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Episode 46 – January 23, 2012
LATEST NEWS:
Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond anyones control, the entire Digicon convention that was to take place on February 4-5th has been canceled. I’ll keep you posted on when it will get rescheduled!
What is this you say? It’s a rough draft mockup of Frik’In Hell: Volume 1, the book! The first 25 episodes plus the sketches for each of those episodes, and other bonus material like concept art and witty commentary and did you know facts! I’ll keep you posted when it’s for sale!
My 5 year old son took it upon himself to create some Frik fan art and I decided to add it to the site. Visit http://www.frikinhell.com/fan-art/ to check it out. If you want to create some fan art of your own or have a child who loves that sort of thing, by all means email me the images so I can add them to the page!
The Digicon is the world’s first internet comic convention and it took place September 10-11, 2011. This was created for all the people who could never make it to the real conventions. 49 artists participated and you could watch them create artwork live via video feeds and talk to them in chat rooms. Panel discussions and live artist events took place as well. It was a great time!
Fans who came to the online comic convention called Digicon received this free hi-res printable image of Frik dressed up in Cosplay. He’s dressed as Doctor Who #4 for those who don’t know. (this is a low res version)
Since it was an online con you never got to see the 300 pound people wearing tights, so a lot of artists put their characters in cosplay and posted them so at least we had something in cosplay at this con. 
First read this article and be appalled:http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2011/09/07/a-chance-to-do-something-nice-for-a-comics-fan-who-could-use-a-little-niceness/
One artist at the Digicon brought this up to everyone before the con started and we all decided to band together and draw Superman related stuff and mail it to this man who had his entire collection stolen by a loser who worked with him.
Some people drew just Superman, and others like myself drew him in our comic’s style, incorporating our characters too. This is my contribution to the effort.
I’m taking part in the first ever online comic convention THIS WEEKEND called “The Digicon”! I just found out about it yesterday and signed up almost immediately. Many webcomic and other artists are involved with this and we’ll all be live on their site at various times during the weekend.
I will be online there between 12pm-3pm EST and 6pm-10pm EST on Saturday, Sept 10th. On Sunday, Sept 11th, I will be there from 12pm – 6pm EST.
You’ll be able to see live video chat, panel discussions, regular text/voice chat, buy merchandise and watch artists work on their art live on camera! I, however, have no idea what I’ll be doing with this other than being there. I have a lot of technical issues I have to work out as far as the chat stuff and -maybe- the video feed. Drop by and say hi!
Here’s more info on it….
WHAT IS THE DIGICON?
DigiCon is the first dedicated virtual comic con featuring web and print comic creators, writers and artists. DigiCon brings the Con to you with live video chat, panels, commissions, free sketches and a comics mega store with prints, shirts, books, original art, back issues and more!
How did DigiCon start?
HOW DID THE DIGICON START?
DigiCon is the brain child of Ryan Fisher of Gin and Comics and Casey Curtis. We couldn’t make it to San Diego Comic Con this year and neither could a lot of you. We started to realize that there were creators and fans who would never get to attend a con because of where they lived and honestly, that sucks. We’re lucky enough to live in Seattle, home to Emerald City Comic Con, a mecca of geekery and we want others to be able to experience (at least in a small way) the fun of attending Comic Con; meeting creators, sitting in on panels, buying merch. And that’s the experience we’re striving to provide here.
September 10-11th, 2011 marks our first full-scale Con and we’re stoked to see where it takes us. We hope you’ll be there!
Continue reading "Meet Todd at the Digicon this weekend! (sorta)" »
Are you at or did you go to the San Diego Comic Convention (SDCC) this year? If so, I would love to hear from you! Send me a message on the contact page or on the Facebook fan page or Twitter fan page and tell me how you found out about my comic and tell me where you’re from and where you found my promo materials inside the convention. I would greatly appreciate it, thanks!
**pulls up a couch**
Today marks the one year anniversary of Frik’In Hell. It really doesn’t feel like it’s been that long, and one of the reasons is because Episode #27 was just released today. On average it takes me about 5-10 hours per episode but that time is spread out over days and weeks as this is not my full time job and I have to squeeze in time to work on it amongst all my other stuff going on in my life.
Over the course of this past year, this comic has caused me happiness and grief all at the same time. One minute I want to walk away from it forever, and the next minute I want to give it a giant hug. My style of humor isn’t for everyone and the low viewer numbers have proven it to be true time and time again. I’ve been depressed on many occasions because I never seem to be able to get the viewership to rise no matter what I do.
But what I do know is that there are a good handful of readers who have come here since day one and haven’t walked away. It’s you guys and gals who have given me a glimmer of hope and have kept me going with this side project of mine. I want to thank you all for taking time to read my comic. I may have scrapped this thing a long time ago if it weren’t for you. Thank you very much, I REALLY do appreciate it!
What’s in store for Frik for the next year? I have two pages of ideas for future episodes but I have to work out a way to tie them all together. Right now this current story arc is taking longer than I had planned, so once this is out of the way I’ll be able to tackle other ideas I’ve had for a while. So please stay tuned and please tell all your friends to come and read this!
**falls off couch and goes to sleep**
I realize that some of you don’t do that “Facebook thing” and instead like to watch Tweets scroll down your screen every minute of the day. I was on the fence for a long time about joining Twitter and today finally bit the bullet and signed up. So now you can get updates about Frik on both Facebook and Twitter. Click the buttons on the right hand side to take you there. Friend “frikinhellcomic” and get that immense sense of satisfaction you get by clicking on things!
Do you have a hard time remembering to come back here every other week to check out new episodes of Frik? Well there’s a couple different ways we can help! First off, write on a post-it note the date of the next episode and tape it to your forehead. If that doesn’t work for you, you can join Frik’s Facebook fan page. On there I give updates on when the next episode comes out and even give you glimpses into what will happen in the next episode.
Not on Facebook you say? (and really, I don’t blame you.) Well there’s a RSS feed on this site (the RSS graphic/link is on the right side of this page under the FB fan page graphic) You can plug that into your RSS reader and check it out every once in a while and new episodes will be posted to it. Not even sure what RSS is or how it works? Well, you’re probably better off not touching that one then.
The blog software screwed up the anchor tag to the survey and I didn’t know this till someone pointed it out this morning. It’s now fixed below, thanks!
NOTE: Survey was closed down on 10/15/2010. Thanks everyone who participated.
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