Sit back, grab a cold one, and listen to Michael Cavna talk about million dollar comic books, animation Oscars, the future of the iPad generation, and celebrity interviews. Michael does the most excellent “Comic Riffs” column over at the Washington Post, and if you go through his archives, you’ll see he’s talked to everybody you’ve ever wanted to talk to in the comics/film/entertainment world. He’s an amazing resource of information, and a damn nice guy to boot…so we can’t hate him for his stunning job too much. 
His column is required reading every day, so get over there, and join in the discussion!
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TTF Review #4 – Moon Town by Steve Ogden
By Irma Eriksson on March 2nd, 2010Posted In: blog, reviews
Today, the TTF crew will review “Moon Town”, by Steve Ogden. You can go read all of Moon Town, from start to the current installment over at http://www.moon-town.com.
Reviewers: Brian Anderson & Irma Eriksson
Brock Heasley’s Monsterplex Wins Zuda Competition!
By Lucas Turnbloom on February 26th, 2010Posted In: blog, news
“Promise me you’re never going to do this again!”
That’s what my wife Erin said to me over the phone as soon as she found out. And after she screamed with delight. My response?
“You got it.”
This month has been a whirlwind of hard work and emotions for me and my family. In my adult life, I learned a long time ago what it really means to work hard for something. You almost have to not care about the outcome. You just do the work that needs to be done. Focus on that and, even if it doesn’t work out, you’ll at least know you did everything you could. Most of your satisfaction will come from just knowing that, no matter what the result.
But…sometimes things come together perfectly and you win one! Now that’s a sweet feeling. MONSTERPLEX has been a 2 year journey for me. 2 years. David came on around the same time, and Mike about a year later. Having now won…I’m still in a kind of shell-shock.
I’m still there and if there’s one feeling that’s overriding all others it’s this: gratitude.
You are all awesome. If someone asks you today, “Are you awesome?” You will be able to say “Yes, I am awesome.” If that same person fires back with “How do you know?” you will turn to that person and say, simply, “Because MONSTERPLEX won.”
I really, truly feel as though this win is because of all of you. I wish I could thank you all individually, but there’s no way I possibly can. There’s too many of you! We’re humbled by that. Truly humbled. We could not have done it without all of you and I’m just so amazed by how everyone came out to support us. I see all of you as a part of this thing with us.
I do need to name at least three people that were INTEGRAL to this success:
To our wives Erin, Tracy and Lauren. They took this journey with us, fought for us and, in some ways, it meant even more to them!
Also, thanks to David Schlotterback and Michael DeVito for doing this thing with me. They make it look like I can write.
To that I would also like to thank my girls, Elora and Cami for putting up with Dad spending hours at the computer and in the bedroom doing interviews. I hope they enjoy Monsterplex for many years to come.
Now…a lot of you are asking, what’s next? What’s next is that we’re going to disappear for a little while. Maybe 2 or three months. During that time, we’ll going to be heavy into production on MONSTERPLEX. Then, soon, Monsterplex will restart on Zuda and you’ll get one new page a week for one solid year. We have a contract. We will fulfill it. (We will be paid!) We are excited.
During that time, we hope the popularity of MONSTERPLEX can grow. If it does sufficiently, DC/Zuda will renew our contract and maybe one day you’ll see it in print! We hope so! This thing is for real now and we want to make good on the promise we’ve shown this past month.
But besides all that…we think you’re in for a real treat. We have a fantastic, fantastic story planned. It’s got twists, turns, suspense, cliffhangers, romance, violence, comedy, monsters galore, mystery…man, MONSTERPLEX has it all.
Stick with us. It’s gonna be one heckuva ride!
One more time…THANK YOU!
More later. Much more.
-Brock
P.S. Keep your eye on the blog, you never know when it might update!
People never ask me, “Lucas, can you explain your comic creation process?” Well, I’m going to answer none of those people, right now!
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Today, the TTF crew will review “Misery Loves Sherman”, a webcomic by Chris Eliopoulos. Misery Loves Sherman can be found at http://www.miserylovessherman.com.
The Legend of Bill Collection 1 Now Available
By Mike Witmer on February 5th, 2010Posted In: blog, news
The Legend of Bill comic book, issue #1 is HERE, and it’s SHIPPING out to pre-order buyers! Support Legend of Bill (and its creator) and get YOURS here if you haven’t already! No waiting! ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
