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Back for a second before leaving again. Otakon!!!

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:39:30 GMT

Can haz con report' No! Can not haz!

Hey, everybody! We're (barely) back from San Diego Comic Con and (barely) still alive! Want to hear how it went' TOUGH! Seriously, we're already packing for our trip to Baltimore for Otakon this weekend. We're leaving in just hours. Hours! We've been home barely more than 24 hours and we're already leaving again.

But we'll have full con reports for SDCC, Otakon, and JAFAX all next week. It's going to be a week FULL of stuff for you to see, so we hope it makes up for not having anything much to see here this week.

Instead, go check out Rainbow in the Dark #1, available for download as PDF or CBZ (if you haven't already). It got HUGE love at SDCC, so go on over and see what you've been missing.

Catch you next week-
Adam & Comfort
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Rainbow: Issue 1 Released! Then... Off to San Diego!

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:11:55 GMT

The day has arrived; after months and months of speculation and scant promotion, Rainbow in the Dark #1 is here. Head over to the new website, www.RainbowintheDarkComic.com, to buy the digital copies today! Waiting for paper' They’re on the way. You can buy them in person this weekend at the San Diego Comic Con. Just look for booth 1804 and check us out!

Ah, San Diego. What can we say about that beautiful city that hasn’t been said already'

We leave tomorrow for Cali (at 6 AM, of all things – bleagh), and we’re as anxious to see the printed copies of Rainbow #1 as anybody else. This is a really exciting week. We hope to see a lot of people at the show, and if any of you blog-watchers should come by let us know you read us! It’s nice to know people look at this thing!

In the mean time… go check out the (temporarily anemic) www.RainbowintheDarkComic.com and read the first issue of our new series. We’d love to hear what you think.

See you in San Diego-
Adam & Comfort
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Preparing for San Diego Comic Con

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:32:13 GMT

There are only a few days left before we leave for San Diego and the mind-numbingly massive Comic Con. It’s the only show we know of that’s so big all you have to say is “Comic Con” and most people know what you’re talking about. We’re riding a stress tide to the show; we’re nervous and antsy, and we don’t know if we’ll be able to relax until we’re in Cali at the hotel with our Con tickets in hand and our booth set up and ready to go. It’s just been an insane few months of prep since this opportunity fell in our laps, and while we’re excited to be going, we’re really excited to have all this waiting and finger-crossing over with.

So if you’re going to SDCC, here’s where we’ll be – look for Dial R Studios at booths 1804 and 1806. We’ll be sitting next to Jeremy Dale, a good friend of ours and the penciller of the most recent Uniques Tales issue (available free from UniquesComic.com! Plugplugplug!). You can also look for this big banner we’ll have hanging behind us:

At the table, we’ll have copies of the brand new Rainbow in the Dark #1. Hot off the presses, we really can’t wait to see what people think of it. We’ve been going over the story for more than a year, now, and having it out and in the public is really exciting. More preview panels' Don’t mind if we do…

But wait – there’s more! Also debuting at SDCC is a new Uniques collection we’re calling “The Uniques: Season 1 Omnibus!” Collecting all 9 issues along with a huge load of bonus content, this book weighs in at over 340 pages of awesome. It also includes the first-ever published Uniques pages Comfort did waaay back in 2003 while we were in college. We’ve also included lots of material from the blog that’s never seen print ever. And here’s the best part – The Uniques: Season 1 Omnibus comes at the low price of only $45! Yes, you’re reading that right; thanks to the vagaries of print, it costs us less to produce one oversized volume than it does three smaller ones, and we’re passing the savings on to you. You’ll pay less for the Omnibus than you would for the three TPB collections on their own-- and you’ll get more content! It’s win-win!

So come by booths 1804 and 1806 to find us and check out our wares. We’d be really happy to see you! In the mean time, we’ll continue packing and printing and prepping for the trip. Wish us luck.

-Adam & Comfort

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Rainbow: Issue #1 Preview

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:05:58 GMT

We’re back, alive and well and still sane after the hellacious hell-week we just went through. The good news - Rainbow in the Dark #1 is finished and off to press. All it took was staying up until 4-5 am every night for a week. Now, despite our fatigue and general achiness, we’ve switched gears and are prepping everything we need for the Rainbow website (www.RainbowintheDarkComic.com – it’s coming!) and the web-release of the book, as well as the poop-storm that will be San Diego Comic Con.

We were really thinking hard on the best way to get people into Rainbow. It’s a very different kind of book from Uniques, and a big part of that is the way we’re approaching the art. We haven’t shown much here because we didn’t want to create expectations (good or bad) or have people pre-judging the work before you got a chance to read it yourselves.

But the truth is that we want people to get a taste of what they’re in for with this mini-series. But pages out of context wouldn’t do the job very well. To know what this book will be like, you just have to read some of it and see. So we’re doing something different, here. We’re going to show you the first 7 pages of Rainbow in the Dark #1 in their entirety so you can really see what we’re trying to do with this book.

Then, if you like it, come back next week. Rainbow #1 will be on sale in digital format starting early next week, and the paper copies debut at San Diego Comic Con. Click through the thumbnails below, and as the prophet said, hold on to your butts…

Hope you enjoyed that. It gets really crazy starting on the next page, so you really should check out the issue and see some more. And it’s only a 99 cent download, so that isn’t asking so much, is it' Come back early next week, set your browsers for www.RainbowintheDarkComic.com, and be ready for awesome.

-Adam & Comfort

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Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:36:26 GMT

Hoo! Sorry we’ve been gone so long, but we’re in the final stages of finishing Rainbow in the Dark #1. Yes, friends - the debut issue is on its way to being done, but there’s still loads left to do. Thus, we’ve been holed up in our apartment, hiding from humanity, working our butts off (and our hands, too) to try and get this done.

We’re really happy with the progress. Many of the effects we weren’t sure would work are doing great and other things we expected to take forever have been going quite smoothly. On the other hand, finding the right cover was a pain in the tuchus (we now owe Brian M. Bendis a quarter for using the word “tuchus”). We think we have a winner on our hands, now, but it was many long hours of work to find just the right thing. Here’s a taste, but it’s just a taste – once the color and borders and nouveau hootenanny come into play on this here cover image, it’s gonna be a whole other ballgame. It's hardly going to look the same; this one is coming alive in the color.

So now we have to go get back to work. We’ll pop in again when we can, but expect us to be shaggy and unkempt when we peek our heads out of the dim light of our computer screens. And don't think we've forgotten our JAFAX Con Report! That'll be coming once the comic is done (those things take time).

Courage.
-Adam & Comfort
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Heading off to JAFAX

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:39:35 GMT

Another weekend is coming, and another convention awaits us. This time we’ll be going to Grand Rapids, MI for the JAFAX Anime Convention. It’s a smallish show, but there’s tons of heart there and it’s a chance for us to get back to see all our friends in G-Rap. We lived out there a long time; Comfort for 8 years and Adam for 10. That’s where we went to College, where we met, where we were married – Grand Rapids has a lot of history for us. We like the town, and we miss the people.
So we’ll be staying with two of our best friends, Chris and Jennifer, and on Sunday after the con we’re inviting any former students of ours who go to JAFAX (which is pretty cheap, since it’s FREE ADMISSION) to meet up with us at the end of the day and we’ll all head out for dinner somewhere. Where' We don’t know. Somewhere nice. We hope to see people at the show, and hope to have as good a time as we did last year.

One neat thing about JAFAX is that the cost of an Artist Alley table is really just an original piece of art that is donated into a public auction at the show. Proceeds pay for next year’s show, allowing JAFAX to remain a fan-run, fan-supported convention (and cover that whole “free admission” thing we mentioned earlier). We, being recent Bleach fans, took the opportunity to draw some of our favorite Soul Reapers.

But we wanted to do something different this year, so this is what we came up with: we did four pieces. Adam did two and Comfort did two, each at 8”x10” in size. And all four fit together in one long panorama. So whoever is bidding might choose to try and get the individual piece they like most-- or you can bid on all four and try to “catch ‘em all,” as goes the parlance.

So if you’re in town or anywhere nearby in West Michigan, head to JAFAX 2010 for a free, fun show and a chance to win some great art on the cheap. We’d love to see you!

-Adam & Comfort
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