It is Official!

“Johnny Saturn: Synns of the Father” trade paperback is now available for order through Amazon.com!

This 132 page, full-color graphic novel is the first, complete story arc of the battle between underdog mystery man, Johnny Saturn, and his worse enemy, Dr. Horatio Synn, a master terrorist bent on proving his theory of creating ultimate Chaos using Johnny Saturn’s hometown of Spire City as his testing ground. And not only does Johnny Saturn have to stop Dr. Synn, he has to fight Spire City’s group of superheroes, the Squadron Premiere, lead by The Utopian, who believes that fighting world-class criminals should be left to those with meta-powers. But not even Heaven or Hell can stop Johnny Saturn from doing his job.

Described as “The best post-modern, deconstructionist, paranormal, superhero, crime noir comic with mythological overtones there is!” Johnny Saturn is the underdog who bites back!

Please take a moment to check out Scott and Benita’s comics at www.johnnysaturn.com and Scott’s other illustrations at www.scottstoryillustrator.com/

Thanks to Pat, Ed, Mike, Wayne, Bob, Lee and Sam for coming out for the June IWG meetup. We have no jam comic or pictures from this meetup, better luck next time. I did learn that we Indy Webcomicers are all huge movie buffs. This leads me to suggest we get together for a cookout for the next meetup and throw on a good flick we can all watch and talk about. Lets try the second Sunday in July for the next one. Who all can make it July 13th?

~Lee

Hey all. Wanted to take a quick moment to draw to your attention a couple of new sites from some of our fellow Hoosier cartoonists.

Darren Strecker has a new art blog, which I’ve linked on our sidebar. Darren is a friend of IWG who we hope will join us again soon for a meetup. The bio on his new blog says it best so I’ll just add my bit by saying I love Darren’s work and can’t get enough of it. Please support our friend by visiting his blog and checking out the impressive work he’s shared so far.

David Reddick is a man of no small renown. His truly staggering list of comic strips he’s responsible for includes: Star Trek/CBS Studios (”The Trek Life” comic strip), Roddenberry Productions (”Gene’s Journal” and “Rod & Barry” comic strips), “Legend of Bill” at SoulGeek.com, and full-time cartoonist for “Garfield.” Speaking of Legend of Bill, David is now very close to launching this, his newest comic strip and partnership with Tall Tale Features. Time spent reading David’s comics has probably contributed to the recent economic recession due to too many people reading comics at work. Do your part! Take an extra long lunch break and check out David’s work.

That’s all for me right now. Don’t forget we need suggestions for a location for our next meetup that looks like it’s going to happen Sunday, June 1st.

Take care,
-Lee

Hello IWG,

Thanks to Bob, Ed, and Sam for joining me at Old Point Tavern, Sunday night. And apologies to Jennifer who missed us at Old Point due to our incredible power to blend in with the crowd. We hope you’ll come out next time, and we’ll all wear hilarious hats so you’ll be able to find us.

Well, you all don’t have to but I’m gonna.

You can see pictures of our meetup by clicking on the above preview image. Thanks to Ed for bringing a camera. Old Point was great, as was expected. It was a beautiful day and there were a lot of people taking advantage of the nice weather.

We did get a jam comic strip completed. I’ll be posting it here, very soon. It’d be up by now but this seemingly harmless comic strip which started off being about discount shoes, ended up a horrifically racist train wreck of a comic. I begged and pleaded with each cartoonist as they worked on their additions to the strip, to please clean it up and save this strip from potential scandal and indecency. And each one, in turn, laughed in my face and pushed this totally innocent comic strip further into awful political incorrectness with each pencil stroke. There was nothing I could do. But Ed’s Asian and he said it was okay, so I’m posting it.

God help us.

~Lee

Hello everyone!
Spring is here and I hope you’re all doing well!! This is a last minute reminder that this Friday is the Wheeler Arts Community Spring Open House! There will be lots of open studios (including mine), live music, other performances, wine, snacks, etc. Guaranteed to be a lovely and fun evening. The event starts at 5:30pm and goes until 10:30. Hope to see you there!

Sincerely,

Amory

As I so rarely (read: hardly ever) use this space to promote my own projects, no one is going to mind if I share some news of my latest project. I’ve been working with talented artist and writer Mike Mann on a new fantasy epic comic book titled Wulflorne. Mike is the author and colorist and I’m providing pencils and inks. You can read about this and other projects under Mike’s new production label at Modsprocket.com. We have the first promotional art for the book available in the form of high quality art prints. I’ll have a small quantity with me at Ubercon in New Jersey this weekend. I’m sure I’ll have some left over when I return.

Also, our Samantha Allen has just collected 32 pages of her comics and illustrations in one great looking book she’s releasing as Random Assembly Presents: Tease.
You can get Sam’s book straight from her if you’d like one with an artist’s sketch and a signature, or order direct from her Lulu store. Sam will also have these with her at Ubercon this weekend.

That’s it for now. We still need to hear back about who can make it to the next meetup at Old Point Tavern, May 4th. Expect an email, shortly.

-Lee