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Rainbow in the Dark
A Graphic Novel in Three Parts
by
Comfort Love and Adam Withers
Creators of the acclaimed indy comic series:
The Uniques
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Rainbow: Hitting the Road
Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:44:58 GMTAlright, everybody - this'll be our last blog for a couple weeks. We're hitting the road for our big 2-week Convention Tour. We've never done two shows back to back without coming home in-between, and we're both excited and nervous. Excited because we're staying with friends we love the whole time, nervous because our poor baby kittens will be left at home for so long without us. They'll have Adam's parents checking on them all the time, thanks to the glory of triplex living, but we're going to miss them so much!
Baaaabiiiiies!!!
After that, we're going south to Atlanta, GA and the mighty Dragon*Con. It's our first year at that show, so try not to hurt us too much, 'kay' We're real nice, we swear! We're really looking forward to checking this one out and seeing if the hype lives up to the real experience. 
Wooooooooo! Rainbow #2 Preview Panel
A big thanks to Bryan and Judy Glass and Jeremy and Kelly Dale who are putting us up in their homes for this trip. You guys are the best, and you make everything so much more fun. We promise we'll do our best not to wear on your hospitality.
So that's all, gang. We'll be back here in a couple weeks with some con reports and updates on Rainbow. See you then!
-Adam & Comfort
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Rainbow: Issue #2 Preview and an Update on Our Lives
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:17:25 GMTHello again, everybody. Yes, we know – we’ve been criminally slack in our blogging. We’ve barely peeped about all the cool stuff going on with Rainbow and Uniques Tales, and have been gone so much that we took two weeks just to get all our Convention Reports up to date. It’s been a tough time for us, lately. Not bad tough, just really busy. Like, really busy. We were going crazy leading up to SDCC, and it hasn’t slacked off much at all since then.
So here’s where we’re at: for personal and professional reasons, we’ve got to get Rainbow in the Dark #2 finished and off to print in time for the New York Comic Con, which is the weekend of October 8th. Normally, that wouldn’t be any problem at all. Much of this rush is due to connections made at SDCC, but from the time we got back from San Diego and Otakon, we had about 2 months before NYCC. That’s an easy target to hit, for us.
Preview panel from Rainbow in the Dark #2
But there are complications. Aren’t there always' The big thing is that we’ve got three conventions between now and NYCC, starting this weekend with the Baltimore Comic Con. Woo! But we’re doing the Baltimore Con and Dragon*Con back-to-back, so we’ll be going from Flint, MI to Baltimore to Atlanta, GA, and then back to Michigan again. We’ll be gone from tomorrow until at least September 7th (2 weeks from Tuesday). Then we get a weekend at home before going back to Georgia for Anime Weekend Atlanta, losing another 6-7 days.
We’re actually really looking forward to these shows. We’ll be staying with friends who’ve been so gracious as to invite us into their homes for the duration of the journey. We’re hopeful that Baltimore will be a better show this year than last, and all we hear about Dragon*Con is that it’s a mad-house that must be experienced once in a lifetime. AWA is a toss-up, but if it’s like pretty much every other Anime con we’ve gone to, it’ll at least be fun and energizing. So we’re planning on having a lot of fun and hoping for a lot of professional success… it’s just that we’re losing almost a month on the road (something like 21 days).
We had Comfort’s parents over this past weekend, which was great. We love them to death, and are so happy that they’ve returned to Michigan after living with Comf’s grandmother in Wyoming for something like two years. It was just so very nice to have them back and spend time with them again. We’re fortunate as a couple in that we’re close with both sets of parents, and that both sides of the family enjoy each other’s company. We took a lot of walks, ate better than we have in ages (thanks moms!) and talked and talked.
Of course, that was also another weekend where we didn’t get as much work done. They were very understanding of our schedule, and accommodated us while we continued drawing through the weekend. It wasn’t a complete professional loss, but we didn’t do as much as we usually would have. A small price to pay for the personal boost we got from being with family we love.
Anyway, we’re rambling on about the ups and downs, and we don’t want this to sound like we’re complaining. We’ve been having a very good time these past months, and are looking forward to having some really good times the next couple weeks on the road. Seriously – we’ve been looking forward to this 2-week trip pretty much all year long! It’s just that this is why we’ve been tight in our schedule and haven’t blogged as much as we wanted to.
So that’s the deal. We’re busting our butts, having only around 40 days in total to complete an entire 27-page issue from start to finish. As a comparison, most artists get about 28 days or so just to do the pencils on a 22-page comic. We’re doing pencils, color, and lettering in just a little more than that. But don’t cry for us – we’re having a great time, and are actually keeping on schedule really well. We’re just not likely to enjoy the last couple weeks of production very much!
See you as soon as we can, after two weeks of travel around the eastern third of the U.S. and with a pair of convention reports in pocket.
Excelsior!
-Adam & Comfort
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Rainbow: Issue 1 Released! Then... Off to San Diego!
Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:11:55 GMTThe day has arrived; after months and months of speculation and scant promotion, Rainbow in the Dark #1 is here. Head over to the new website, www.RainbowintheDarkComic.com, to buy the digital copies today! Waiting for paper' They’re on the way. You can buy them in person this weekend at the San Diego Comic Con. Just look for booth 1804 and check us out! We’re back, alive and well and still sane after the hellacious hell-week we just went through. The good news - Rainbow in the Dark #1 is finished and off to press. All it took was staying up until 4-5 am every night for a week. Now, despite our fatigue and general achiness, we’ve switched gears and are prepping everything we need for the Rainbow website (www.RainbowintheDarkComic.com – it’s coming!) and the web-release of the book, as well as the poop-storm that will be San Diego Comic Con. Today is Adam’s birthday; he’s 29. We’re almost 30. It’s funny the things you expect of yourself when you’re younger, looking ahead to your 30’s. Adam figured by now he’d have kids and a steady job, hopefully as a comic artist. We’ve got neither (unless you count self-publishing as a “steady job”). We blame it on all the stories in the 90’s about the amazing artists who were discovered and got their big breaks in their teens or early 20’s. Rob Liefeld was a professional comic artist at, like, 16. Joe Madureira was doing back-up stories for Marvel while still in high school. J. Scott Campbell and Skottie Young' Barely in their 20’s at the most. There are still more we could point to, but it gave us kids coming up in the early 90’s and heading off to college by the end of the decade this inflated sense that we could get real, serious comic jobs before we were 25 and all it’d take was being as good as those guys were when they started. Just a couple of quick images here. Rainbow is coming along quite well! We've got over half of the pages drawn and Comfort has the color done for most of those. Fingers crossed we finished this stuff up on time...
Ah, San Diego. What can we say about that beautiful city that hasn’t been said already'
We leave tomorrow for Cali (at 6 AM, of all things – bleagh), and we’re as anxious to see the printed copies of Rainbow #1 as anybody else. This is a really exciting week. We hope to see a lot of people at the show, and if any of you blog-watchers should come by let us know you read us! It’s nice to know people look at this thing!
In the mean time… go check out the (temporarily anemic) www.RainbowintheDarkComic.com and read the first issue of our new series. We’d love to hear what you think.
See you in San Diego-
Adam & Comfort
CommentsRainbow: Issue #1 Preview
Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:05:58 GMT
We were really thinking hard on the best way to get people into Rainbow. It’s a very different kind of book from Uniques, and a big part of that is the way we’re approaching the art. We haven’t shown much here because we didn’t want to create expectations (good or bad) or have people pre-judging the work before you got a chance to read it yourselves.
But the truth is that we want people to get a taste of what they’re in for with this mini-series. But pages out of context wouldn’t do the job very well. To know what this book will be like, you just have to read some of it and see. So we’re doing something different, here. We’re going to show you the first 7 pages of Rainbow in the Dark #1 in their entirety so you can really see what we’re trying to do with this book.
Then, if you like it, come back next week. Rainbow #1 will be on sale in digital format starting early next week, and the paper copies debut at San Diego Comic Con. Click through the thumbnails below, and as the prophet said, hold on to your butts…
Hope you enjoyed that. It gets really crazy starting on the next page, so you really should check out the issue and see some more. And it’s only a 99 cent download, so that isn’t asking so much, is it' Come back early next week, set your browsers for www.RainbowintheDarkComic.com, and be ready for awesome.
-Adam & Comfort
CommentsRainbow in the Dark: Birthday Update
Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:39:13 GMT
Which, of course, is absolutely not true. We had to spend years at conventions to discover that the day of the teen-wonder and 22-year-old miracle were not only the rarest of rare occurrences, but that the publishers didn’t really even want those kinds of things to happen anymore. Still, there area lot of people our age struggling at the fringes of comics and fighting off these feelings of failure because they didn't get to have one of those "miracle" stories. We were bamboozled! Now it's on us to stick it out and make it happen in the trenches, or give it up and go home. Which, of course, we'll never do.
So here we sit, a year out from 30, and having to do it all ourselves. But you know what' Aside from having to do the whole job on our own (primarily griping about the marketing/printing/managerial stuff, here) and having to scrape by on a peanut-budget, we’re actually probably a lot happier doing our own comics our way than if we were handcuffed to a DC or Mavel desk. This way we can always know that the work we’re doing is stuff we’re proud to be making and excited to create! Not many big-time creators can say that for all their projects.
In fact, the only thing we really, really would like to get now is the opportunity for more people to see our stuff, read our stories, and find out if they like us or not. Which, hopefully, is where Rainbow in the Dark comes in!
Luke and Kenji savin' kids & fightin' monsters!
We’re approaching the end of June, now, and the end of production on the first issue of Rainbow. And man… it looks good. We really don’t like tooting our own horn, because it pretty much always sounds disingenuous at best and arrogant at worst, but this is absolutely the best looking work we’ve done in our careers. We’re very, very confident in this issue, and we believe that people are going to really get into it once it’s out. Which it will be next month, so stay tuned.
We’re going to have more Rainbow info later this week, and start talking about those monsters you see in the background of that page. Meanwhile, we’re going to head out to the swing-bench on the patio, sit in the shade, turn on some NPR and draw while basking in the warmth of a really beautiful day.
Later, taters-
Adam & Comfort
CommentsRainbow: Update on Rainbow in The Dark!
Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:48:58 GMT
Anyhow, here's some preview images - enjoy!
-Adam and Comfort
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