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Guess what I got in the mail yesterday? That’s right…
It looks great! There’s a few things I caugh though that n eed to be corrected and the sizing of the images needs to be fixed for almost every page. There were a few spots that are cut off and would be on all future volumes too, so I need to fix that. But the quality of the printing done by the guys at Ka-Blam is great and I can’t wait to send the new files and get copies out to folks. I’ll post a short video this weekend too to show you what the book looks like.
Pre-orders for FDTN Book 1 – Artist’s Editions Have Begun!
Regular copies of the book will be coming very shortly. Keep an eye here for that special announcement!
From Death Til Now Book 1: The Map To Save Us – Artist’s Editions
Book Contents:
-Printed in portable digest size 5×7.5 in.
- All 152 pages of the first volume in the epic story
- Top Secret Government Documents
- 2 Exclusive Government Documents to take you deeper
- Special behind the scenes commentary and drawings
- Pin-up gallery by other comics creators
- *Signature from creator, Michael Regina
- *Original drawing by creator/artist, Michael Regina done on separate art board sized 5×7
*=only available in artist edition purchase
For drawings, just fill out the name of a character from FDTN you would like to have drawn for you in the text field above the “buy now” button. Please allow two months delivery at this time.
$20 + $5 USD Shipping&Handling
Something I probably don’t talk about enough here is that I do traditional style painting as well. Something I should probably do more of really. Well I started doodling around creating a traditional style painting using digital tools and this is the result of my first test! Honestly I’m very proud of it. I feel like it came out pretty darn good. Well, I’m looking to start doing a lot more of this sort of thing. If you’ve never done so, please drop by my studio website: www.michaeleregina.com
I love, love love a good treasure hunter story. I love it! Two of my favorite movies of late have been the new National Treasure films and the always dependable Indiana Jones series. And now I am in love with the Uncharted game series. Recently a buddy of mine, Josh Ulrich, started up his own treasure hunter series called Jacki Rose. It’s great fun and I highly recommend checking it out. But around a year ago I began writing and drawing a story called Kevin and The Golden Temple. It was a short story in the same vein as an Indiana Jones series but with a young twist and a dash more fantasy. At the time it was intended to be a short story, about 60 pages in total. As I kind of worked through the details of what the story was I saw a much better and more complex story I could tell. Unfortunately, or fortunately I guess, the project fell apart and I was left with this short, badly paced story (I had to compress the whole thing down to like 20 pages). I really fell in love with the adventure and characters I was creating and actually this was the idea I was going to turn into my next online project. Then The King’s Game happened and I started working on the pitch for that project. And if you have been following me in the past you know that my previous agent left the firm I am signed on with and that left me to transition to another agent. Through much conversation with her, she basically answered what I had been feeling all along: I just need to actually finish a project and then we can go submit to publishers. Basically, I’m not at a point where pitching a book makes a lot of sense. I have no finished works to my credit, I only have pitches and ultimately very little presence in the bigger comics world. So, how can I expect a publisher to get on board with me?
This took a bit of time to swallow, though I knew it was true. She asked that I work some more on The King’s Game, but ultimately started debating whether that was the best project for my new found devotion to completing projects. Thus the Kevin story reered its head again.
This story about Kevin is a blast of a tale. Adventure, fantasy, humor and other worlds await our little treasure hunter and I felt that this project most speaks to the audience I want to right now and because of the story structure I can actually finish chunk of it faster and have completed material to show to everyone. Basically the book will divided into three installments at about 100 pages each. Targeted at a younger audience and I will be looking to put out one volume a year. I am planning on issuing this online as a webcomic so, that will be coming up online by the end of this current month.
Sorry if anyone out there was jonesin for some King’s Game. I am very much excited about that book, but the tone, length and spirit of the material is just not something I feel ready to tell yet. It will be on the docket for the next go round. But for now, as Josh and I say all of the time now, make books son!
So, I will be updating later about the exciting adventure of Kevin and the Light of Destiny.
My good buddy, Josh Ulrich has started up his new webcomic, “Jackie Rose.” It’s a fun adventure style comic of the highest order and it’s been a lot of fun watching the development of the book and now to finally see it reach fruition online. If you enjoy Indiana Jones type adevnture (I know I do!) witha new kick, swing by and let him know what you think. I know he’d appreciate your feedback!
