FrankenCon, El Paso TX

We have been working on completing a new novella-length work (sorry for the lack of updates!). But just you wait until you see Resurrectionist. It is awesome and we are still hoping to have it to the press before the end of the year.

Meanwhile, this coming Halloween weekend Here there Be Monsters is at FrankenCon in our original hometown, El Paso, Texas. If you are in the southwest stop in to visit and pick up a copy of our preview for Resurrectionist!

And if you're not from the southwest, come on down and visit anyway, I'm sure the pools are still open in Texas!

Happy Halloween everyone!

Comic Con is on the horizon

This year, like every year we will be at Comic Con showing in the small press area (which hopefully won't get any smaller, as it seems printed media is getting squeezed out of the convention by big flashy media crap). Personally I think there's a place for both under the same roof, but the balance has definitely been toward the later in recent shows. Still, we are holding our own and keeping positive thoughts for a successful time at the convention next week!

Stop by our booth to check out a preview of our awesome new book, Resurrectionist. In addition to the trade paperbacks of Eleison and Jack this year, this all-new story investigates werewolves, grave-digging, cannibalism, and other well-regarded family values!



Finally, come by to see all new art by Jaime! And it's for sale too, don't forget, so if you see anything you like on the website or in the gallery, feel free to inquire! We're looking forward to seeing you in San Diego!

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Phoenix Comic Con!

This weekend, Here There Be Monsters Press is at the Phoenix Comic Con (booth #666, perhaps appropriately?). If you are in the area and have a chance to stop by, please do!



We're still working on our new book, but this year we have Jack in a trade paperback (collecting the complete 2-issue story into one lovely and highly affordable volume). We will be bringing this along with our new book to San Diego in July.

Progress in all its progressiveness

If it's been very quiet around here, it's because we're working hard to being something new to Comic Con this year. Aside from fighting with the website, that is. Hope you like the new gateway and the new banners. Progress is slow, but assured.

Also, it being Friday the 13th (the luckiest of days!), we're celebrating by getting The Orchard back online. While our previous home for the online serial fell to pieces and the alternative we had in place did not work out, we've decided to host it here ourselves. You can see its new space here and we will have the archive up and running before the weekend is out.

As for what we are bringing to Comic Con 2011, we are very excited to have werewolves, cannibalism, and other sundry strangeness as previously promised. Resurrectionist is a non-traditional werewolf story set in Antebellum America in a sleepy little Pennsylvanian hamlet. And that's about all I am going to say about it for now except to reassure you that there are no full moons or silver bullets in this one; and the werewolf "curse" has a surprising origin.



The image above is just a color study for one of the beautiful double-page spread interior images in the book. I'll be sharing more artwork and tidbits before the July convention, including the stunning cover for this new work!

Something Like an Update!

If you're wondering why there have been no updates on The Orchard or anything else lately, it's because we're trying to find The Orchard a new home! For a long while the story has been hosted at Webcomics Nation, but we've had so many problems with the site we wanted to find a place to keep The Orchard happily running in a space of its own. I have been trying (unsuccessfully) to install ComicPress on this site, but haven't been able to do so in a subdirectory (it wants to be top dog!). Since I have no intention of getting rid of Nucleus (which is what is currently powering this blog and others on this website), I am still struggling to find a solution.

Struggling in general, I guess.

I am hoping with the upcoming holidays, I will have more time and energy to focus on redesigning the site and freshening up the content here. For those of you who are checking it, we really appreciate your patience! Life would be so much easier if we could all quit our day jobs and just do what we love for a living, right?

In the meantime, I share with you an image of a creature character from a rejected script about coal mines and firefighters for a proposed story called Abaddon (we've opted to go with werewolves instead ~ and more on that later). Anyway, we affectionately named this one Shumbly.

SDCC: A Success Story!

We are finally recovering from the whirlwind that was Comic Con 2010 and will be back on schedule soon, I hope, with new projects and updates to our online story, but I wanted say a few words to everyone who stopped by and visited our booth: thank you! The most fun we have at Comic Con every year is meeting new people and talking about the wonderful world of comics and small press publishing.

It's true, Comic Con's increasing focus on media-related pop culture has left the small press area a bit dwindling and bewildered, unfortunately, but to every one of you who came by, said hello, and maybe found your way to this website as a result, thank you for making our show a success! We were excited to bring the trade edition of Eleison with us this year (our first trade!), and even though we were a little disappointed with ourselves for not having Resurrectionist ready, it was fun to promote it and see the enthusiasm for it. We're looking forward to getting it on the table next year in all it's glory!

Comic Con 2010

Here there be Monsters Press will be at Comic Con tonight through Sunday, July 25th. For anyone and everyone attending, drop by our booth in the Small Press area! You can pick up an limited edition mini-comic for The Orchard (and get this: they are free!).

Also, you will be able to check out our fabulous trade edition of Eleison which includes some all-new artwork and sketches. Also, this year we are displaying in the gallery with plenty of new paintings from the artist. You can see some of that new work at his gallery here.

2010 is the year of the Trade

Howdy all! I am wandering through, having been rather negligent of updating for some time. We got the trade edition of Eleison off to the printer, which is exciting (that's the cover spread below). The book is very cool, includes the first six issues, and has a sketch gallery full of character and creature drawings. There is also new artwork included in the trade that was not included in the original issues. We have a new printer and we are excited about that as well (we had a lot of trouble in the past with the local printers, which is sad because you try to keep the work in the community, but it just wasn't working out). We're confident our new choice to shop the work out of state will have fabulous results.

And with the trade in hand, we're off to ComicCon later in July. Sadly we did not have time to get the werewolves onto the plate this year, but they will follow soon and you can see the promotional poster, which is pretty darn awesome.

Right now it's all i can do to try to wrap my brain around overhauling the website (it sorely needs it). If I can get this overhauled before ComicCon, that would be ideal, but don't anybody hold their breath.

Short but sweet San Diego Comic Con Podcast ~

Thank you to the guys at Forbidden Panel who came around to our booth and got me on the spot to offer a short promo podcast about our work with Here There be Monsters press. This was about the most coherent I was for the whole show ~ fortunately I sound like I know what I am talking about!

Click to listen!

For those of you who don't know me personally, this is your chance to hear my bizarre voice (ack!). Yes, I talk funny. Everyone says so.