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Posted by Alison on February 24, 2009 at 9:00pm
Even though its a month away, I decided to go ahead and do some (needed) spring cleaning, which is a good and bad thing. Good, because I've been meaning to clean my room for a while now. Bad because I'm an expert procrastinator and even though I told myself this morning that I'll start exactly at 11am and finish at 10.30 so I can sleep well for once in a long time, I ended up starting at 2pm and haven't really 'finished'.I started off with moving my bed from my room and currently its in the hall taking up space. But it isn't the bed thats interesting, its what I found underneath my bed. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who keeps boxes of junk under my bed but I bet I'm the first who keeps it there with the sole purpose of just putting it there so later I can throw some junk out.And its not just junk, a lot of it are notebooks from high school, some textbooks, and sketchbooks. OH MAN did I find sketchbooks! I mean, from 2000 when I started high school. Currently I'm staring at my pile wondering how much I really have. I already spent a good hour just looking through them looking at how much I progressed. I felt like I accomplished something when I finished. Like taking a personal trip through time. I now have 5 + (and counting) sketchbooks that I can save and give to my kids.Also, I found some notes I used to pass with my friends from High School. More notebooks and a BANK with money in it. Score.And thats just the first part of my room, wait until I get to part two!
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02.24.09 - New Wildlight and Fan Art Contest

Posted by JCServant on February 24, 2009 at 6:32pm
Update 02.24.09: After a near endless wait, we have the next heart stopping webisode of Wildlight up for your reading leisure! Tammy makes an extremely bold move to save her friend, and things heat up! Plus, we have the first two entries in our new monthly fan art contest! There's still plenty of time to get your own entry in, as we've extended the deadline for this month to March 7th!Cyberlight Comics: http://cyberlightcomics.comWildlight: http://cyberlightcomics.com/wildlight/surrendered/w065/coverindex.htmFan Art: http://cyberlightcomics.com/goodies/01fanart/index.htmlContest Details: http://cyberlightcomics.com/bboard2/index.php?topic=324.0
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Film Rights and Options Available to IVORY JOINS THE REAPING WORLD WIND

Posted by HOLLIS WILLIAMS on February 23, 2009 at 4:42pm

I wrote a Speculative Spiritual Fantasy novel about Jesus and the end of the world from the point of view of my heroine, IVORY JOANS. With the help of her Friend and Lord, she evicts the agents and demons of Evil, Sin and Iniquity from our beloved planet. My dream is to see this story brought to the silver screen in a way that will Glorify Jesus Christ and draw cinema goers to Him and His saving Grace and Joy. After all, He is the Son of the Biggest God in the Universe and Creator of us all. This tale of adventure and derring do is a Journey into the Heart and Soul of the Universe. Will total destruction spoil Evil, Sin and Iniquity?
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something to share

Posted by angelo diaz on February 22, 2009 at 7:23pm
This will be my entry into the blog thing.Believe it or not,I've never really had to do it before but I feel since joining CCAS that perphaps I could share some of my experience in pencilling since so many of my friends here have the same passion for comics.The fact that we all have the same desire to promote the kingdom of God thru our various gifts mandates that we should exchange the wealth of artistic knowledge the Lord has blessed us with over the years.The secular region of the comic world has produced outstanding icons in the fields of illustators and I believe we,as the body of Christ,can produce the same caliber and better,judging by what I've seen in my short time here.The main factor I believe we need focus on is that if we wish to demonstrate this,we have to hold ourselves to high standards such as the ones many of our inspirations did in their time.What I mean by that is that just because many of the comic legends we grew up didn't know the Lord,that doesn't excuse us for the hard work,determination and endless hours of perfecting our craft that many of those greats did.Anyone who has spent any considerable amount of time reading comics over the last 20 years knows that the bar has been lowered over the years and that in many cases,good draftmanship,quality storytelling and dynamic anatomy understanding hasn't been given the priorities editors once held as mandatory.It's my hope that God's people will demonstrate in the years to come that we can produce a line of work that is saturated with an anointing resulting in greatness and excellence!!
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02.15.09 - Introducing Squad 77!

Posted by JCServant on February 18, 2009 at 4:26am
Cyberlight Comics Update 02.15.09: If you're looking for something fresh and new, check out the newest title to Cyberlight! Squad 77's a fresh look at Christian comics in general. Plus, we have a new monthly contest that anyone can join. It's as simple as drawing a picture. So check out our contest details today!Squad 77: http://cyberlightcomics.com/newcomics/Squad77/Episode1.pdfContest Details: http://cyberlightcomics.com/bboard2/index.php?topic=324.0Cyberlight Comics: http://cyberlightcomics.com
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My first blog.

Posted by Melchizedek Todd on February 17, 2009 at 3:31pm
This is my first blog of many I hope. I never really got into the blog thing, though I know many people who have one. I guess I felt who would want to read my thoughts and stuff.Anyway, mainly this blog will be about my graphic novel Allegories of the Way: Angels and Souls.Right now my publisher is figuring out how to market my comic. I'm also looking into things. Most likely I'll go through Haven Distribution since Diamond seems unapproachable now for small publishers.If anyone has some ides for me I would really appreciate it. I'm praying not to be anxious about it and leave it in God's hands. I'm very excited though and stressed. Haha.
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Connooga is coming to town (but it doesn't see you when you're sleeping)

Posted by Sean Taylor on February 16, 2009 at 2:34pm
I will be a guest at Con Nooga on February 20 - 22, 2009 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It will be a fun time as I hang out with fun-loving comics and pop media folks like Bobby Nash, Robert Freese, Daniel Emery Taylor, David Boop, Cristina Barber, Samantha Newark, Chase Masterson, and Linda Blair. Plus many more.For full details, guest list, and panel descriptions, check the website at http://www.connooga.comHope to see you there.
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BEST MANN FOR THE JOB: "You were robbed."

Posted by Chris Well on February 16, 2009 at 10:59am
This week kicks off the first arc in our comic strip Best Mann For The Job. Grace Mann is a woman with a complicated past who returns home to become sheriff of the small town of Hope Falls, Tennessee. Even as Grace is sworn in to her new job, the deputies are grumbling -- but when a pair of desperate criminals drive into town and take a local family hostage, she has to step up and prove herself ...

Updated weekly at TitleTrakk.com.
Direct link: http://www.titletrakk.com/index.htm#bestmann

Previously on BEST MANN FOR THE JOB:
Preview #1: Sheriff Grace Mann
Preview #2: Deputy Todd Baxter
Preview #3: Rev. Hezekiah Mann
Preview #4: Elizabeth Mann
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Been a long while...

Posted by Vincent Callahan on February 15, 2009 at 6:39pm
Hey fam,Its been a long time since I've been on CCAS. I've moved from Alaska and have joined the rest of you back in civilization! LOLAnyway if anyone has been to my page I had been asking for assistance with finding a good artist to do some collaboration with me one my comic that i wish to put out on the market. The title is still the same, but I've changed a lot of the story line. I'll go into that later.I'll be posting a lot more and trying to stay in touch with everyone more. Keep me in prayer and I will do the same all for you.
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God is bigger

Posted by Chris Well on February 14, 2009 at 10:00am
I was once discussing the idea of doing a "Christian" story inside the familiar framework of a major comic book company, and the other person dismissed it. As he put it, if God appeared in this comic and saved the day, the reader would think it no different than if Galactus or some other cosmic being had done so.It was impossible to disagree with him on this point, simply because our heads were in two completely different places. In his mind, the concept of a "Christian" version of the familiar comic book construct was to simply include God or Jesus, or even Judeo-Christian ideals, inside. To fold Him up and shove Him (and, apparently, His Eternal Glory) inside that tiny, 32-page, stapled pamphlet.So if that had been the discussion -- i.e., how to include Jesus (Lord of All That Was, And Is, And Is To Come) inside a comic book -- then sure. The reader would have no choice but to conclude that any character on the page is relative to any other character on the page.But here is the problem with that course of thinking:God is bigger.Our Heavenly Father, the Creator of All Things, is Eternal. He is omnipotent. He is omnipresent. He is Infinite.His Only Begotten Son, Jesus, has been declared Lord of Lords, and King of Kings. There is nothing over the Earth, or on the Earth, or under the Earth, that is not under his jurisdiction. There is nothing that happens that is outside His control.And you can't fit THAT inside your fiction. No matter how hard you try, no matter how noble your intentions, it is simply impossible to shoehorn an Infinite and Eternal God into your little made-up story. The second that God or Jesus (or the Holy Spirit) appears inside your story and acts or speaks, you have, in fact, performed an act (albeit, unintentionally) of bait-and-switch.You may tell the reader that this character in your story is the "real" God, but it's not. It's a false god. An idol. A graven image.* * *But that's not even where I'm headed.Let's go back to the "Galactus" statement that the other person had made. Now, I would say that he was correct in the way that he meant, and in the specific context that he meant.But God is infinite. Try to imagine that:God is bigger than you.Bigger than your home.Bigger than your town.Than your region.Than your state.The country.The hemispere.The planet.The solar system.The galaxy.Bigger than space, bigger than time ... bigger, in fact, than anything and everything that He created.Now, if we are small and finite, that leaves a LOT of room for all kinds of amazing things in that space that exists between the frail things that we are and the Infinite Being that He is.Given that, if Galactus were to show up ... he is simply a component of creation. If Bruce Banner were to be gamma irradiated, Peter Parker bitten by a radioactive spider, or Thor came down from Asgard -- or, for that matter, if baby Kal-El was rocketed from a dying planet, Hal Jordan inducted into an intergalactic police force, or Barry Allen struck by lightning and doused in chemicals -- none of these events would contradict the biblical truth that GOD IS BIGGER and that JESUS IS LORD.Any character or place or thing that has ever been imagined -- any superhero, mythological god, urban legend, or grand, super-science scheme ... anything -- is smaller than infinite. Out here in the real world, should any (or all) of these things show up on your street today, it would be foolish to let them shake your Christian faith. They would simply be part of a Creation that points to an even bigger Creator.So would I put God inside a Marvel comic? No. Because that wouldn't be God. But to think of ways to use those characters to point to God ... now, that would be something.
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Scatsby the Bear

Posted by Strad on February 12, 2009 at 5:51pm
About a week ago, I had my first children’s book published online. I began the book back in the late 90’s at college, and attempted later to have it published (to little success). It was only recently that my wife found Sharing Books, and I eagerly gave it a try. The process was fairly simple, though I did have much of the work already done through the scanning of illustrations and converting them to a PDF format. Recently I retyped the book, and edited some of the artwork in Photoshop. After being reviewed by a panel at Sharing Books.com, I was informed that it had been accepted.Sharing Books.com - Scatsby the BearThe story of the book came about during my lonely “intellectual” period, in which I had become somewhat down about the prospects of the future. I still feel very pleased with what the story says and the bright style of the illustrations, which were created over the course of a year. I could doubtless do better at illustrating the book now, but I’m happy with the end result.
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Best Mann: Preview #4

Posted by Chris Well on February 11, 2009 at 2:00pm
TitleTrakk.com has now posted the final preview for the new serial Best Mann For The Job. This week we meet Elizabeth Mann -- Grace's mom, and librarian at the local library.Best Mann For The Job, the new comic created by my wife and I, stars Grace Mann -- the new sheriff of Hope Falls, Tennessee. As Grace grows into her new job, she'll soon be caught up in all the weird crime, small-town politics, and church conflicts you can find in a one-horse town. (You'd be surprised.)Updated weekly at TitleTrakk.com.Direct link here: http://www.titletrakk.com/index.htm#bestmannRelated:Best Mann For The JobBEST MANN #2: Deputy Todd BaxterBEST MANN #3: Rev. Hezekiah Mann
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NY Comic Con '09

Posted by Allen Weaver on February 7, 2009 at 5:45am
Hey Everybody,Just wanted to let you know that I'm at the NY Comic Con. Friday was a blast and now I'm getting ready to leave for Saturday. I'll be posting photos soon.I'm attending to meet new artists and writers and to promote my new novel, SpeedSuit Powers. You all, if you've been to my page, know the main character, Curtis by his other name - Jetstream.The book is coming along well and is slated for release May/June of this year. It is geared towards the tween/teen urban market.You can check out the latest information and download part of the first chapter at:http://www.apw3.com/speedsuitTalk with you all soon!Allen
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Rob Liefeld's a Brother...Who Knew?

Posted by Bob Luedke on February 6, 2009 at 11:27am
I just ran across this press release this afternoon about Rob Liefeld's new Bible based graphic novel series, Armageddon Now: World War 3: LinkI didn't even know he was a Christian! Another CCC (that is Closet Christian Creator) comes out of the closet...yea!Here's also the website for the series.RJ Luedkewww.headpress.info
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Best Mann: Preview #3

Posted by Chris Well on February 6, 2009 at 8:30am
TitleTrakk.com has now posted the third (of four) previews for the new serial Best Mann For The Job. This week we meet Rev. Hezekiah Mann -- Grace's dad, and pastor at the local church. Written by me with art by my lovely wife, Erica, Best Mann For The Job stars Grace Mann, the new sheriff of Hope Falls, Tennessee. As Grace grows into her new job, she'll soon be caught up in all the weird crime, small-town politics, and church conflicts you can find in a one-horse town. (You'd be surprised.) Updated weekly at TitleTrakk.com. Direct link here: http://www.titletrakk.com/index.htm#bestmann

Related: Announcing: BEST MANN FOR THE JOB
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