We haven't been posting because War, who is in charge of this aspect of our adventure, is in bootcamp. Ironic, neh? I thought so, too. She seems to be enjoying herself, though. Or at least she's content. But what War spirit wouldn't be content?
I personally just returned from a convention in Kansas City last night. I got to toute Dimestore, one of our distributors, a bit.
AND I got to see firsthand the sexual divide the other female comic artists complain publically about. To be honest, I thought they were just being whiney bitches but I have been shown the error of my ways.
Wow.
All of those male geeks out there who want to dream about the future and futuristic sci-fi situations can't seem to drop their club and stop being caveman long enough to give things a try. I was shocked and perhaps even a little frustrated.
I even had one fellow come by and ask me to attend his convention because he needed my element for "the female fans".
ROAR!!!!!
Why roar? Because most of our readers are male. MALE! Not because we cater to a male market or even fail at a female market. It's because we don't care if we're an all-woman female team, we just care to tell a good story. And that's all that should be important.
Yo! Conventions are around the corner, issue 1 -3 are in print and available through Dime Store (and your local comic shop if you ask them nicely to order it). Woot! Printed stuffs!
Heavenly Bride is updating once a week. There is a Language of the Flowers link that lets you know what flowers have what meanings. Also some one you know from Akashik is now making regualr aperances in Heavenly Bride.
May 29-31, 2009 - CONCAROLINAS! - located in fabulous Charlotte, NC
Issue 1 is at Dime store! Woot! Seen here http://www.dimestoreproductions.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?28360.last or click on the link that says Buy Issues on the main site.
Hevenly Bride can be found through the link that says Bride.
Eh-um....
No more updates come to mind. There will besomething about Vid. Blogs latter but I shall keep you posted on that.
The writers have turned into Zombies. Do you have your zombie suvival guid? You need it.
Akashik is with Dimestore- things are progressing. Slowly but progressing.
If you have looked at the main site you may have noticed under the Writers logo there is a new button with BRIDE. This is to Hevenly Bride. Another story by Death with some input from War and conquest. It is another story taking place in the Akashik univers with places and characters you will in Akashik now and latter. Death is trying to get it profesionally printed. Check it out, it should be updatin at least once a week, some times more.
A VERY IMPORTANT NEWS FLASH FROM DEATH! HEAR YE! HEAR YE!!!!!
Right now I am in zombie mode.
I somehow managed to fall asleep before the girlchild woke up for school this morning. I knew it was a mistake to do so, but as I lay in bed wide awake I could hear thumps and bumps in her room. I assumed, when I should not have, that she was waking up for school. Thus - now I am in zombie mode, because she had to get me out of bed to take her to school late.
When one is in zombie mode, one understands better how the others in zombie mode can stand the thought of brains for breakfast. All good food tastes off and bland when in zombie mode, so it stands to reason that anything weird and gross would taste good.
When one is in zombie mode, one comprehends how easy it is to walk out in front of a moving bus. When one is in zombie mode, one is already dead. It stands to reason that the rest of the moving parts of your body that have not stopped moving should be encouraged to do so. If going back to bed is not the solution, perhaps a moving bus will speed the process along.
When one is in zombie mode, enemies and friends alike become the same thing. You no longer care who is whome when in zombie mode. You only want one of two things. 1. Food, preferably good food. Friends and enemies both possess something that might actually taste good in zombie mode; brains. 2. To stop moving as soon as possible. If friends and enemies stop you, while in zombie mode, on your way back to your eternal coffin of daily rot then you must fling them in front of a bus. The zombie logic behind this is that if they stop moving, they will stop getting in your way.
Finally, when in zombie mode, the more creative zombies (also known as geekus rottinkus) will write essays for no other reason except that their brains have not fully comprehended the true meaning of zombie mode. The only cure for this is for these particular zombies to eat their own brains or fling themselves in front of a bus.
Failing the ability to do either, this particular zombie has suddenly realized that her keyboard looks very much like a soft pillow.... zzzzz
They are black and white inside and there's some extra short comics written and drawn by mostly me. #1 is still in the process of being set up. They are working on it as fast as they can.
Dear dear dear, I go on about not having any real news to report but then when there is I don't say anything till it's late. ^-^; My apoligies! But at least I know for sure the infomation is correct!
If you've been followng the Akashik News box on the main site, or Drunk Duck, then you know that we the Writers of the Apocalypes have managed to get ahold of a distributor or two. We are now affiliated with The Small Press Association (www.dimestoreproductions.com) and so will be sporting their logo on all of our subsequent publications. Keep and eye out for us in their distro and in the stores they service!
Distributor 1: Dimestore has our files and should be putting us on in the database and on the web any day now. So we can soon be ordered at and found at local comic shops! Exiting!
Our other distributor is Enemi, hopefully we'll hear from them soon.
Discussions with a possible distributor are in the works.
Acording to Death, the KY convention was quite an interesting time. She met some good people, and one even had an interesting suggestion for a future cover!
And we see Fox the red-headed-step-child once more! :D Maybe I should do commentaries when I'm slow on news :/ . Anyone care to comment yay/nay on the idea?
*Edit!*
Ah- I have found/remembered that Death will be at a Con in Kentucky....I don't think it listed on our Con list on the main site. Sorry :( But if asked, I can post the info.
Also- Vote insintive updated!
Today War spent sometime with Conquest, it was good. Lettering tips were shared and sushi was had. Good day. Death managed to update the comic and not kill anyone on staff....or off staff....that we know of or care of.... good day for all.
Nov. is Akashik's one-year anniversary! Wooo hoo, and to celebrate Death has revamped the site. Go check it out (of corse if you are reading this, there's a good chance you already have...unless you are coming from DrunkDuck...)
Be keeping an eye/ear out on the schedule of appearances page, there’s a little con in Kentucky that Death is going to soon-ish. We won't be making it to MegaCon this year...next year hopefully.
Humm…can’t think of anything more to say at the moment…Vol three is coming to an end soon….and we should becoming up on the ‘pirate code lecture/rant’ page either Friday or next week. Hehehehe. I look forward to that page. It was fun to script.
News news. We of the Writers of the Apocalypse have news.
Technical difficulties have slowed us down in the printing process but we are plugging along as quickly as we can. We are sorry for the delays. So sorry…..that *insert self, person, persons and or objects here* was such a fooooool. We didn’t know…that…..ummm (War has forgotten the rest of the song).
Technical difficulties are a be-ya-t-ch.
We have a new vote incentive up. Yay yay!
Tis also Halloween. So safe trick or treating every one. And if trick-or-treating is not your thing or not the only thing planed (it *is* a Friday after all) have fun with you horror movie feast or curling up with your self and or loved one(s) watching Nightmare Before Christmas or any other Tim Burton film.
At some point I, War, will own all the Saw movies and will enjoy a Saw Marathon at some point….but I don’t own Saw 2-4 and my Saw 1 is in storage. I miss my Saw. But I do not like coleslaw (yuck).
Death's desk came! Assembled Avenger style in 6 hrs by her self and still found time to get the page colored for up date. Death is awesome. Conquest the letter is also awesome. War is working on getting her car sold. Umm....more news later.
So Death is in her house and is in the process of ordering furniture and finding places to put things while working on comic pages and other tasks she hands out to Conquest the Letter and War the one that dose what Death tells her to do but not always do what Death tells her to do and faces fiery wrath of a busy Death when she falls behind on her given task so really War needs to remember to stay on task. .....When War stays on task the results are very good. Her task stay on powers have improved.
Comic resumes Friday!
The filler page today is the first stage of a Herman story that will be in Vol3 when it comes out in print.
Death is still facing off with house issues, but the main site *is* updating- though a bit late due to Conquest works during the updating hour. Heads up to the new site design coming at you in Nov. See a screenshot of it Wends. You may see some preview art for a Herman story that will be included in VOL.3 assuming Death will need some filler art as she busts her and Conquest's butt to get back on track. Damn title companies showing their butts.
Anyway- that's all the news for now. Um....Death will have at least 11 weeks or so of vote incentives sent to her this weekend less I get more done so keep your eyes on the vote buttons. There's a Herman Story in the works for Vol 3.... a Fox story for an undecided Vol....and a new site lay out. More goodies to come I assure you cuz we love to give you goodies.
Yo! In the event you did not read the news or just need the friendly journal reminder: the page today is part of a two page spread. The second half will be updating on Wends. but only on the DrunkDuck mirror site. Because Death is moving to Illinois this weekend and won't be around to update the site. DrunkDuck has things set up so updates happen automatically our main site...dose not have that power but not from lack of Death looking and trying!
Oh! And something you may be needing to know: Issue 2 of Akashik is now available in print through Indy Planet http://www.indyplanet.com/catalog/advanced_search_result.php?osCsid=29f7d974560b84132545ca78f13bf241&keywords=akashik&osCsid=29f7d974560b84132545ca78f13bf241&x=19&y=11 Along with...two versions of issue 1... ...... I don't know what that's about other then one might be an older version and the other might be the more updated version. Very sorry for any confusion that may or may not cause.
Anyway- Death will be moving this weekend aka tomorrow and how ever long it takes her the rest of the week to get done and up north. We hope not long, this drama has gone on long enough and we all want to get back to our uninterrupted comic-y goodness.
We have hit the 100-page mark on Wends. Oct. 1st. Nov. is our one year anniversary.
Next Weds, Oct. 1st Akashik will be have 100 pages of story. 100 pages people. Also we reach a year in Nov. Birthday month right around the corner! We have survived 100 pages people. Or at least 99 of them tonight. Heh.
Other news- Death is moving. Conquest’s lettering skills kick ass. War is off to join the military. No- really, she is being shipped off to boot camp on the 30th if all goes well. Script 4 is done . . . "love me dead" by ludo would make a good amv for FMA. Death and Conquest are going to be drawing, lettering and coloring like mad to get ahead. And that is all.
So... if there was this rogue robot that got captured by the Authorities for Robot Control and Subjugation, and this robot's behavorial chip were replaced in order to make it more subservient and willing to once again follow the Rules of Robotics and be mankind's slave....
Fot those who want to know more about the song, it is sung by the Brobdingnagian Bards. #16 here but it's cut off in the middle. :( http://www.celticmusic.org/Brobdingnag_Fairy_Tales.shtml
Ahoy, updates will happen when/as they happen. This whole 'Death has been rendard houseless' drama will hopefully close soon on a positive note. Death and Conquest have been working hard to keep the comic pages drawn and lettered. Keep checking to see if updates happen late. If a period of non-updates happen understand we are not gone, just over whelmed at the momet.
On another note- War has been to Dragon*Con and back. Yay.
So let me talk a minute here about our letterer, Conquest. Have I told you how much we appreciate our letterer?
Lettering is a very unsung aspect of comic book making, and too many people think it's a simple matter of slapping sloppy word balloons on a page and voila. It's done. But nothing could be farther from the truth.
The truth is that if you get those word balloons wrong, your readers will read the sentences in the wrong order and respond with a simple "wtf" before leaving.
If you make the letters hard to read, you'll get the same reaction.
The same goes for ugly color schemes, forgetting the balance between simplicity and fancy, and a myriad of other factors.
But if your letterer is an excellent one who not only gets the words right but turns them into a symphony of artwork that BLENDS with the comic panels as opposed to not working at all, you get something that the readers look at and think "neat!" Even if nine times out of ten they don't realize those word balloons are easily 50% of the page sometimes.
The art of lettering can be gorgeous. Has anyone taken a look at the lettering monks used to do on Bibles before the printing press? Sheer majesty.
The art of lettering is also time consuming and requires precision. How many of you have ever painted a sign by hand using a ruler in order to get each letter exact? I'm not talking about cheating with stencils here. I'm talking about real and truthful LETTERING. Raise your hands. *raises her hand*
And how many of you have considered if a blue logo would catch attention better than a red or yellow one?
In my opinion lettering is more difficult than drawing the panels. And it's just as important.
I do believe that a comic with fancy lettering could be considered a comic, even without a different type of picture to compliment it. It depends on how far the letterer would go outside of the box to do it.
Hrm... a comic.. using Byzantine monk style lettering... ooh...! *files that idea away for future conquests*
Anyway, I know that most of you guys who read here at DD are also comic makers, so if you have a letterer take a moment to thank them. Cuz... yeah. Lettering... damn hard art. And it IS an art. No matter what Conquest's parents say.
And now I give the pervious journal entry translated to Pirate with an added P.S. regarding today's page.
Vol 3 be underway.We three 'n a half Writers are in th' middle o' movin' 'n un movin' 'n fun stuffs. Conquest be settlein' in t' her new ship- we wish her wellness 'n good times. She shall be returnin' t' her letterin' duties no latter then next Wends. Death be in th' middle o' a move 'n closin' on a ship. War dosn't know where sh's movin' yet but be deal wit' th' packin' 'n a car wreck.This, dear readers, will NOT hinder th' comic. By Davy Jones' locker or high watter we be bustin' our tails t' keep th' comic runnin' smooth.
Site has had a make o'er! Can ye guse th' theam? Wha' could this mean?It means I get all th' rum cuz Death don't like rum 'n I dunno if Conquest drinks...rum.We 'ave a english t' pirate translator. 'ave fun wit' it.Also- on a none pirate note- look-ie at th' archives 'n see th' Chibi Spots 'n Vote incentives o' ole.
AND afore I berememberin'-We 'ave been graced wit' our first FAN ART/Cross o'er thin' o' greatness!Link t' it latter I shall- it might be some where on th' main site, but 'tis on Drunk Duck!By Wakon Yosaifound here http://www.drunkduck.com/Wakon_Yosai/index.php?p=442397We so happy 'n thrilled!
That's all fer now. Go enjoy yer sandwiches!
~War
P.S.
Bit off an edit- today’s page has nah gone up, I be assumin' Death be havin' issues wit' findin' a scanner, 'puter issues or some other unpleasantness.Keep checkin' back cuz I know she's workin' her tail off t' get th' page up. EDDIT: PAge is up! Go read it!
Vol 3 is underway. We three and a half Writers are in the middle of moving and un moving and fun stuffs. Conquest is settleing in to her new place- we wish her wellness and good times. She shall be returning to her lettering duties no latter then next Wends. Death is in the middle of a move and closing on a house. War dosn't know where sh's moving yet but is deal with the packing and a car wreck. This, dear readers, will NOT hinder the comic. By hell or high watter we are busting our tails to keep the comic running smooth.
Site has had a make over! Can you guse the theam? What could this mean? It means I get all the rum cuz Death don't like rum and I don't know if Conquest drinks...rum. We have a english to pirate translator. Have fun with it. Also- on a none pirate note- look-ie at the archives and see the Chibi Spots and Vote incentives of old.
AND before I am remembering- We have been graced with our first FAN ART/Cross over thing of greatness! Link to it latter I will- it might be some where on the main site, but it is on Drunk Duck! By Wakon Yosai found here http://www.drunkduck.com/Wakon_Yosai/index.php?p=442397 We so happy and thrilled!
And Vol 2 is ended and wrapped up and soon shall be on the way to Ka-blam. Ancient City Con was awsome fun. We met some cool people- one being the Kingon Mother of all Tribbles- another being our first cos-player (dressed as Herman) and the first person to ask for his issue to be signed by all three writers. We were also hunted down and invited to another Con in Nov. Awsome!
Death also placed second in the AMV contest.
Conquest. and I got to play Zombies with a table full of cool people to hang out with and hear dirty things about quadrilateral triangles.
It was good times. We might have some pictures to post up some where of our first cos-player soon, also a list of pending /hopeful Cons we want to attend. Also some pending anouncments that will be anounced when the time is right. So heads up.
And Vol2 is OVER! Wooohoo! #3 here we are. No breaks. No waiting.
Votes from our poll will be tallied up soon so get your votes on the main page. Our characters need your love. The results will be in Vol.2 when it sees print.
This weekend is Ancient City Con!! Website here: http://ancientcitycon.com/ And to our surprise and delight, we learned that one of our fans will be showing up dressed as.....
....
Herman.
He even bought wings, so we're told, and make-up to make himself dark of skin. This is going to be a real treat and we're very excited.
If you're in Jacksonville, Florida for whatever reason and swing through do be sure to say hi. Neh?
We will be there at our table at the crack of 5 something in the am. You, dear readers, are encourage to attend at a more reasonable hour say....10ish or the crack of noonish. You can come at 5am but...you'll be waiting outside. n_n
Death will be home from her wanderings sometime in the early early am-ish-ness of the morning. Updates happen as soon as she lands, unpacks and dose what she needs to do to get Updates back up and going. This may or may not involve a first-born-boy-child sacriface to the computer gods. Depends if the computers still need apeasing after their ordeals.
I know some kitens that need apeasing. They want your noses. Your nose! They will have your nasle pasages one way or the other.
Ancient City Con is next weekend! And we're not ready! No- really. We're not. And I have a wedding to go to and Death has a man to send back over seas. And a house to pack. And a comic to run. And we need a TARDIS and a smexy doctor and old cheap british TV effects damit. But we'll settel for cellphone and microwaveable sex drives with nuclerar holocost..
I have been neglectful of my Akshik Journal News. I am shamed. SHAMED!
Lot of stuffs been going on in our world.
Techno issues- we've been having our share of computers not doing what they are suppose to be doing. Much time was lost to the Great Computer Hardware Malfunction Rebellion of June-through July 2008. A moment of respectful silence for the lost time. dot dot dot. Moving on.
Traveling issues- apparently Death thinks her self as a turtle as in she pack up her work stuffs (ah the freedom of freelance art) and can travels as she pleases. This is a wonderful idea and would work out fabulous- if Murphy's Law did not exist. Sparing you the dreadfully long and tedious details- the little lab top she travels with has caught a nasty case of Teen-boi-mess-er-up-es. Nobody realized how bad it was till she spent all of today and more on the poor thing. There was also a nasty fall, a foot twisting a car wreck and a bunch of other time consuming unpleasantness. Why she go out of town in the first place you ask? Work. Family stuffs. And Tribal Politics. But the comic page for tonight shall be done. It will be late- again but bear with us please and we'll get things back to normal soon.
Team issues- the Writers of Four have become Writers of Three as Pestilence has left the team. This didn't really affect anything major with the comic but it happened. You all are informed.
Convention News- Good things to hear. Akashik shall be attending Ancient City Con in Jacksonville, FL August 1st through the weekend. Wooohooo our first con! We got a table, chairs and badges! Anyone in Jacksonville or the G.A./Florida boarder come down and say hi! We actually have quite a few Cons lined up. There's one in December that we're trying to get into, and I'll be walking around Dragon Con with stuffs (maybe.....depends on how things work out). We will be attending MegaCon in Orlando Fl 2009 and possibly SoutherFried Con in 2009. We'll be making a 'Con' page on the web site to keep you guys updated or something. Yay! Cons!
We Three Writers are working hard to get the comic back up to it’s normal schedule with no interruptions. So hard for you, our readers we are working. So hard.
So! For being so kind and understanding and bearing with us as we muddle through our malfunctions be them in life and or computer- you readers deserve a preview of what’s to come in Vol. 3 sans stick figures.
In Vol.3 there will be:
Sandwiches for the masses!
Doctors with nice hands.
Pirates!
Showers.
SNAKES!
Burning buildings.
Taus learns that mechanics make sucky weapons operators.
Ganji learns the correct way to talk to Pirates.
Fox learns he’s going to get a pedicure and like it weather he likes it or not.
So I just wasted half of my day looking into Keenspot to host the comic. If we moved there, we'd move off of Drunkduck - which is fine. Drunkduck's coding drives me batty with the errors and lack of the responsible site managerial fixings.
But Keenspot suxors.
Sure it's got a lot more traffic, but I just wasted half my day trying to get the coding to WORK. And if it wasn't automatically logging me out it was directing me to tutorials that I didn't understand simply because I don't. I stopped coding ten years ago *for a reason*. This would be it.
So Keenspot, unless you guys actually want to get with 2008 (like Drunkduck reasonably does if you think about it) I guess you guys are going to miss out on our comic. But you guys won't miss us, we're sure, so it's ok.
New wall paper up for donations, and a poll. Where you beloved readers get to tell us what you want to see more of. Lemmings? Romance? Underwear? Wepons of Mass Distruction? A romance between Lemmings in their underwear with WOMD.
If you haven't checked out the 'upgrade' to the main akashik site, you should. The front page has been revamped with an animation clip for Akashik (by Pestalence) and new layout by Death with Front Page. Oh, you wence at the word Front page? You shouldn't.
No new news as of now. Ganji has found himself in a fight or flight situation again and we are reaching the half way mark of Vol.2. Will he run? Will he fight? Will Tause ever take more then two licks of an icecream cone? WWTND*?!
Several good things have happened recently. First of all, we the Writers of the Apocalypse were interviewed and became the stars of a little column called Tomorrow's Studios Today. To quote the reporter, Chris Tinkler: "The web-master over here expressed a bit of regret that he couldn't "format" the column any better... but it's up!"
This event led to a second good thing. I, Death, have joined www.100artistsproject.com which is an art charity function. I haven't quite figured out how to work with it yet being as I only joined yesterday, but I do know that part of the proceeds go to important things like The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Even if I weren't always worried about the jerks in the world, I'd want to contribute!
And THAT event led to us, the Writers of the Apocalypse, finally stumbling upon the perfect publisher.
As you know we had been looking for a publisher for a while with no bites, which meant we were going to have to take the indy tract. Now the indy tract isn't bad, we just had no money. But Ka-Blam is okay with that. They don't expect set up fees, have a catalogue and overall are just like SLG in the printing way in that we only get a proceeds of the sales... but they haven't turned us down! So we're very excited to finally have an answer to the problem.
And this means that within a couple of weeks I'll be able to announce that Issue One is available!
And this means that if you love us more than you love us now in a couple of years I'll be able to announce the cartoon is in production!
I had a migraine today but I refused to let that stop me. I revamped some parts of our main website, finally finished Sim9's winning desktop award geared specifically for The Archive (as well as emailed it to him), painted today's new page and got it ready for publication, experimented a bit with CMYK colors, actually got some of my paying job done, cleaned house, comforted a friend, took two naps, and overall yes, Virginia, I have been up since 5 in the morning. Thank you for asking.
We have a possible offer for publication with a little new studio called Landmark. It's only possible and not definite because the EiC hasn't given it an okay yet. Even so, it would mean that Issue One of Akashik would be serialized in their anthology. Not bad for a start, and it's certainly the only bite we've had so far. It would also take some of the pressure off of our backs because we're scrambing and wimpering at this point in trying to get Issue one put together as a single volume. The cover looks great so far. Time and money do not.
I've been eyeing the latest animation test War and I had been putting together for our future plans regarding this story. I want to finish and produce it. Maybe I'll add in some live action clips from where Pestilence interviewed me for larks a few months ago.
We must never forget that the whole point to putting it down now is so we can adapt the comics into storyboards for animation later. That's why we're here.
The truth here is I prefer Arcana Comics to want us, but we haven't heard anything from them... and... holding one's breath leads to suffocation. Yes, I'm aware it hasn't been quite long enough time yet to give up. So what? An offer's an offer.
Anyway, I can't wait to see what Sim9 does with his new wallpaper! I wanna hug it and squeeze it and love it. I had a lot of fun making it and even learned some new techniques. Woot.
Arcana Comics is our next target as I stumbled across them accidentally last night. So at one in the morning War and I recomposed our story synopsis and off the proposal went. We're very fortunate that we were delirious when we wrote it because Pestilence told us that it's a very engaging read, as opposed to last time which was convoluted and weird. Yay!
I'd share with you guys but that would ruin the story. Sorry!
I took the day off from drawing comics yesterday and tried to focus on my paying job - transcribing - instead. I did a terrible job at it as I am recovering from a week long bout fighting possible bronchitis and some other something that gave me a temperature of 108 F and had me crying for my mother. (Whoever that was.) Well, today I will focus on a painting I was paid to do some 6 months ago because I dearly want to hand it in to it's owner who also dearly would like to have it.
I have to say, though, mandalas certain are time consuming when you suddenly have no time. Kudos to Tibetan monks everywhere.
It is my hope to get this job done so that I can do something else I promised to do. With cubes.
Ha, so the Writers of the Apocalypse (that's us) got a rejection letter from Slave Labor Graphics today.
Now we are aware that folks are lucky to get a response at all these days, so the fact that they took the time to send us a form letter is actually really kind of them. They even check-marked a reason for the rejection. To wit, it didn't interest them. -_-
We could go to Tokyo Pop or some other place and apply there, but the truth is we love our characters and we love our project and going to some place that doesn't have the same values regarding creation as SLG would be BAD for us. So we won't go to them.
Which means we need to get better jobs so we can afford to publish ourselves. Or something.
Oh, darn it. I hate doing that. I did it once before, you know, with a little magazine comic anthology sci-fi fantasy thing called Kinships. It was a big ass headache. And also with my other comic, Avenia. What a big headache. I hate having to do the marketing and everything. I'm no good at it. ARGH!
I'm not even looking forward to attending the con we're scheduled to attend in August.
So... I've got the blues. Cuz I don't wanna be a self-publisher. I want someone to do the narsty work for me. LOL
The End!
Today we end Vol. 1 of Akashik. Now we go on 'break'. Said 'Break' involves Death working her already over worked working self even more for YOUR reading pleasures! She/we (I say she cuz she IS doing the majority of the work...but if one thinks about it, Death ALWAYS works more then the rest....We strive for historical/biblical athsintisity. We cuz I may or may not succeed in assisting her and helping with the work load). Death is busy with: preparing Vol 1 for print, bookmark making (check out the once on site, I will post a link to the other book mark site latter), getting stuff for Vol2 ready- and AND doing a Fox short story for the print of Vol1. Fox's story of Mystical Magical Adventure with Rainbows, Ribbons and Unicorns will be in print ONLY. Look forward to it!
Prize winner of the contest, you are not forgotten! You will have your prize....soon-ish.
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Hear ye! Hear ye! Akashik now has limited eddition Bookmarks for sale! ...or we will when we update tonight. Geez...Either I'm late or I'm early. Pick one!
Limmited to 100 per print run. 1st run is When the DOOM Sets In. There will be a link/banner on the main site with a place to tell you what's what. We are getting things together for our convention in August. um.......We would like some cheese please.
Akashik now has a domain name- Akashikonline.com! For all you anti-tripod people out there, you have no excuse not to read our comic anymore! The tri-pod name is no longer in the Akashik web address! So go read it!
Other news- we have advertising up. One banner on the front page and some little banners on the comic page. There's plenty of room right now. Ads are done by project wonderful, a nifty little web ad site that's so far been really wonderful to us.
Squee. We update latter tonight/early Wendsday morning. See you latter!
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Yay update! Contest is over- done finished. The winner will be emailed and their choise of prize will be named. Yay to the winner! You will know who you are as soon as Death send you an email.
Other news- AncientCity Con here we come . In August. Valintine's day is over- chocolate is on sale! We are in the prosess of updating our store of goodies....and Taus and Gonji are being chased by border patrol.
Contest ends at midnight tonight people! Get your entries in asap!
In convention news- MegaCon is a no go. We're on the waiting list to get in if at all. However, we are good to go for Ancient City Con in August. http://www.ancientcitycon.com It's in Jacksonville so we have more time to get goodie ready for people who'll stop by.
In print new- all of our pages have been revamped with new type by Conquest and Death, so Death is putting another printing package to send to SLG. If you haven't seen the new pages, go check them out on the comic web site. They look nice.
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We're almost to the end of the first volumne/script. Then we take a break and bombard you with short stories of apples and kings. And golden Fish.
Plans to go to MegaCon are so far working out. We plan to have prionted goodies for people who come to say hi. Oh, and we're updating normally Weds. and Firdays.
Long time no update. We've been busy busy busy. We're looking at going to MegaCon this year and we'er putting together a bunch of goodies to have there. Including a mini-print of Akashik- that will have some pages not seen on line yet- and the pre-Akashik Battle of Angels book that started it all.
Akashik officially having 20 pages here on Drunk Duck (that's just 5 shy of the big 25) we've decided to hold our first contest. Maybe it will become annual. Maybe it won't.
The prizes will be:
First place - an original artwork of the Akashik character of your choice by the main artist, Death.
Second place - a t-shirt from our CafePress store - again, your choice
Third Place - an Akashik bracelet, hand-made by Pestilence.
The contest will be simple. When the time comes, we will put online one of our former pages without dialogue. You, the contester, will fill in your own dialogue. Lettering skills are not necessariliy a plus, but a good sense of humor is! The one that makes us laugh the most is the one that will win. The top twenty entries will be displayed on our main website http://battle-of-angels.tripod.com/
Stay tune for more details (like dates.....and the page you will get to play with...its a work in progress man!)
Let us know what you think and how eager you are to do this.
So be prepared and be ready! Most importantly - -pass the word!
We have a readership! A few days ago our drunkduck site go 200 readers alone in one day. Our stats are increasing. This is all thanks to the wonderful hard work of Death- the creator/artist, Famin- the awsome letter and War- who assists on sripts, layouts and background stuff. I need to work on that ship desing to day....
Anyway! Go look at the fruits of our hard un-paid for work and witness our awsomeness. http://battle-of-angels.tripod.com/ or go find us at drunkduck if tripod offens you that much.
And yse- we updated to day. Taus may or may not be getting her new ship like she wants.
Good morning Wendsday update! Taus is looking to upgrade her ship. She's looking for a steal of a deal.
We saw today, a fan-tab-ulous could be used for a prop today. For this comic will give birth to its TV anime. It will. We have test footage to prove it. We would have more but the whole rent, bills, looking for work keeps getting in the way. Be sure to check out our donation gift wallpaper. It's pretty.
We are updating twice a week now. Wendsdays and Fridays so midnight tonight there will be a new page up. Page 10. Gonji finally gets on page. Bout damn time. We are still working out the lettering- it is a work in progress.
Oh- and our Cafe Pres store Akashik just sold something. A Cerberus button. To the proud owner of a nice shiney new Dog of War button- Thank you!
What's going on: We are now updating Wendsdays and Fridays (rejoyce! Rejoyce!) We have an awsome new letter: Famine by name of Silver Kat. We have/will be having a new wall paper for donation down load and we are trying to get the money to go to MegaCon...posibly.
Announcement! Announcement! A terrible death to die! A terrible death to die! A terrible death to be talked to death! A terrible death to die! Announcement! Announcement! Announcement!
We, the Writers of the Apocalypse, welcome our latest co-worker and victim- Famine under the name Silver Kat! She is doing our lettering now. Yaaaaay! So give her praise! Praise! I tell you! And welcome her to our comic team.
Hail-ooo Akashik: Battle of Angels fans and all you lurkers we assume are out there. We are thinking of changing our updates to twice a week, Wednsdays and Fridays. Now is the time to chime in and give in some useful feed back if you so choose. Or to say "Hell yes. Good plan." Let us know you are out there please. You do realize that by being here you are becoming a part of comic book history, yes? Like Star Wars and Firefly and other stuffs.
So Wednsday and Friday updates will happen after the birth of Christ, aka Christmas, aka mass production Wal-Mart marketing plan, aka good day to commit to suicide, aka The Holidays are over.
Trouble on update night/day is never good. But we fixed it! Assume crash positions for the Holidays are here type week we have been having.
New page is up. Praise us! Praise us! Next week is going to be fun.
Walrii- Thank you for the feed back. The logo has been tweeked but not posted anywhere to show off (it's been one of those weeks. Just blah!). Thank you for posting!
And you lurkers- I know you are out there. I am wise to your lurking ways. Thank you for lurking and enjoying our comic and journal. Please don't forget to vote for us on the top web comics and buzz comics. We <3 yoooou!
In the event that we have troubles or you just want to wander around the net, our 'back up' is on drunk duck. http://www.drunkduck.com/Akashik/index.php Always have a back up and back up your back ups with 12 more back ups. And back them up.
Happy 1st of December. We have updated the comic with not only the next page, but a new Chibi spot and Holiday donation wallpaper! Go forth and bask in our awsomeness.
We may or may not have some more goodies on the way. Depends how the week feels like treating us. Heres hoping it's good because good would be nice you know.....
ANYWAY! Comic- it is wonderful. Um.....go check it out, spread the word and let us know what you think.
Hearts, romance, lunch and take offs await! Go show us your love by basking in our greatness that is ours and tells us you love us by voteing and noteing because we can only tell our selves you loves so many times ourselves. Or something.
Love us damnit!
Working on: Scripts, mythos, page 4 & 5. Advertising art and looking up places and prices to advertise at. Animation stuffs. Net working.
What is done: Our work is never done. Page 1-2 are done.
Hi t here, DEATH here. (Blue, to you.) Apparently I didn't get carried away by aliens - something about trying to hijack the ship and steal their babies. I'm not sure what's up with that. I was just trying to have a little fun.
As WAR predicted, the comic is now updated. I had hoped to have this second page I'm working on up with it because it would just be neat to put more than one page up at a time, but no luck. I've miles to go... and darn! Cuz I think it's a funny one if I say so myself.
I hope we can capture these funny moments well when we finally start on the anime itself.
As mentioned before in a rush we also still practice with animation tests. Our last test was getting our character to stand on one foot and kick a ball. It worked after much trial and error... but the camera was shaking so badly that the footage didn't work out in the end. We need tripods!
Hell, we need the rent too... but we know better than to ask.
At any rate, it's going to be great to see our baby flourish and grow. Although we have 2 scripts done and the beginnings of a third, that's just not enough. I am aware that if we got the backing of DarkHorse or someone like that the rent would be paid. Dammit. You have to have lots of scripts for that. :-)
At any rate, that is today's update. As always, the comic (and an animation test involving Sephiroth... what? What's wrong with Sephiroth? He was there, he was convenient, and Buddha came along for the ride!) is at http://battle-of-angels.tripod.com/index2.htm
Hail-ooo, long time no up-date. Life has carried us of Akashik away a bit. Either we ( Blue and I- this is BPurg *waves* hail-oo) are working hard on comic-y goodness like the scripts (Dreaded Script 1 is done, working on Dread Script 2....heh. The evilness we do to a certain blue haired boy is fun) and comic art and other goodies like seals, ships and sealing wax and cabbages and kings (but mostly seals, ships, logos and more character designs). Mean while, Reality rears its ugly drooling head to reminds us all is not fun and games when you have rent and bills to pay and no jobs to pay them with. So yeah....Journal kind has been last thing on our minds. I am correcting that. Yay me.
Sunday will see the second update of Akashik (the crowd cheers). We are dominating the voting polls by way of we were in the 200’s four hours ago and now we are some where in the 100s. Keep those votes coming! We love them, and we love you for loving us! Lets see….what else……um…..comments and questions are appreciated as longs as they are Aksahik comic related and have some grain of intelligence to them…and no flaming. Flames attracted the eyes of Taus and she will get carried away and burn this site to the ground and we don’t want that. No feeding the pyromaniacs please.
Sunday sees the kick off of the story, many characters to get to know love and hate. So see you then.
Um…Blue will come in and fill in anything I forgot. Unless she gets carried away by UFOs…..again.
So far on the duplicate comic situation we've decided to email the others and try to be nice. Notice pending.
We spent the day working on animation tests trying to hash out deatils for the anime. And tonight, just now, I have done the first official update for the webcomic. Woot! We'll get there yet.
~Blue
Worked on animation stuff, sound recordings and scripts. And played lots of poker. And updated with the main comic and the new Chibi spot/corner shorts. Good day.
It has come to my attention today that Battle of Angels has been stolen from me.
Everyone who knows me knows that this manga and animation project of mine is my baby. They've heard me talk about it for year upon year. They were there when the first episode was published in Australia. My cousins can attest to the fact that I used to draw winged people (specifically the main character) with a stick in the dirt road when I was all of seven years old. Folks in the Otherkin community have seen parts manifest, swore they'd destroy Sitain (the bad guy) and were there when I finally put it out on a website for free reading.
I even found out recently that MY Battle of Angels has had a fanbase for a while.
In other words, I have thirty years of rep to back me up. I'm not going to let this go. I don't normally show my teeth and claws but over this matter I certainly will.
Generally the storyline is a common one and is not enough to cry "thief!" over. But there are other factors the scream theft. The fact that the leading lady of the other Battle of Angels matches mine exactly - down to her nightmares and dreams. The fact that there's a character named Sareen that matches my own Saraen. I couldn't stomach looking at any more - it bothered me to know that theirs is copyright 2007 and is a beefed up direct match.... while mine is copyright 2000.
Rebecca said I need to send them a diplomatic letter. I shall, but I don't expect it to go easily. People are funny - it might just very well BE a coincidence that they match my story almost 100%. They won't want to change the name or the characters name to preserve my dream, because ultimately people can be very selfish.
So I'll be contacting the comic book defense fund first.
This only means that I have to push up my production schedule. I was going to put aside the animation bits for another year - but its apparent it has to be done NOW. Everything has to be set into motion NOW beyond the comic which is already up and raring to go.
Another thing to protect Akashik, Battle of Angels would be popularity. You see, the other Battle of Angels is still in production whereas my baby has been out there for seven years. The more PR it has, the less I'll have to fight to save it.
Humm...We seem to have issues with page orintation. Please don't let that iscourage you from reading our articles. I think it might be the links that's causeing glitching. Have I mentiond I'm new at this?
edit to add: I know what it is- there is an option that turns off the links/html stuff for YOUR vewing pleasure. Click that option saying YOU want to SEE the links and you will. The power, the choice, is yours.
~BPurg, Writer of the Apocalypes, Obey me or I will destroy you WAR.
Akashik is on line. Online! Thanks to Blue who dose not seelp Akashik now has a nifty shiny new website.
http://battle-of-angels.tripod.com/index.htm
Go check it out. It has the teaser comic, short stories, a store and a link to back here. So if you came here through the web site *waves* Hail-oo.
Right now the job of the website has fallen to Blue, hoping that will change cuz she works a lot. The Teaser Story will be updating once a week on Sunday while she draws up the the first part of the story cleverly name Script 1. There you will meet Herman and Taus (from the Sling Shots short story on the website) and introduce Ganji and the lovebale ship, the Striptease. Will be done in Black and White for now- cuz speed and quality is very important right now and Blue has a lot of stuff to do to pay her rent. It's also good to print on a budget. Also it looks cool.
We will be updating every Sunday for now. The journal will update when ever we can get to it.
Our plan: to maintain the website and get the word out. Do that by spreading the word, the website and VOTE. The website has two voting buttons. We need the votes. We went from 0-680 on one and from 0-550 on another. We do love votes.
Vote Taus!
~BPurg, Writer of the Apocalypse, Obey me or I will destroy you War. (I'm the crime partner Blue talks about).
It's the beginning of a new week, which means that we won't have as much time to update as we have over the past few days... but that's okay. We don't need to be up your rear 24/7.
Once upon a time I had a website for the original comic this idea was borne from. It's still around, still has traffic, so I just spent the evening revamping and preparing: http://battle-of-angels.tripod.com
Well, here is another update towards our anime. Of course we're still miles away from actual production involving moving pictures. One thing needed for said moving pictures to work smoothly is a script and a storyboard. What better way to cut some of the work than to turn our script and storyboard into the planned manga first?
This of course means the manga would always have to stay well ahead of the anime, but we knew that we wouldn't really get started on producing the anime for a while yet. Tonight we've spent a lot of time developing parts of the universe and working on the script. The script comes along slow because we keep cracking up. But that's the bliss of being insane.
So that's our latest update. We wanted to respond to the person who remarked on our last entry, but that function does not seem to be here. So, quickly, wow and thanks! My crime partner and I can't wait for that day.
My partner in crime over the project (as opposed to folks who are just on the team) is here today and we've spent the morning working on one of the characters for the anime that needed fleshing out. So here is Kris. Here is the link: http://spearcarrier.deviantart.com/art/Kris-Character-Sheet-68905655
I'd embed but this place doesn't seem to like that. Anyway, that's how things are standing. And of course we're still hoping for funding. http://www.cafepress.com/akashik/
With all the journals I have across the internet, why a blog entry here? Why bother with this place?
My reason is that this seems a very comprehensive site to keep a log of what I and my compatriots are up to. To wit: the creation of an anime.
Yes, well I know that everyone and their brother are doing the same thing... but are they doing it the way *we're* doing it? I should say not. The last animation we created took a Sephiroth action figure, four daleks, some rope, the kitchen chair, and my obsolete (and now broken) VHS-C camera. That was a lot of fun and ended up with great inspirations.
I'll post a link to that in a future blog post.
You see a long time ago I created a short one-episode comic called Battle of Angels. It has seen "official" publication twice: once in America and once in Australia. The characters remain dear to my heart, and the world they dwell in is larger then the real life universe we all live in. I had always wanted to do more with it, but never could... never had the inspiration... until now.
Within days I have managed to assemble a basic skeleton team for what needs to be done. I've talked mechanics and aesthetics... and for all intents and purposes we're working on getting ready to go. But there's this major thing we're lacking: funding.
How to get it? No clue here. I'm just the chic with the talent, not the money. We opened a store at cafepress to start with, hoping maybe folks would be interested... but so far no luck.
BTW, the store is here: http://www.cafepress.com/akashik
Well, maybe by blogging here folks interested in the tale will be glad to stop by, donate, or whatever it takes.
Our goal? To get this sucker played on Adult Swim someday. Aaaaand... not going homeless in the meantime would be nice, too.
To make our viewers laugh, cry, and over all to love our leading lady and her main men.
To die happy, knowing we did something wonderful!!!!!
VIVA LA CHEESE!
Well, what *is* this project you ask? Okay, okay.
It's going to be based on Battle of Angels, which is no longer on the internet to be seen for free because my website is temporarily down until I can pay the bill. I'll get it up as soon as possible, I promise!!! I just need to find a job first!!!
About the anime: When the anime opens, Malek Taus used to be an elite soldier with the Empire... but that really wasn't for her. So she has went AWOL for a little soul-searching and R&R. Okay, if she's caught she's going to be hung by her tail-feathers and barbecued in the Pit... but they have to catch her first.
This is where Ganji comes in. He's smart, he's smart-assed, and he has no clue who owns the ship he stowed away in. He finds out directly and regrets it!
From there come the rebel factions, the disgruntled ancient lizard soldiers, the fluffy kittens, the food fights, the ... well, you get my drift.
And I don't want to tell you everything because that will totally spoil it!!!
I should stop talking today. I've introduced the project, and I'm sure if folks have questions they'll be more than happy to ask... just keep in mind, I'm not likely to give out information I feel is important for the hush hush... nowhatImean?
