Wednesday, March 23, 2011

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Will he? Won't he? And if he does, what will he do with it?

Meanwhile, in other news, today I'm performing puppets for the children's video series The Flizbins.
Comic books and puppets. That's my life. Wow. Life rules!
~ Ben

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

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New Wednesday. New page!
So what makes this fish the prefect fish? We'll find out soon.

I''m starting to regret the whole slow build thing . . . I like this story, and I think this is the best opening for the story . . . but while it's building up to a pay off, I'm thinking for a webcomic it'd be good to have started with a bang. I need to trust my first instinct, I guess.

As usual, I'd love to hear from anyone who is reading.

In the meantime, until next Wednesday, here's another webcomic from a friend of mine. I'm taking a lead from one of my other websites, WebComics.cc, which will not do link exchanging. I don't link to things because people link to me (not that anyone is linking to me) but rather I do so because I think it's worth linking to. So check out my friend Eric Merced's webcomic Ouch!, which is a fun sci-fi comedy comic.

~ Ben

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

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The Last Lollard continues his . . . whatever he's doing.

In the meantime, I've had two pretty exciting things happen this week. The proofs have started coming in for The Oz/Wonderland Chronicles trade paperback, which will include issues 0-4 as well as short stories with artwork by Hector Sevilla (the artist of the fantasy Lullaby, from Image, which I co-wrote) and Mike S. Miller (the artist of both Hedge Knights, again scripted by me, and co-writer of Lullaby). The publisher of The Oz/Wonderland Chronicles used those two short stories as back-ups in another series, The Oz/Wonderland Chronicles: Jack and Cat Tales, but they expanded a couple scenes from the main series so they were included in this collection. The book is due end of March, but I just may have MY copies next Wednesday. And visitors to C2E2 will be able to buy exclusive copies next weekend (although I will not be there).

The other cool thing was I had a story published in the Graphic Classics book Western Classics. I scripted the adaptation of a Robert E. Howard story, a fun follow up to the story I adapted for Fantasy Classics, which was a H.P. Lovecraft story (Robert E. Howard even made a cameo in the Lovecraft story, as a friend of the narrator -- Lovecraft and Howard being colleagues in real life).

I'll put links to these books below. I'm still trying to figure out advertising and if I plan to use it for this webcomic . . . but for these three books, Amazon really is the easiest way to get them right now.

As usual, to my reader, whoever you might be, I'd love to hear from you . . . drop me a line in the comments below, or through my Twitter (I'm @whisperingloon) or website (benavery.com). Thanks for reading!

~ Ben

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

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Speaking of aquatic comic characters . . . (and I hesitate to share this link because it's sending you to a place of awesome, incredible, stupendous art that makes me look like a 4th grader . . . a talented 4th grader, but a 4th grader none-the-less) (nothing against 4th graders, incidentally, I was one myself once) (and if I stopped providing links to artwork better than mine, I'd never post links here, would I?) Project Rooftop announced their winners and runners-up (runner-ups) (could I use more parentheses in one sentence?) for their most recent contest: redesigning Aquaman (one of the few mainstream characters I would love to get a chance to write) (managed to get another parenthetical in there!).

The contest itself is not big news, although I really enjoyed looking at the winners. What I was excited about was to see my good friend Mike Maihack was one of the runners-up. Runner-ups. Whatever. And I loved his interpretation of Aquaman.

The contest can be found here: Aquaman Sea Change Winners

Mike Maihack can be found here: his blog or his ultra-awesome webcomic Cleopatra in Spaaace! (which you know is awesome because by spelling "space" with three A's he's telling you exactly what you're getting: Cleopatra, space, and pulp adventure) (and I just got in a few more parentheticals).

If you're enjoying Broken Trident, I'd love to hear from you. I know, three pages -- especially three pages that don't reveal much -- isn't really enough to know if you like something. Still love to hear from you, even if it's to say "three pages -- especially three pages that don't reveal much -- isn't really enough to know if you like something".
~ Ben