Mike Dimayuga is a HACK!

It's true! The very talented Mike Dimayuga, penciler extraordinaire of Hero House, is a total hack. By which I mean, of course, that Mike will be making his professional comics debut in the soon-to-be-shipping Hack/Slash #23 from Devil's Due Comics! Check out writer Tim Seeley discussing it here.

You can see some of Mike's Hack/Slash art done before (though not his art for the story - this is some of the art he did for his own edification that caught Tim's eye). Please join me in congratulating him!

The birthing process continues...

(Above: The final cover for the original graphic novel "Hero House." Thanks to all who gave feedback on the last cover.)


The birthing process for Hero House goes on... I've been told that we haven't yet slipped our deadline to get the book at San Diego, and thank goodness for that. We're just waiting for a few minor designs to come back - title page, my voluminous thank yous, etc. But the pages of the comic themselves are, to the best of my knowledge, totally done. Now I just can't wait to actually have the friggin' thing in my hands. Did I mention we've been at this for five years now? Good news though - I've reread the entire thing several times now for editing purposes, and putting modesty aside for a moment, I think it really kicks ass.


The birthing process for the other AclinCorp project, however, is finally done - AclinCorp CEO (and my wife) Brooke Aclin gave birth to our second daughter last Friday after 23 hours of labor. That makes five years of working on a comic look like child's play.

State of the Comic 4/9: The Almost Done Edition

Holy Moses, folks (oh, Happy Passover, by the way)...we are SO almost done with the comic. We're so almost done that if we were any more almost done, we'd be all the way done. Think about it.


I downloaded a pretty-much-finished PDF last night of the entire comic...only to find just a few last niggling mistakes that I figured we might as well fix before we shut the door on this thing. But having read the entire book in color, lettered and in one sitting now, I can say with confidence that I'm SUPREMELY proud of how it came out, and of everyone involved with it. I'm going to have a final PDF of the whole shebang no later than next week, so if you're a retailer or blogger who'd like a copy for review, just drop me a note at herohousecomic[little "at" sign]gmail[dot]com.


And now, in keeping with our "almost done" theme, at the top of the post you'll find the almost-done pin-up for the book done by my ludicrously talented brother. (The final version has a slightly less blue Geist...)

The Hero House cover: an AclinCorp premiere!

That's the thing about having your own blog - you can have all the world premieres you damn well please.


Anyway, it's not 100% nailed down yet, but I couldn't wait to share with you folks our fantastic looking cover.

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Here are the credits:
Cover Pencils by Ed McGuinness
Cover Inks by Frank E. Stone
Cover Colors by Brian Gabrillo
Hero House Logo by Jairo Leon and Michael Bencic
Cover Design by Jairo Leon


What does everyone think? Striking? Too plain? Awesome beyond words. Let me know in the comments - it's not too late in the process to see if I can't throw some Chromium on there if you think that's what it needs.