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.

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.

Latino Comics Expo 2011

As you all know, we attended the first ever Latino Comics Expo this weekend right here in San Francisco at the Cartoon Art Museum, and we had a blast!

The first day it was just Mario and myself manning our makeshift table at the front along with our friend Ed who is working on his own graphic novel because Cristian wasn't able to get the day off. I manned the booth most of the day while Mario networked and attended panels. I did get to attend the "History of Latino Comics" panel, which was really interesting since I am both a history major and a fan of comics.

Sunday was a blast though, we had a table in the main room and the whole team was there promoting and networking like crazy.

Cristian and Mario got some great publicity and signed quiet a few posters, including someone's guitar!

They also participated in a panel about self-publishing comic books along with some other comic book artists, Jaime Crespo, Rafael Navarro, and Javier Hernadez. The panel was about an hour long and went really well, hopefully we can get the video up and running soon.
Hooray for Reluctant Zero's first panel!We all had a wonderful time socializing and meeting other Latino artists and spreading the word about Reluctant Zero to an audience which doesn't often get as much notoriety as it should. We can't wait for the next Latino Comics Expo!

~Angelica P.R.

WonderCon 2011 Photo Post

You've all had a chance to read about how our WonderCon went, now you can take a peak at how things actually looked! From the booth and the boys, to the fans and interviews, it was a crazy fun weekend packed with all sorts of intrigues, take a look below!

This is what the booth looked like on Thursday before set-up.

And here's what it looked like Friday morning before the chaos of the Con began.

We had a really good response from everyone, as you can see here.

As you already know, we were also interviewed by Twit.tv, this is what it looked like:And this:

And finally, all three of us right before closing up shop on Sunday!

Thanks for looking everyone, we hope you enjoyed the photos, and our interview if you weren't able to attend the Con itself. Let us know what you think!

~Angelica P.R.

WonderCon Re-Cap

Well everyone, we did it, WonderCon is finally over and it was a huge success for us here at Reluctant Zero. We passed out all of our free preview issues and stickers, and had a great amount of interest in both Mario's writing samples and Cristian's art portfolios. And we were even interviewed for a live webcast on Saturday, which we will be posting a link to as soon as it is sent to us!

We met some wonderful artists, made some really great friends, and thoroughly enjoyed the entire Con. We were even in the same row as Elvira and got a chance to meet Robert Kirkman, the writer of The Walking Dead, as well as getting the oppertunity to purchase the X-Men/SF Giants variant cover!

All in all this WonderCon was a huge success and we look forward to attending several more cons this year and hopefully you will see us again at WonderCon next year. Don't take your eyes off us anytime soon, because things are moving quickly!
Look forward to pictures from the Con later in the week and too more updates on our progress.

And don't forget to add our new website to your favorites, http://reluctantzero.com/

See you soon,
~ Angelica P.R.