David invited Kevin onto the show and describes Episode 2 – Publisher Pow-wow.  This week, David and Rylend were joined by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator/Heavy Metal Magazine Publisher Kevin Eastman and Fanbase Press EIC Barbra Dillon. The group discuss the rapidly changing comics publishing landscape, David tells a few amazing Andy Sidaris stories, and Kevin refers to Rylend as “Leland” for most of the episode.

Check it out now.

The Comics department is OOZING with Signed Stuff – new and old

Steve Lavigne – Tonight at Tates Comics in Lauderhill, Florida – October 25

Epic TMNT fun! An in-store signing with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Comic Artist Steve Lavigne Friday, October 25, 2019 from 6-8pm at their main Lauderhill location… plus free arcade games, free comics and 10% off all TMNT stuff  and even a little make your own ninja star craft activity for the kids and free pizza.

Jim Lawson – Saturday at Bing Comic Con in Springfield, Massachusetts – October 26

What can $5 get you? It can’t get you a sandwich from a sub shoppe. It might get you a fancy Grandé. You can get a taco from a Burger joint (but why would you?) What it will get you is admission to Bing Comic Con 2019! Over 50 artists, writers, crafters, creators, toy sellers and comic book dealers! Plus FREE parking and delicious food onsite. Now that’s getting your money’s worth! October 26th, 11-5, 361 Sumner Ave, Springfield, MA

David Avallone – Saturday at Brave New World Comics in Santa Clarita, California – October 26

“Hey, so… Saturday night! In Santa Clarita, at the great Brave New World Coomics. I’ll be signing between 5 and 7pm! Elvira: Mistress of the Dark trade paperbacks! Hopefully some Bettie Page Halloween specials! Or whatever you bring me to sign! Babies! Loaves of bread! Be there! Aloha!”

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If you haven’t joined in yet, let’s do it today! Every single pledge now comes with a FREE Radically Rearranged Ronin Ragdoll Comic, and you can add on additional copies of that, or the KS exclusive Ciro Nieli variant version for $15 a pop! We’re trying to hit our new STRETCH GOAL of $125k before it’s all over and give every backer a FREE Kevin B. Eastman 45+ page RRRR sketchbook! Let’s do it!  #lastchance!

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Ever wanted YOUR OWN VARIANT COVER ? – here’s your chance – DB VOL2 or RRRR

What an incredible start!

55% funded in 7 days with $41K of our $75K goal raised so far! I’ve never seen a campaign start so strong! We are absolutely humbled and incredibly appreciative once again of all your support.

We assumed you’re all the HARDCORE friends and fans and have been seeing our billions of social media posts, so we wanted to give you the weekend before hitting you with an update email. But here we are on Monday morning and the race to the goal continues!

As you’ve probably realized, social media platforms like Facebook thrive on hiding posts with links and especially Kickstarter shares – They want people to pony up and buy sponsored ads – So even though some of us our posting 400 times a day to try and make new people aware of DRAWING BLOOD VOLUME 2, often times it’s our same 60 friends that see those posts. So it’s crucial at this point in the campaign to try and get the project in front of NEW people and THEIR friend circles. So, any creative ideas you have for SHARING and getting the word out to new comic fans would be HUGELY appreciated. Every share helps. You wouldn’t believe how many people we received messages from after the DBV1 campaign who somehow had never knew it happened! So thank you in advance for doing all you can to get the word out about WWW.DRAWINGBLOODCOMIC.COM ,and helping us try to hit our goal early, and make this book a reality.

So what happens if we hit the goal early? I’ll tell you!

Once we hit the goal of $75K, that means DRAWING BLOOD VOLUME 2 is happening! That amount allows us the time and funding to create the book, order the printing, and ship them all to you!

So what if we go beyond that? What’s in it for you?

Just like the DBV1 campaign, if we pass our goal, we move onto STRETCH GOALS an we unlock FREE stuff for YOU!

If we make it to $100k, every single backer over $25 gets a FREE RADICALLY REARRANGED RONIN RAGDOLLS ADVENTURE double sized comic on top of what they’ve already pledged for! What’s more, is when we unlock that FREE version of the RRRR comic, we also unlock a Kickstarter EXCLUSIVE Ciro Nieli variant cover! You may know Ciro from a little 2012 NICKELODEON show called TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES!

If things really start to pick up steam, and we find our selves knocking down the door for $125K, you’ll all get a FREE RRRR CREATION SKETCHBOOK full of 45+ pages of EASTMAN ART that Kevin did when first designing the RADICALLY REARRANGED RONIN RAGDOLLS!

Here’s a sneak preview at a few of those pages…

We’ve been wanting to put out this MASSIVE sketchbook since VOLUME 1, but didn’t raise the amount we needed to make it possible, but now, with all of our new fans, and DRAWING BLOOD more in the public eye, we’re hoping we can do it!

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That’s a big enough email for a Monday morning I think. I know everyone’s busy getting back to work and we don’t want to take up anymore of your time!

Thank you all so so much. Let’s keep spreading the word to new comic fans out there. They aren’t going to want to miss this! And the more traction we get, the more DRAWING BLOOD and RRRR stuff you get for you’re already backed pledge! More soon!

THANK YOU very very much, from all of us! We’re almost there!

– TEAM DRAWING BLOOD

PS: Here are some PROFILE PICTURES you can feel free to use if you’d like!

Cool beans!!!!!!!

Drawing Blood – Spilled Ink and the Radically Rearranged Ronin Ragdolls hit comic shops with enormously positive feedback from stores and customers alike.  Many stores ran out of stock pretty much immediately and are already going back to Diamond Distribution to place more orders.  Diamond have placed two reorders for these AWESOME books. We received so many AWESOME reviews for the story the art and the quality of the print job – the paper is of the utmost quality.

We are please to be able to offer a complete set, comprising all (7) full color comics here for $28

We also have the Comics and Ponies variant by Chase Alexander in stock.  This print run was limited to just 500 copies and features a retro-styled, throw-back Konami arcade game parody. This variant is $20

Check them all out here or go back to your LCS and ask them to get them for you and you can add Drawing Blood to your monthly pull at your LCS too.

When you next go into your local store to pick up your regular pull and see what else is new PLEASE ask your store owner to order Drawing Blood Comic and the Radically Rearranged Ronin Ragdolls from their latest PREVIEWS catalog Diamond Comic Distributors. Hey grab yourself a catalog too and read the interview with me about 35 years of the TMNT and returning to self publishing.

Each of these 7 books will be available on May 8 BUT your friendly store owner needs to order them this month. Please give them a gentle nudge and remind them that you want to see these on their shelves in May.

PLUS – if I know that a store has ordered these titles I will give them a plug on my social media letting all my fans know they can catch these titles at their store AND bonus, bonus too – each of these variant covers is available in any number – these are NOT pricey Retailer Variant copies – your store can buy whatever quantities thy want.

These books, written with David Avallone with an awesome array of cover variants by top talent including Troy Little, Freddie Williams II, Stan Sakai and of course Ben Bishop and myself will be available at your local comic shops.  BUT – you need to make sure your shop owners know they need to order these and that means we need your help in letting them know to do so.  These are available NOW in the most recent Diamond PREVIEWS catalog. Please share this with your shop owners and friends and ensure that our new venture in self publishing is as successful at the TMNT were in 1984.

Below is an excerpt from a massive 4 page interview they conducted with me recently – this also includes a link to the catalog order codes for each of the Drawing Blood books AND the Radically Rearranged Ronin Ragdolls.

Excerpt follows: One evening in 1984, Kevin Eastman and friend Peter Laird brainstormed the idea of a team of martial arts turtles after Eastman sketched a turtle wearing a mask and wielding martial arts weapons. Drawing upon the comics of the past and the 1984-present, they created the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles… their homage to everything they liked about comics, including the works of Jack Kirby and more specifically, Frank Miller’s Daredevil.

35 years later, the TMNT (as their mile-long moniker was shortened to) are a worldwide phenomenon… toys, cartoons, live-action movies. And for their co-creator, Kevin Eastman, its been a long, strange, and wonderful trip indeed. Drawing upon his long history in the comics biz, and his own personal experiences shepherding the TMNT from cult indie sensation to household names, Kevin has launched his own publishing company, Kevin Eastman Studios, to tell his story… sort of…

And have you heard the news? Kevin Eastman Studios will soon be self-publishing Drawing Blood as a monthly comic! COOL BEANS!!!!!!!!!

Starting in May, Drawing Blood #1 AND the RRRR special origin one-shot will both be hitting your Local Comic Store (LCS) and ComiXology. DB #1 will be a reprint of the first chapter of the previously Kickstarter-only trade paperback, with the rest of the chapters coming out every month, and — do the math — that means by September you will be seeing NEW chapters of Drawing Blood previously available NOWHERE. David Avallone is already writing Drawing Blood issue #5 AND additional Ragdolls material, too! Kevin and Ben and Troy are champing at the bit to start drawing the all-new issues!

All these comics will be coming with brand new covers, and super cool variants from amazing artists! (We’ll tell you who soon, promise! Hint: they’ve drawn turtles and rabbits…)

Tell your LCS owners to check out the March issue of PREVIEWS where they can order the new book line and enjoy a feature on KESI and Drawing Blood Comic. Plus an exclusive Eastman interview and behind the scenes pics straight from Kevin’s desk.

You can scoop up copies of the remaining inventory we have in the Drawing Blood Department at my store AND grab a groovy cool RRRR tee to show your support.

These are now just $14 and we are quickly running out of some sizes. This is the VERY FIRST Ragdolls tee we produced and these will not be available again.