Like last Monday, I'm posting another teaser image from the forthcoming digital comic, The BUNKER by Joshua Hale Fialkov and myself. This time Monday, the internet and the lives of five characters will never be the same. Want to know more? Visit the official site, www.whatisthebunker.com and sign up for The BUNKER newsletter or follow us on twitter @whatisthebunker. See you next week! Like what you see? Please consider sharing this image/post using your preferred social media outlet. Thanks!
The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision Blog looks at The BUNKER
In his piece, 'The BUNKER' Offers a Glimpse of the Future of Comics, Graeme McMillan writes about The BUNKER as another example (following Brian K. Vaughan's and Marcos Martin's Private Eye) of self publishing serialized content online.
with less of a barrier for entry as print, digital could offer comic creators a chance to control their fortunes (figuratively and literally) in a way that they've never enjoyed before.
He also had this to say about the story:
I can recommend it to those who enjoyed such television shows as Lost or such comics as Morning Glories
For the rest of the article, please click here:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/bunker-offers-a-glimpse-future-594128
The BUNKER, a digital comic by Joshua Hale Fialkov and Joe Infurnari launches Monday Aug 5th, 2013. The address for press inquiries on THE BUNKER is info@thebunkercomic.com. Or on Twitter @whatisthebunker. If you sign up for the mailing list, you'll get early access to our very first chapter. Sign up at http://www.whatisthebunker.com .
The Bunker Preview
In two weeks, The BUNKER, my digital comic with Joshua Hale Fialkov hits the internet so hard its parents will feel it. Above is the first of two teaser images (the next coming next Monday) to give you just a wee taste of what's to come. Curious to know more? Visit the official site, www.whatisthebunker.com and sign up for The BUNKER newsletter or follow us on twitter @whatisthebunker. See you next week! Please do your friends and us a huge favor; if you liked this post, please share using your favorite social media outlet. Thanks!
The Bunker
It gives me great pleasure to announce the upcoming release of The Bunker trade paperback by Oni Pres, Joshua Hale Fialkov and myself. The first story arc drops August 8th in bookstores and comic shops almost a year to the day after we launched this book on ComiXology Submit. To help celebrate this anniversary/release, Bleeding Cool has this preview of the entire double sized first issue:
Occupy Comics: Homestead
Last year's Baltimore Comicon is memorable for me for many reasons. One of them being it was when I first met Josh Fialkov (I, Vampire, Elk's Run, Echoes, Tumor). Now, only a few months later, we've been able to put together this little six page story for Occupy Comics. Homestead (the first page can be seen above) tells the story of Russian immigrant and steelworker, Stanislaus who participates in the now historic Homestead, PA strike of 1892. This story is now available in comic shops in Occupy Comics #1. I'm happy to report it's the first story in a book full of exemplary and important comics work. Please consider supporting this project as I believe Black Mask Studios' progressive output deserves an audience.
Bleeding Cool's Rich Johnston had this to say about Occupy Comics #1:
There’s an energy to it, a life to it, it doesn’t feel like you just bought a missive from a zealot or a manifesto from a mercenary. It feels real and it feels hopeful, it allows you to feel and it doesn’t do your thinking for you. It’s a comic unlike any other comic you’ll find in the shop, for now…
Thanks so much for reading.
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Time F*cker Goes Analog
With the files off to the printer, it looks like Time F*cker will be a book before long. Stay tooned for more updates about print run, a deluxe edition, début etc. This is exciting!
Time F#cker Gets a Front and Back Cover
Since it's completion at the end of April, I've been both brainstorming story ideas for the next few installments as well as prepping the first Time Fucker story for print. It's going to be an expensive venture so I can't make any promises about a release date so I'm offering these images as incentive and update. Folks who've seen versions of this material on Twitter or Instagram will notice that all instances of the F word have been 'censored'. Having an explicit cover would certainly be ballsy but it would also severely hobble this already tough sell. If comics sites can't show the cover, then that's a problem. Fear not, the interior pages will be in their original presentation. The book will have a full color cover with black and white interiors. It will be 32 pages saddle stitched and the print run will likely be very limited (500 or less).
The Anchorage Press 'Enshrines' MUSH! . . .in the Outhouse!
In his review of MUSH!, Anchorage Press writer Jamie Smith exclaims,
This book should be enshrined in the outhouse as required and repeat reading
For a book like MUSH, I'm not sure there's much higher of a compliment than that! He also had many nice things to say about the book's refreshing take on talking animal comics and its authentic depiction of mushing. Jamie also talks at length about the art. Unlike most reviewers, Jamie brings a great deal of comics related experience to the table. He's taught comics and comic art at the University of Alaska as well as being a comics creator in his own right. His weekly cartoon, Nuggets, has appeared in the Anchorage Press and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner since 1988. In talking about the art for MUSH! he had this to say,
Infurnari’s artwork here is exceptional—his loose, sketchy linework using a Japanese manga quill pen lends a spontaneity to the drawings that thoroughly suits the subject matter
I could continue to quote this piece but I think it best for you to read it in its entirety here.
**Jamie Smith has also written an extended, 'redux' version of this review on his own blog, Ink and Snow. That review is available here.
It was a pleasure talking about MUSH with Jamie who brings a rare enthusiasm for the medium informed by decades of experience creating comics. Please go take a look at the review and while you're at it, go take a look at this nice gallery of Nuggets and other work by him.
Thanks!