Back in early May we were contacted by Kim Kachadoorian of Adair Printing. She was letting us know that she entered our Rapid City: B-Sides in the Detroit Craftsman Club contest. She went on to inform us that it won a Gold Printing Award!

Every year the “craftsman club” (aka printers) has a contest where printers send in some of their best work over the last year. I really liked the comic book from day one and put it aside for the contest. I thought the design was great, the black and white images were very detailed and skillfully drawn. So I entered it into the contest. These printers are what I call “old school” at least most of them. This book really stood out on the table as something different than printing for packaging or calendars or other types of books. It was entered into the digital saddle stitched entry level.

As you can imagine we are quite excited here, because Adair helped us produce an amazing looking book and we are very happy that they won something for the hard work they did.

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Rapid City: B-Sides artist, Matt Bowers (Strange Behavior!), will be signing next Wednesday at the Comic Cellar, in Memphis, Tennessee. So drop by and pick up a copy of Rapid City: B-Sides and some of his Strange Behavior! work.

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If you are in New York City this weekend and heading to the NYCCon, then stop by the MONOLITH booth and see Josh, Bekah and Matt. They are there this weekend debuting the Rapid City: B-Sides book. The book will be available here through the site sometime this weekend.

In the meantime, enjoy the cover.

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Well we did our little 24 Hour Comic Day project (see last post) this past Sunday. Needless to say it was quite a learning experience. It showed our strengths and our weaknesses. I think best of all we had a great time doing it. It was a lot of fun. And a huge thanks to those that took the time to come hang out with us while we did it “live”. It definitely gave us renewed inspiration to get Rapid City done. It also got us talking about doing something similar to the 24HCD on regular basis (monthly or bi-monthly), but for a shorter period of time. Something where we can interact with others while we work. We’ll have more on that soon. Thanks again, and we’ll be in touch shortly here.

(*The main villain of our 24HCD project.)

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Well since we have conflicting schedules the actual weekend of 24 Hour Comic Day, we decided to jump the gun here and do it a little early. Something we are also doing a little different is all three of us will be working on the project instead of individually doing our own. And…we’ll be doing it live. So come check us out from Midnight Saturday to Midnight Sunday (or is that really Midnight Sunday to Midnight Monday???). Any ways, it’s going on NOW!

So come join us at some point of this 24 hour insanity.

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Well unfortunately things have slowed down a bit for us here. With Micah finishing up his schooling the end of last year into the first half of this year, me having to take on some extra freelance work to help out financially at home and with the wedding coming up here real quick, our production has suffered. Not by choice, trust me on that. So we just wanted to let you know we are still working on bringing this “labor of love” to the masses, just taking a little longer than we wanted it to. So we apologize to everyone for the delay. Do expect to see it released this year though, just towards the later part of this year is all.

Also for those that were paying attention today, it was Free Comic Book Day at your local favorite comic store. One of the books I was most eagerly awaiting was “THE ASTOUNDING WOLF-MAN” from Image. See this book was co-created (with Robert Kirkman of Walking Dead and Invicible fame) and all the art done by a friend of mine, Jason Howard. Anyone who doesn’t know Jason should know that he is a hard working guy and totally deserves this “big break”. I have known Jason for close to ten years now and he’s a really great guy. So anyone who didn’t pick up his book today, make sure you ask your local shop if they have any extra copies you could maybe buy, cause this is going to be a good series to get into.

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Ok so a lot has changed over the past 3 months since Wizard World Chicago. We had planned (still do) to do an introductory book to the Rapid City series, but recently decided to put it on the back burner. What we have decided to do is just focus on getting the series started and in your hands. Don’t worry we still plan to give the discount to those who were gracious enough to buy one of our “Teaser Ashcans”, more details on that to come.

And so it begins…

Enjoy.

(Thumbnail breakdowns for Page 1 of Book 1.)

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