AROHA COMICS

Just in case you haven’t heard it before…….

A bit of background first.
I was lucky enough to win a spot in the Millarworld talent contest of 2016 and wrote a story featuring HitGirl in the Millarworld Annual. I spent the next few years networking and saving my pennies so I could pay collaborators upfront and attended a number of cons which had creator only days and panels to figure out the business of independent comics in the UK and what it would take to break into it and have it be self-sustaining.

After a few reality checks, I figured the best thing I could do is focus on telling a story I was really passionate about as well as work on short stories for anthologies such as 4-5 page stories featured in Aftershocks for 2000AD

In June of this year, I launched 2 books at Glasgow Comicon, THIS LAND and SCHISM.

THIS LAND is a 5 issue series. My Maori Manga or Moana meets the X-Men.
A future New Zealand where the land has changed and people have the abilities of gods.
Now the gods have returned and they are not happy with what they have found.

SCHISM is a one-shot with plans for a follow-up issue next year.
Handmaids Tale meets Momento meets Steam Punk.
The story of a day in the life of the death of Adriana Solero-Hunter,
She guards the walls of the Spanish town of Olot and pieces together the reality of her life before her death.

Both have sold remarkably well at conventions selling over 200 books across 3 shows.
I have done very little in regards to building an audience on social media as I’m treating both as works in progress.
I’m hopeful once both story arcs are complete I could take them to a larger independent publisher who could be interested in taking a punt/chance on me.

In the meantime, all creators involved have been paid up so the only one out of pocket is me.
Worst case scenario I will have a few books I’ve created that I’m proud of and the rest of the art teams could have something fun for their portfolios.

So, after all, is said and done here are links to my google drive for both books should you be interested in reading them.

Basically, I’m after any feedback. Good or bad it’s all appreciated

CLICK HERE! THIS LAND REVIEW COPY

CLICK HERE! SCHISM Review Copy Link

What the Hell. Here’s Issue One.

What the Hell. Here’s Issue One.

All 5 issues are complete

issue2 coloured

issues 3/4/5 need colours and letters.

I’m shopping it about a few publishers at the moment and have been approached by a couple (whom I’ve turned down)

it can be split into 2 parts or as 1 trade 130 pages

Weighing up doing a Kickstarter in February for the first 50 pages

I’ve signed with a U.K. graphic Novel agent to sell the foreign publishing rights and in talks with a New Zealand publisher as well

covid has slowed the cash flow down so it’s been a bit hard to get along as quickly as I had hoped.

But overall the story came out great.

I’ve lettered the last 4 issues so the whole thing can be read (albeit in Black and White)

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Todd

SOOOOOOOOO remember how I launched this book in July 2019!

Well, obviously the last year has been just awful.

But!!!

All 5 issues are completely drawn!

Which amazes me that I could scrounge the money up to pay for it

Issue 1 COMPLETE! With 4 extra pages!

Issue 2 Coloured!

Issues 3-5 Drawn

So I’m doing a

LAUNCHING JAN 31 2021 THIS LAND Issue 1 is going GLOBAL

I know I havent been active on the board for a while but if you feel like being generous I could sure use a hand or 100

The remaining Issues will be Kickstarted every second month this year!\

Exciting and scary times ahead!

ANd for good measure heres the sizzle reel link  from YOUTUBE!

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DavidM, Todd

Conned this Ozgur Yildirm fella to do a cover for me

seems familiar .

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garjones, Todd, JRCarter

apologies for not being here too often.

working away on the books and have had successfully launched issues 1/2 this year.

Issue 3 kicks off in 24 hours here 

Amazing  prints from kiwi artists.

Customized Funko pops of my characters. Neoprene Can coolers. A variant cover by Ozgur Yildirm.

Oh and the books pretty good as well.

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Todd

<p style=”margin-top: 0px; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 15.008000373840332px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;”>And we are live…
Fudge. Put the wrong closing date and Kickstarter is ending a week earlier than planned. IDJIT</p>
<p style=”caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 15.008000373840332px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;”>But Ive launched!</p>
<p style=”caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 15.008000373840332px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;”>THIS LAND <span class=”hashtag”>#3</span>
Featuring can coolers , the dreaded Funko pop Customs (by myself) and Days of Future Past variant cover by Marvels Loki cover artist Ozgur Yildirim! (I had dirt on him)</p>