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THE UNDERGROUNDS #3
Monday, March 15th, 2010THE UNDERGROUNDS #2
Monday, March 8th, 2010
Semantink State of the Union
Sunday, March 7th, 2010Greetings 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
Once more into THE UNDERGROUNDS
Friday, February 26th, 2010Today is the fifth and final day of our inside look at THE UNDERGROUNDS. The past few days we have gotten a chance to meet the baristas that work at THE UNDERGROUNDS. Today you get to meet one of the regular customers that frequents THE UNDERGROUNDS, Van Helsing!
I also wanted to share with all of you this piece that artist Daniel Touchet came up with that shows you all of the “scare-istas” that work at THE UNDERGROUNDS (as well as one cranky regular customer). Enjoy!
Over the past few days, you have had a chance to learn about the writers involved in THE UNDERGROUNDS, but today I want to introduce you to the artist involved with bringing the strip to life each week, Daniel Touchet.
Daniel Touchet was reportedly born with a crayon in his hand. Despite the complications you might think that would cause, Daniel turned out just fine, and of course had a predilection towards fine art. Daniel is also very proud of his collecting abilities, with a DVD collection that is somewhere in the thousands and a book collection that is almost as large. While THE UNDERGROUNDS is Daniel’s first professional work in comics, he has been drawing on any piece of paper he could find for years.
Thanks for stopping in the last few days to become acquainted with THE UNDERGROUNDS. The first strip will be on the semantink website March 1st, so make a date with your computer this Monday. If you missed any of the introductions from earlier in the week, you can check out the links below.
THE UNDERGROUNDS coverage continues!
Thursday, February 25th, 2010Welcome to day 4 of our introduction to THE UNDERGROUNDS. As I did yesterday, I will start with yet another character introduction. So far you have had the chance to meet Dracula, Frank, and the Wolfman. Who could possibly be left? Why, The Mummy of course!
Yesterday, I got the chance to introduce you all to two of the five writers that will be penning our comic. Today I want to introduce you to the other three writers that will be working on THE UNDERGROUNDS: Derek Johnson, Michael Fountain, and Marcel Losada.
Derek Johnson received his BA in English from Hamline University in Minnesota, and his MFA in screenwriting from Chapman University located in the much warmer Southern California. Derek is currently up in Hollywood, making movie magic, but he has taken time out of his busy schedule to write THE UNDERGROUNDS.
Michael Fountain has a BFA Theater Technology from Chapman University. Mike has written several plays as well as several short films, but to date, THE UNDERGROUNDS is his first comic book work. Mike is currently hard at work at a number of projects, but if you want to get in contact with him, he suggests you try his facebook page. He eagerly awaits pokes.
Marcel Losada has obtained his BA in English Education from Cal State long beach, and currently works at shaping the fragile young minds of the next generation. Marcel is also a newcomer to the field of comics but has a great deal of experience in poetry and short fiction. Marcel also has a deep love of all things food; when asked what food he enjoyed, he simply responded “Everything!”.
Tomorrow you get to meet the last of the regular characters on THE UNDERGROUNDS, and get to know series artist Daniel Touchet a little better. If you missed any of our previous character introductions, you can find them at the links just below.
More from THE UNDERGROUNDS
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Welcome back to my week long look at Semantink’s new web-comic, THE UNDERGROUNDS. In the past few days we have all gotten a chance to meet several of the characters from THE UNDERGROUNDS by way of their Monster Match profiles. Monday we got to meet Dracula, yesterday we were introduced to Frank, and today we get to become acquainted with the Wolfman:
Now, I also promised a little more information about the talented people working on THE UNDERGROUNDS, and since I am no liar, today I want to give you all a little information about two of the fabulous writers working on this project, Joe Pezzula and James Ninness.
Joe Pezzula got his BA in English from the University of Albany, then went on to get his MFA in scriptwriting from Chapman University. Joe has mainly worked up in Hollywood the last few years, but has decided to take his first shot in the field of comics with THE UNDERGROUNDS. If you want to read some of Joe’s short stories, you can find them here. Joe also loves pie and homemade meatballs. Don’t get between Joe and his meatballs.
James Ninness is a name that you have heard of if you visit this site often. James received his BA in English: Creative Writing from Cal State Long Beach, and is also the writer of Semantink’s inaugural title, MYTHOI. However, no one project can keep James occupied, so he got involved with THE UNDERGROUNDS (not to mention a great deal of other projects I am not at liberty to talk about). If you want to check out James’ work on MYTHOI, you can read several issues for free here or if you want to check out some more of his musings, you can check out his blog, The Word Ride.On a more personal note, James likes sushi eaten off of brightly colored midgets.
Check back tomorrow for more on THE UNDERGROUNDS, and if you missed out on meeting Dracula or Frank, fear not I’ve put links in just below.
Getting aquainted with THE UNDERGROUNDS
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010Yesterday I was pleased to introduce you to Semantink Publishing’s brand new weekly web-comic, THE UNDERGROUNDS. Today I wanted to continue to whet your appetites with a little more information about our new series. First up, I want to show you the official UNDERGROUNDS logo. Anytime you see this bad boy, monsters, caffeine and hi-jinx won’t be far behind. Enjoy!
I also wanted to introduce you to another of the wonderful baristas that you will meet when you stop into THE UNDERGROUNDS. Yesterday, we all got a chance to meet Dracula via his Monster Match survey, and today we geet to meet Frank.
Stay tuned all week for more information about THE UNDERGROUNDS, including more character profiles, information on the writers and artist, and a little behind the scenes of how the comic came to be.
Oh, and if you missed the introduction to THE UNDERGROUNDS, or a chance to read Dracula’s Monster Match survey, you can check it out here.
What is THE UNDERGROUNDS?
Monday, February 22nd, 2010Ladies and Gentlemen, I am pleased to share some very exciting news with you all. One week from today (that’s March 1st for all of you without a calender handy) Semantink Publishing will be offering a free weekly web comic to all titled THE UNDERGROUNDS.
THE UNDERGROUNDS is a comic strip that takes some of your favorite classic monsters, characters like Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, The Mummy, and The Wolfman (as well as everyone’s favorite vampire hunter Van Helsing) and puts them to work at a coffee shop.
The strip is written by Marcel Losada, Michael Fountain, James Ninness, Joe Pezzula and Derek Johnson, with art by Daniel Touchet.
Now that you know about our latest project, it’s time to introduce you to the characters you will be seeing there every week. Each of the monsters that work at THE UNDERGROUNDS recently filled out a very telling dating survey for Monster Match, and I thought I would share their answers with you. Today we get to learn a little bit more about Dracula:
From today until Friday I will be introducing you to a new character each day. Enjoy, and mark your calenders for next Monday and THE UNDERGOUNDS #1!
Benjamin Glibert
The Long Beach Comic Expo
Sunday, February 21st, 2010Hello all! I was fortunate enough to join the Semantink boys on another convention outing yesterday back to Long Beach, for the Long beach Comic Expo! The Long Beach Comic Con kicked off its first year just a few months ago, and a second year is coming in October, but the good people behind the LBC’s comic craze decided to give us a one day sort of midpoint break in patience. While yesterday’s event was only a miniscule sampling of the glory that is the Long Beach Comic Con proper, it hailed a haughty list of talent:
- Amanda Dawn Wolf
- Bernie Wrightson
- Beth Sotelo
- Brian Haberlin
- Cat Staggs
- Christian Beranek
- Christian Meesey
- Chris Moreno
- Dan Brereton
- Dan Wickline
- Dan Taylor
- David Wohl
- Drew Johnson
- Dustin Nguyen
- Eddie Nuñez
- Eric Basaldua
- Eric Canete
- Frank Mastromauro
- Gus Vazquez
- J.T. Krul
- Jim Daly
- JJ Kirby
- Joe Benitez
- Joe Rubinstein
- Jordan Raskin
- Josh Dysart
- Lauren Perry
- Joshua Hale Fialkov
- Livio Ramondelli
- Lou Ferrigno
- Mark Dos Santos
- Mark Roslan
- Michael Lopez
- Naomi Baker
- Norm Rapmund
- Peter Steigerwald
- Philip Tan
- Ray-Anthony Height
- Richard Starkings
- Rick Basaldua
- Rob Levin
- Scott Lobdell
- Stan Sakai
- Steve Niles
- Tim Bradstreet
- Tim Vigil
- Todd Nauck
- Tone Rodriguez
- Tony DeZuniga
- Tony Fleecs
- Trent Kaniuga
- Trevor Goring
- Vince Hernandez
- Whilce Portacio
Sgt. Angle and Benjamin Glibert give R2 the “what’s-what.”
Ben, Sgt. Angle, Ash, Admiral Eo and I made our way up to Long Beach in the wee hours of Saturday morning and pushed through minimal traffic-resistance, arriving at the Convention Center just after doors opened at 10am. We were greeted by a few cars resembling entertainment icons and pushed past a group of Clone Wars veterans into the expo. Now this event was not in the main hall, as the convention was, but in a smaller room to the side of the main entrance — but it worked. There was enough space to get around and sample each of the vendors/artists/writers/publisher’s tables without feeling to cramped.
Admiral Eo and James Ninness don’t mind Huey Lewis, but hate the News.
Once we had our wristbands, we leisurely strolled through the hubbub and ran into Mike Mignola and Steve Niles (both incredibly personable) — not a bad start. After a very lovely discussion with Tone Rodriguez (who told me that he was in DEXTER, something I did not know), we spent the rest of the afternoon shopping. One of the booths was selling everything at 40% off, so between the five of us, a few hundred dollars was spent and everybody went home with goodies galore.
Admiral Eo, James Ninness and Ash think Anakin acts like a girl. 
Cosplay was ensuing, with quite a good many fantastic costumes, and a few not so good ones… But it was great to see fans out in force, enjoying each others geekery. While I wish that there was more, I understand that this was a $10.00, one day event and I’m not complaining, I just wish there was more to see or do. There were no panels (understandable), no contests (again, understandable) and no incentive to stay after doing a couple laps around the showroom floor. It was, as one would think it to be, simple. We went, talked to some amazing people, met some courageous fans, and bought some fantastically priced merch — a fine time.
ZBladeXX scares Sgt. Angle
I look forward to the Con-proper in October (assuming I’m invited again) and have to hand it to the Long Beach organizers, MAD Event Management and the Long Beach Comic Convention, they made a lot of people very happy on an otherwise plain February afternoon — so a very special thanks to them!
Talk to you guys soon!
James Ninness
PS: The response to MYTHOI has been overwhelming — thank you all! I hope you continue to enjoy it!
MYTHOI Continues!
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010Good 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.