NEWS GALORE!

Hang on folks! This is a lot of info to get through so bare with me!

First of all, this weekend is the big FREE COMIC BOOK DAY signing! I'll be at Clems Comics in Downtown Lansing from 11-? on Saturday the 3rd for FCBD. I'll have books, art, prints, sketches and more! Kids 12 and under get free head sketches! I also made 4 new prints that will debut at the show! Fans of Sherlock, Game of Thrones, Star Trek and Doctor Who will be pleased. Also some re-colors of old favorites will debut at the show. All show details are HERE - It really is a great event and family friendly too. Doesn't cost a thing to come get a free sketch and comics for the kids. Plus come to see the artists draw! As a bonus, my buddies Sherief and Daniel will be with me at the show and we'll be doing art on an exclusive print that will debut at Cherry Captial Con! Its TMNT related. I started the art and they are going to finish it and it will be a show exclusive! So come see that and buy some stuff from us! All funds I make will go to pay for my trip to:

CHERRY CAPTIAL COMIC CON! May 23-25th. I'll be there all weekend. Copies of Anna, Pleasant Life and my Artbook will be there, guaranteed. (unless I sell out online suddenly! Who knows!) Details on that show are right HERE

The latest sketch card set I worked on is out. Its called Pinups and Pitbulls. Its through Galan Art. For those who found me via that set and come here, welcome! I do have APs available from that set and from the previous set he did, called Contemporary Pinup Puzzles. The cards are NSFW and for Adults. But EMAIL ME HERE if you are interested in any of them. Some are blank and can be commissioned for whatever you want! I also have some promo cards from the set. Here's a pic of them:

Okay a break from the plugs. Here's my dog Poppy and I. 

Okay, the BIG NEWS is that I got notice that my PLEASANT LIFE books and the ANNA REPRINT/REPRINT has shipped today! So I should have those next week and I will fill and ship orders by next weekend after sketching in all of them.

What is the ANNA REPRINT/REPRINT you ask? Well, after my review at Geek Life Podcast, I decided that I could touch up the colors on the first book a bit. I didn't want to go in and recolor the whole thing, but change the hue and saturation a bit. Also, I could fix a raised eye in some places. But as luck would have it, when I got the initial order of my books from Ka-blam, there were some mistakes in printing. Some cut offs, fonts not embedded and some damage in shipping. So, after talking with the agent there, they offered to reprint my order and I had to resubmit the files. So I took the opportunity to just recolor it a bit and then fix a couple mistakes here and there. So this is the REMASTERED ANNA POCALYPSE! And Ka-blam was gracious enough to let me keep the previous books as well. So I got double the amount! I mostly will be using the first order to give away and have as back stock and sell the main remastered ones.

Its essentially the same book but with minor color correction changes. Here's some page comparisons. The older page is on the left and the re-colored versions are on the right:

 So as you can see, its a little less "out of the tube" of color. Which was the complaint in the first place. Hey, it was my first time ever doing a color comic! Not too shabby for that eh? But trust me, Anna 2 will have a completely different color pallate. I already planned on that. So anyway, both ANNA and PLEASANT LIFE will be in stock by next week. Got your copies on order yet? If not, what you waiting for? Order online right now by going to my online store right HERE

This week, I got hired to do some commissions of sketch covers. The intention is to do them through the CGC and get them slabbed and graded. Here's a couple I have finished already:

The clients are great to work with and I am pleased with how it is going. Sketch covers scare me a bit because some covers have an off glossy stock that don't take my copic markers too well. But I am working slow and steady to make sure I don't get those muddy mixes of inks and markers. Luckily so far I've been okay with it.

Hey, you are keeping up with the IDIOTHEAD MORNING SHOW PODCAST right? You better be! Loads of inside info there and its all free! Have me in your ears for 15 minutes 2-3 times a week! Click on link there or subscribe via Itunes. FREE!

Over at STARSLAM, things are heating up big time. We're now in the fallout of the events of the death of Draid and how its effecting things. But there will be no rest for our heroes as a major baddie steps up to the plate! If you are over 18 and enjoy adult related content in your comics, go read it right HERE - New page up every Monday!

Lastly, I've been asked a lot recently for commissions and I am ALWAYS taking commissions. Adult related and not. ALWAYS! Simply EMAIL ME HERE  and we can discuss what you need done. All proceeds go to feed my family and keep my lights on. Thanks!

Okay, whew! I think thats everything. Thanks for reading and thanks for the spike in website hits and downloads! I appreciate it! We're rockin' and rollin' in this big 20th Anniversary in Self Publishing year. And with these shows coming up, we're ready to take off!!!

Cheers with peace and love,
T

MASSIVE UPDATE! GREAT NEWS!!!

Oh boy! Here is a massive update! BIG stuff is happening (finally) and we're getting shit together over here. The store will once again be stocked with books and other things and I couldn't be happier! First of all, ANNA POCALYPSE is getting reprinted with a new cover (see above) and it was sent to the printer this morning. Turnaround time is about a month, so I should have those by end of March at the latest. Its the exact same interior content, but with a new front cover and new back cover ad page. So if you missed out on getting it the first time around, now is your chance! You can order it now from the ONLINE STORE but be aware it won't be in your hands until sometime early April due to the printing schedule. Very excited to get that back into people's hands. 

Also: Big news on the ARTBOOK. Its FINALLY at the printer as well! The long story goes: My pre-orders were quite low, not enough to cover the costs. My original printer (comixpress) went out of business. So the new printer (KA-Blam) refused to print it because I had a lot of characters in it that other companies own (like my sketch cards of Marvel/Dc characters) and so they got cold feet about printing it. Understandable. So I retooled it and put even more "Girlie" art in the book. So now I'd need a printer that was comfortable with not only printing the iconic character material I didn't own, but also some nudity. Thankfully I found Grecko printing and they were cool with it. However, they had a minimum order that was well beyond what I initially wanted and I needed to raise some money. Thank the lords for tax returns! So I submitted my files this week and I am waiting on a proof to be mailed to me. Once approved, it goes to press.  I am expecting a late March arrival for this book as well. This one is the big tuna. The one I am most proud of. I can't wait for people to see it!

I teased this a while back but I am doing a 20th Anniversary Tshirt for the store and con appearances. I'll likely do a run of XL and 3XL shirts. If you are interested in one, EMAIL ME HERE to let me know and I can make sure I get your size in the print run. Not sure how these are going to do. I have done shirts in the past but I screen printed those myself in college. Very few of those exist anymore. I mean, less than 20. But anyway, I am doing this shirt and possibly a more "metal" themed shirt coming up later in the year. We'll see. But I am talking with printers this week about doing this shirt. Cost should be around $20-25 once completed. 

And now, this baby. The one that means the most to me. For those that know thier history, there were a total of 4 GNs of Pleasant Life done in the entire series run. About 480 pages or more. The first three books have been out of print for years and the 4th one recently sold out as well. I never wanted to reprint the older stuff because its so... you know... OLD! The artwork is me about 12 years ago and I certainly have changed and evolved. But I still feel like it would be cool to have every story collected and see the evolution of art and storytelling in one big volume. Its always been on my plate to do this big pocketbook size collection of it. The problem I had (and still do) is that 140 of the files are stuck on an old ZIP disc from college and I have no way of getting them. I did aquire an old ZIP drive recently, but I need a compatible cable that takes 25 progs down to a USB. I just ordered one through Amazon. So once it arrives I'll need to find a driver to make the software work. IF all that aligns, I can grab the files I need to start making this a reality. I have to build the entire book from scratch, clean up old things and try not to discourage myself while looking at that old artwork! But I want to do it because the book means a lot to me. Its my history. It has deeply personal stuff in it and it launched this whole thing I have been doing. The book deserves to be seen. I owe it that much to make sure people can get it and read it.

So I will collect it and get it out there to everyone. I am also combing the archives to make sure there is a ton of supplementary material for the book. I got tons of stuff still sitting around from handwritten scripts, sketches, commissions, reciepts, pictures and more. I gotta do right by this book and the characters in it. I want this to be the crown in my step as I move forward. Hell, I am even toying with the idea of drawing a quick new exclusive story in the book! Would be great to revisit the old gang again, if only for a small thing. I had toyed with the idea of a new PLEASANT LIFE book and I have ideas to do so one day. Ideas too good to not do. But I want this old stuff collected first. And by Summer, thats what I hope to do.

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Lastly, TALES OF SEQUENTIAL MAYHEM #3 is being completed and we're launching a kickstarter for it hopefully this week. I recorded a fun video for it and its live on my youtube channel already if you want to see it early. But this book is going to be a happening. I'm proud of the guys and their hard work in doing it. Its a knockout!

Once all these things are off my plate, I am free to move on to what is next! Oh yes!

So yeah, big news all around. Shit is happening. Pots are being taken off my creative stove and finally served. Feels great. Tastes Yummy! Just don't get too full of me. There's dessert coming!

Cheers, T