Huzzah! A new comic at last! After being over-burdened with work and too many projects sapping away my time and energy, I finally managed to rearrange my schedule enough to continue the story I began so long ago. It all started with this comic in July in case you’re new to the comic. Hopefully things remain less crazy so that I can keep to a regular release schedule. Probably not, but who needs sleep anyway?
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Greetings All,
Some of you may be wondering why there hasn’t been any updates of comic goodness as of late. Unfortunately, some of the projects that I am working on have demanded the lion’s share of my waking hours, and so I have little time for anything else including producing new entries of Pre-Apocalyptic Blues. No one is more bothered by this than I. However, there is a light at the end of the tunnel, in that one of my time-sinks will be finished by the end of the month. This particular project is a workshop that I am preparing for the International Conference of Interactive Digital Storytelling (or ICIDS) which is being held in Vancouver, BC this year. I’m pretty excited about the whole thing and I hope that you will forgive the lack of comics in light of the coolness of this project. If you can’t make it to the conference yourself, I’ll tell you all about it afterwards. In the meantime, I will post new comics when I get the chance and we should be back to a more regular schedule soon. As those drunk ol’ boys Bartles and Jaymes say: Thanks for your support.
Cheers,
Chris
Today I had the distinct pleasure of meeting artist Steve Rolston at a signing at Legends Comics in Victoria. Steve is probably best known for his work illustrating the first four issues of Greg Rucka’s Eisner Award winning series espionage series, Queen & Country. He has also worked on such varied titles as Emiko Superstar, Pounded, Mek, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Escapists, Degrassi and the supernatural thriller Ghost Projekt, not to mention One Fine Day: a graphic novel which he wrote as well as illustrated. I thoroughly enjoyed chatting with the amiable Steve Rolston and he was kind enough to not only answer some questions that I had but also to sign copies of Mek and The Escapists for me. Steve will be staying in Victoria for another day to attend Sunday’s VIMACS II event at Pearkes Field House at Tillicum Mall, so if you missed him at Legends today then you’ll be able to meet him there tomorrow. I highly recommend that you do so as you’ll not only be supporting a great Canadian artist but a nice guy as well.
As part of the ongoing conga line of changes here at Pre-Apocalyptic Blues HQ, I have to announce that the last posted comic, Lifetime Piling Up, will be the final one with Colin Rutherford as captain at the helm of the Art Boat. In his short time here he has charmed us with his clean, retro style and he will be missed. However, if you start missing him too much and can’t get anything productive done then fear not! You can still find him at his portfolio site where he regularly produces artwork for your enjoyment.
Pre-Apocalyptic Blues will continue delivering weekly wordy wonders to entertain and enlighten. We have some more great guest artists lined up for the coming weeks and we’re always on the lookout for more. So if you would like to contribute your own talents, don’t be shy, get in touch. Drop us a message at preapoccomic[at]gmail[dot]com.
As you may be aware, there have been some changes to Pre-Apocalyptic Blues recently, not the least of which has been the addition of Colin Rutherford as artist. Colin has been able to take the comic in a different direction with his own unique style of artwork to the enjoyment of all. Unfortunately, Colin has found that other projects will soon be taking up more of his time and he won’t be able to continue creating comics for us as regularly as we would like.
So we’re putting a call out to artists. Who wants to join in the fun? Whether you are interested in contributing artwork for regular strips or just the occasional guest strip, get in touch. If you have a friend that might be interested, send them our way. Ultimately, we’d love to get enough involvement from creative folks to keep Pre-Apocalyptic Blues going with solid, schedule of strips weekly, but there’s nothing saying that we can’t do more than that as well.
We’ve already planned a few surprises for the coming weeks, but we’d love to have more, and we love to have you be a part of it.
Please direct all messages to preapoccomic[at]gmail[dot]com.
Thank you.
It brings me great glee to introduce the new webcomic project by Kevin Macintyre: Offset. When Kevin was artbot prime for Pre-Apocalyptic Blues he was tireless in his efforts to deliver the funny to the masses and he continues that fine tradition with a comic of his own devising. With Offset, Kevin features the wacky world of graphic design and the joys and extreme agonies of dealing with persnickety clients, something many of us can definitely relate to. Without further delay, I recommend that you click on over to Offset Comics, or you may regret it for the rest of your natural/unnatural life!
One of the challenges of creating characters is to define their natural habitat. The next group of concept drawings feature just that: Simon and Trent’s respective domiciles. Enjoy!
In an ongoing fit of fan love, we’re posting some more character sketches for your perusal. This time we have some of the supporting cast: Simon’s boss Errol Dungaree, Vin the cool-hunter, the unshakable bassist Roy L. Blue, and Van Punter drum-monster. Enjoy!
As promised earlier, we’re posting a few things this week for your joy and delight. We’re starting with some of Kevin’s first character concept sketches from the days of yore (i.e. before the start of the comic). Today it will be those wacky friends Simon and Trent. Enjoy!
