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Issue #3 and #4 On the Shelves…
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CiCi:
The Movie
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Comics2Film.com
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Fanboy
Planet Interview
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A
very COOL Majesticon
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My
2 Do List
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E-Dispatch
from the Great White North
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Wizard
Edge
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Punahou
Bulletin
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Microsoft
for the Military
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3 Feet Under
Yes! It’s finally happened. I’m done. After 6 long years the entire series
is available for sale. So that
means if you’ve been sleeping and if you sleep a little longer then you will
miss your chance at getting your very own copy. Are you going to wait for the trade
paperback? Don’t count on
it. It might be a while and the
movie will have already been out (foreshadowing…) before the trade is
printed. Although I might cave in
to demand and I will have to print the trade. You can ask your comic shop to see if
they can reorder the book (where I don’t make a dime due to shipping and
Diamond’s cut) or you can order it directly from me through my website. Asking your shop might not work
because I’m not sure if Diamond is saying that this is still available. I’ve been having problems, especially
overseas. In
England and Denmark I’ve been hearing from people that the book is sold
out. Diamond tells me these shops have to work a
little harder at it.
If you’re going to order
the book through the site then just click on the shop link on the left of the
page. You can’t miss the “shop”
link; well at least I hope you can’t miss it. There are 10 comics that have been
printed if you’re a “completist”.
There are 2 covers for each of the 4 issues and the two preview
issues. All supplies are limited
and documented out in the shop area.
My personal collection is also listed out
there on the bottom of the shop page as well.
CiCi: The
Movie
In the process
of finding Platinum Studios I came across Rob Worley’s site Comics2Film.com. I sent Rob an e-mail and asked him if
he had heard of a studio that picks up independent projects and might convert
them into a major motion picture.
I vaguely remembered the Platinum name, but Rob set me straight and
also told me to look up Daniel Alter too. So
Rob pointed me to Platinum’s site and I got all the submission information and
forms for Platinum’s submissions process. I also sent Daniel an e-mail. I usually save everything but I don’t
remember if Daniel replied. I’m
pretty sure he did, otherwise I would have sent him another message. Being laid off really taught me to be
persistent.
A few weeks ago Daniel
called me out of the blue and said he saw my book in a shop and he knew he had
seen it before. He ended up
reading the whole series and absolutely loved it. Daniel is with Energy Entertainment
(www.EnergyEntertainment.net ). I got
the contract shortly thereafter and there a few questions that I had, but
everything looked pretty good.
Once I know the full process I’ll keep you informed. Right now Energy will find a big named
writer who is available and wants to work on the project. They basically have a bunch of writers
that they can get a hold of and see who would like to try to tackle CiCi. Daniel has some favorites in mind and
he thinks he can get his first choice.
I’m not sure of the next detailed step, but they basically will come up
with a script and pitch it to different studios. I’m relieved that I will be consulted
in the whole process. Of course the movie studio has final say since it IS their
money.
Needless to say I’m VERY
excited. I’m excited that Daniel
is as pumped about this as I am.
I’m hopeful that this will generate more visibility for CiCi and
Spilled Milk. If this thing goes
through to the end then I will be able to continue publishing an ongoing
series and possibly more movies too.
That would be very cool.
Comics2Film.com
The main reason I’m
trying to get this update out now is that Rob Worley called me a few days ago
for an interview. It went well
and he posted his article on his site this morning. If you can’t find it on the main page
(www.Comics2Film.com )
then you can also look for it on (www.ComicBookResources.com ). And if
it’s not there then you can try a few other
links:
The C2F @ CBR
Page:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/c2f.cgi
The article: http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=2035
Fanboy Planet
Interview
I’m sending this quick
note because Derek McCaw of Fanboy Planet (www.FanboyPlanet.com ) told me my interview was up and got a front page
placement. So please go to his
site and check it out. Sooner or
later I’ll have it archived on my site, but get out there and don’t be
lazy. Get some munchies and
something to drink, because this could be a little long. That’s why this update is the shortest
one on record. That interview
sure answers a LOT of questions from all directions. If that link doesn’t work then you can just
go to the Spilled Milk site main page and it should still be
there.
Majesticon
YES! The Majesticon (www.Majesticon.com ) was
VERY cool. Everybody was
there… Dave
Finch, Joe Benitez, Keu
Cha, and Monte
Moore. I have signed copies available on the
site, but they’re going fast.
Some of the logistics should have been changed a little. It would have been nice if the line
went in front of my booth, but then that might have blocked other people
getting to it. So I’m not really
sure what would have been better.
It was great seeing Dave and Joe again and it was my first time meeting
Keu after talking on the phone with him quite a few times. I guess that was the same weekend that
Michael Turner was in town so they hooked up with him and Scott Campbell (who
lives in the Denver area).
It would have
been cool to meet Campbell and Turner outside of the fan arena, but they
headed back to Scott’s house to talk about the old days of Image (I
guess).
Things To
Do
It’s amazing what I still
have to do as far as the website.
I’d like to have a Character Bio page. A Director’s Cut would be nice and it
will be FREE (although you really need a copy of CiCi, but you don’t have
to). The Director’s Cut area will
have a complete breakdown of the story and my thoughts on each page. Update the shop page so it will
automatically send me a message and send the buyer a receipt as well. Add a slide show so viewing samples is
easier. Make things work better
for that 5% of Mac Users accessing the site. Add a SMART Technology section. If the movie ever sees the screen then there might be some of this that
you see in the background.
E-Dispatch from the Great White
North
http://www.twmgrafix.com/edispatch/default.htm
Jonathan did a great
review of the series. He stumbled
across the site and said he does the occasional review. I sent him a set and he put one up on
his e-zine. That was pretty cool.
Over The
Edge
You probably saw my full
page ad in the Wizard Edge. They
did a great job with placement (inside back cover), I couldn’t have been
happier. Casey liked the book and
made it stand out amongst the rest on the inside where they gave a run-down of
the upcoming books from us “indies”.
I thought the site and sales would have picked up, but the industry as
a whole is in a slump. Although
it did jog Daniel
Alter’s memory a bit and he got a hold of me shortly after
seeing the small blurb in Wizard.
Punahou
Bulletin
I'd like to give a shout out to Laurie Chang. It
took a few months before the preview saw print, but they ran my "Puns In
Print" story synopsis in the Winter Edition of the Punahou Bulletin. Not
that it generated any more sales, but I figured the visibility couldn't
hurt. So if you can get your hands on the latest Punahou Bulletin then
you'll see a small story synopsis that I wrote for it. Even though I was
only there from 5th through 8th grade, I'm still considered an
Alumn.
Microsoft for the Military (Gainfully
Employed)
I accepted a position
with ACS Government Services (www.acs-inc.com
) back in November and I do pretty much what I did at NELnet. For those of you who are C++
programmers, ACS is a very diverse shop but the group I’m in is doing
straight MFC code and soon will be moving to the .NET framework. There are few people who are doing
some Cold Fusion so I hope I will be able to add that to my “tool belt”. It’s very different working for the
military. Some of my
clients are high ranking officers and you see many people in the building in
uniform.
3 Feet
Under
Well that’s all for
now. Sorry, there is no
rant. I suppose I could rant
about all this snow we’ve got over the past few days, but we really needed
it. Plus it gave me a
mini-weekend right in the middle of the week. Our official
total was 35” and but it feels like I shoveled 100.
Thanks for all your
support!
____________________
Parker D
Smart
Creator
/ Writer
President
- Spilled Milk ®
, Corp.
psmart@SpilledMilk.com http://SpilledMilk.com
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reserved.