Second Sign of the Apocalypse

Once again, Dog Food Productions participated in the Video Association of Dallas’ 24 Hour Video Race. Before, we get to the results; let’s examine our past performances:

2003 - Finished our film in time, but were unable to get it on the tape they required. That hurt.

2004 - Finished our film in time, made the deadline, had it screened, didn’t make the finals.

2006 - Finished our film in time, made the deadline, had it screened, made the finals, didn’t place.

It’s 2007 and I’m proud to say… We won 3rd place in our division. Yeah, it’s not first or second place, but we did win something for our efforts. See semi-snazzy trophy below.

With this pattern, maybe we’ll get second place in 2008 and win in 2009? Could be.

What was disappointing to us is that we were unable to do everything in the film that we had planned. We were getting down to the wire in the editing stage, trying to improve some audio and ran out of time. We left off a funny joke and didn’t get the end credits added, which would have ended our film on a laugh (in theory).

Hey, it’s a race and that’s what it’s all about. We can only blame ourselves for not turning in the film we wanted to. But we did place and we’re happy with that. The night of the race, we were happy just getting it in on time. We made it in at 11:58.

The Alibi

I can't believe I never posted this. Me and some buddies of mine make movies from time to time under the name "Dog Food Productions" and we also (from time to tme) participate in the Video Association of Dallas' annual 24 Hour Video Race. Teams meet at midnight on Friday, they give you a line of dialogue, a location, a prop and a theme. Then you have 24 hours to make a 5 minute film that incorporates those elements and get it to the finish line by midnight Saturday.

We finished the race and actually made it to the semi-finals, where we lost. Anyway, you can watch our entry if you like. We're gonna compete again this year too, just a couple of weeks away. Be warned, it's not good cinema.

CAPE 3 - Bride of CAPE!!!

Yes, it's back again for a third year... CAPE - The Comics and Pop-Culture Expo. Again it takes place on Free Comic Book Day and there will be tons of comic creators, including yours truly. The show is FREE and there are thousands fo FREE COMIC BOOKS.

It takes place:
Saturday May 5th form 10am to 6pm
Zeus Toys and Comics
3878 Oaklawn Ave
Dallas, TX 75219
214-219-TOYS

Look at all these freaking guests:
Gail Simone
Scott Kurtz
Jim Mahfood
Roberto Aguirre-Sacas
Daivd Mack
Mike Huddleston
Jamie S. Rich
Tony Bedard
Kristian Donaldson
Brian Denham
James O'Barr
Ben Dunn
Josh Howard
Dave Crosland
Samax Randolph
David Hopkins
Brock Rizey

And that's just some of them! Not even half of them! If you miss this FREE show (Todd Caruth), you're are missing one of the biggest shows all year. If that list doesn't get you out of the house, how about this... A bunch of the artists doing a LIVE art benefit show the night before at:

St. Pete’s Dancing Marlin
2730 Commerce St
Dallas, TX 75226
(214) 698-1511

Click here for all your CAPE 3 needs.

Spookytown Production Update

Man, I'm going blog crazy today. Look at all these posts, I don't know how I do it. Maybe because I'm too lazy or too busy to do this on some sort of regular schedule, then I dump a half a dozen on here in one day.

Anyway, just a quick update on how the production of my Spookytown graphic novel is going. It's going good. There. No seriously, I just finished the second draft, as seen here. The story has expanded from 60 pages to 66 pages since the first draft. A couple of scenes seemd rush before, so I fleshed them out. And I added one more scene to explain some things. My lovely wife and I are gonna give it another read through and then I may pass it on to a few friends to read, I'm no sure yet. But I think it's in pretty good shape. It's obvioulsy not gonna be the best comic book anyone's ever read because (and I'll repeat this to my grave) I am not a writer, I think it'll be a fun read.

Also, I've been doing a lot of sketching in preparation for drawing the darn thing. I've been trying to nail down all the characters before I start in order to keep them consistent throughout the book. I thought I'm share some here. Below are a bunch of ones I recently did. You can see the main characters Jack and Emma, also Jack's dad, his buddy Ben and couple of other folks too. Hope you dig 'em.

FUSION - Art, Music, Poetry Show - April 28th

I'll be appearing at a show this coming Saturday, April 28th. Click on the image below for all the information...

ArtLoveMagic.com

Fanboy TV Appearance

A couple of weeks ago, I was asked to be the in-studio artist on the 3rd episode of the all new Fanboy TV. It's a live internet tv show that's taped in Dallas twice a week. They have the artist come on first and interview them. Then the artist goes off and creates a drawing while the rest of the show goes on. The guest after me (via webcam) was only Joe Quesada, no pressure right? Then artist comes back, participates in the "Sub of Flub" segment and then reveals the peice they created. And the cool thing is, they give away the artwork in a drawing of people from their message board.

Here is my interview segment.They have problems getting my mic going at first but it kicks in pretty quick.

Me participating in Sub or Flub.

Here's the reveal of the peice I created. They have technical troubles at first, the screen is stuck on their website, but it eventually comes up.

Below is the peice I created and a shot of me with the guys on the set.

Podcast Mention

The guys over at halfhourwasted.com told me they talk about me on episode 3 of their podcast.

They wrote and said "The topic starts at the 5 minute 20 second mark if you want to scroll right to it. I met you at the Richardson, TX fan appreciation con a few months back."

Thanks for the shout out guys. You're too kind.

Direct link to the episode.