Zub Tales

Makeshift Miracle is now on Keenspot!

If you’ve been enjoying Makeshift over on the UDON website, you’ll be happy to know that nothing has changed. You’ll be able to read each new update online, browse the archives and enjoy the slowly widening mystery of Colby and Iris.

Having our story up on Keenspot gives us access to a much wider audience of potential fans and a new community of avid webcomic readers. We’re excited about working with Keenspot to make Makeshift bigger than ever. After the success we’ve already seen with Skullkickers online, it seemed a natural fit to bring Makeshift Miracle over there as well to help expand our audience in time for the book pre-order.

It’s also a bit of a karmic full circle for me. Back in 2001 when I was serializing the original Makeshift story, finding web hosting was tough. Keenspot was the biggest webcomic group site on the web and they had a free hosting sub-site called Keenspace (now known as Comic Genesis) where they’d encourage new webcomic creators to post their stories, picking the best and most consistent ones to be ‘Spotted’ (moved up to the big leagues of Keenspot).

The original Makeshift Miracle webpage was a little Keenspace site, much of it hand coded as I figured out how html tags worked and how to post comic pages online. The thought of graduating my series up to Keenspot was a bit of a motivator, a way to legitimize the work I was putting into it. Now, 10 years later, it’s kind of cool to say that I finally got there. 🙂

I’ll let you all know how it goes.

Gary Tyrrell over at Fleen, the blog all about webcomics, has a new interview with me all about serializing Skullkickers online. Click on through to give it a read.

The Academy Award nominations were announced on Tuesday and every film up for the Visual Effects category features the work of Seneca Animation Arts grads (two also from instructors). My students and co-workers rock! Our college rocks!

Read more here: Seneca grads and professors work on Oscar-nominated films

and check out footage from our recent students here:
Seneca Animation Arts YouTube Channel

The Young Adult Library Services Association (part of the American Library Association) has chosen Skullkickers Vol. 1 as one its ‘Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2012’.

“The books, recommended for those ages 12-18, meet the criteria of both good quality literature and appealing reading for teens.”

I’m honoured to be on the list!

IT’S SKULLKICKING TIME!
My comic series SKULLKICKERS has joined forces with Keenspot to deliver onto you a fantastic page of swords and sassery every single weekday!

In SKULLKICKERS, two hard-headed mercenaries kill monsters and cause havoc in their search for money, fame and adventure. Along the way, they’ll gore goblins, smash skeletons, punch plant people and whomp werewolves.

BEGIN THE QUEST!

Two new interviews I’m pretty happy with, one in print the other in audio:

• I’m a return guest on Comic Book Fury and I chat up a storm about Skullkickers arc 3, Munchkin, creator-owned comics, Image’s 20th anniversary, DC and other plans for 2012. Give it a listen.

• I also chatted with Jason Van Horn of LitReactor all about Skullkickers, Makeshift Miracle, creator-owned comics, my writing method and more. Click on through and give it a read.

Princeless: Save Yourself trade paperback will include team-up short story with Skullkickers

In 2011, Princess Adrienne showed readers the power of self-dependence and taking your own destiny by the hands.

And in 2012, the Princess will have an unexpected team-up that is sure to kick… some skulls.

This April, Action Lab Entertainment presents the critically acclaimed Princeless: Save Yourself (Diamond Order Code FEB120706), collecting the first volume of the sprawling fantasy adventure series by Jeremy Whitley and M. Goodwin. Join Princess Adrienne, her guardian dragon Sparky and a rough and tough sidekick named Bedelia, as they begin their own quest for adventure designed specifically for those who are tired of waiting to be rescued, and who are ready to save themselves.

Plus, as an added bonus, Princeless: Save Yourself contains a special, never-before-seen team-up short story between “Princeless” and “Skullkickers” written by Skullkickers creator Jim Zub and featuring the art of M. Goodwin. Skullkickers (www.skullkickers.com) is Image Comics’ irreverent sword & sorcery action-comedy series, and we are proud to be able to present this team-up that will give fans of both series something fun and memorable.

Princeless: Save Yourself is the perfect chance to jump on board the series that Comics Alliance called “…the story Disney should’ve been telling for the past 20 years” and Comic Book Resources describes as “…family friendly material that is filled to the brim with humor and intelligently crafted characters.”

Prepare to fight, hammer, and laugh your way right to the end with our prodigal princess and her friends in a one-of-kind fairy tale you don’t want to miss!

ABOUT ACTION LAB ENTERTAINMENT
Action Lab Entertainment was founded in 2010 by a group of indie-maverick comic creators with the sole intent to bring the world the most action packed, most thought-provoking, most entertaining comics available, thereby ushering in a new age of world peace under the dominating, yet benign control of the Action Lab. Action Lab Entertainment is the public front for all the activities of the Action Lab and its members.

Although most of the Action Lab’s activities remain classified, Action Lab Entertainment can disclose that two of its many functions are the marketing of comic books through various sales outlets, and the expansion of their domination into other mediums. For more information, visit www.actionlabcomics.com.

ABOUT IMAGE COMICS
Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of best-selling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics’ publishers in the United States. Image currently has five partners: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino. It consists of five major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline, Skybound and Image Central.

Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium today. For more information, visit www.imagecomics.com.