Blogsentment

I hate it when I get to lazy and/or distracted by the Juno DVD commentary to finish writing a blog post, 'cause then I feel pressured into finishing it, and bummed when I don't.

That being said, I'm gonna go watch the outtakes.

Stay boss,

DKxC

I WOULD be sick.

So I'm back from New York and I feel like shit.

I was all snifflycough at Jenel's this last week, but I thought it was her cat, Condalisa Rice. Nope. Turns out I've got a semi-not-too-bad fever... and take my advice: NEVER fly when every hole in your head is plugged up. Worst headache I've ever had. The lady sitting next to me moved because she didn't want brains on her 'I Love NY' shirt.

But as for the trip itself, we got a LOT done. Well, actually, no we didn't. We had one day where we got a lot done. Friday. I had never been to a convention on Friday, but I'm definitely heading in that direction from now on. They had like, 80% of what they had on Saturday, and the con wasn't hxc crowded with people. And, on that note, a good 15% of said people were cosplaying. I think people are nervous about dressing up when they have to wade through the streets of NY to get to the con. At Megacon, there were more people dressed up than not and the majority of them were dressed up in anime. I'm half Japanese, so I do dig anime, but I'm gonna state something right now.

Marvel > Anime. Hands down. 

Luckily, this is the first comic con I've been to that was actually a COMIC con. Marvel, DC, Darkhorse, and barely any Narutards. I think it's because the majority of Marvel comics take place in New York, so a higher concentration of Marvel fans are gonna be there and crowding around Stan Lee (who I got within 20 feet of. SCORE!)

And, best of all, we got turned on to this digital publishing site called Ka-Blam. I dunno if I've talked about this before because I'm super sick and feelin' like death ain't such a bad Plan B, but Ka-Blam is an affordable and surprisingly option-heavy publishing site. Fifty 22-page comics will run you about $130. You won't make much of a profit, mind you, but that's what t-shirts and trade paperbacks are for. 

I got really excited about the concept of actually making some cash with Fast-Fizz when I was at the con. There were a lot of indie publishers out there, and, not to sound over-confident, but we're better than a LOT of them. If they can make cash, who says we can't? But that's really not what I'm in it for. I just want to tell stories. 

Okay, I'm gonna die. Writing more later.

Rock on,

DKxC

Comic Books?

I'm a really ADD guy, and not just because I have diagnosed ADD. I bounce around projects like nobody's business, but one thing that I've been working on consistently for almost a year is a comic book called 'Fast-Forward & Mr. Fizz', a comedy about two teenagers who gain semi-epic powers and a very-epic future. The comic features loads of super hero shenanigans, ninjas, and giant robots, so there's something in it for fans of western and eastern comics, alike. The comic's production has finally started to hit it's comicy stride, and this blog will probably end up as a production diary or something. Just letting y'know. 

The two main characters, Donald Zen (Fast-Forward) and Jimmy Kaine (Mr. Fizz) gain their powers from a freak accident involving giant robots (told you!) fighting in space indirectly causing a super-powered lightning storm to give our heroes their powers and send them into the future. It's not the best future in the world, so a good deal of their antics revolve around trying to prevent the world from suck. 

Surprisingly enough, the actual process of making a comic book is way less daunting than it seems. I mean, okay, we may not have anything DONE yet, but so far everything is running smoothly. Issue 1's script is done, issue 2 drafted, and issue 3 has a very solid synopsis. That's the whole first arc (aside from the art and the actual 'comic' part)! 

Me, Mike (best friend and co-creator), and Jenel (our boss and financier) went out to New York Comic Con last week to do 'research' on the whole comic thing, and, something no one ever actually saw coming, we did said research. We bounced from booth to booth, asking artists and writers how they got their stuff published and some challenges they had when making their comics. The guys (and girl) from Monolith Comics pointed us in the direction of Ka-Blam! digital printing, a website that not only publishes your COMICS for surprisingly reasonable fees, but mini-posters, fliers, t-shirts, trade paperbacks, and even hardcovers... pretty much everything we need to set up a booth at one of these cons and start selling comics.

One thing that I've been wondering for a while is whether or not we're going to publish the comics online, or just stick to selling them. Personally, I'd really like to put the comics online and sell them, but the problem lies in whether or not people are going to buy them if they're online for free... and, inversely, if people are even going to know/care about us if we don't start up an internet community via webcomic. My lovely friend sitting next to me has just suggested we don't put ALL of them online. My idea: put extra stuff in the printed comic. I mean, if they know us from the internet and care enough to come check us out, they'll eat up extra stuff. I'd eat up extra stuff. Why can't we just cater to me? 

Peace out,

DKxC

Layouts. Whoo.

Layouts are a pain, yo. I'm trying to make a decent looking layout that isn't too hxc fancy and doesn't look like every other lame blog with a black layout. I'm liking this custom header thing, and the fact that I can have dual blogs on the same page... that'll be useful for when the comic site gets under way. My only real concern is changing up the layout once I buy a domain name. If anyone knows how to mess with this, let me know.

more later,

DKxC

Yeah! Blogging!

So, contrary to the totally expository name of my brand new blog, I have no idea how to do this. Like, I have my friend on iChat right now, and she's making fun of me for the amount I don't know how to do this. I'm gonna assume, like most things in print, I should start out with an introduction. Ahemz.

I'm Donald Wemyss Christopher Thomas Nelson Ike Knowles. I'm a Japanese/Bahamian/English/American who lives in South Florida, but occasionally travels back home to the island of Nassau. I'm a martial artist and a film maker (and you should totally check out youtube.com/jistofmyfist and watch me do both of those things!) and I'm beginning to think this introductory paragraph thing is getting kind of lame. So, I'm gonna wrap this up, and maybe add another blog post (dude, you have no idea how excited I get when I say that. blogging rules.) later tonight. 

Okay, you guys rule, will update this thing later tonight. Probably. 

Rock on,

DKxC