Brian Soriano joins James Ninness on MYTHOI

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Benjamin Glibert, Director of Publishing

(619) 206‑3563 – Ben@Semantink.com

Brian Soriano joins James Ninness on MYTHOI

Artist Brian Soriano has joined James Ninness on Semantink Publishing’s inaugural title, MYTHOI.

San Francisco based artist Brian Soriano has signed to pencil and ink MYTHOI issues #4–6 from Semantink Publishing. Brian’s enthusiasm is infectious, “I’ve been wanting to get my hands on these amazing characters since I first laid eyes on them – they’re just as creative as they are mythical.”

Director of Publishing, Benjamin Glibert is equally thrilled, “I am very excited to have Brian onboard for MYTHOI. His artwork is energetic and superbly detailed. I truly believe that Brian is a comic-star in the making. It was sad to see Jed go, but with Brian onboard MYTHOI is in very good hands.”

“Brian and I have been going back and forth on Facebook for a while now,” adds series creator James Ninness, “the minute I saw his work I sent him a friend request and a message that said, ‘You don’t know me, but I like your work and want to work with you someday.’ I think I may also have said I watched him sleep through his windows or something… It probably creeped him out, but it worked out I guess, so who cares? Brian has an amazing eye for kinetic panels and I can’t wait to see what he does with MYTHOI. I think it’s going to take the book in a lot of directions, artistically, that people may not have seen coming.”

MYTHOI, from creator/writer James Ninness, tells the tale of five heroes, each from a different mythology, thrown together to defend the world from varying enemies, each the product of history’s many mythos. MYTHOI will run 60 issues – issues #1, 2, 3, as well as five free issues (the Birth series) have already been released. Brian Soriano’s art will be released in books beginning End-of-Winter 2011.

Semantink Publishing – www.Semantink.com

SEMANTINK PUBLISHING is first and foremost a company dedicated to quality, not quantity. We believe that taking the time to read anything should be a rewarding experience, whether it’s a comic book, a novel, a magazine or the back of a cereal box. A great story, like good food, takes time to prepare and that means we won’t churn out twenty properties a week to fill your shelves and take your money. Instead we’re going to take our time crafting stories so that you can (we hope) spend your time enjoying them. We want you to stare at panels of art for a few minutes, or maybe relax as you digest a line of text. It’d be nice if you looked forward to your time with us, as we look forward to sharing with you. In short, Semantink wants you to find the meaning of print, each time you read us.

Semantink Publishing announces a delay in MYTHOI #4

PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Benjamin Glibert, Director of Publishing

(619) 206‑3563 – Ben@Semantink.com

Semantink Publishing announces their 2011 lineup

Semantink Publishing regrets to inform its fans and friends that due to a change in artist, MYTHOI #4 will be delayed at least two months.  This delay is the result a new artist being brought on to take over the MYTHOI saga for three issues.

Semantink regrets that Jed Soriano will be moving beyond MYTHOI, but wants to publicly thank him for kickstarting their inaugural property.  Everyone at Semantink wishes Mr. Soriano the best and has no doubts that he will go very far with his art.

While Semantink is not prepared to announce the artist for MYTHOI issues  4,5, and 6, we do want to assure the fans of Kevin Warwick that this will in no way stifle or impede Mr. Warwick’s progress on MYTHOI issues 7–12.  We will, however, confirm that the artist picking up where Mr. Soriano left off is not Kevin Warwick…

For more on these properties and when they will be available, keep an eye on Semantink’s website.

Semantink Publishing – www.Semantink.com

SEMANTINK PUBLISHING is first and foremost a company dedicated to quality, not quantity. We believe that taking the time to read anything should be a rewarding experience, whether it’s a comic book, a novel, a magazine or the back of a cereal box. A great story, like good food, takes time to prepare and that means we won’t churn out twenty properties a week to fill your shelves and take your money. Instead we’re going to take our time crafting stories so that you can (we hope) spend your time enjoying them. We want you to stare at panels of art for a few minutes, or maybe relax as you digest a line of text. It’d be nice if you looked forward to your time with us, as we look forward to sharing with you. In short, Semantink wants you to find the meaning of print, each time you read us.

In a couple of weeks MYTHOI #2 will be hitting the digital shelves of Semantink.com — as well as a few other vendor sites.  I know there has been a bit of confusion as to the method of release for MYTHOI thus far, so I wanted to take this time to set some things straight.

When MYTHOI #1 came out last September (yes, I realize that was nearly 10 months ago) the plan was to release an issue every two months until we had put out all 60-issues.  Well, shit happens.  The biggest critique we got from the first issue was that it was to jolting — in other words, the audience was thrown into the middle of something they didn’t understand and therefore didn’t care about.  I can see where the critics were coming from and looking back I think there are a few things I as a writer could have done differently but hindsight’s 20/20 and I refuse to sit around sulking.

In response to this critique, Benjamin and I developed the Birth saga: a series of short comics, 12 pages in length, that gave the audience background so that they could be slightly more invested in the jumpoff point (MYTHOI #1).  Originally these origin tales were to come in each of the five arcs, revealing pasts with the present and while I still think that could’ve been awesome, it’s hard to get an audience to invest in a company, writer, artist and book who have absolutely no credibility to speak of.  So, Birth came to be.

Now the Birth series came out better than I could’ve hoped.  Jed knocked the art out of the park and I’m quite pleased with the stories themselves.  The trade paperback for the Birth series is available for pre-order now at Semantink.com.  However, as pleased as I am with it, it took a lot of time away from the series proper.  Issue #1 leaves us with a dead President, a handful of crazy slave-werewolves, a psychotic bishop, a child vampire, a purple-eyed body thief and a giant air dragon — for ten months now people have asked me, generally the same question, what happens next?

With the Birth series complete, I am very pleased to announce that we are back to the series proper and barreling forward full steam ahead!  MYTHOI #2 will continue the tale we began almost a year ago, adding a few more characters you may recognize from the Birth series while developing our first of five arcs.  Jed is, once again, doing a fantastic job with the art and we’ve got a few more people working on the book as well:  Gary Jonez has taken over as colorist and Semantink’s own Benjamin Glibert is now lettering our series!

So what does all this rambling mean?  It means that there will be no more breaks, pauses, inserts, deadlocks, breathers, letups or layoffs for MYTHOI.  Starting in July, you will be getting an issue every other month for the next 59 digital issues of this series, 12 more trade paperbacks, 5 story arcs and 1 epic adventure.

Thanks for the patience everyone.

James

PS: MYTHOI #1, as well as the entire (Free) Birth series can now be found at Drivethrucomics!

Happy Father’s Day folks!

I’m sorry to interrupt your usually scheduled Writer’s Block column, but since this month Semantink is officially one year old, I thought I would do a state of the union column. So, let’s take a look at what’s going on here at Semantink!

MYTHOI: I have a few pieces of news regarding our flagship title. First, if you were not aware, our first TPB, Birth, is now available for pre-order. This is collecting the entire MYTHOI Birth series, as well as an entirely original MYTHOI story featuring Heath and Catherine, the Werewolves that you met in MYTHOI #1.

While I am mentioning Birth, I would be remiss if I did not point out that MYTHOI writer James Ninness is letting his inner philanthropist out, and donating all money that he receives for the Birth TPB to charity! You can get all the details over at James’ Blog.

Finally, MYTHOI #2 will be out soon! Keep your eyes peeled, this issue is going to blow you away. Jed Soriano really knocked this one out of the park. If you are behind, don’t worry, you still have some time before issue #2 comes out to catch up, so go read the Birth series (they are free online), and then get your digital copy of issue #1!

THE UNDERGROUNDS: Our weekly web comic continues to get great readership, so thanks to all of you who make a point to check this out every week. If you haven’t gotten a chance to find out what happens when you mix monsters and coffee, or if you have just fallen behind in your reading, you an always check out our UNDERGROUNDS archive.

So what’s next? Well, we have three (!) new properties that will be coming out in the later half of this year, and they are going to blow you away. One is a comedy, one is a western, and one is a fantasy book with a good amount of steampunk, because who doesn’t love steampunk? More details as they become available.

Also, if you are in the San Diego area and want to rap comics, the fine folks of Semantink host a monthly meet up group in Mission Valley. Stop in, get some java, and rap comics. We are having one today! You can check out details here.

We will also be representing at San Diego Comic Con next month, and at Ape in October. If you are in the area give us a shout out!

So that’s it for today folks. Have a happy Father’s Day, and stay tuned for more big Semantink news in the next few months!

Greetings readers! If you have been checking out our site this week, you might have noticed that we have begun running our blogs in a slightly different manner. I know that change can be scary, so I just wanted to give you a run down of what you can be expecting from us here at Semantink every week:

Every Monday you will get to read the newest strip in our web-comic, THE UNDERGROUNDS. You can also find an archive of all posted UNDERGROUNDS strips at the-undergrounds.com.

Tuesdays still give you Sgt. Angle and his weekly Cinegasms column, dealing with all things movie.

On Wednesdays Akatzen regails you with his weekly Book Report delving into the world of books that don’t have pretty pictures.

Mr. Wolff still owns Thursday with his Hump Day Rant.

Friday sees new Semantink blogger Dr. Cellus delve into all things paranormal on his blog Cognitive Alchemy.

Saturday gives you Admiral Eo’s Soft Shoe Diaries, wherein the good Admiral looks into the world of theater.

Sunday, you will be stuck with me as I talk comics in my weekly Comicopea column.

Not a bad line up right? Well our new blog schedule is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of news here at Semantink. Over the next few months, our site will be getting a bit of a face lift courtesy of the fine gentlemen at SanBox Inc. All of the content that you love will still be here, but the whole place will be prettier and easier to navigate.

For our MYTHOI lovers, I have some great news, our latest issue of the MYTHOI Birth series, TAROS will be out this week. Here is the cover art to the upcoming issue to whet your appetite:

April is going to see the last issue of MYTHOI Births, TOUCH, hit the internet. As always, MYTHOI will be brought to by the electrifying team of James Ninness and Jed Soriano.

The MYTHOI Birth series coming to a close means two things, 1) MYTHOI proper will pick up again in June with issue #2, and 2)the MYTHOI Birth graphic novel will be available around the same time. All of our MYTHOI issues are available for digital download, but this graphic novel will be the only place you can find the whole Birth series collected in in one place. The GN will be chock full of original content as well, so make sure you pick up a copy when it comes out!

This fall we will be launching two new series, THE HEAVEN’S and SIM-I. THE HEAVEN’S will be written by James Ninness and illustrated by spectacular newcomer Turbo Qualls! THE HEAVEN’S is a steampunk power struggle set on the alien desert world of Terra. Joe Pezzula will be writing SIMI-I, the madcap tale of a super intelligent monkey trying to evade vaporization. I will have more information and pretty picture-tude on these soon.

Next month is also the start of convention season for us here at Semantink. We will be at WonderCon and Wizard World Anaheim in April, The Phoenix Comicon in May, the world famous San Diego Comic Con in July, and the Alternative Press Expo and Long Beach Comic con in October.

So, to make a long story short (too late), 2010 is an exciting year for us here at Semantink, and I just want to say thank you for being a part of it. Keep an eye out here for more details on our upcoming projects, and if you have any questions you can always drop me a line.

Benjamin Glibert

Good morning!

The next exciting installment of the MYTHOI saga is now available! We here at Semantink are proud to present MYTHOI Birth: YUKI from the creative team of James Ninness and Jed Soriano. The best part? It is absolutely free!

You can find a downloadable PDF on our MYTHOI site here, along with the first two parts of MYTHOI Births (also free). However, for the best viewing experience possible, I recommend checking out YUKI through issuu, which you can do here.

From all of us here at Semantink, we hope you enjoy the issue, and if you did, feel free to tell a friend, get the word out, share the MYTHOI love!

Thanks for stopping in folks, enjoy the comic and check back in tomorrow for another book report with Akatzen.

Greetings Semantinkers!

Ben was kind enough to let me share the exciting news — Vito is here!  Jed and I have been working very, very hard to push ourselves with each issue and we’re both very proud of MYTHOI Birth: Vito — I hope you like it!  Vito is the smallest of the MYTHOI gang, but he’s also the most gruesome…  If you like vampires, Gothic culture, or anything Brahm Stoker, I think you’ll find Vito an entertaining read!  If you like Twilight, well…  I’m sorry?

There are a few viewing options at your disposal here.  Option 1: Go here and download your very own copy of Vito as a pdf — for free!  Or for the viewing method preferred by many of us here at Semantink, you can go here and check it out on ISSUU!  Either way, be sure to check it out and as always: LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK!  The best publicity is word of mouth.  We want you guys to enjoy it and tell your friends, remember: it’s 100% free!

I’m honored that you’ve taken the time to check out the beginning of a story I’ve invested the last four years of my life into.  It’s very exciting to see Jed breathe life into these characters and even more so to hear back from you guys about the good times your having reading them. You guys are the best.

Benjamin’s also asked me to mention that Semantink is currently being “re-imagined.”  I’m not privy to all the details, but I do know that the site will be relaunching with all new designs and a complete interface overhaul.  I think I’m allowed to tell you that they’ve just finished negotiations with a new team of bloggers to be producing new content every day, as well as production on a yet-to-be-titled web comic, released every Monday.  All of this coming to you in mid-February…  So stay tuned and hold on to your butts — good stuff’s a-comin’.

Keep on keepin’ on!

James Ninness

PS: In case you haven’t figured it out already, there is something else going on between the pages — here’s a hint: read the ads.  Have fun!

Semantink.com

Good Morning!

I know that usually Monday is a day of list-filled goodness, but I’m going to interrupt our regularly scheduled program to talk a bit about MYTHOI. For those who don’t know, MYTHOI is our inaugural title here at Semantink, and something that we are all very proud of. In September, MYTHOI #1 was released, and so far the response has been overwhelmingly good.

Now, most of you who visit the site probably know all about MYTHOI, and already have your copy of issue #1 (if you don’t have your copy yet, go get it now, it’s okay, I’ll wait) and are eagerly awaiting the release of issue #2, due out this month. That is what I am here to address.

I just wanted to let everyone know that issue #2 of MYTHOI is going to be on hold for a few months. WHAT THE HELL!? you might be yelling at your computer screen at this very moment (which is unfair, the computer didn’t do anything to you), but take a deep breath and relax, because I have some news that is going to make your day.

In a few weeks, Semantink is going to be releasing a brand new MYTHOI comic, and the best part? It’s going to be FREE! Yes, I said it, FREE! The comic will be available online, and as I just said, completely gratis. The storytelling team of James Ninness and Jed Soriano are still in place, so don’t worry, there will be no drop off in the quality of story.

This comic is going to be the first of five origin stories for our MYTHOI characters and be titled MYTHOI: BIRTH. The first MYTHOI: BIRTH will focus on a character named Wiglaf. Who is Wiglaf? Well, let me show you a picture:

Pretty neat, huh? So, for those expecting MYTHOI #2, I’m sorry for the delay, but I guarantee, you are going to love the MYTHOI BIRTH issues. And fear not, MYTHOI #2, while a bit tardy, is still coming!

For those who want to be kept up to date on all the latest MYTHOI news, or just want to talk other ofther MYTHOI lovers out there, feel free to become a fan of MYTHOI on facebook.

Oh, and one more thing, just to warn you: there is a secret hidden inside of MYTHOI: BIRTH WIGLAF, that you are not going to want to miss out on. Can you find the trail?

Thanks for stopping in folks, see you tomorrow.