{"id":3243,"date":"2012-02-03T07:28:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T12:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=3243"},"modified":"2012-02-03T07:28:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T12:28:40","slug":"rub-the-blood-for-sale-and-rtb-artwork-scans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/03\/rub-the-blood-for-sale-and-rtb-artwork-scans\/","title":{"rendered":"RUB THE BLOOD for Sale, RTB Artwork, and Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey y&#8217;all, I got my contributor copies of <em>RUB THE BLOOD<\/em>, edited by <a href=\"http:\/\/secretprisoncomics.blogspot.com\/\">Ian Harker<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patmakesdrawings.com\/\">Pat Aulisio<\/a>, in the mail:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2012-02-03_image1.jpg\" alt=\"RUB THE BLOOD stack on my cutting board\"><br \/>I&#8217;m proud to be in this monstrosity. You can see the front and back covers by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/26562058@N05\/\">Victor Cayro<\/a> and the interior spread by <a href=\"http:\/\/mickeyz.org\/\">Mickey Z<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><del datetime=\"2017-01-14T05:22:16+00:00\">You can now <!--<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/store_rubtheblood.php\">-->order <em>RTB<\/em> on my store, it&#8217;s $5 plus shipping<!--<\/a>-->.<\/del> (Update 1\/13\/2017: I&#8217;ve been sold out of <em>RTB<\/em> for years.) You can also order it from editor Ian Harker through mail order, just email him at doppelgangercomics@yahoo.com. I&#8217;m also going to be sure to bring these bad boys to <a href=\"http:\/\/staple-austin.org\/\">STAPLE!<\/a> where <a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldcountypapermill.com\/\">the Gold County Paper Mill<\/a> will be tabling alongside <a href=\"http:\/\/glademade.net\">Glademade<\/a> for the fourth year in a row.<\/p>\n<p>This also seems like a good post to show y&#8217;all the ink drawings that I made for <a href=\"http:\/\/secretprisoncomics.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/rub-blood-artshow.html\">the <em>RUB THE BLOOD<\/em> art show at Brave New Worlds in Philly this past January<\/a>. The drawings are 7&#215;10&#8243; ink renditions of the two characters I used in my <em>RUB THE BLOOD<\/em> comic, Lightbeam and Bludwurld the Living Battle Planet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2012-02-03_image2.jpg\" alt=\"Lightbeam ink drawing\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2012-02-03_image3.jpg\" alt=\"Bludwurld ink drawing\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, I didn&#8217;t realize this, but 2012 is the 20th anniversary of Image. In honor of this, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytexanonline.com\/blog\/comic-blog\/2012\/02\/02\/90s-called-theyre-coming-over-your-house-right-now\">Ao Meng has a post up on the <em>Daily Texan<\/em> Comics blog that discusses the legacy of Image, the Brandon Graham and Simon Roy reinterpretation of <em>Prophet<\/em>, and <em>RUB THE BLOOD<\/em><\/a>. It includes a short interview with yours truly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey y&#8217;all, I got my contributor copies of RUB THE BLOOD, edited by Ian Harker and Pat Aulisio, in the mail: I&#8217;m proud to be in this monstrosity. You can see the front and back covers by Victor Cayro and the interior spread by Mickey Z. You can now order RTB on my store, it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,13],"tags":[64,112,313,444,495,561,704],"class_list":["post-3243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artwork","category-press","category-print-comics","tag-ao-meng","tag-brave-new-worlds","tag-ian-harker","tag-mickey-z","tag-pat-aulisio","tag-rub-the-blood","tag-victor-cayro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}