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]

...

yes sir. :(

[Bobby Nash]

Sounds like fun, my friend. Shoot me an email and we'll see what we can work up. bobby (at) bobbynash (dot) com.

[John M]

New to the community...
I was wondering if you are still accepting script submissions from writers. If so, how many pages?
Is Fighting Yank still available?

John

[Jim Ritchey]

Howdy, John--and welcome to the ACC Party!

Of the people currently involved (that would be right at 12), the back-ups will be 'first come, first served' as far as projects for the year, and scheduling has extended into next year. This is all providing that we make Diamond's minimum, and Diamond don't pitch another fit that negatively impacts all of the Indies. KaBlam and Cold Cut are looking prettier all the time. They made us raise the cover price--kinda arbitrary, if you ask me, and it was already too expensive--but not completely horrible for 32 pages of original content, IMHO. If Green Lama doesn't make minimum in 3 months, it won't be released through Diamond--but Lama was the best-selling AC Comics run (issues 0 and 1) last year, so there's strong hope--and Bill will be fronting moolah for banners on sites like CBR and Comicon.com. Worst comes to very worst, this stuff will get published--even as webcomic anthologies, or figure out how to go straight to bookstores.

That being said, Fighting Yank is available, the 'Kirby' costumed version, sans tricorner hat. He would have to be a 'Legacy', third generation. Send me a sample script of anything earlier, and remember we're going more 'Miller/Moore/Morrison' with this stuff.

[Ryan Eldridge]

Jim, just wanted to give you an FYI that I should have that script to you soon! I hit a creative brick wall for a few days there, but now the juices are flowing and I'm back in the zone!