SWAAAAAAAAG

Check out all that swag for The Path! I'm bringing some cool shit to WWPhilly, and it's not even all here yet!

-Riot!

-Riot!

It's off to the printers...

Look at that cover. You'd almost think I was a legit comic creator.

They grow up so fast...especially if you're working on them a lot. I just sent the files off to the publisher. Now it's out of my hands and I can stop worrying about if I'll get it done on time. Now I just get to worry that it'll be printed in time. Since that's out of my hands, there's much less stress involved. You might notice two other names on that cover. "Hamilton" is Jeremy Hamilton. He did the colors on the cover and is one cool mofo. "Vasquez" is Samantha Vasquez who, somewhere along the line, sort of became my editor.

The pile of crap to bring to WWPhilly has been growing, too. I have patches, stickers, post cards, loose pins, pin packs, comics, sketchbooks, sketch cards, and prints. I'm kind of counting on the con-exclusive to draw people in so I can try to sell them everything else.

Oh. Here's what the pins look like:



That's it for now. I'm sitting here at work working on more comic pages. I've got pages queued up through mid-April right now, and I'm still cranking more pages out. I'm not sure what kind of screwed-up stride I've hit here, but I really hope it lasts!



Later,
-Riot!

The Path: 1926 and Left4Dead

This was just fun to draw. Because Left4Dead is fucking awesome.


So...I hope everybody's liking The Haunter of the Dark so far. It's the first issue of The Path: 1926, and was a lot of fun to do.

The Path: 1926 cover preview and the Business End of Things

Here's the in-progress colors from Jeremy "Sloo" Hamilton for the "The Path:1926" Wizard World Philly exclusive cover. Pretty fucking sweet, right? The story's shaping up pretty damn nicely, too...thanks in no small part to my one-woman focus group (who shall remain nameless for security reasons).

So...yeah, I know. Still no updates.

Well, here's the thing: I run the business end of everything too.
Which, annoyingly, isn't as big an end as it used to be since my publisher isn't...well...publishing anything. I love everybody over there to death, but there's been no word on printing in months. To be honest, BT never actually DID anything for me I couldn't/haven't been doing for myself. In fact, it cost me more $$$ to get my own comics for a con through them than if I had stayed self-publishing.
So lately I've been running around getting promo material made up, designs off to various printers, books off to be published, arguments with companies that owe me money, working on bother versions of The Path and The Rioteer and (late) commissions worked on and sent out. It's a lot for one guy to do on top of a regular job and a relationship. I really appreciate everyone's patience.

So I'm falling back on self-publishing again. Because that way, if the book's not coming out, I only have myself to blame. Plus, I have stores waiting for new issues that are going to start dropping me pretty damn soon. I'm not about to let two years of hard work go down the drain.

That's about it for now. Catch you hip cats and kittens later!
-Riot!

Technology still hates me, The Path: 1926, and Wizard World's dying off.

How were everyone's respective celebrated holidays? I took the little lady back to NY with me to meet my family. I think they like her better than they like me now. Which is cool. That'll just make things easier when the wedding bells ring down the road.

So, technology and I continue to be the worst of friends. The new monitor for my computer's reolution isn't supported by Windows XP/my graphics card. So, I'm working on getting new drivers to trick it into cooperating with me.

The upside to all this downtime is that I'm working on (wait for it) ANOTHER "PatH" REWRITE!

But why? Well, because I fell asleep on the couch one day watching cartoons and woke up to find that I'd drawn a picture of Chance in 1920's garb and one of Kat as a gypsy. This led to my feverishly transposing The Path into the 1920's and, well...I REALLY like what I came up with. "The Path"'s regular run will continue, but The Path: 1926 (working title) has rapidly become a project I want to subject my ever-diminishing sanity to. Watch this space for updates/preview art.

Those of you in the know have found out that Wizard World LA has been post-ponned until further notice and Wizard World Texas has been CANCELLED! WWTX is a huge loss for me, because that's always my best con of the year. Le SIGH. Hopefully you crazy Texans will put up enough of a fuss to get it on again. If not, well...give me suggestions of other good cons to go to down there! The Path has a disturbingly large following in the Lone Star State, and I wouldn't want to lose you guys!

That's all for now. I'll catch you hip cats and kittens later.
-Riot!

Technology's great...except when it doesn't work.

So, as some of you know, I've been having all sorts of computer problems...AGAIN. Never fails, as soon as I start being productive, technology goes all "No no NO...we can't have this."

I'm going to use it as an excuse to take a break. The Path will return Jan 2nd. Julianne and I are off to New York to spend the holidays with my family anyways, so it's not like I'd have a whole lot of time for updating anyway.

See you guys when I get back and Merry Christmas!

What Comes Next?

So, as most of you can probably start to glean, the first volume of "The Path" is rapidly headed towards it's conclusion. Kat's dead, Inanna apparently has no plans to actually SAVE the world or Chance, Ratatosk is blindly following Inanna's lead, and by possessing Kat's dead body Nyarlathotep has succeeded in manipulating Chance into a position where he's damned if he does--damned if he doesn't. God damn, but that guy's life is fucked up.

With the current storyline ending in just a few short issues, what comes next? Will Chance succeed in stopping Nyarlathotep? Will Cthulhu actually answer the call? Will any other mythological beings rally to Chance in hopes of stopping the Outer Gods from returning to our world? Well, I'll ya...whatever happens, it's not going to be pretty.

But back to the question at hand: What comes next? There's going to be a Wizard World Exclusive comic for one of the Wizard World shows in 2009 (I'll be self-publishing that one, as my publisher is...well...let's just say I'll be self-publishing that one), at the close of this storyline there are going to be a few stand-alone issues. Short stories like "The Cutty Black Sow" was. Tie up loose ends and make sure every little corner of The Path's universe is tucked back in place. Then whichever of our intrepid heroes make it to the other side of the current crisis-at-hand (if any even do), they'll have to contend with The Rise of Leng. Dun dun DUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN.