Meet the Geeks

Mario, a native of San Francisco, was born "in the year of our lord nineteen hundred seventy nine"(H. Thompson). At the tender age of three months, he was whisked away from the shores of the shores of the Bay Area and spent the next four years & change in the third world paradise known as Managua, Nicaragua. He also spent a year in Lima, Peru before returning to the City. The next few years were spent in several institutions, including Long Fellow Elementary, Epiphany School, Archbishop Riordan High School, Academy of Art University, and City College of San Francisco. Mario currently lives in the Lakeview district of San Francisco and is pursuing a career as a writer. When asked to name a few artistic influences, Mario was quoted as saying: "Fuck, that shit'll take forever. Ask me later man".


Cristian grew up in the foggy city of San Francisco watching and loving Disney cartoons, particularly The Three Caballeros, Disney's the Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, The Lonesome Ghosts, and many more. He always loved the idea of drawing and creating characters and stories, but he never had the guts to even start drawing 'til middle school. He stopped drawing in High School, until he finally took another drawing class in his senior year, rekindling his passion for the art. He ended up graduating from the Academy of Art University with a Bachelors in Illustration in 2007.
His favorite Illustrators include: Brian Froud, Justin Sweet, Peter de Seve, Claire Wendling, Craig Mullins, Carlos Huantes, and many more.
His favorite comic artist include: John Romita Jr., and Ariel Olivette.


Angelica is a History major at San Francisco State University focusing on "modern" European history. She hopes to get a Masters in Library Studies and work in an Archive someday. She is also a follower of lolita fashion, and an avid reader. She has ridden horses her whole life, never skips a chance to go to a museum, and have a lust for travel. Angelica believes that butter makes everything better and that meat and bread are the two most important food groups.


That's us! Tune in next week to see what we have in store for you!

~Angelica, P.R.

WonderCon News

Hey everyone, I know we have been very lax about keeping this blog updated up until this point, but from here on out you can expect weekly updates from me, Angelica, the new PR person for our comic/company because Reluctant Zero is going to WonderCon!

We received our acceptance letter a few weeks ago and have been working very, very hard to make sure everything will be perfect for the Con. Everything that we will be putting out at our booth will be FREE, that's right folks, FREE swag at the Reluctant Zero table all weekend, so make sure you stop by to say hi and pick up a preview comic and whatever else you might be interested in.

Remember WonderCon is April 1-3, 2011 located in the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco, don't miss Reluctant Zero's print debut!

~Angelica, P.R.

p.s.
You can expect an official introduction post for the three of us coming later this week.

Back!

Hey folks, I've been busy with work during the Holiday season, which was freaking nuts. And though I've worked very hard and put so much time and effort into it, I have nothing but a near empty back account to show for it. C'est la vie.

Enough of slave labor and more about creating. We're now currently working on the second half of the first issue. Just finished working on some thumb nails, just need to go over them with Mario before I start laying them down on the 'big boy' comic paper. I'll most definitely be posting regularly from now on. Take it easy my fellow nerdites!

Happy Holidays Everyone!

Happy holidays everyone, Cristian and I hope you are all enjoying your holidays and not working too hard. Cristian is working nearly full-time durning the holidays which is why there haven't been any updates the past few weeks, so I figured I'd post a quick update to let you all know how things are going.

The comic is coming along a bit slower right now because of all the work Cristian has been doing, but he and Mario still meet up regularly and they're hoping to get their first issue out this spring. Unfortunatly they were denied a table at WonderCon because there were too many applicants, the Con is going to try and expand the space in order to accomidate all the applicants, so hopefully we'll get in. Otherwise you'll see us walking around the Con slinging comics gorilla style ;P

Cristian started a weekly figure drawing class back in October, but it has been put on hold this month due to the holidays, perhaps I can convince him to post so pictures!

We attended APE in October as well here in San Francisco to check out what other local artists are doing right now. One of our favorite booths is run by a wonderful woman and is called NERD JERK, you should check her work out if you're a gamer.

Look forward to more regular posting after the start of the new year, we're hoping it'll become a weekly thing, and thanks for checking us out and following us this year!

Happy Holidays from Cristian, Mario, and I!!!

~The Girlfriend

Wonder Con

Hello my fellow geeks, and nerds. So I just applied to get a temporary sellers permit and it was a lot easier then I thought it would be. I also over heard other people getting their's for Wonder Con, which is why I was getting mine.

I also faxed in all the paper work to get in to Wonder Con and I called to double check if everything made it and it did. I also asked when they start notifying people if they made it in or not and that's not till mid January! So keep your fingers crossed for us.

In other news, I was asked to do a wedding cake topper. What's nice about it is that the wedding isn't till May. NICE! So much time to get it done. The only problem is I have no idea what they want and I was asked to do a mixed bag of sample heads, so we'll see how it turns out. I will be putting up images of the sketches for the wedding cake topper and progress images of the sculptures as well.

As for the comic, not till the first issue, sorry folks. But I have been getting great responses from close personal friends whom have special privileges and they've liked it so far. Then again, they are my friends and they have to like it, right?

Take it easy and keep a close I on me and Mario.

Comic

What's up folks? Reluctant Zero is moving along, I just finished penciling the first page. It's going a little slower then expected but the point is that it's going. I really want to post up the images and show you guys but honestly you guys wouldn't go out and buy the comic if I did. And so I won't. I might put up some of the concept art the didn't make it to the comic but only if you kiddies are good. That's all for now and take it easy.

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