Holy [EXPLETIVE DELETED}!!! HALP!!!!!! AC Comics' GREEN LAMA

[Jim Ritchey]

I hate reading to the end to see this phrase: No money, YET--but: This is an opportunity to be on the ground-floor of a major paradigm shift at AC Comics, under the Spark Universe' imprint. If all goes according to plan, there will be plenty o' bucks. Worse comes to worse, AC has a prestigious history of launching new talent unheard of anywhere else.
Examples:
Greg Guler (Creator of Gargoyles)
Todd McFarlane
Jim Royal
Rik Levins
Some Kirby Fanboy named Erik Larsen. :D

That's a handful off the top of my head. AC Comics is good luck!

Bill Black contacted me last night, and my hopes for Spark Universe/Golden Age Revival//Green Lama material has come to fruition, on a limited level. After issue two (which Mark Stegbauer and myself will need help on inks--if we're to get it out for solicitation on the tenth of next month), Green Lama is continuing as an anthology--but with themed, interrelated stories, sometimes a 'Marvel Team-Up' approach. I'll be handling most of the writing, and likely half to most of the art. It won't be 'Good Girl', in AC's 20-year+ traditional style (which is great for what it is), or an homage to some 'bygone yesteryear' of 'when comics were good'--which, frankly was plot-driven to the point where the characters were completely interchangeable. Think 'Miller/Moore/Morrison'--he writing will be considerably edgier, in my 'Vertigo with Superheroes' type writing style, and any other writers interested, Remember Alan Moore line in the Simpsons about "So--you liked that I turned your favorite hero into a heroin-addicted jazz critic without radioactive powers'--? I'm the type of Creative Director who would not find this unreasonable. AC is about to become a fun place to play (ignore this Sean--yer already in--Bobby? Anybody else interested in some 8 to 10 pagers?). I'll start building a Spark Universe 'Bible' as I'm writing issue 3. The less reprint material we have to fall back on, the better--pref. none.

Artists of the pencil and ink variety? You are summoned! All styles are welcome, the more diverse, the better--but leaning towards superhero adventure and horror is kind of a given. You know all those characters that Dynamite trademarked erroneously? WE'RE USING THEM, as AC has a 25 year history of using them.

Cages will be rattled...

We're all in a rough spot, with the economy and all--but my 'EC Comics/Al Feldstein' approach to Spark, with self-expression paramount, might build an audience--and Bill has agreed to something he's never really tried--ADVERTISING!!! This is saying A LOT--about bill's faith in the project.

Lew Morgan, Jim Burns or Anthony Summey--if you guys could help by inking a page or three in the first week of January, you'd all mesh well enough for a seamless product with Mr. Stegbauer...help...please???

I'll update, regularly.

[Ryan Eldridge]

consider yourself mailed.

[Ryan Eldridge]

Out of curiousity, what falls in the "PG" category for swearing? Since my character here is a teenager, I'm trying to preserve the 'colorful' dialog that you'd expect from a kid, and I'm starting to run out of synonyms!

[Lan Pitts]

I'm confused on what you want here.

Then again it's late and I'm stupid high on cold meds.

[Jim Ritchey]

THAT'S a good start--gimme your cold medication--and some PIE!

I'd try again, but Bill and Mark are drivin' me nuts with back and forth emails--so I'm having to explain everything twice, already, while trying to draw a comic.

Get well, and try to read the opener again later. :D

[Ryan Eldridge]

In summation: AC is launching an imprint that involves rebooting public-domain characters from the Golden Age in a modern-day environment. Jim is in charge of it. Jim wants people to write things and draw pretty pictures. Jim also wants pie, apparently.

[Jim Ritchey]

Thank you, perfect accuracy, sans 'Vertigo with Superheroes' slant--trying to make the stuff not like AC, OR the mainstream.

Preferences:

1. Cerebral, intense writing--exciting, but with good characterization--and at least the desire and lack of common sense to attempt originality. and
2. Self-expression in art style, from someone who knows how to tell stories with pictures--and, too, at least the desire and lack of common sense to attempt originality--within the boundaries of drawing exciting, Adventure-oriented Comic Books..
3. and we'll get paid when/if the comics end of the company starts making money again. In the mean time, you'll have astonishingly tamper-free published work to show whoever--and we will be working for the guys who launched Greg Horn's and Jerry Ordway's careers.

That is all.

You're being dishearteningly flippant about the PIE...:D

[Sean Taylor]

Mmm. Pie.

[Lan Pitts]

Hell yeah ! I'm down for that. Sign me up.

[Mike Elrod]

Hey, how would I be able to "audition" for something like this?

~Mike

[Jim Ritchey]

What do you do?
If you're a writer, you'd send me a script. If you're an artist, send links to art. I've read Sean and Ryan's earlier stories, so I knew what they were capable of.

We're one slot away from only needing artists for this year, though...

To everyone--friend, Star Trek novelist, funnybook writer and big shot Hollywood screenwriter Geoffrey Thorne just signed on!

[Ryan Eldridge]

"I've read Sean and Ryan's earlier stories, so I knew what they were capable of."

I feel so special now! Take that, Mike! :P

[Jim Ritchey]

GET BACK IN YOUR CAGE AND WRITE--!