Today is Stumptown

Today is a new day and I have been lax on getting things posted here but it has been a rough and tumble kind of couple of months but today is where things pay off for themselves today. Today is the day for the Stumptown show here in Portland!
Our mayor Sam Adams has officially made this “Comic Book Month” here in town so we creators are all very excited !
There will be new posting here from the show as time goes for the next couple of days.
Yea, us!

The new Cover for DFA

Well I finally got finished the cover for this years Stumptown mini. I had problems with the original grayscale cover that I thought would have appealed to the masses but I realized that just ain’t the way to put things out there for potential buyers. So now that it done it time to work on the internal aspects of the book.

It’s been a while since I posted so I’ll post now. I just wish that I had more time to be able to devote to illustrating and writing my comics than just working paying bills and rent and the like.
But these days like everybody else not so easy to do and you go where the money is so there you have it.
I have been working on three projects to be completed by april. The DFA mini is now completed and just waiting to get to Kinko’s for printing up 35 booklets.
The third issue of Johnny Vega is taking it’s time because I don’t want to be a in a rush when it comes out.
With digital printing, if you make a mistake, it a very glaring mistake when you see it in print. This has already happened during the printing of the second issue of Johnny and fifth issue of Pandora’s Garage.
Lastly is Angry Robot. This was a story that was developed for a group of artist putting together their own comic book down in Eugene, Oregon. But artists like every artist I know, can be real flakey and this was one of the reasons why this fine amount of illustration never got printed until now.
I am looking forward to it.

Contemplation and Fans

The new book is coming together but now is the time to think, do I need to rush to get the book done or do the book right?
As a publisher I can understand that I need to be able to bring new material out on a regular basis and the Stumptown show is just a perfect way of doing that. But I do know that I have had some books that I have put together have suffered a artistically just to get the product out.
It’s a tough call when you have promised a lot and not quite begin able to deliver but things haven’t gotten to this point yet.
So take a look at what I have currently and know that I have two other pages that are nearly done since I made these jpegs.
I’ll be posting later.

One another note-Getting new young fans.
Last night was one of those kinda days when you are sitting back and watching tv and suddenly, you are barraged by questions about comics. Well anytime is a good time to talk about comics - especially if there are mine.
Two kids named Colin and Donovan came over last night as their mother was getting here hair done by one of my two roommates, Drake.
We had been talking and we got on the subject of the comic books that I had done.
Well this is fun for me because they had several questions that I answered with what seemed like a reasonable response.
Colin is 12 and Donovan just about 10- or so as he tells me.
This was about the time I started getting into comic books when I was a kid. Hopefully the first issue of Johnny Vega will bring them back for another.
Through the characters I hope I can influence them in a positive way.
I keep my fingers crossed.

New Icons

Another image for the DFA Stumptown Mini for next years show. The book needed a inside icon for the blurb that I like to place at the beginning of each issue.
I wanted to keep the readership up to date why things were being done.

The Newest Addition to Black Box Comix

Here sportfans, Al here with the latest:
The newest book rolls off the press today and is listed at

http://www.indyplanet.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1562.

for Pandora's Garage Volume 5. I haven't been sending out as many emails to let people know what's been going on but I hope to make a better run of things before the Stumptown Comicbook Fest for April of next year.

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Thanks for checking them out.
Alan

Re-orders are here

One of the things that has been happening is that I have been working on getting the images of the books that I have worked on in the past listed on the Black Box Comix website.
Well the wonderful thing about pod (print on demand) is that you never have a huge amount of stock to ever really worry about but when you sell that last issue it always happens that somebody else wants a copy.

It's just the layout of the land I guess.

Good news is that Black Box Comix has in it's possession re-ordered books from Ka-Blam. This i s a good thing as I am currently getting things ready for a big show in April. Unfortunately we won’t be heading up to Seattle next year as it was such a abysmal return on anything except from Chuck Messinger and his Comics Evolution store.

That was our only good return from the show.
Everything else well... coulda been better.
I have just received that Ka-Blam had has gotten my upcoming issue of Pandora’s Garage Volume 5 and have sent me a digital PDF proof copy to check.
Looking good.
One out of three down, two more to go.

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