Blog Entries tagged 'CCCN'

Everybody into the Pool!

Tenzil Kem

Hoo-hah!!!! It's summertime and the living is easy (or so Janis would have us believe). Time to get into the pool, and I don't mean only the one in your neighbours back yard! Everyone knows the CCCN books are nearly finished and will be released SOON! Hopefully everyone is looking forward to this as much as all the creative talent that has been engaged with them is. To this end, the date of this launch is top secret, known only to a handful of executives [...]

Deutschmaschine nearing completion

Fetternity

Creating a comic seems easy. Writing it is a labor of love indulged by a dream-like trance.

Editing it.... not so much. Thank Cthulhu (Ïa! Ïa Dagon! Ïa Cthulhu!!) that this team is very open and talented. Ladies and gentlemen, the hard-working artists behind Deutschmaschine:

I stated before that the first version of Gabriele by Santiago scared mea bit. And he put that fear to rest swiftly. His pages are structurally sound, very solid and clean work. I don't [...]

The Writer, The Idea and The Involved Member (or not)

Tenzil Kem

First, let me say how great it has been the past few days to see the level of bloggage increasing again on this site. It was a sad and lonely few weeks there, whistling into the darkness, hoping no monsters lurked in the bushes or beneath the beds. Having said that, a number of the blogs and comments have brought to the forefront for me a topic that has been percolating for some time now.

What are we looking for here?

Great ideas?

Great writers?

Members who [...]

Startin' the Hype Machine early

WillGibson

So I don't have any huge revelations to make here, really. But I just like to stay present, so I'm gonna blog. And what is a blog if not a place to just, you know, spout off a bunch of junk? Nothin', that's what.

Anyways, firstly: I'm very... eager to see the CCN comics go live. Alma is coming along, one day at a time, and I'm looking forward to it being finished in a manner that makes everyone involved very proud of it. [...]

Rebooting the Credits

Tenzil Kem

Anyone out there checked out the Reboot comic yet? Pretty cool, right? I think it's a safe assumption that the CCCN winning comics will use the same reader and have the same general format, so based on that guess will the inside of the front cover work the same? Right now I had planned to put the story credits for Minus One on page one, but if there actually is going to be a cover, a point I covered in a previous post it makes total sense to have the credits on the insid [...]

Taking advantage of the C:CCN hiatus

Ivy Crow

Hello everyone!

First I apologize for my lack of participation in the last month or so. I have been overwhelmed by different projects, the end of semester, getting ready for grad school, etc...

Now, I finally have some free time + a great work schedule, which means I'll have more time to spend here. :) I really want to take advantage of the hiatus to update and revamp my pitch Polarity.

I always swore to mys [...]

From A to Z

Tenzil Kem

Today's blog is brought to you by the letters A to Z (that's Zed for our American friends) and the number 12. Or perhaps that number should be slightly higher. We'll see.

You see, boys and girls, the topic today is letters. And I'm not talking about the letters that fill up Andrew Foley's word balloonery, as interesting and as well thought out as those are.

I'm talking letters here, as in letters to the editor written to you favourite (or [...]

Move Along: Nothing To See Here!

Tenzil Kem

Hey everybody, it's me Asclepius. I've hijacked Tenzil's blog with some Trojan Horse spyware - don't ask! I probably don't have much time before they catch on so let me get to the point. Titan.inc will be back soon but don't be fooled. His little "fishing trip" has obviously been a cover for their insidious plans to turnor replace him. You've probably noticed that Fetternity is "going to a wedding" too and thus has [...]

Week X - Deuschmaschine

Fetternity

(disclaimer: enormous blog post with loads of pictures)

I write Week X because, in all honesty, I have no idea how long it’s been since Jive-A-Tastic Julian Lawrence received the assignment of editing Deutschmaschine. Time has been evolving at a strange pace since the appearance of the Keeper of the Gate and Key on that edition of The Gutter…

However, now I figured I might as well talk about it a bit now, hu [...]

APTN CCN

Fetternity

This is awesome!! CCN goes Aboriginal!

And what a neat idea, too. I literally cannot wait to see what gets produced! :)

In the news...

mariathedreamer

I'm not sure I have any profound comment on this news item, but I thought someone would have been chatting about it over here. Maybe I've missed that blog?

Anyways, so Rainmaker has done a deal to produce a series of animated movie's based on Stan Lee's new creation, Legion of 5.

Of course, I know for a fact that Rainmaker would be far better off having swung a multi-million dollar deal with me and Z2H for Rip Current.... but any comments on this? Is thi [...]

Making time

Fetternity

...ooooh boy am I fat... Why is it that every time I want to order something relatively healthy to be delivered at work it's always 1) a jacuzzi-sized platter and 2) loaded with everything that makes it tasty too easily, i.e. fat, sugars and salt?

Anyway.

I'm saying this because I need the fat and energy; I'm running on pretty low batteries right now. Everyone except my girlfriend and I have or are currently sick with the flu or a vicious cold or something, and I'm [...]

The Rest of the Story

Tenzil Kem

Paul Harvey does this little radio show and it's really cool, so I've stolen his title for this Blog.

Gather round the campfire and make yourself comfortable. Mind you don't get too close to the flames. You all know that CCCN has been going on for a few months and that there have been twelve winning stories so far from Blake Undying to November's Song. This, however, is not the end of the story.

Our story begins with the discovery of a journal. Seems there was [...]

Where the talent and creativity is

Tenzil Kem

Now that round one (of hopefully many) of the CCCN is over it is time to tally the score and determine just where the talent, creativity and imagination in this country comes from. Hmmm, let's see. A quick peek at the leader board reveals one winner each from the Mosquito Capital of the world and Lobster Land so those can be quickly discounted. Montreal, in La Belle Province, has deux winners, but one of those obviously inherited his writing skills and talents during his [...]

Discussions

Fetternity

I have a Livejournal, but I usually talk more about my art-related feelings here. Maybe I should x-post once in a while.

Subject the First: Bill Cosby releases a hip-hop album
This got me furiously amused. He's now what, 90? Hip-hop? All I could do is walk around the office spreading the news to my employees and we got so many laughs over it. Even African-Americans around the office were amused. One was amused, too, but she also pointed out the strongly-critical vie [...]

The Hollow Men - A Chat With Steven Menszer

Lord Maim

Recently Steven Menszer (of Gravedigger fame, check it out!) took the time to go over The Hollow Men and provide some helpful feedback. I started responding in thecomments on the pitch itself, but since the comments field is so narrow, I figured it would be easier to blog my responses instead, but before I go on I'd like to thank you for the feedback Steven. You've made some interesting points that I'd like to touch upon.

Go Goth or Go Home

Tenzil Kem

Just wanted to update those of you who still have an uncast vote that I have added some pages to Gothamer Strands and will add more before Sunday. Check it out if you haven't done so or haven't been by for a while. I have no illusions about winning the CCCN this week but it never hurts to drum up some support!

Polymath self-pressure

Fetternity

A little blogging about ambitions and goals.

When I started high school, I wanted to be an architect. I felt that would have been a good life. Designing buildings and their interior, structuring the whole thing, you know?
Then my Sec. I career orientation teacher informed me that being an architect also involved in-depth and specialized knowledge of physics and chemistry as part of it all.

That threw the whole idea right out the window.

Onward, it became [...]

The Dirty Dozen

Tenzil Kem

Mind Crimes is the eleventh winner of CCCN* so the time has come to review some pitches for the twelfth and final winner of this phase of the competition. I would like to suggest that this winner will almost certainly come from the pitches currently rated in the top ten -ahem- twelve positions on the charts. It is hard to imagine any pitches farther down making up that much ground, though clearly anything could happen. Personally I will be making my vote on the weekend [...]

Ramblomatic

Fetternity

Hiya gang. Ramblomatic Major here, on an everything-and-nothing rant.

First subject: Voting.
Voting is getting very, very difficult to do for me. Not because there is a lack of good pitches, but because there are, quite simply, too many good pitches out there. It's time for the D-2-D initiative to grab some of the very good pitches on the site (MartialLaw, Obsolescence, Agnes Culpepper, Vinny the Vegan Vampire, Polarity, Why I Hate Zombies, The Tipping Point, to name a f [...]