In 2010 Road Crew Turned into From Rags to Rockstars. The comic went from a newspaper style three or four panel strip to a more longform/graphic novel style. Kelly decided that he would be better served if he separated the two comics, as both where drastically different stylistically from each other. Although Both Road Crew and (Like I said Monday!) have the same cast, the themes of From Rags to Rockstars are more mature and less gag of the day orientated.
So think Of Road Crew as STAR TREK the Original TV Series and From Rags to Rockstars
as the films! Although neither comics are set in the future or have funny looking aliens. Or, in more music terms, Road Crew is BLACK SABBATH and From Rags to Rockstars
is OZZY’s solo career!
ROCK ON!
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From Rags To Rockstars #1
Issue One of The comic Arrived from the Printers today and I have to say that I couldn’t be happier with the print job!
The comic Contains the entire FOR SALE storyline and rolls in at 52 pages, full colour covers and interrior covers with black and white interiors! I am so proud of this comic and am very excited to get it out. It will be on sale at 2D comic Festival in Derry In June and at the Point Market Comics Event two weeks later. But if you can’t wait til then or live somewhere else in the world then you can purchase it online for €8 including Postage and packing to anyplace in the world! I also sign it for you!
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Also New on Sale at the Minute is the First Mini Comic from SOMETHING WONDERFUL, which has being going from strength to strenght. It’s a gag a day type comic strip that has become way more popular on the web than Road Crew or From rags ever was.
The first Mini Comic is called SOMETHING WONDERFUL CORRUPTS YOUNG MINDS and is Available for €3 Including Postage and Packing to anywhere in the world. It’s 20 6×3 Pages, Colour covers and Comes signed and with a sketch!
So if you’re interested click click the link!
SOMETHING WONDERFUL CORRUPTS YOUNG MINDS
€3 incl shipping to anywhere in the world
I also want to let the people who did the Road Crew pre-order that their items haven’t arrived from the printers as yet, but rest assure, that as soon as they do they will be posted out asap!
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OK today in my hyper promotion week for the pre-order of the new Road Crew Book collection: NOTHING’S SHOCKING and the release of Road Crew: For Sale #2 i present to you the introduction to Nothing’s Shocking by sound Guru Clive Young. Clive is the author of CRANK IT UP: LIVE SOUND SECRETS OF THE TOP TOUR ENGINEERS. He very kindly wrote this great introduction for me. To find out more about him go to his site or buy his book!
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The standard stereotype goes that concert engineers are idiots who push road cases around and occasionally turn the volume knob while quaffing gallons of beer and chasing every skirt in the crowd. I’d like to take this opportunity to say that Road Crew proves it’s not true.
That is, I’d like to say it, but the truth is Jim Soundman and his gang do their best to embrace classic Rock-n-Roll hedonism with every fiber of their being most every chance they get. It’s as if they were trying to tick off all the boxes on a mythical Roadie Cliché Checklist, but like most everything else they do, they fail because there’s one item destined to remain unmarked forever.
Despite repeated entanglements with Heaven and Hell, God and the Devil, the Reaper, a visit to the infamous Crossroads and more, Jim Soundman has never sold his soul for Rock-n-Roll. For better or worse, he’s stuck with it and if anything, over the course of Road Crew, his simple character has grown to become one of the most soulful incarnations of Rock-n-Roll around.
Why? Because every day, Jim gets ground down by crap equipment, evil music biz interlopers, talentless musicians and an indifferent world. More often than not, he’s the only one in the hall who even cares how the band sounds, performing small miracles to make garbage groups sound better than they have any right to. What does he get for all his troubles? Not much. Jim’s personal life is a wreck and his professional life is a joke (well, it IS a comic). Some people say their job will be the death of them; his already has been.
All that would make a lesser fictional construct throw in the towel, but not Jim Soundman. If Rock be the music of rebellion, then he is its very personification—after every defeat, rising up out of a pool of his own flop sweat where he drunkenly passed the night before to once again don his crumpled devil horn shirt, curse his empty wallet and (ig)nobly man his post behind the mix console. I believe it was the noted physicists Twisted Sister who once sang “You can’t stop Rock n Roll,” and in truth, you can’t stop Jim either. Ergo, by those terms, without question, Jim is Rock-n-Roll.
And long live Rock-n-Roll.
–Clive Young
author, Crank It Up: Live Sound Secrets of the Top Tour Engineers
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So remember if you pre-order this week you get lots of bonus stuff, if you are the biggest spender you get loads more free stuff including an original page of Road Crew art! Intereested? Click here!
Stacey Whittle from Smallpress Big Mouth podcast, very kindly did this fabtastci forward to the new Book Nothing’s Shocking. It’s about the importance of the small press industry and why you should support it! Tomorrow I will post the INTRODUCTION by CLIVE YOUNG (author, Crank It Up: Live Sound Secrets of the Top Tour Engineers) which is more Road Crew specific but equally great. And yes I am THAT important that i have both a forward and an Introduction in my book :p
The brilliance of the small press is its passion and its diversity. The work that goes into producing a web comic, a mini comic or a single issue is incredible, with creators knowingly and willingly making a loss on their comics just for the love of making them and with a drive to have you read them. How amazing is that?
Some of the best comics being produced at the moment are not through the mainstream, they are produced by talented and driven people stealing time out of their working and home lives. And as it’s so very difficult for writers and artists to make it in the mainstream then the small and independent press become ever more important and innovative and exciting too.
And these days the production quality on small/independent comics is moving on in leaps and bounds, though (hopefully – as I have a big fondness for them!) we will always have the photocopied and stapled mini comic we are now seeing comics produced by the small press that would sit comfortably and not look out of place on a shelf in your local comic shop, like the comics produced by Tommie Kelly for instance.
I think as readers it’s our job to support our small press, if you love a web comic then buy a t-shirt, buy a trade, give them some feedback on the work they’re producing. Then watch them improve and strive forward and reap the benefits in the high quality of work they produce and when that creator hits the stratosphere as some undoubtedly will you can also have the glorious and not-to-be-bettered ability to say, “yeah I’ve be reading their small press stuff for years!”
Stacey Whittle
Small Press Big Mouth
smallpress_bigmouth.blogspot.com
www.geeksyndicate.wordpress.com
That’s right You heard her go back some books/comics by clicking HERE and don’t forget to check out the video of me blabing on about the extra Bonus stuff you get if you are the person who spends the most money this week
We’re just a few hours away from the opening of the pre-orders and i just want to share my excitement with you.
To be on the verge of releasing my second Road Crew Book is so exciting for me. And on top of that I also have issue Two of Road Crew:For Sale being launched. This is the stuff that the 10 year Tommie could only dream about. So I want to thank all of you who made it possible.
You guys are the best!
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Road Crew: For Sale has been reviewed on two fantastic comic podcasts:
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