A father and former D.A.R.E. essay winner is forced to examine his own biases when his doctor prescribes him with medical marijuana.
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It's been about 6 weeks since I last spoke with you all. I'd like to apologize. That's a little longer than I usually like to wait between updates. At the very end of July, my family went on a trip to stay with my cousin that involved a camping trip too for a few weeks. After we got back, I had to drive a few hours away for doctor's appointment and this weekend I just tabled at Boise Comic Arts Festival. I also have a story in Cthulhu Invades Fairy Tales that I've been trying to promote throughout the past few weeks too.
The book is so close to being completed! The inks are done and the colors just need some tweaks for my one-pager with Lane Lloyd before we can get it sent off to Reed Hinckley-Barnes for letters. After that, digital rewards will be sent out and physical copies will be sent to the printers!
A 160+ page graphic novel featuring 20 Original Stories by over 50 incredible comic creators got together to bring the blending the Traditional and Grimm Fairy Tales that we loved growing up with the cosmic horror of H.P Lovecraft - Call Of Cthulhu Universe.
Cthulhu, the Great Old One, invades the enchanting worlds of Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Goldilocks, and Red Riding Hood, warping their stories into nightmarish landscapes, and more!
My story is "Cthulion and the Mouse" and is inspired by classic tale The Lion and the Mouse. I had such a blast working on this project with Max Pinelli! Take a look at Page 1 (unlettered) of our story below and BACK NOW!
It's been about three weeks since I wrote the last update for you all and the news I have to share with you all... is good! We're nearly complete with production on the Budding Narrative Edition.
The mailer boxes for Puff, Puff, Parent got here a little over a week ago. It even came with TWO EXTRA boxes! I've already folded and prepped them. They're now resting on top of a box filled with bags and boards waiting for the physical copies to go inside them and other add-ons.
How much other progress have we made since the last update? Well, the art and letters are completely finished for the Budding Narrative Edition's main story. Max and Andriy put in the work to help us be able to get this in your hands quickly. Every reward ready to be ordered has been and has arrived too.
As you can see in the chart above, I began trade dressing covers and prepping digital copies/print files too. I only have 3 pages of backmatter (script, sketches, process, etc.) left to design. The "Thank You" page only needs updated with what you type into your survey. Those have been finished too and we just sent out a smoke test for them. A smoke test for surveys means that only 5% of backers from each tier receive a survey to ensure everything is in order before sending them to the rest of the backers. All surveys will be sent out before the end of the week.
"Ode Town Road" is a 1-page comic set in the world of Puff, Puff, Parent. We promised this would be printed as a backup/bonus story. That's still happening, but this page will be the thing that prevents us from sending this to the printer. Don't worry though. Yesterday, I received & approved the sketched page from Lane Lloyd. They're working hard on pencils, inks, and colors now. After that, it can be sent over to Reed Hinckley-Barnes for letters.
They're both down below!
Across 14 stories, Amongst The Stars features 90 pages from nearly 40 indie comic creator with cover art by Luana Vecchio, Rio Burton, and additional artists!
Experience epics that bring you to gladiatorial arenas, space stations, hair salons, and alien planets. Meet mercenaries, assassins, astronauts, and unknowable beings. And watch them all fall in love.... in space.
The timeline hasn't altered too much since I last wrote to you all. We have made some headway though! Take a look at our current progress:
Max has completed 5 full pages of art. There are only 3 more pages left to go and then I can send the files over to Andriy to be lettered. I've completed the final design and ordered the custom packaging from the printer for our Stash Box backers.
This next image shows the progress on fulfillment and the one-page backup story 'Ode Town Road' with art by Lane Lloyd and letters by Reed Hinckley-Barnes.
I wanted to do something a little more unique for this campaign. That's why we had so many different rewards available. So, when I found a company in Los Angeles that printed your bookmarks on hemp cardstock paper I knew these were perfect.
Everything else was pictured below was ordered & shipped to my home before the campaign even launched. Take a look at the printed rewards that have arrived so far:
We asked you to help us reach 150 prelaunch followers for "The Healer’s Blade #1" for our next announcement and we did it! I’m grateful to all of you for helping my stories find readers like you. I'm also grateful to work with the final variant cover artist to join The Healer’s Blade team:
Skylar Patridge is a comic creator and artist living in New Mexico. She has done work for DC, Marvel, BOOM!, Dark Horse, Vault, Sourcebooks & more. Most notably, she worked on Supergirl, Trial of the Amazons and Artemis: Wanted for DC Comics, was a co-creator & artist on Resonant from Vault Comics, and was a co-writer and artist for Our Sins are Scarlet. She has also contributed work in the book market, most recently for USA Today best-seller, Where He Can’t Find You. She is currently working on projects with DC and Image Comics.
I'll be back again with another update in the next 2-3 weeks.