Holy CRAP! A newspost?!

Yeah, I don't do many of these, do I? I suppose I should, or something.

As you can see, the main story of The Path is taking a bit of a break to bring a side-story/prequel story in order to buy myself some time on reworking some of the next few issues. SHAMELESS STALLING PLOY, HOOOOOOOO!

The current story, "The Cutty Black Sow", is the first Chance McGavin story I ever wrote, and is loosely based on both the Irish folk tale and the episode of "Tales From the Darkside" by the same name.

Following Cutty Black Sow will be a another short one in honor of Halloween entitled "Old Horn Head" and will play up Cernunnos' Lord of the Hunt aspect. Something that is, sometimes, associated with Halloween (or Samhain, rather).

Then we'll be back to the regular story.

Also, plan on being at Wizard World Texas in November? Well, then you should come check out me and my Mediocre Militia cohorts in the Artists' Alley!

And that's that for now.
-Riot

The Path gets a facelift

So, in preparation of Diamond-ness, I've been going back to old pages of The Path and gussying them up a bit. Adding the crosshatching I've been using lately, and in some cases, replacing panels that I didn't like. Then, it hit me:

I don't really like ANY of my old pages. Like, at ALL.

If I'm not too fond of them, I could only imagine what people in shops nation-wide would think. Don't get me wrong, The Path's selling well...but I've grown into the style I set out to do it in. The pages from issues 4 and 5 are way better than the pages in issues 1-3.

So I started redrawing them. ALL of them. Below is a "Before and after" example of what I've been doing. This is also giving me the chance to tweak some issues I've come across in the story now that I have the advantage of hindsight. I think that you'll agree that the new version is going to kick all kinds of ass. ALL. KINDS. OF. ASS. Yes, even THAT kind.



-Riot!

I'm the Lord of the Wasteland, a Modern-day Man of Steel.

I was raised by the demons,
Trained to reign as the one.
GOD OF THUNDER! AND ROCK AND RO-WO-WOOAAALLLLL!

I fucking love that song. From now on, you are all required to refer to me as The God of Thunder and Rock and Ro-wo-wooaaalllll. And you have to say it like that, too. THIS, I COMMAND!

ANYWAYS, cool things are going on. The Path is selling well at conventions. I've been getting a fair amount of freelance work. The Path has yet ANOTHER mirror over at the Rampage Network...click here to check it out. The layout's actually pretty nifty if I do say so myself (I designed it).

Romantic life is looking up. Professional life is looking up. Oh, and did I mention I have a fucking MOUNTAIN OF BEER in my garage? Life is GOOD.

Those of you that are going to be at A-kon this upcoming weekend in Dallas, well...you should come mosey down to the Artists' Alley (Where I BELONG. Booths are cool and all, but I miss the artist alley.). Why-ever-for? Oh, only because I'll be there. I'll be there with my sometimes partners-in-crime/nifty publishers Bohemian Trash Studios promoting/selling comics, doing sketches, and at some point I'll be on a panel talking about story-driven comics. It will be INFORMATIVE! Come learn the secrets behind my God-like awesomeness and sun-like aura of gold! Or, y'know, come listen to how Lovecraft scarred me for life and now I'm a belligerent drunkard to interweaves the Cthulhu Mythos with every other mythology I come across and leave mutated mythological love-children behind. Either way.

That's it for now, children Go forth and spread chaos. Crawling chaos.

-Riot!

I'm subtle.

The Path updates today, as did The Rioteer!
Exciting!

THE NEW BLOOD FORCE X-DIVERS EXTREME FORCE EXTREME! (or: What we did at NY Comic Con)

It belongs in a MUSEUM!

With a bit of a rocky start due to airline shenanigans, Bohemian Trash Studios made a damn good showing at New York Comic Con '08! The Path sold great. Star-Crossed Destiny sold great. Dis: Life is Hell sold great. Zona sold great. Sketches were sold, prints were sold, and people kept coming to the booth looking for the creators of the comics we had.

Like with most cons, inside jokes were flying like bullets at a rap show. It was a good weekend, albeit a rather sleepless one. Also, Juno looks so much like my Aunt Jane that it's creepy. We remain convinced we are related somehow.

But you guys don't give a crap about that. You want PICTURES! Well, you'll have to settle with pics from Sunday...because it's all I've got at the moment.


Riot and Jojo

Juno and Jojo

Check out that rack (The comic one. It was pretty cool.)

A blurry pic of the banners. There's a better one somewhere. I'll post it when I find it.


Oh, and one video of Juno rocking out.


Tune in next time for a little about the single greatest story EVER: D.I.V.E.R.S.

-Riot!

Antisocial: Replacement Friends

This is 150% TRUE. I like Muppets way better than people. A fact I tend to remind my friends of every time I get drunk.


The Path updates today, too. Rejoice.

-Riot!

Antisocial: Corporate Rat Race

This kind of shit actually happens to me all the time.


Don't forget: The Path #1 is on sale NOW! Click here to get your copy before it hits stores!

-Riot!

Antisocial: No One Will Get This

So, yeah. No one will really get today's Antisocial. That's ok, though. Maybe one or two of you will, and it'll give you a chuckle. Lisa's one of those unattainably hot/cool trendy girls who works at this little hole-in-the-wall record store that I always go into looking for weird shit. Our conversations are exactly like this: song quotes. Nothing more.


Also, issue #1 of The Path is on sale NOW! Click here to get yourself a copy!

-Riot

Long Over-due Update

Yeah, i should actually post here every once in a while, huh?

Let's see...where to begin?

Wizard World La was fun. Mainly because the weekend really consisted of Carly and me making fun of each other while doing sketches and drawings for people. Carly was doing quick sketches of people for $1 and probably did about 300 sketches by the time we closed up shop on Sunday. I did half that number (because I did mine in color), but still made some decent money. I plan to spend it on beer.

I met Angus Oblong, who is really cool, and am working on getting him to do a guest cover. I'm offering booze, so he might take it. Also, the ridiculously gorgeous girl working his booth with him thought I was cute and gave me her number. Clearly, this means she's insane, but we all know I likes my women good n' crazy.

Speaking of booze, I kept smuggling it into the show. Fun times were had by all.

The nice people at the table next to us bought sketches from Carly and myself, and even gave us cookies! Even better than cookies, I was given commissions for a comic art gallery because everyone digs my marker work. Really, who can blame them? I'm fucking awesome at it.

The Path has found a home in the print media! After shopping it around, and fielding a few offers, I decided to go with Bohemian Trash Studios. Mainly because I really dig Juno's comic "Star Crossed Destiny", and The Path'd be coming out in print alongside it. Plus, they're not making me change any of the more disturbing aspects of The Path like some of the other studios wanted me to. The Path's print run debuts at New York Comic Con in April, and will be available...um...in places and on-line.I'll post info and links as I get them.

Even crazier than the rest...I got an offer to pitch The Path to Dreamworks! Fuckin' A! Apparently the gentleman that came by liked the strange premises (premisees? premisai?) of The Path and The Rioteer and wants me to pitch ideas to the studio. I figured this was just some fruitless gabbing on his part, but he found me again the next day with several other men in suits in tow and made sure to introduce me to all of them and give me cards and make sure I was going to call to set up an appointment. Who knows? maybe you'll see Chance get the shit kicked out of him on the big/little screen?

There's probably a thousand more things I should be writing about here, but I'm a little busy trying to get a head-start on drawings to give away at NYCC next month.

James Riot...AWAY!