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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