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Rainbow: #7 roughs and Motor City Comic Con!

Thu, 17 May 2012 04:55:32 GMT

This weekend we are off to Motor City Comic Con which is practically in our back yard. We'll be in Artist Alley selling books, prints, and sketching until we implode! So if your in the area, make sure to come and visit us!

Also, we are just a mere few strokes of a pencil away from finishing the roughs on Rainbow in the Dark #7. Which means, when we get back from Motor City, it's time to hunker down into our 30 days of HELL once more. So before we go into lock-down mode again, enjoy some more rough pages from Rainbow in the Dark #7!


Page 1 Rough from Rainbow in the Dark #7


Page 2 Rough from Rainbow in the Dark #7


Page 19 Rough from Rainbow in the Dark #7



Page 20 Rough from Rainbow in the Dark #7

All for now, here's hoping we see you at the show!

Comfort & Adam
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Rainbow: Summit City Con, Interview, and Rainbow #7 roughs!

Fri, 11 May 2012 04:44:16 GMT

Well fair readers - can you believe it - we’re off to yet another convention! This time we’re on our way to Summit City Comic Con in Fort Wayne Indiana! It’s a delightful one day show run by one of our favorite people in comics, Zack Kruse. He’s a tenacious guy who we’ve really come to respect. And let us tell you, he puts on a heck of a one day show!

So, as with every show we’ll be there selling books, prints, and doing sketches until our adorable little hands fall off - all day Saturday in the land of Summit City Comic Con! Above is a map of our placement in Artist Alley.

In other news, we recently were interviewed by the TGT podcast with Kurt Sasso, an awesome guy who runs a fantastic podcast. You can listen to us talk about life as a self-publisher, living with piracy, our books, and various other things here!

RAINBOW IN THE DARK NEWS:

Rainbow in the Dark #7 is underway: the entire issue is laid out in rough form, now we're tightening the roughs up and prepping for final pages. Let us tell you, compared with all the insanity of issue #6, this one is a cake walk.

Our plan is to finish Rainbow in the Dark #7 for Heroes Con this year. So in order to do that, we’ll have to hunker down for yet another 30 days of HELL! But, we’ve don it once - and we can do it again!


Rainbow in the Dark page 12 rough


Rainbow in the Dark #7 page 13 rough


Rainbow in the Dark #7 page 17 rough


Rainbow in the Dark #7 page 18 rough


Us with Chris right about to dig into our delightful sushi meal. Our favorite part of the picture - how much Chris finds our posing to be ridiculous!

Lastly, we went to go see the totally AWESOME Avengers movie with our super kick-ass friends Chris and Jennifer last Saturday. After the movie we went out for sushi (Chris had cake) and talked all about the film we had just seen. Inevitably, the subject of The Dark Knight Rises (the other massive comic movie of the summer) arose. Specifically, character Bane became a topic. Thus, an entire discussion ensued, which included the full explanation of the origins of Bane, as well as the potential coolness vs. the inevitable lameness of of said character. A delightful time indeed, many back breaking jokes were made to be sure.

But, we had no idea exactly how delightful until we got our mail today and opened it up to see that Chris (we assume, although we can see Jennifer having her hands in this as well) had made us a card...


The card sent to us by Chris and Jennifer along with a scrumptious piece of toast.

And upon further inspection, we found that it may be the very best card we've ever gotten - EVER!


The front - EPIC! And great use of a pun. Nicely done you guys!


...and the inside.

We hope you can see why these guys are out best friends. And we only hope that all of you may someday get a card in the mail half as spectacular as this one.

Well, with that, we're calling it for today and heading off to Summit City! Catch all you crazy cats later!

Comfort & Adam

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Rainbow: Issue 6 Released!

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:32:18 GMT

We have emerged from our darkened hovel, squinting again at the light. We have seen Florida’s MegaCon and returned triumphant. And now, dear friends, it is at last time to celebrate! For we now release Rainbow in the Dark #6 into the world! Huzzah!



The survival of the new community in the city stands on the brink as those who resent life outside the gloom conspire with the Veratu to tear it all down. Raina tries to put her struggles behind her, Donna finally understands the power driving this world, and her father tries to rediscover what really matters to him, but all are unaware of the chaos and devastation about to hit. Pandemonium Panic Some will live, some will die, and everything will change as the curtain falls.


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Issue 6 is the last chapter in the second volume of the story, meaning there’s only one volume left. As we end volume 2, we’re reflecting on how it all came out, and we’re really happy. This set of issues (4-6) are possibly the finest comics we’ve ever made. It was so hard to make #6 that we were afraid we’d never want to look at it again, only remembering the struggle and unable to appreciate what we had made. But as soon as we got to look at the book in our hands, we felt deeply proud of what we’ve done.

We sincerely hope you can enjoy this as much. We’re doing our best to make that possible – as of right this second, you can head to the Rainbow in the Dark website and buy issue #6 in either PDF or CBZ format for just .99 cents. But wait, there’s more!

We are proud to announce that, starting today, we’re available for purchase through Graphicly! That’s right, the complete Comfort & Adam library is available from one of the very finest online comic distributors out there. And coming soon, you'll be able to download collected volumes as single files - digital trade paperbacks! Awesome! When you buy the Uniques or Rainbow from Graphicly, you’ll also be treated to their great “guided view” presentation, which leads you through the comic in a very cinematic way. Having read through them all, we’re really impressed with how it looks. We think you’ll like it, too.


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So there you go, everybody! Head to our website to check out the new issue, or straight to Graphicly to see our sweet setup on their site. There’s never been a better time than now. And in a short while, you’ll be able to order paper copies of the new issue of Rainbow, plus the new TPB collection of Volume 2. Good stuff abounds, so we’ll cut you loose to check it out.

-Comfort & Adam


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Rainbow: 20 days of Hell are over! Now onto MEGA CON!

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:02:35 GMT

Hello everyone!

If you can't tell, there's a spring in our step today, and that's because Rainbow in the Dark #6 and Rainbow in the Dark Vol. 2 are done and off to the printer as of last Friday! HAZAH!

Technically the 20 days of hell turned out to be 25 days of hell because the issue was just that big and jam-packed with action! When you finally get to pick up your copy, we hope you appreciate the crazy amount of work that went into making that sucker! *phew*

Here are a few preview images to tide you over until the digital release on Wednesday the 22nd!


Page 4 with Rick and Jane, one of our coveted easy pages. A page that we loved because all we had to do was focus on the emotion.


Page 8. In many was we think this one speaks for itself. On the technical side of things though, we really liked how well the bare trees turned out.


Page 29. Only the tiniest taste of the action of this issue. Oh, are we excited for you to read!

In other news: We're off to MEGA CON this weekend!!!

This weekend we will be attending our first con of the year, Mega Con down in Orlando Florida! Which will not only be a great show (as it has been for the last 4 years) but it will also be the debut of Rainbow in the Dark #6 and Rainbow in the Dark Vol. 2 in print!

...and on top of all that excitement, we're doing the three day version of our Creating your Comic from Concept to Publication panel! Being on and running panels at shows has become one of our favorite things, and the extended three day version of this panel is far and away our favorite! So if you're at to show, make sure to come and see us Friday, Saturday, and Sunday!

Well, that's all for today. We've got a little pile of pre-con sketches to do already - so we had better get crackin'

Your relieved Husband and Wife Action Faction,

Comfort & Adam
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Rainbow: 20 days of HELL! Time's up!

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:46:44 GMT

We are officially out of days in our 20 days of HELL! We've been up until 5am everyday for over a week and we're dead tired! But, because of the benevolent awesomeness of our printer Ka-Blam, we get a couple more days. Thank jeebus!

So on the day we were supposed to be done, here's where we are...

35 of 36 pages drawn

35 of 36 have the flats finished

32 of 36 have the full foreground tone done

22 of 36 at have the all artwork totally finished

36 of 36 have the layout lettering finished

36 of 36 have full lettering finished

The above pretty much says it all. We've been given a little extension here and we must squeeze that time for all it's worth!

As always, here are some preview pages to let you know where we're at!


Page 16 - all finished!


Page 29 - almost finished!


Page 8 is in the flats stage. Lucky for us there are only two other pages in this state *phew*

Back to work!

Comfort & Adam

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Rainbow: 20 days of HELL! Last three days!

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:39:43 GMT

We are now 17 days into our 20 days of HELL! We were up until 5am last night which is now what we do. We're pretty exhausted right now and can't wait for this to be over. But even with all the semi-sleepless nights, this is totally going to be worth it!

So, we're down to the wire now, here's where we're at...

34 of 36 pages drawn

34 of 36 have the flats finished

27 of 36 have the full foreground tone done

18 of 36 at have the all artwork totally finished

36 of 36 have the layout lettering finished

36 of 36 have full lettering finished

Okay, the above looks pretty bad...but we're closer then it looks here. A lot of the stuff is just a bit away from being finished, and the foreground color that has to be done is not nearly as bad as some of the other pages we've done. Sadly though, there are still 4 more pages to draw...and one of them is a crazy double page splash. So yeah, not fun.

Anyway, here's some preview pages to tide you all over!


Page 13 just needs a couple effects!


...page 17 just needs the effects and a couple of background bits.


...and page 29 does still need pretty much all the color, but it's not nearly as bad as what came before it.

Okay, so we've got three nightmare-ish days ahead of us. Our fingers are crossed that we can get it all done. Wish us luck!

Comfort & Adam

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