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.

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.

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 That post had been saved as a draft a few times and the most recent time it was simply left unpublished for some reason.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.

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.

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).

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.

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".