Go Time

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Go Time.

Go Time

The last three months or so has been pretty confusing for me as a comic creator.

I chose to to get into comics because of my screenplays. My two finished screenplays. My two finished, I think pretty good, screenplays. My two finished, I think pretty good, screenplays that I could get no one to look at.

I love writing. But I want my stories to be available. And I felt like all that time and effort (with my two partners, I didn’t do it all) was just wasted if no one will ever be able to enjoy the work.

Cue comics. The wall is breaking down. Marvel and DC still rule all (Not knocking them, I still read books from both companies). And the big indies still fight for the last 30 percent of wall space.

But with web comics, Comixology, Kindle, Nook etc, there is a chance to get your stories out.

We had a publisher to start out with who we thought would help us break into all of these things, and we could concentrate on the book. All the marketing, printing, digitizing etc would be taken care of. Well, everyone tried their best, but the fit just wasn’t right and we had to part ways.

So now I’m in a role, I never really wanted to be in. I’m trying to learn to be Stan Lee. As I just said in a podcast with The Wombmates, I’m not trying to be Stan Lee the writer. What I mean is Stan Lee the showman. The guy who came up with the “No Prize.” The Merry Marvel Marching Society. etc.

And now I’ve gone and done it. I’ve approached New York Comic Con and asked if we could dance. And the pretty girl said yes. So now I’ve got about three months to learn to Tango with the best of them.

Man my metaphors just got weird. Anyway. We’re working. On about 6 different avenues at once. But one of the biggest problems we’ve had is now solved. We have a place in New York to stay. Thanks to our friend, Stephanie.

Stay tuned for more developments… including how you might find this blog soon without typing wordpress into the address. That’s right, KechalComics.com is being worked on by my friend Susan right now!

Hope you all have a wonderful 4th of July if I don’t post sooner.

the continuing misadventures of Kevin Joseph web poseur.

So… here’s where we are.

I’m an idiot.

Everyone at least pretend to be shocked by that statement.

Thank you.

So last week I got some great advice to use wordpress to really get the word out about our comics Tart and UnderWars. I hopped on, registered for an account, grabbed two domain names and paid for the premium WordPress hosting where all my comic dreams would come true and unicorns would shoot honey flavored wishes straight through my face and into my soul.

I may have overestimated how well this would work out.

As soon as I went back to the people who said WordPress is the place to be and bragged, “I got a WordPress account what do I do now?” they said, “Dude, you can’t use wordpress to do wordpress.”

“Huh?” I felt like I was in a scene from Dumb and Dumber, “You can’t triple stamp a double stamp!”

So I take their advice. WordPress is good. WordPress to WordPress is bad (“A negative times a negative equals a positive” Jaime Escalante). Not for nothing, but I still don’t get how I should have known this.

Anyway, I troll through wordpress trying to figure out how to break my sites free from being hosted by WordPress and find a handy 200 dollar fee to guide your wordpress hosted account to another host. And I tip my hat to wordpress. If there’s anything I want to do more than sell something, it’s to sell something and then have the person who bought it, pay me to sell it to someone else. That there is some Lex Luthor level genius.

I finally figure out how to cancel and get my refund (sum total zero dollars to get nothing as opposed to 350 dollars to get nothing). But now I can’t reregister the domains I originall grabbed (To be fair WordPress warned me about this, but I’d caught them staring at other men too many times, I didn’t trust their stories).

I don’t know if someone swooped in and grabbed them just to try to resell them to me or if regular bureaucratic red tape is involved. I’m going to give it a few business days and try again. Hopefully we get them back because Ludo is working very hard on a logo (the problem being that I like 90 percent of his designs) and I’d love to show it off once we’re up and running with our site. Worst case we’ll come up with a new url that works fine, but I’d prefer to use what we already had.

Thanks for sticking with us as we navigate these crazy waters.

KJ

Congratulations! You stumbled upon a new indie comic publisher!

I’ll go right ahead and say it now, I have no clue what I’m doing on WordPress, but I’m trying to figure it out.

I’m Kevin Joseph, writer and cocreator of the indie comic books Tart and UnderWars. Tart was previously published by a small company out of Orlando. Unfortunately, differences in how to approach the digital landscape led my artist (Ludovic Salle) and I to take Tart back for the time being and publish it ourselves.

My humor comic UnderWars (cowritten with the artist C.M. Brennan) was already out there on its own. So I decided to create an imprint where the two comics could coincide. So how to publish two books that could NOT be more different? One a fantasy/mystery/time-travel caper most often described as Buffy meets Sandman meets Dr. Who. And the other an absurd comedy chronicling the misadventures of a monkey who gains the ability to talk when placed in a pair of men’s Tightie Whitie underpants. Finally, I hit on Kechal (pronounced catch all) Comics.

We will try to run the gamut of types of books as we move forward, with our only guiding philosophy being to produce the highest quality, most entertaining books we can.

Will we ever publish someone else’s work? Never say never. But not until I’ve learned a lot more about the business. I only want my mistakes to hurt myself going forward. And until I have a better grasp on the business end of comics, I wouldn’t want to lead anyone else astray.

So thanks for reading this blog post, and hopefully in the near future, for reading Tart and UnderWars!

Sincerely,

Kevin