Latino Comic Expo Write-Up

Sorry it took me so long to post this everyone!  I just gradated from college last weekend, so please forgive me for being unbearably busy the past few weeks.
As you all know, at the beginning of the month Cristian, Mario, and I were lucky enough to be invited back to the Latino Comic Expo for it's second year, right here in downtown SF at the Cartoon Art Museum.  We had a lot of fun, on Saturday Cristina and Mario participated in the self-publishing panel like they did last year and we added something new to our table which you can look forward to seeing in the future: Draw Something, LIVE! We covered out table with paper and invited all artists young and old to share their artwork with us on our table, next time you see us at a convention make sure you leave us a drawing.

Hopefully we'll see you at the next convention!
Until next time,
~Angelica P.R.

Web Comic #2

Here's the next installment of our weekly web comic, I'm sorry things are being posted exactly on schedule every week, I'm in the process of writing my history thesis so my time is limited.

Anyway, here's this week's comic: B*tches for Breakfast

How do you respond when someone asks you for coffee in the morning?

See you next week,

~Angelica P.R.

Promises, Promises

Finally I have something to deliver!

Welcome to the start of our new web-comic series!

Most of the stories posted will be one shot pieces, though some will use reoccurring characters, there will not be a continuous story line for the most part.

We decided to start posting web comics here in order

to both keep interest in Reluctant Zero up between issues, but also so that the boys(and perhaps some other guest writers) can post their art and ideas that they really want to share, but that don't happen to fit in with the comic book.

We hope you enjoy the first installment of our web-series, this piece was written by Mario T. Lanao and illustrated/inked by Cristian Garcia and is a part of a mini-series called "Butterball Blues".

Please look forward to our next installment of our web-series!

~Angelica P.R.

Promises and an Expo

I know I promised you all some new updates earlier this month, unfortunately getting a scanner and having one work turned out to b a bit of a hassle. Hopefully I'll be able to show you something very soon!

We also have an announcement to make, we will be attending the 2nd annual Latino Comic Expo. We went to it last year as well and Cristian and Mario even participated in a panel there, so stay tuned for more info on this year's Latino Comic Expo, where you can meet Cristian and Mario and pick up an issue of the comic!

Long Time, No See!

Hey everyone!

Sorry we disappeared off the face of the Earth there for awhile, life just got in the way a bit, you know how it goes. Even though I haven't been updating the blog, I have been posting on our Twitter more frequently, so if you're interested in more frequent updates from us, make sure you follow us there.

Anyway, I'm here to let you know that Mario, Cristian and I have been working on a few different things since our last post and we should be able to share them with you really soon. I'll be posting some new goodies for you to oggle in the near future, we're really excited to share our new stuff with you and we can't wait to hear what you think!

I'll see you soon~

Angelica P.R.

Happy Holidays Everyone

Happy Holidays from all of us here at Reluctant Zero!
We hope that all of you are enjoying this holiday season with friends and family.

We got a letter from WonderCon a few weeks ago letting us know that we had gotten into the Con for the second year in a row! We were very excited and happy to get the letter, but sadly we will not be able to attend this time around. Due to the move to Anaheim and the due date for the table payment being much too close to Christmas, it simply isn't within our budget to go. Hopefully we will see you ate APE this fall and if we are in a better place financially next year, maybe at WonderCon too!

If you haven't gotten your comic loving friends and family a gift yet don't forget that you can order the comics from us directly on the blog through PayPal!

Happy Holidays,
Angelica P.R.

Thanksgiving and Progress

Hey Everyone!!

Long time no see, how was everyone's Thanksgiving, and if you don't celebrate it, then how was your day(s) off?

We all had a great time with our prospective families and now that it's December were back on track with the comic.

Yesterday Cristian, Mario, and I met up at our local stop, The Dubliner to discuss where the story will be going in the next few issues and we have up to the story line in issue 5 done. Not too shabby for the huge lack of updates here, right? I can't tell you what the issues are about just yet, but maybe if everyone asks real nice Mario will let me reveal some clues!

We hope your December started off well and we'll see you soon!

Till Next Time,

Angelica P.R.

Fall's Going by so Fast!

Hey all, I'm sorry it's been so long since my last post!

It's been pretty slow going since APE ended, and with the holidays coming up, it's not likely to get any easier.

I do have some good news though! Mario has finished the first two pages of dialogue for issue two, and Cristian has been working on several pieces of original concept art that he will hopefully be able to sell at our next convention. And speaking of conventions I faxed our application to WonderCon in finally and now we're just waiting to see if we get in, cross your fingers for us everyone!!

We hope everyone had a great Halloween this year, we had a great time! I was a unicorn, Mario was Mario from the video game and Cristian was Harry Potter one night and Wolverine the next day. What were you??

Till Next Time,

~Angelica

Just Checking In

Hey everybody,

It's been 20 days since APE, and were just starting to really get back on track, the break was nice, but it's time to get down to business! And again, if you have something you would like to publish, please let us know, as we would love to have you under the Vagabond umbrella :)

What is everyone going to be for Halloween this year? I'm making my costume, as I've decided to be a unicorn, I don't know if the boys have any solid plans yet I guess we'll just have to wait till Halloween to see what they plan!

We'll see you again very soon~

~Angelica P.R.

50th post and the start of a new issue!

Wow, can you guys believe we're already at 50 posts on here? Thanks for sticking with us through it all, and if you're new, thanks again for joining, we really appreciate it!

Cristian and Mario had their first preliminary meet up this week to discuss issue two, and Cristian should be able to start drawing this weekend as long as the dialogue and mock-ups work themselves out. We've been selling pretty well to our friends, co-workers, and classmates, if you haven't picked up an issue yet, or if you can't buy one in person, don't worry, we have a Paypal account, just shoot us a message and we'll get back to you with an invoice.

I'll be faxing our entry to WonderCon today, wish us luck on getting in everyone!!

And if you are a writer or an artist, or both, please feel free to submit your work to us, because we would love to publish you under Vagabond Comics and help you meet other people to work with!

I hope everyone is excited for the strt of the new season of The Walking Dead, you can bet that we are!

Till next time everyone,

~Angleica

APE Photos!

Here's what the booth looked like, Keith was there on Saturday, but unfortunately had to go to his dreaded "day job" on Sunday. Cristian managed to bring our good luck charm, Yoda both days though :) What do you think of the comic cover?

Here you can see Mario schmoozin' with potential customers, and you can even see Keith there in the background!

Here's the whole group of people that we hung out with most of the weekend, minus a few other artist friends who had booths further away from ours.

And finally, here I am enjoying the issue back behind our booth, it has some great jokes and art in it!

I hope you enjoyed seeing the pictures if you couldn't stop by and see us for real!

Till next time,

~Angelica

APE Wrap-up

So, as you all know, APE was this past weekend, and it was here that we debuted the first issue of Reluctant Zero! Though traffic throughout the con wasn't as high as it had been in past years due to several other events happening the same weekend, we still view the con and the whole weekend really, as a huge success. We traded comics with other retailers, saw old friends, and debuted our parent company, Vagabond Comics. If you are interesting in publishing your work under our umbrella let me know, we are always happy to take submissions and give feedback.

We sold a fair number of comics, especially for an unknown comic, and we are already ready to start work on issue two, which should be for sale at WonderCon in spring. Cristian and Keith also got inspired to create prints to sell at the next con as well.

If you are interested in purchasing the comic, please comment here or on our Facebook Page with your Paypal address and physical address, and I will invoice you :)

All the pictures will be in the next post!

See you soon,

~Angelica P.R.

Ape is HERE!!

APE begins the day after tomorrow, so as you can all imagine, this week has been hectic to say the least. On Tuesday we received a proof of the first issue and went over some changes we needed to make to it, before okaying it for printing. We will be picking up the final copy either tonight or tomorrow, along with our business cards. If you're interested in who did our printing, they will be advertising on the back of our comic, so make sure you read through the whole thing!

This is our third convention, so we sort of know what to expect when it comes to things like setting up and whatnot, it's nice not to have to worry about the con itself, and just focus on our product. Tomorrow we'll pack up all of our stuff to take with us on Saturday and probably make ourselves something to take for lunch so we won't have to leave the booth too much.

I'm not sure if we'll be taking card, so make sure you bring some cash with you to purchase the comic! And some prints from our illustrator and our inker!

See you this weekend at booth 613!!

~Angelica P.R.

Less then 10 days till APE!!

All the pencils are done, and now it is up to Keith to ink and Mario to apply all of his dialogue to the pages, and we'll be ready to print! It's been so great to see the whole comic come together, and we are all very excited to show it to all of you and to her what you think of it. Check out the APE website for details about the Con and info on where and how to purchase your tickets!

Everyone has been working really hard this past month to get things done, and as things get down to the wire they have really gotten going. If you ever thought juggling school and work was stressful, try adding making a comic book to that mix and you'll see what we mean! Haha

Cristian's friend Ricardo is going to be doing the printing for us, we'll be posting his company's information later to give you guys a good printing resource, weather it's for comics or business cards(he's doing both of ours).

Sorry for the lack of updates recently, I finally had to download Google Chrome to be able to post, so there should be no more unexpected delays.

See you all next week!

~Angelica P.R.

One Page to Go!!

One pencil to go everybody!!!

After that all Cristian needs to work on is the cover art and the rest is up to our inker Kieth to take care of.

It's really awesome to finally see the first issue finishing up, it's been quiet the journy, nine months of hard work on our end, especially Mario and Cistian, and now Keith as well. I'm very happy with the way the issue has turned out, and we can't wait to share it with all of you at APE in less then a month!!

No it's down to all the technical stuff again, printing the comic and buisness cards, and if Cristian has time, some original pieces or fan art to have at the booth as well.

Thanks for all of your support you guys, see you very soon!

~Angelica P.R.

Check Out the Tim Lincecum Facebook Page

Cristian is just about finished with all the pencils for the first issue, he's got a handful to go and then we'll just need Keith to ink them all and get them printed! We have a month to go, and we're right on schedule, things were a little hectic there for awhile, but we finally have everything on track. All we need is that dang seller's permit, which hopefully we can get within the next week.

Also, make sure you check out the Tim Lincecum page on Facebook because our inker Keith is having his artwork featured there right now, support a fellow nerd you guys and gals!

Cristian and Mario also met up again last night to talk about the comic and about WonderCon's move to Anaheim. We also gave him some more scanned pencils so he can get those to Keith. Almost done everyone!

See you next week!

~Angelica

More APE news and a posting change

So we're all back in school here at Reluctant Zero, but don't worry, production hasn't slowed in the slightest! Cristian keeps finishing pages, if fact he finished another one last night, and Mario's good friend Kieth has begun inking the finished pages. We paid for our table last week and just recived confirmation of our table number, we'll be at booth 613, so make sure you come by to pay us a visit!

And don't forget to check out our good friend and fellow nerdy creator Steph, she runs the crft company Nerd Jerk, and you can find a link to her blog in our sidebar--->

This week we need to fax in our ad information for the program book, as well as getting our seller's permit, that whole driving and parking in the financial district during a work day is not encouraging us to get this done though! haha Hopefully we'll have that sorted out by the end of the month though.

I also wanted to let you all know that I will most likely be changing the posting day from Tuesday to Wednesday because of my school schedule.

See you all next week,

~Angelica P.R.

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Meetings and Progress

Saturday Cristian, Mario, and I went and met up with Mario's friend Kieth who's going to be doing our inking to discuss the panels and the time frame that he has to work with. As well as answering any questions he may have about the existing panels. The meeting went really well, and he will be joining our booth at APE as well. Make sure you stop by the booth so you can meet the whole comic team, and even if you don't buy an issue, you're welcome to pester the boys about the comic book making process itself. We hope to see you there!
Cristian's been working a really fast pace, and things are looking really good, so as long as we can keep up with our time frame, everything should look great at APE!
Plus, Cristian's co-worker is going to be able to give us a deal on printing as well! Things are really working out, I can't wait to see the finished product, and to share it with all of you!

Also, for any Marvel fans following us, make sure you check out the Tokidoki x Marvel collaboration blind box vinyls, they're really awesome, we're trying to collect them all!

Till Next Time,
~Angelica P.R.

Some Good News, A Mini Update

Cristian is making good progress on this issue and he has set himself a goal to try and finish the pencils by the end of the month that way we'll have ample time to get them to our inker, Keith. Hopefully everything runs smoothly so we can be ready in time for APE in October!
Things to do:
1)Finish the pencils
2)Get the pages inked
4)Print the comic
3)Get our seller's permit

Wish all luck in getting everything ready in time!!!

See you next week,
~Angelica P.R.

I'm back! So here's some art for you!

I got back from vacation on Tuesday, I hope you all enjoyed Cristian's blog post in my absence and I apologize for being so late with the entry this week.

This week, I thought that I would give you all a peak at the other types of artwork that Cristian does, since I can't show you pictures of the comic.
These paintings are from his figure drawing class last semester, let us know what you think!
Enjoy:

I know this blog is about a comic book, but hopefully you enjoyed the paintings nonetheless!
Also, make sure you go watch The Rise of the Planet of the Apes this weekend, we saw it last night and it was actually really well done and even gave a nod or two to the previous films.

Till next time everyone,

~Angelica P.R.