My 2011 HeroesCon report

by Rich on June 7, 2011 at 7:34 am
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I’ve been a little quiet here this past week because I was preparing for and now unwinding from this past weekend’s HeroesCon. It was a great experience. Very different from last year (which was also great though). I just posted a lengthy report over on my main blog. I go into detail about selling my new book, moderating a panel on Designing Comics, appearing on a Webcomics panel and entering a piece of art into the annual art auction and being totally blown away by the result.

All the details are here: http://www.richbarrett.com/2011/06/06/heroescon-2011-report/

New page coming later this week. Also, I will finally start selling the print edition of Nathan Sorry Vol. 1 here this week.

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I’ll Be At HeroesCon Next Weekend

by Rich on May 27, 2011 at 9:42 am
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Next weekend is HeroesCon (June 3-5), my favorite comic book convention to attend and one in which I will be appearing for the second year as a guest. I’ll be in the Indie Island section though table numbers have not been posted yet so I do not know exactly where I will be. I’ll update this post with that info later on.

I will be selling brand new copies of Nathan Sorry Vol. 1 which collects the first 64 pages of the story in a nice trade paperback format. That will be $8. I’ll also be selling the new Sketch Charlotte Anthology for $2. This collects a variety of short comics done by local Charlotte cartoonists as well as a 3 page special preview of Nathan Sorry. Here’s a peek at it:

For the first time this year I will probably do some sort of orginal piece of art at the convention that I will donate to the auction that takes place either Saturday night or during the day on Sunday. Content of that artwork TBD (ideas are welcome!)

Plus, I will be on a panel Sunday afternoon at 2:30 called THE WEB COMICS: Solo Shocker with other webcomic cartoonists Tom Scioli, Drew Weing and Jay Potts. Here’s the description:

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2:30 PM

THE WEB COMICS: Solo Shocker
Room 207BCD
Join Rich Barrett, Tom Scioli, Jay Potts and Drew Weing as they tell Dollar Bin’s Adam Daughhetee what it’s like go it alone making some of the most exciting Web comics out there in the ether.

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I’m also scheduled to be part of a special Sketch Charlotte panel/meeting at 3:00 but since those two things overlap I don’t know when I’ll make it to the Sketch Charlotte one.

Most excitingly I will moderating one of the coolest panels of the whole weekend on Saturday at 1:30pm:

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1:30 PM

Designing Comics
Room 203A
What is it that draws your wandering eye to one particular book on a shelf that is brimming with loud, look-at-me, multi-colored covers? It is the design of the book that makes that first impression count. Join cartoonist Rich Barrett (Nathan Sorry) as he dissects the art and function of Design with some of the most important and innovative names in the business: Jonathan Hickman (FF, The Nightly News), Chris Pitzer (all things Adhouse) Matt Kindt(Superspy) Drew Weing (Set to Sea) and Jim Rugg (Afrodisiac)

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Those are some seriously amazing guys I will be talking about design with. It’s going to be a huge honor to lead that discussion.

Here’s the rest of the HeroesCon schedule: http://www.heroesonline.com/heroescon/schedule/

If you’re coming to HeroesCon try to make it to those panels. If not, they will most likely be podcasted by The DollarBin at some point in the future.

Also, please stop by my table and say hi and check out the new book.

UPDATE: I’ll be at table AA-429 in the Indie Island section. There’s a PDF of the floor layout here. My table is indicated as 29 in the 400 block: http://www.heroesonline.com/heroescon/index.html


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Free Comic Book Day both Online and Off

by Rich on May 3, 2011 at 11:31 am
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This Saturday (May 7th) is Free Comic Book Day and I will have a couple of offerings both online and in the real world.

First off, Graphic.ly, where I have been selling the first two “issues” of Nathan Sorry for the past few months will be offering Nathan Sorry #1 for free that day only. There are lots of other free comics being offered through Graphic.ly on Saturday and here is a list of them: Graphic.ly Celebrates Free Comic Book Day

If you live in the Charlotte, NC area most local comic shops will have a copy of the Sketch Charlotte Free Comic Book Day anthology. My 3 page Nathan Sorry “trailer” will be part of that book alongside a lot of great stuff by Charlotte-area comic artists Henry Eudy, Tom Davidson, Eraklis Petmezas, Chrissie Zullo, Brigit Scheide and a lot more.

I should also mention that you can get the 1st issue of Nathan Sorry for free over at The Illustration Section but it’s free there all the time so it’s not really part of their Free Comic Book Day offerings.

Plus, check back here on Saturday and I might just have something else to give away.

UPDATE:
Come back here to the site on Saturday and you’ll be able to download FREE CBZ and PDF format versions of Nathan Sorry Vol.1 the first 64 page graphic novel collection of the story. I will be selling a print version of the book shortly and will probably offer the digital version to anyone who buys a copy then but for one day only I’m just going to give it all away for free.

UPDATE:
There’s a new download page here where you can get Nathan Sorry Vol. 1 in two different formats.

UPDATE:
Thanks to everyone who downloaded the Free Comic Book Day digital files. That page has been taken down now but I’ll be offering digital downloads and print versions of that book for sale very soon.

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Teaser

by Rich on March 13, 2011 at 8:40 pm
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This is part of a 3 page comic book “trailer” I’m putting together for Nathan Sorry. It will appear in the Sketch Charlotte comic anthology on Free Comic Book Day in Charlotte, NC area comic book shops. I will probably have separate free printed versions of it this summer and will distribute it in some way digitally.

For now, consider this a “teaser” for a “trailer”.

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Download Nathan Sorry #1 for FREE

by Rich on February 15, 2011 at 8:26 am
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I recently added a STORE section where I will be selling PDFs of each issue of Nathan Sorry but to start things out I am simply going to give the first issue away for FREE. If you have an iPad it is very easy to load a PDF onto it via iTunes and read it via a variety of applications like iBooks or ComicZeal. PDFs also work on just about any other device you can think of which makes it a good universal choice.

So, hop on over to the Store and download your copy. Future issues will be added soon at the 99¢ price point.

Also, issue #1 is now also FREE on The Illustrated Section. And issue #2 is available there right now for only 99¢.

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