magazine is a full colour quarterly and is featured in November's Previews catalogue, for January shipping products. Go to Page 184 and you'll see it. It's only $3.50US for a full colour 96 page mag. We have interviews with David Mack, Josh Medors, Chip Mosher (marketing guy from BOOM! Studios), Marv Wolfman, Edmund Shern and Star Wars: Invasion writer Tom Taylor. There's also a look at The Death of Superman, an article on music and comics, and so much more. Plus, it looks pretty good! Be aware that there is the occasional use of mild profanity in some interviews (!), and it is tailored for mature comic readers as well as newbies to the wonders of sequential art. Check out our blog here and you can order it from Previews now.
I just got news last night that my grandma passed away in her sleep. Grandpa's not taking it too well. We still don't know how she died but she's been bedridden for months.I am thankful that God brought her out of her suffering once and for all. She has finally been freed from the curse of sin and everything that goes with it. One day we who have accepted the free gift of salvation will all be free from the curse as we are told in Revelation 21:4 that "He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death, sadness, crying or pain. For the former things have passed aways." Let's pray that day will come soon.
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Posted by Allen Weaver on October 22, 2009 at 9:00pm
Hey Everybody,It's been a long time coming, but we are finally here! The Speedsuit Powers novel is finished and it releases December 1, 2009 on Amazon.com and then on all other major 'book.com' websites shortly thereafter. As you know, the most important time for a new movie or CD is opening weekend. It's the same way in the publishing industry. So we're trying to get as many people as possible to purchase the book, from Amazon.com on December 1, 2009. We went the self-publishing route with Iuniverse Publishing. (Actually, they're a 'supportive self-publishing' house; meaning they provide more support through the publishing and promotion process - all depending on your budget). So, we really want to make a big splash and generate some great momentum.I'm asking you for your prayers that God's perfect Will will be done with this book and that He will open all doors that need to be walked through and close the doors that need to be shut. We want His leading in every area concerning this book. It has the potential to make a huge impact in the lives of youth and young adults. So please pray.Also, the 1st official promo video is done and up! So, take a look, let me know what you think and pass the link onto whoever you think would be interested.Speedsuit Powers Book TrailerThanks for taking the time to read this and respond.God bless,Allen Paul Weaver IIIAuthor, Speedsuit Powers (December 2009)
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Was reading this at Borders this evening. The book proposes that art and entertainment are different. With entertainment, you only have fun, with art, you learn by being provoked to think in a good way. Further, the book held to art-parable as the effective method of ministry. That binding a strong man could happen by perplexing his conscious in an art-parable like Jesus did with the parables He spoke. It also spoke of the most effective art-parable method was something that obtained the greatest audience while perplexing the strong and being genuinely entertaining.
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Last night I was reading through the manual of Manga Studio EX (3). Copy and Pasting from layer to layer didn't require saving as a reference after all. It seems after you copy it to the new layer, you 'move layer' to move the newly pasted object's location, not the object. In my head, this is not intuitive at all. In the same layer, it works by moving the object, not the objects layer. Keep in mind that if you save it as a reference object, when you paste the reference object, you do move the object where you want to, not the layer. I'm thinking that this weirdness was fixed in the newer version.
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It makes me very sad to see so many people on the Internet on different sites not wanting the truth.What is truth? Some people say that there is no such thing as truth - each person has his own reality. I wonder how that would stand in court ;D Obviously it's a cop-out just to get everybody to agree or feel at home with each other and shut out the Bible.Even scientists aren't interested in the truth. And I'm not even talking about evolution or the spiritual. Nicola Tesla worked for Thomas Edison. Edison asked Tesla to design a method for distributing electricity for the light bulbs he invented. Tesla found a wireless way of distributing electricity but Edison didn't like it because it couldn't be metered. Tesla was offered US$50,000 to improve Edison's inefficient motors and generators. Later Edison said it was a joke and wouldn't even give him a raise. Tesla invented about half the current technology we use today and received nothing for it - he died in poverty. No, he wasn't a Christian, I'm just saying that scientists have their own private agendas when it comes to the truth.Jesus said "I am the way, the truth and the life. no-one comes to the Father except through Me." So it makes sense that non-believers will say there is no truth - they don't want to believe because they don't want to be under control of the church. I can understand that because I was in a similar situation as a believer in church. As a teenager, I had to go to Sunday school regularly. The last year of Sunday-school we did all the nitty-gritty aspects of what our church believes. First they say "Only believe what the Bible says". I was fine with that. Then they said "Everything in our church is based on the Bible" then they said "but we need to ad this and that and something else, etc." So I said "But you said only to believe the Bible, now you are adding all this other stuff" the answer was "yes, but...". So I decided I will only believe what the Bible says.Jesus said "I am the way, the truth and the life. No-one comes to the Father except through Me." He also said He would go away and send the Holy Spirit in His place (John 14:16). In Ephesians 2:6 Paul writes that we are in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. This is wonderful! When we accepted Jesus as our Saviour, we received the ability to be in the heavenly "dimension" in Christ Jesus!What am I trying to say here? You can ONLY get to God through Jesus - nobody else, no-matter who they claim to be or what powers they have.Jesus said "Heaven and earth may pass away, but My words shall never pass away". I believe that only God is capable of something like this, thus He is real and He spoke the truth!I want to encourage you to please study the Bible so that you can see what is from God and what is not from God. A good way to start is to read the old testament and the new testament. Start with Genesis 1 and Matthew 1 and work your way through.
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Posted by Bryan Mero on October 15, 2009 at 9:26am
It a bit over a month but I finally got it posted! I really wish I had the talent to draw like most of the folks here on the CCAS...I might be able to post things faster.Sam is on the highway again but takes a unexpected turn to a beach town of Lost Cove...nothing but a sleeply little town right? No way! Underneath the waves is something sinister!Check it out!http://www.spirit-knight.com/SKjournal.htmlRead more…
Posted by David Duarte on October 13, 2009 at 7:30pm
Here is the first page of the first chapter inked up of modern Christians. Looks kind of nice huh? I think it would be best if I wait until I am finished with every chapter now instead of showing previews. A summary of this cartoon: It's about a group of teen Christians who deal with the everyday struggles of being a Christian and a teen. Much of what they go through, I have went through and so have others. They have good times and bad, question their idenity and purpose, sometimes even doubting God. Some of the things they will go through include: Attempting to act more Godly. Dealing with athiests who want to give some of them a hard time. Building and breaking relationships. Finding out some people who claim to be Christian really are not. Or they act as a believer but have secret sins. Temptation to do many things. And much more. My goal of this comic is to show that Christanity isn't perfect, but it's still worth going for, even with all the struggles that can come with it. Show that we Christians know how to have fun and that maybe even an athiest will see that getting saved is worth it. I kind of hope I can change how people see Christian comics and help Christians and non-Christians see that what they struggle with. I would like to put most of myself into this comic. All the characters are based on personalities I have, once had, or sometimes wish I had haha. I am feeling confident with this comic. If it gets attention, which I hope, it will get very interesting, and even a bit controvesial. But it should stand out from most Christian comics which I hope.
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Howdy,Just finished the pen and inks for volume 3 and I am tired! Taking this week off from Allegories to breathe. I just finished about 100 pgs in four months. That is more than I have ever done in such a short time while working full time and being married. WHEW!!! Inside I feel this exhaustion, a deep exhaustion. So what do I do on my break? Look for a part-time job while developing a children book series....HUH?!!Yea, my family and I are in a financial bind right now, but God is being faithful. So, I'm doing my part as we pray to Jesus for guidance. Allegories prayfully will be out in a month or so. I just talked to my publisher and there was a delay since we changed Allegories to softcover than hardcover. I should be getting my few copies for reviews and stuff in a week. But I don't get my part of the profit until quarterly. Sooooo, I need some extra cash now, but also, there's been this children book series I've been wanting to do that I hope will share the gospel to kids and generate more revenue for the Todd household. Plus, it shouldn't take as long to produce like Allegories. The children books will also be the debut of my photoshop coloring skills or lack of. HAha.So pray for me and my family and be blessed and remember Jesus is faithful.
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