Thursday, November 06, 2008
THE LAST POST ON THIS BLOG!!!!
Hey folks!!! Thanks for reading this thing for so long, but I'm ending this blog due to a redesign of the main website.
I'm relaunching my NEW blog over on the home page of our site: WWW.HAUNTEDFIRE.COM, so if you've linked to this page or subscribed to this blog's RSS feed you'll need to update both!
Thanks again for reading and I hope you will continue to come back at the new site.
I am unsure if I will archive this old blog or obliterate it, so grab what you can while you can.
Thanks!!!!
I'm relaunching my NEW blog over on the home page of our site: WWW.HAUNTEDFIRE.COM, so if you've linked to this page or subscribed to this blog's RSS feed you'll need to update both!
Thanks again for reading and I hope you will continue to come back at the new site.
I am unsure if I will archive this old blog or obliterate it, so grab what you can while you can.
Thanks!!!!
Friday, October 31, 2008
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Little bit of Bela for the holiday. Hope everyone has a good one!
I'd also like to thank Horror Remix for coming to Arlington and putting on a free show!
Horror Remix takes older horror films and cuts all the boring stuff away, slimming down a full length feature to 30 or 4O minutes of just the good stuff. Last night they showed "Sole Survivor", "The Dark Power", "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie" and the very end of "Orloff against the Invisible Dead"... all this plus hilarious puppet Epilogue in 2 hours. Go to their website and beg them to come to your town. It's well worth it.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
SCREAM AWARDS 2008
Did anyone else watch the Scream Awards on Spike last night?
This was the first time I watched them and I have to say I was pretty impressed. An award show devoted to Comics, Horror and Sci-fi? Is Spike TV living in my brain?
There is something iffy about the fact that Comics are being treated as a genre now... (Comics, Horror and Scifi?... Wouldn't Horror and Sci-fi been enough?) but I suppose I'm happy that they got a separate, more attention getting, billing.
The funny thing was, it seemed as though the awards themselves were not super important, it was really just a big excuse to celebrate melodramatic fiction. Anthony Hopkins, Tim Burton, Wes Craven and George Lucas all got awards for just being mind blowing bad asses.
All in all, it was REALLY cool and I had a blast watching it... which is more than I can say for most award shows... and I'm glad it spotlighted comics.
But looking at that glass of half full water, I'd like to see the comic creators, get a little more attention on the show. Mike Mignola was on stage with the cast of Hellboy to accept an award for Del Toro and only Ron Perlman said anything. Not necessarily the awards show's fault... but jeez the guy created the character and, I believe, was mentioned in the opening credits! Stan Lee appeared on the stage to award the best comic award and mentioned something about how these comics are the blue prints of the next awesome movie. GAH! Why do comics have to be made into movies to be taken seriously... and blueprints? Nobody has every called the Harry Potter books great blueprints for AWESOME movies. Movies that are adaptions should not be seen as the "final product". Yeesh!
...
Maybe it was his script... I don't know. I guess I was jazzed to see a comics related award show on my TV only to have Stan "the face of superhero comics" Lee put them back in the creative ghetto.
Maybe I'm making too much of it.
Is there room for one last gripe? The entire show was filmed with a haze effect on the cameras that made me feel like I had glaucoma for three hours. For an award show devoted to people who will eat Ramen noodle soup for four years to afford an HD flat Screen TV, a blurry screen was not gothicky and cool, it was just really annoying.
BUT!... I really did enjoy it... it was a little geeky, the audience scared the pants of Anthony Hopkins, and it may not pave the way to comics being taken seriously... But I do think it will sell more comics.. and maybe that's really what is important.
As long as I have cable, I'll watch it every year.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
GAS!
I was filling my car with gas yesterday and the trigger lock slipped on without my knowledge so that when I pulled out the nozzle I hosed my ENTIRE car in $4 gas. I looked like a complete ass, it was hilariously stupid.
I also received the first script for the Bluewater Productions comic. It was a great read and I'm excited and nervous about starting on it.
ON THE WEB
Dark Horse Comics opens the Country's first University Comic Book Archive in Portland with every single Dark Horse comic produced, past and future.
Super detailed He-Man figures are being released only on Mattycollector.com
Putting the "Spirits" back into Alcohol Dan Aykroyd presents the coolest Vodka EVER.
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
HAPPY OCTOBER!
Good stuff going on at Haunted Fire. The first cover of the book we are doing for Bluewater has been approved, as soon as a press release has been sent out about the project, I'll share that cover here.
Also ramping up and finishing off other projects. Marlena is hard at work on a redesign of our website. Our separate blogs will be removed in the redesign, replaced by a single blog on the home page.... the home page that we are currently not doing anything with. So remember to update your RSS feeds soonish... if you stop hearing from us..
I also did this desktop to celebrate the beginning of October and get me in the Halloween mood. Click on it for a download if you like and share in the festivities.
Also ramping up and finishing off other projects. Marlena is hard at work on a redesign of our website. Our separate blogs will be removed in the redesign, replaced by a single blog on the home page.... the home page that we are currently not doing anything with. So remember to update your RSS feeds soonish... if you stop hearing from us..
I also did this desktop to celebrate the beginning of October and get me in the Halloween mood. Click on it for a download if you like and share in the festivities.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
NEW PROJECTS!
Since the last post, I have gotten a ton of work done with my new working method. Drawing digitally on the couch feels right to me, it's relaxing and non-stressed. I hope this continues because I've just strapped a whole new workload on my back. I've agreed to do a new 4 issue series for Bluewater Productions and recently Viper Comics contacted me about throwing in my hat for some possible contract work.
I've got about five pages of Filthy Habit left to do and intend to get back to Knucklejelly very, very soon, as well as my second project with Filthy Habit writer extraordinaire Dave Justus. After such a long stretch of inactiveness, it feels good, albeit a bit stressful, to be so productive.
ON THE WEB
Brian Eno and David Byrne release their web only album "Everything that Happens Will Happen Today" If my blog was a better width, I would post a flash player of their album... this is something I will be fixing soon.
ON THE SHELF
Here's some cool stuff coming out today.
Thursday, September 04, 2008
EUREKA!
Things are going really well with my digital drawing now. I had a mini breakthrough over the holiday weekend that has made things A LOT easier on me.
I was having trouble drawing smooth long lines on my Cintiq... I thought it was because I was drawing on my couch with the tablet on my lap, so I tried placing my wacom on a tv tray that pulled up to my couch. That table proved to have a bit of wiggle to it as well, so I moved everything up to a small space on my rolling computer desk and sat in an uncomfortable metal folding chair.
This set up worked, but I felt really cramped and uncomfortable. My new drawing space affected me in such a way that drawing was becoming a chore.... a chore I did not look forward too.
Then I read a short piece somewhere on the web that mentioned how speeding up the motion settings of your mouse can lead to choppy drawing.... Which is a setting I had recently screwed with.
So I set my mouse settings back to a speed that is similar to the speed of my hand and, low and behold, my lines went back to being straight and smooth like I wanted.
Guess who's drawing on the couch again and knocking out pages like mad?
This guy!
ON THE WEB
Want to read and/or sell your comics on the ipod?
J. Scott Campbell offers a pin-up step-by-step.
Scambaiting as a hobby? Holy crap... sounds like more trouble than it's worth, but an interesting idea.
Monkey Journey to the West comes out on the states on the 23rd. I can't wait.
I was having trouble drawing smooth long lines on my Cintiq... I thought it was because I was drawing on my couch with the tablet on my lap, so I tried placing my wacom on a tv tray that pulled up to my couch. That table proved to have a bit of wiggle to it as well, so I moved everything up to a small space on my rolling computer desk and sat in an uncomfortable metal folding chair.
This set up worked, but I felt really cramped and uncomfortable. My new drawing space affected me in such a way that drawing was becoming a chore.... a chore I did not look forward too.
Then I read a short piece somewhere on the web that mentioned how speeding up the motion settings of your mouse can lead to choppy drawing.... Which is a setting I had recently screwed with.
So I set my mouse settings back to a speed that is similar to the speed of my hand and, low and behold, my lines went back to being straight and smooth like I wanted.
Guess who's drawing on the couch again and knocking out pages like mad?
This guy!
ON THE WEB
Want to read and/or sell your comics on the ipod?
J. Scott Campbell offers a pin-up step-by-step.
Scambaiting as a hobby? Holy crap... sounds like more trouble than it's worth, but an interesting idea.
Monkey Journey to the West comes out on the states on the 23rd. I can't wait.
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