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Do you guys know about Acts Of Violence: An Anthology of Crime Comics?



I wrote The Orchard, one of the four stories in the book. It's 21 pages and has amazing art by Damian Couceiro.

We've been out pushing the book really hard. We've been mailing stores directly with information and the other creators in the book have been calling about 600 different comic shops directly to tell them about the book.

The deadline for orders is April 27th. I'd love if anyone out there would ask their local comic shops to order the book in.

About the book:

ACTS OF VIOLENCE is a collection of short stories in the pulp tradition. It doesn’t shy away from bullets or bloodshed. It tackles characters with flawed judgment and loose morals. The storylines are ripped from the filthy underbelly of the world in which we live. ACTS OF VIOLENCE peers into the shadows and shines a light on what scuttles on the periphery.

In THE THREE PRINCES, a trio of young friends is schooled on the alcohol and blood soaked streets of Prohibition era America.

A rookie lawman must protect a killer from the desperate and despairing parents of a murdered girl in SIX O’CLOCK NOOSE.

A drug addled ten-time loser seeks to break the chains of misery that bind him in REGGIE-TOWN.

And in THE ORCHARD, two cops take a late night drive into broken morals and violence.

Featuring the talents of Toren Atkinson, Ed Brisson, Chad Boudreau, Dino Caruso, Damian Couceiro, Todd Ireland, Kevin Leeson, Manoel Magalhaes, and Marvin Mann and cover art by Fiona Staples, ACTS OF VIOLENCE unveils a roster of new voices in hard-boiled crime comics.

Acts of Violence: A Crime Comics Anthology is listed in the April edition of Previews on page 299 under New Reliable Press. The order code is APR101035. Head to your local comic shop and ask them to order you a copy.

CLICK HERE for a PDF that you can print and bring to your local comic shop to let them know you’d like to order the book. The PDF contains all the info that your retailer will need for Acts Of Violence.

( Click here to read a 4 page preview of The Orchard )

New Reliable Press will be exhibiting at booth #908 at this year's Emerald City Comicon. Use this handy map to find us.

• KC Green will be on hand to sign copies of the recently released Horribleville Vol. 1.

•Myself, Kevin Leeson and Todd Ireland will be on hand to sign copies of the hot-off-the-press crime anthology Acts of Violence, which will be making its official debut at Emerald City! This book will not be available in stores until June 2nd, so this is your chance to get this sucker early!

See you guys there!

New Reliable Press is proud to announce that KC Green's first Horrible collection is now available for preorder! Horribleville Vol. 1 is available in the regular edition or, for an extra 5 bucks, you can get KC to sign and sketch in your book.

The official launch date for the book is February 16th (KC's birthday!). Order now and your copy will ship out as soon as it returns from the printer.

Unlike past New Reliable Press books, this title will not be available through Diamond Distributors. This will be available through our online store. A list of distributors will be added to the site soon, so local comic shops will still have outlets available to them to stock the book.

So, head on over to the New Reliable Press shop and pre-order your copy today!

Page 2 up, after two weeks. Plowing through the third page in an attempt to be somewhat weekly.

Updated Things Are Ok.

I'm not normally a dude for drawing anthropomorphic characters, but the other night when I was finishing this strip up in my usual style (you can see the original under the cut), I thought I'd toss it on a lightbox and trace it out, trying to lose some of the "extra" details I'd added in. I also tried to keep the line weight consistent throughout.

I'm still not sure why I started to add animal heads, but I like the end result better than my original, so decided to stick with it through this story. I'm not going to be jumping on the anthropomorphic bandwagon, just kind of taking this for a test spin.

( Version 1 under the cut. )

For those interested, I've started posting comics and drawings to my new site ihatecomics.com.

Going to do my best to update it a couple times a week but, if my own history has taught me anything, I will likely fail at this.

Thanks everyone for the great feedback on the last couple strips. I got all self-conscious this time out and swapped up the lettering.

For a dude who makes most of his comic money by lettering comic books for others, I've got some down right sloppy penmanship.

I haven't really drawn much in a long time. I tried to do a 24 hour comic this past weekend, but just couldn't muster up the gusto to push myself past a page.

I noticed a lot of others were doing hourly comics and although I couldn't possibly do something on that scale, I have decided to make an attempt to get some moments down on paper. One or two every day or so, just to get myself back in the habit of drawing something -- even if it is just simple chicken scratch 2 panel comics about nothing in particular. Not even sure if I should be devoting the time to colour these, or just leave them in black and white.

Back from SPX, which was a great time. Loved meeting up with old friends and meeting new people.

Below is my haul from the convention:



Top row:

•Gangsta Rap Posse, Night Business 1 and Night Business 2 all by Benjamin Marra.
•Imaginary Monsters and Adventure Underfoot by Peter J. Lazarski
•Press Start and Fight by JP Coovert

Row 2:

•Motro Vol. 1 and 2 Motro minis by Ulises Farinas
•Radical Boy Portable GT by Tom McHenry
•Papercutter #11 featuring Amy Adoyzie, Jon Sukarangsan, Dustin Harbin, and Lisa Rosalie Eisenberg. Published by Tugboat Press.
•Real Cane Sugar by P. Cleland

Row 3:

•Secret Science Alliance by Eleanor Davis
•Lucy Legacy by Brian Evinou
•Unsettled by James Hindle
•Little Garden #4 and Nervousystematic Comics by Ayo
•Shithole and Recent Work by Corinne Mucha
•Eat World by Peter J. Lazarski

Bottom Row:

•At Least It's Company by David Huyck
•Comic Diorama by Grant Reynolds
•These Yams are Delicious by Sam Sharpe
•Pictures for Sad Children by John Campbell
•Monsters by Ken Dahl

I had picked up several other minis from JP Coovert, James Hindle and one from Jon Chad, but they all went missing somewhere between the hotel and me getting home. I'm hoping that they'll still turn up eventually.