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