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.

APE and LOTR

Another late post, I'm sorry I've been so lax in my blogging duties the past two weeks, I promise to go back to your regularly scheduled updates next week. Cristian and I went to watch the director's cut of The Fellowship of the Ring in theaters last night, which is my excuse for this late post. And if you're wondering why Mario didn't go as well, LOTR is not his cup'o'tea, he prefers The Dark Tower series by Stephan King.

Anyway, this week has been very productive. Cristian has finally finished all of the thumbnails, and is set to start making the real pages on the big paper. And yesterday he took a few shots of our friend and model Bunny Lyn to use as reference for, you guessed it, a female character for the comic book. You can check out her portfolio here: http://www.modelmayhem.com/1504507
We also received some wonderful news, WE'RE GOING TO APE!! We just got the email this week, so make sure you get October 1st and 2nd off so you can come on down to San Francisco's Alternative Press Expo and pick up a full edition of Reluctant Zero, meet the creators, and get your swag signed. We look forward to seeing you there and maybe even selling some prints for you guys.

Thanks for your support, things are really starting to come together here and we couldn't have done it without you!
~Angelica P.R.

Facebook and Twitter

If you all take a quick glance to your right, you'll see our new widget listing all the place you can find us while you are out and about on the Internet, including our newly created Facebook and Twitter pages. We really appreciate all the support you guys have all shown us thus far and we hope you'll continue to support us by following or liking us on all of our various sites.

Thanks again everyone!

~Angelica P.R.

Links and Other News

Go check out the website for the Latino Comics Expo and take a look at all the other artists that are going to be there and check out the website for the Cartoon Art Museum, they have some pretty cool exhibits that you can check out when you stop by to see us.

http://www.latinocomicsexpo.com/

http://cartoonart.org/

We only need two more people to like our Facebook page in order to get our own url so make sure you like us over there, increased traffic equals increased motivation! We'll have a Facebook button up here on the site so you can access it easier, also that is a really easy way to contact us and you're more then welcome to add the boys as friends as well.

And you can also RSVP to the Latino Comics Expo event page on there as well, after all, we did.

And you can look forward to some new things at the booth in two weeks as well!

See you soon guys!

~Angelica P.R.

Latino Comics Expo

It looks like we're going to be showing up at a Con a little sooner then we thought!
We've been invited to show our work at the first ever Latino Comics Expo, taking place right here in San Francisco at the Cartoon Art Museum on Saturday May 7th and Sunday May 8th.

Check out their website for more information!
http://cartoonart.org/2011/03/the-first-annual-latino-comics-expo/
Hopefully we'll get to see you there, especially if you weren't able to make it to Wondercon.

~Angelica P.R.

WonderCon Interview on twit.com

Hey everybody, our live web interview is up on twit.com now, so head over, check it out and let us know what you think! Listen to the creators explain what the comic is about in their own words and find out why they are putting it together here:

http://twit.tv/specials71

We appear just after the hour mark, so if you're only interested in our interview you can just jump ahead, if you want to check out what WonderCon looked like this year, then definetly check out the whole video.

Thanks for looking everyone, and 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.

Listen up!

Hey everyone,

This is Cristian's girlfriend making a quick post, Mario and he are hard at work on the comic, and as you all know had their first radio interview just over a week ago. In case you missed hearing them live, you can now download the episode they were on on TalkZone.com, here: http://www.talkzone.com/episodes/199/2623.html

Check it out and comment on how you think they did and what you think of their comic's concept!

Enjoy your Labor Day Weekend!

~The Girlfriend