To my friends in the San Diego area: I'll be participating in the HISPANIC LITERACY DAY event at the South Chula Vista Library this Saturday, September 15. The event is free and perfect for the whole family.
The event runs from 12-5pm, with a full day of authors and illustrators. You can find me in the exhibitor hall, and I'll also be conducting a free Comic Book Workshop for kids from 12-12:45.
And I'll be debuting a new comic book exclusively at this event:
It's a mini-comic version of my upcoming DEAD DINOSAURIO comic book. The mini-comic is printed in black & white, and is signed & numbered. Once this special limited edition is sold out, it'll be extinct as a Tyrannosaurus Rex!
Check out the CRYING COUGAR PRESS website (the organizers for the event) for the complete schedule of attending authors, panels and readings. The South Chula Vista Library is located at:
389 Orange Avenue, Chula Vista, CA 91911
My next comic book project to be published will feature these new characters of mine...
DEAD DINOSAURIO & EZTLI, The First Calaca. (Calacas are the various interpretations of skeletons created for the Day of the Dead). The story takes place during the Conquest of Mexico and features a young Aztec boy named Eztli ('Blood' in the language of the ancient Mexicans). During the brutal invasion, the boy calls upon the gods for help and finds it in the form of a strange and unknown creature.... a Tyrannosaurus Rex!
The story is going to debut in a limited run mini-comic. Several copies of the book are going to be traded with a group of artists I've met online as part of a mini-comics 'swap'. The remainder of the copies will be sold at an upcoming event I'll be exhibiting at on September 15, down in the San Diego area. Hispanic Literacy Day at the South Chula Vista Branch Library.
Here's the cover of the mini-comic...
And the back cover:
A few pages from the book, without the lettering:
This limited run mini-comic, THE PRE-HISTORIC EDITION, is the precursor to what will be the magazine-sized edition, complete with extra features, such as production sketches and the entire thumbnails to the story. For this magazine-sized edition, all the artwork will be colored in gray tones, similar to my WEAPON TEX-MEX Vs EL MUERTO comic book:
The magazine-sized comic will also feature a wraparound cover, the first one I've ever done for one of my books:
I'll have this image available as an 11x17 poster once I release the mini-comic in a few weeks. I'm currently organizing my Fall schedule, but I will definitely be at the Long Beach Comic Con on November 3 & 4, as well as several Dia de Los Muertos events throughout Los Angeles (dates and times to be announced).
If you've read my Poster Comics featuring Spider-Calaca & BatiCalaca, I can tell you that Dead Dinosaurio fits right in with those two. I have several more Super Calacas to debut, then eventually they'll all get teamed-up together in a new comic book, THE CALACAS OF JUSTICE!
More updates to come. And thanks for reading
