April
13, 2008
Hi again!
We have a new mini-strip up this week, it is the second
one written by our friend Daniel over at criticalcorner.net.
Enjoy!
This
week's post will be short and sweet as we just want to
let you all know that we're furiously preparing a lot of
fun stuff for May. Very soon we'll be premiering the updated
look for the site as well as begin selling the hardcover
of Boy Meets Hero. We're going to set up buttons so you
can pay for it through PayPal. One button will be for fans
in the U.S., the second button will be for fans in Mexico
and Canada and the third will be for international fans
everywhere else. We're going to be shipping them via USPS
Priority Mail which will get them too you faster and hopefully
in good shape!
Also
in May we're going to debut the first issue of Blue Comet
and Fusion. As of now, we're planning to offer it as a
download through Lulu.com for around $1.99 per issue. Each
issue will feature 12 full color pages, cover and a few
extras too. As we researched the print-on-demand options
we realized how pricey a printed single issue could be
for you guys to buy (around six bucks with shipping, a
lot more for fans outside the U.S.) plus we wanted to make
sure all our international fans wouldn't be left out in
the cold. Also it's also more realistic for us to produce
12 pages of story and deliver it to you every month or
so versus a 24 page print comic which could take a bit
longer to produce and then prepare for print.
Anyhoo,
we hope you all are as excited about reading the new adventures
of our heroes as we are to make them!
Take
it easy! -Russ
March
31, 2008
Greetings!
Thanks to you all who check in on us every week! As you
can see we have a new mini-strip this week and if you haven't
figured it out by now, we LOVES a good dick joke, lol.
Not too much new to report this week. I posted a new blog
entry called "Random
Thoughts from a Random Mind" over at our myspace page. I'm
gonna try to make it a regular thing, but then again I
said that a year and half ago when I posted my last blog
entry, lol. Also Daniel over at criticalcorner.net would
like to thank you all for checking out his film review
blog. He posted a hilarious new review for "Horton
Hears a Who" so be sure to check it out.
Also
this week Chayne came up with a way to sell the upcoming
comic series, Blue Comet and Fusion so
it won't break your pocket books. Look for an announcement
very soon. (Did you know print-on-demand comics can cost
up to seven bucks per issue with shipping! Ouch! We definitely
want ours to be more affordable than that.)
Also
for those of you who may have missed it, we did an interview
with Tony Smith (Queeroes)
a few months ago, so go check it out HERE!
Have
a great week! -Russ
March
23, 2008
Hi everyone!
We're back with another wacky mini comic! This week we're
introducing something new to the strip... girls! Gasp!
That's right, the mini strip is no longer just for boys.
We thought it was about time that Sunstar showed up to
add her unique style of humor! Plus we threw in Cold Snap
for fun! Now that we've added more characters besides Blue
Comet and Fusion, look for others to start showing up in
upcoming strips!
Last Monday, was a very special day for us. Not because it was Saint Patrick's
Day, no. March 17th, 2008 may have been the day that many people celebrated
all things green and Irish, but for us it was our 15th Anniversary!!! Yay!
We went to dinner, took the night off from working on the comic, and enjoyed
a nice evening of celebrating! (wink, wink!) It's still amazing to think that
we've been together for so many years! Here's to many, many more together!
Well, that's all for now. 'Till next time. -Chayne & Russ
March
16, 2008
We're
baaaaaack, sorry for the long delay but we've been busy!
We're juggling a lot of balls (heh, heh)! Between working
on issues 1 and 2, designing some new logos we just haven't
had much time to post anything new. Plus you may have noticed
a new mini-strip up top (with a brand new way to navigate
them) and a new poll on the left side of this page that
asks what your favorite Harry Potter movie is. Both are
inspired by the fact that we did an HP movie marathon and
now have the Harry Potter-verse on the brain, lol! Starting
this week no more movie marathons so we'll be posting more
regularly, we promise!
First
of all we'd like to debut the logo for the upcoming comic
book series! Check it out:
In other news, we got in our advance copies of the BMH hardcover and WOW it
totally exceeded our expectations! To our surprise it was printed on beautiful
glossy paper and boy do the colors really pop. We can't wait for you all
to see it (hopefully you've all been saving your pennies to buy a copy
:) Speaking of that, just a reminder that we will be selling the
book through our site. We're only selling 200 copies and the they will
be numbered and signed, (we'll even personalize them if you wish.) We are
currently trying to determine pricing and shipping so as soon as we know
we'll let you guys know!
In anticipation
of it's release here in the States in May we're going to
be previewing some panels from the new scenes we added
in. Long time readers who read the online version are going
to be pleasantly surprised at how much fuller the story
and art are. Anyway, the first new scene features Justin
as he deals with an obnoxious co-worker. Here's a taste:
And finally
we'd like to send out a congrats to our friend Danny for
the launch of his new site CRITICALCORNER.NET.
If you're in the mood for some funny and irreverent movie
reviews you definitely have to check it out! -Russ
February
15th, 2008
This
week we are excited to debut our latest mini-strip written
by one of our best friends; Daniel Boyer! Daniel is a
very talented and funny writer who is also a movie critic
here in Albuquerque. He currently writes very entertaining
movie reviews and is working on a website called Daniel's
Critical Corner. (Look for it soon!)
Daniel has been our friend for many years and has been very supportive of Boy
Meets Hero. I knew his wit and humor would be perfect for our strip and so
I asked him if he would be interested in writing some for us. He enthusiastically
agreed and this week's entry was his very first attempt.
I loved it immediately and laughed out loud when he turned in his script. He
even drew little images of the characters for me to illustrate. So, I hope
you enjoy Daniel's very, very funny sense of humor as much as Russ and I do.
Bye for now. -Chayne
February
1st, 2008
This
week work began on the outline and first pass at dialogue
for issue one of Blue Comet and Fusion the on-going series!
It feels great to be working on a new story after having
to spend so much time re-touching the original series.
It's all very exciting and we will be working hard on
it over the upcoming months and will keep everyone posted
on it's progress.
In the meantime, our "Comic Crusader fill-ins" continue to go from
one silly scene to the next. Take care everyone! -Chayne
January
25th, 2008
Last
Sunday we finally finished uploading all of the art to
Bruno in Germany. This included newly designed bio pages
for the main characters and a back cover design that
turned out really awesome! It feels great to finally
get every bit of art sent out and know that we were finally
done.
Now we can finally move forward and begin developing our on-going series! I'm
looking forward to being able to devote all of my time to Blue Comet and Fusion
now that the graphic novel project is all finished. Over our break for the
Holidays we brainstormed some ideas and have at least four nailed down. Our
next step is to put the ideas into outlines and then write the dialogue.
So it's back to work for me. 'Till next time! -Chayne
January
18th, 2008
Well
we're nearly finished assembling all the TONS and TONS
of artwork that is going into the BMH graphic novel.
Wow, was it a lot of work... especially when three months
ago we thought we were finished with it! Ha! Little did
we know, lol. Suffice to say we hope all you loyal readers
out there are as excited as us to enjoy the hardcover
graphic novel come this Spring!
In
other news you may have noticed that we have taken down
the entire online version of BMH and replaced it with
a "sampler" scene.
This was done at the suggestion of our editor (hi Joris!!)
over in Germany at Bruno Gmunder. Be sure to check
it out because it features the flashback scene where
Justin "falls" for Derek. Both the art and
dialogue have been tweaked and improved!
We'd
like to be very clear that the previous "online" version
of BMH was really just a "rough draft". When
we started it three years ago, the story began as most
do, as just a very small seed of an idea. We had an inkling
of where we wanted the story to go but allowed the ideas
to breathe as we went along. Once we finished posting
the final page and landed the publishing deal for the
hardcover we went into full-on revision mode. We started
with page one and began re-writing and tweaking. Adjusting
dialogue so the characters didn't sound as expositional,
improving faces and bodies in early scenes to match their
appearances in later ones. And on and on the improvements
went.
We are
so grateful to our legion of loyal fans who have read and
loved the comic! We hope we created a story not just about
what it's like for a gay man to come out of the closet,
but also one where love and hope win out in the end. We
hope we've begun to create a universe where hate is in
the minority, where people are honored and respected for
being different, and where a super hero, who just happens
to be gay, can have wild and fun adventures with the man
he loves.
We had
a lot of fun creating the art and story for BMH. The thousands
of hours spent by both of us have been well worth the effort
and IT'S ALL THANKS TO OUR FANS! Your
letters of support, encouragement and praise make all the
difference. I don't think I can convey how much each
and every letter is a boost to help us keep on keepin'
on!
Take
care and if the mood strikes ya' please
drop us a line! -Russ
January
10th, 2008
This
past week we put the finishing touches on all 106 pages
of the comic and started uploading them to Bruno Gmunder
for print. We began the unexpectedly long, slow process
of sending the files via FTP to their server all the
way in Germany. We thought the process would take about
eight hours or so. Boy were we wrong!
It
turned out that our modem was dropping the connection
just as a page was about to finish uploading. We realized
it was because our modem is an antique... almost seven
years old! So we quickly headed down to Best Buy and
purchased a new, more powerful modem and brought it
home.
After
we turned it on and hooked it up, the damn thing wouldn't
allow us access to the internet! UGH!!! So we had to
call our service provider and have them activate the
new modem for us. Once that happened we were finally
able to get back online and begin uploading files again!
It was still a long, slow process, but by midnight,
last night, we managed to get 60 or so pages uploaded.
I spent the rest of today finishing the uploads and
now all 106 pages are in Bruno's hot little hands!
Whew!
On
another note, I also had the opportunity this week
to finally get around to updating our fan
mail page! It was long over due! The last e-mail
we posted was all the way back in July of last summer!
So I spent all day on Tuesday painstakingly adding
each e-mail we received since then along with our responses
to the fan mail page. Now all of you out there can
read what people said about our comic last fall leading
up to its finale.
So
please take a gander at our "fan
male" page, we received some really
great comments from very nice people and we appreciate
them SO much! That's all for today. -Chayne
January
7th, 2008
Just
a quick post to mention that in addition to Amazon and TLA Video
the graphic novel is also available pre-order at 10
Percent.com!
As
always we LOVE to hear from you guys so please don't be
shy and feel free to send
us an email!
January
4th, 2008
Yay!
It's Friday! To celebrate we are debuting our ALL-NEW, hyper-silly,
mini-comic strip starring super cute versions of Blue Comet
and Fusion! These guys are here to add a bit of absurd wit
and commentary regarding Boy Meets Hero, video games, movies,
comics or anything else that pops up!
We plan on updating the site every Friday or so with a new mini-strip to give
fans a little something to look forward to every week as we continue to work
on Blue Comet and Fusion: the on-going series.
And if you are wondering where the poll went, don't worry, it will return just
as soon as we can figure out where the heck to place it so it doesn't interfere
with the mini-strip!
So without further ado, please enjoy Blue Comet and Fusion: the "Comic
Crusaders"! -Chayne
