Monsters Royale Vid, Kid

Promo video for my upcoming Monsters Royale ebook. Check it!



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Peruse Some Old Gems While You Wait For Me To Get My Act Together

All dem old Humdrum Heights strips you remember from back in da day are back up, in original unedited form. I'll get 'em up on the regular website at some point. Sorry for the lack of updates of any kind. I've been fightin' a case of pneumonia/bronchitis since Xmas, lost about 25 pounds, and am just now gettin' back on my feet.

In the coming months, I hope to offer an ebook of some kind for your reading and downloading pleasure. Any opinions on preferred format (ie, PDF, CBZ, etc) are greatly appreciated, so please leave a comment. I want to make sure it's playable on as many devices as possible. Also, what do you consider a fair price for a digital book? Let me know.

Talk to you soon,
AdBeck

30 New Monster Drawings

Wondering what I've been up to this past month? I just completed the 30 Characters in 30 Days Challenge, which is exactly what its name implies - creators create thirty original characters within thirty days. Approximately 120 creators took up the challenge to create 1800 new characters and generate 74,000 page views last month, with more than 20,000 unique visits. For my part, I worked on some new monsters for my Monsters Royale site, which is a cavalcade of silly monsters accompanied by offbeat poetry. Incidentally, Monsters Royale will be updated frequently in the new year. I'm toying with the idea of coloring all of the monsters, which are currently pencil renderings, probably with water color. No easy task, as there were already over one hundred of them before I did the challenge and now there are thirty more. That's a lot o' painting, scanning, cropping, digital fidgeting, and posting.

Anyway, here's the link to my 30 Characters:

30 Characters Challenge
or alternatively,
Here.

Enjoy!

Free Goon Short Story

Eric Powell's The Goon appears in an eight-page two-part short story on USAtoday.com. A short article accompanies the comic. Jack Davis meets Will Eisner kinda vibe to his work, if you don't know it. Check it out.

Here's the link:
THE GOON

Blog Clog

I just imported a bunch of old blog postings from a separate blog into this one, so sorry if a bunch of junk just showed up in your RSS feed or something. Just ignore 'em as usual! ;)

Joyfulness

People, I thank you for stopping by. You guys seem to keep finding this blog, even though there isn't too much to see here anymore. Head on over to Rebeldog Comics for comic strips and pointless ruminations galore. The subscriber section is closed and everything is FREE FREE FREE again! There are over a hundred comics there for your perusal, with new stuff on Tuesdays and Fridays.

Also, there is advertising now - so go click on it, check out my sponsors, and thereby encourage people to bid on ad space and support the site. Or take out an ad yourself on Project Wonderful, an advertising system tailor-made for webcomics, and get seen on my site. I'm currently running a leaderboard ad (728px X 90) just beneath the main comics, and it's dirt cheap!

Thanks as always!

That is all.

Two Days Left To Vote For The 2010 Eisner Awards

This is just a reminder to all my cartoonist buddies out there - voting for the Eisner awards ends June 15th, so time's running out. Go here now to take care o' bidness!!

If you're not aware, the Eisner Awards are named after comics legend Will Eisner, and is an awards ceremony to honor outstanding achievement in comic-related endeavors. The nominees are voted on by comics creators, editors, publishers, and retailers from across the industry. Along with the Harvey awards, this is sort of our version of the Oscars.

If you have a comic book/graphic novel/or a webcomic (writers, artists, pencillers, inkers, letterers, colorists), you are eligible to vote!

Not eligible, but curious? You can go here to read up on the awards.