We have been promising it since day one — and it’s finally up and running
The Art of Addictive Comics Blog is LIVE!
We’ve wanted to do this even before we started the comics, but we weren’t sure if there was really a need for it. As creators we love to discuss the story and artwork amoungst ourselves, but we didn’t know if the readers would be interested or not.
But the comments on the Blogs have convinced us that at least a few of you would like to delve more deeply into the creation process.
So we’ve created The Art of Addictive Comics Blog.
Some of you may note that we only have one Art Blog when we have mentioned before that we would be doing individual ones for each book. We decided that one would be better. That’s all.
You might also notice, when you visit, that it looks a little sparce. We’ll be fixing that as we go along.
Our first post is all about the Black Jack Justice page for this week - Justice Served Cold - Page 8. But don’t worry– The Rookie and other Sigler stuff will get its fair time.
We have a new page Black Jack Justice this week – Page 6 is here.
The Rookie is taking a Bye Week (a Football term which means the team isn’t playing) but will return next week. If you like you can read the reasons on The Rookie Blog
VIDEO! (sorta…)
In the previous Post below (and on the Black Jack Justice Blog) you can see Addictive Comics’ first foray into video.
It’s just a little Slide Show-type presentation, but we think it has a pretty good “Feel” to it. What do you think?
You may note that the comments are turned “off” on the video post. That wasn’t because we didn’t want to hear from you . We would love to hear what you think and any ideas you may have to make it better and how we can do more. Please leave your comments and suggestions on this post or over on the Black Jack Justice Blog.
The problem is that Wordpress is horribly flakey where videos are concerned. Each time you “Edit” a post (which is how we respond to your comments) you run the risk of the video screwing up. It happens almost everytime.
I discuss the “programming” problem over on the Black Jack Justice Blog. If you are interested and especially if you can help please head over there and leave a comment.
New Videos
Anyway, we have this video for BJJ and a similar one for The Rookie, finished and ready to post on some of the video sharing sites. The one below is only on YouTube and here right now and The Rookie isn’t posted at all.
We’ll monitor the results and, if they are getting us some good results (more readers!), we’ll probably do some more of them. So far it looks promising — there have been 42 views in a little under 12 hours. Not bad. We really hope this does well, because we want to do some personal vids. Scott is especially excited about mouthing off in front of the camera.
If and when we do more, we’ll post them here or maybe at the bottom of the comic pages, which have no problem with vids.
So please let us know what you think and any ideas you have for more vids and any other “get the word out” activities.
http://addictivecomics.com/blackjackjustice/ The Fan Favorite Podcast from Decoder Ring Theatre is now a Webcomic! Read Black Jack Justice’s adventures weekly from Addictive Comics.
Many of you are probably getting sick of seeing me post everytime.
And the Black Jack Justice fans will have read and enjoyed several posts and comments by BJJ writer, Gregg Taylor and artist, Sami Kivelä.
But many of you Rookie fans will have noticed an strange absence of the otherwise VERY talkative half of the Addictive Comics team, Scott Sigler, during the opening weeks of the site.
There’s been a very good – and very bad — reason for this.
On our opening day, December 16th, Scott received some very serious news about a family member and informed me that he could not take part in the opening.
Unfortunately, everything was scheduled, planned and announced. So we had to go forward with the opening — even though Scott could not be involved.
Out of respect for his and his family’s privacy, we did not even reveal the problem.
However, I are happy to report that the news now is all good! Out of respect for him (and a fear of getting something wrong), I’m still not gonna go into it here — but you can read about it on Scott’s own site at http://www.scottsigler.com/ and leave some comments of support for him.
As soon as this crisis is fully over I am sure that General Siglerisimo (is that how you spell it? For crying out loud — who talks like this?!) will be back and as active as ever.
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