Wednesday, December 29, 2010

One More Week

Growing Pains will be officially for sale in one week. Exciting and scary at the same time.

If you want your local comic shop to carry a copy for you, have them contact me.

powerbomb1411 at yahoo dot com

I'll do my best to make it worth their time.

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Reminder on Growing Pains Pre-Order


Growing Pains is still up for pre-order.

Growing Pains has nothing to do with the tv show. I thought the name was fitting for the book.

It's a coming of age story about (Tyler Kirk) growing without his father in his life. Soon into Tyler's life, his father is taken from him, now Tyler goes on a journey to get justice for his father, while being obsessed with not becoming his father to his own son.

It is a massive collaboration between myself and nine artists. (All of which are credited appropriately in the credits page below.

The book cost $4 and the shipping will cost $4.95. So you're paying $8.95 total. I will ship the books out right around January 5th, but it also depends when I get them.









If you live outside of the US and want a copy e-mail me and I'll do my best to get a copy to you at a fair price for both of us.

Previously, I mentioned I would make it worth the retailers time if they wanted to carry the book. Not the case anymore. My cockiness was humbled very fast as soon as I talked to the printer. This printing will not only not make me money, any profit I might make might cover the interest on the credit card. But I know how to prevent that problem in the future now.

Here are some preview pages.



Thursday, November 4, 2010

Growing Pains Pre-Order


Growing Pains is now available for pre-order.

Growing Pains has nothing to do with the tv show. I thought the name was fitting for the book.

It's a coming of age story about (Tyler Kirk) growing without his father in his life. Soon into Tyler's life, his father is taken from him, now Tyler goes on a journey to get justice for his father, while being obsessed with not becoming his father.

The book cost $4 and the shipping will cost $2. So you're paying $6 total. I will ship the books out right around January 5th, but it also depends when I get them.

If you live outside of the US and want a copy e-mail me and I'll do my best to get a copy to you at a fair price for both of us.

Previously (In this post even), I mentioned I would make it worth the retailers time if they wanted to carry the book. Not the case anymore. My cockiness was humbled very fast as soon as I talked to the printer. This printing will not only not make me money, any profit I might make might cover the interest on the credit card. But I know how to prevent that problem in the future now.

Click the link below to order a copy.






Sunday, October 3, 2010

Welcome Retailers


Welcome retailers. Thank you for coming this far. Click right here or the link below to read Growing Pains #1 for free.

http://11-88-studios.blogspot.com/2010/07/growing-pains-1.html

Edit: In regards to the torrents. My hard drive that was seeding the Growing Pains torrent is out of commission at the moment. It will be replaced and thankfully I'm smart enough that all my comic related files are backed up. There might be a few pages, but those will be easy enough to get back. However, Growing Pains might still be getting seeds as we speak.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Release Preperation Started

The preparation for the release of Growing Pains has been started. E-mails have sent out to all comic retailers in Michigan and Wisconsin providing their e-mails are listed on The Master List.

If you live in either of those states or any other state for that matter and would like to buy a copy. You can either have your comic retailer shoot me an e-mail at

" power bomb fourteen eleven at yahoo dot com "

No spaces in that and fourteen eleven equal actual numbers and not words.

I will make it worth their time to carry the book. The only financial risk to them is carrying the book, promotional materiel is free and shipping is free.

I do not know at this time if that will be the case for any orders placed online by non retailers. But I don't gouge for shipping either.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Retailer Info Coming Soon

I'm getting the final game plan together for the retailers. I will not be going through Diamond due to their poor service. That's not to say I even tried though. I didn't try and don't know if they would accept me if I tried to get my book out through them. But I don't want to deal with them. I will be eliminating the middle man and taking care of the shipping myself.

That being said, I don't want my books to be a charity case either. I want the retailers to want to carry my books so I will do what I can to make it worth their time.

Side note. It was brought to my attention the link to Growing Pains didn''t work. That post had been saved as a draft a few times and the most recent time it was simply left unpublished for some reason.

Growing Pains #1 can once again be found here for free.

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Enjoy the book?

Donations are greatly appreciated. I'm not expecting to make a profit, but it'd be incredible to break even.






Tuesday, August 31, 2010

September 1st


It's getting closer to January 5th. That is the date Growing Pains will launch in comic shops. Don't expect to see it everywhere though. I'll be happy to ship it everywhere, but I am focusing on Michigan. But if anyone out of state wants a copy you will be able to buy it online for a hopefully fair price (Post office is kind of anal about medial mail here) or you can ask you're comic shop owner to buy a few copies and I will try my best to make sure (s)he can sell them as well.

If you have no idea what I'm talking about you can read it here for free.

And feel free to donate with the link below. All are greatly appreciated.






Friday, August 20, 2010

C3 2011

I'd like to inform everyone 11/88 Studios will be making it's public debut at the 2011 Cherry Capital Con or C3 for cool. I knew this bit of info for a while, but what I just learned is it's the 25th and 26th of June.

Mark your calendars.

Cherry Capital Con 2011 June 25th (Saturday) & June 26th (Sunday).

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Ebay

This has nothing to do with 11/88 Studios. This is about a recent Ebay purchase.

It's common knowledge that buying things online is always a risk. Some places are a bigger risk than other and some places seem like a bigger risk than others.

I just bought something off Ebay. Actually I bought a Toys R' Us exclusive Rodimus Minor and Arcee for $32 and $12 shipping and handling.

Now in my defense, you might be thinking I should be paying off bills instead of buying toys. And you're right, but you only live once and generally, the only thing I buy for myself is comics.

Anyway, this is about the packaging. The god awful packing. I was going to leave them neutral feeback, (they have 100%). But the more I thought about it, the more neutral seemed unfair to others. I e-mailed the seller and have no response after three days. Sorry, I'm impatient, I wanted to give the person a fair chance. But my rule of thumb when shipping things to anyone is I package it to ensure the product is not damaged no matter how beat to hell the package gets.

Here is the link to the auction so you can decide what you would expect to get in return.

Below are pictures, I don't think I need to say anything else. There are a couple images of my hand in the box, that is not me opening the box, that's how bad the tape job is.




























My intent really isn't to call anyone out, it's to inform people. When I contacted the person, it wasn't to get the items returned, honestly, the toys will be opened and they're undamaged, but if I found them like that in a store, I would hope they store marks the price down on them.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Future Books

There will be more books down the road.

12 is basically done, all that is left is the letters. Right now I'm avoiding that and trying to pay off the credit card.

The Legend Killer will be out for free comic book day locally (and free online), then sold at the next Cherry Capital Con. But that character will see plenty of more stories.

God's of War is still being tweaked, but it has potential for more, not necessarily, but more of a spin off.

Growing Pains is another. Don't worry. It won't have anything to do with Tyler Kirk. But it's a label that would allow other stories to be told under that label. Simply more stories about people growing through life dealing with the struggles life brings and everyone dealing with them differently.

Kids Corner was a book I did to prove I could do a kids book. So naturally, I can do plenty more kids stories under the "Kids Corner" label.

I think Planet Reboot is in line after that. But now I need to finish work on "God's of War".

T-Shirt Printer

I own three different version of the "Comics Are Life" T-Shirt.

As you may have noticed I went with Zazzle for my T-shirts. The answer is simple, POD, Quality & Money.

POD means print on demand. That means I don't have to buy 100 shirts and hope to sell them or I'm more sol than I am currently.

Quality. I printed the same basic shirt from Zazzle, Cafepress and CustomInk.

Zazzle was the most expensive if I remember correctly. But I got the layout I wanted, the shirt looked nice and it didn't fade after i washed it.

Custom Ink had two flaws. I couldn't do it POD style like Cafepress and Zazzle, meaning people could order them and redesign them, but I wouldn't make money off them. And I wasn't thrilled with the layout ability's either.

Cafepress. I recall a good price, but the quality wasn't there, after one wash it was very faded.

So Zazzle one, but if someone can point me to a better option that's tried the ones I have already, I'm listening.

Future Merchandise

I added another t-shirt "If Popularity Contests mattered, People Would Care About MTV Award Shows".

That was actually a line I said talking to some friends at Right Brain Brewery after the recent Cherry Capital Con.

But there are other plan for merchandise, some taking on pop culture while others not so much. I need to feel proud to wear it.

I currently have the three 11/88 Studios shirt and I would be proud to wear each one. Actually, I own three versions of the "Comics Are Life" t-shirt, and I'll discuss why in another post. The other two, I don't get them for free or I would buy one of each right away.

I have plans for a Legend Killer one down the line. But right now, The Legend Killer hasn't even been published, that is a character that needs to earn his spot more before he gets' his own shirt.

No plans for a Growing Pains one.

No legit plans for a 12 shirt or God's of War one either.

Merchandise

I have two t-shirts available for sale through Zazzle.








And the back of all three looks like this.



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Both shirts are $18 plus shipping and handling.

Monday, August 9, 2010

Reup

Well, that was fun. the cookie with my log in information was either deleted or expired. So I forgot what my e-mail address was used for this blog and I forgot the password.

Now, I'm re-uploading Growing Pains to Hotfile.

The other two links are no longer valid, that's a lie, they will be once I edit the links. They were removed due to copyright infringement, or deleted by the uploader. Yet, I have the copyright and I didn't ask for it to be removed.

Anyway, feel free to check the book out (for free) if you haven't.

Click right here.

And if you like it, please donate.




Monday, July 26, 2010

Growing Pains #1


Below are links to Growing Pains #1.

To preview the book, click below for each respective chapter.

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3

The PDF has an ugly filename once it's upload, but it does work.

Hotfile PDF
Hotfile CBR/CBZ

Megaupload PDF
Megaupload CBR/CBZ

Demonoid
Piratebay

Myebook - Growing Pains #1 - click here to open my ebook

Growing Pains is a bit of a coming of age story with zero hidden themes. It's simply about a boy as he grows up without his father and his journey to bring the man down that is responsible for his father's death.

Here are some preview pages if you don't want to click the chapter links above.









Enjoy the book?

Donations are greatly appreciated. I'm not expecting to make a profit, but it'd be incredible to break even.






My Plan

It seems to me there are two ways about dealing with the internet and it's downloads.

#1 Treat is like it's the devil and try to fight a battle that's impossible to win.

#2 Embrace it and use it.

I'm a no body. Odds are you've never heard of me. So I need to give you incentive to purchase my work. So for the time being, what I will be doing, is uploading my comics (with watermarks) online. Everyone can view them free of charge and hopefully you'll be willing to donate a $1 or $2 so I can keep doing this. But the way I see it, whether you do decide to donate money to me or not after reading my books, you still read my books. Right now, exposure is what I need.

I will be uploading the digital comics in multiple places (Hotfile, Megaupload & Demonoid.)

They will be in PDF and CBR/CBZ format.

For those unfamiliar with CBR/CBZ files. They're essentially picture viewers for rar files. They are the greatest thing in the world. It takes seconds to install the reader and it's a couple MB big after installation if my memory serves me correctly.

You can find the CBR viewer here.

Welcome

Welcome to the official blogspot of Keith Frederick Robinson & 11/88 Studios.

Due to current finances the official website is not quite what I was looking for. But that will change eventually. Rome wasn't built over night and neither will 11/88 Studios.

So for now I'll have four basic sites I link to.

11-88-studios.blogspot.com (My blogspot to get all the news.

powerbomb1411.deviantart.com (My Deviant Art page. You can find all my writing samples there and they're neatly organized.)

Facebook. (Working on that link. Just search "Keith Frederick Robinson's 11/88 Studios". And then click "Like".