AUDIOCOMICS PRESENTS THE “GAMADIN” BOOK SERIES…

“GAMADIN BOOK SERIES” COMES TO AUDIOCOMICS

AudioComics’ first young adults title to record in 2013

For immediate release:

AudioComics and award-nominated author Tom Kirkbride invite you to embark on the wild ride known as Gamadin, as they present the audio adaptation of Book I, Gamadin: Word of Honor in Kirkbride’s young adult series in 2013. Adapted for audio by Elaine Lee and co-directed by Lance Roger Axt and William Dufris, “Word of Honor” introduces us to Southern California surfers Harlowe, Riverstone, and Wiz, whose act of heroism leads them on the adventure of a lifetime: the retrieval of Millawanda, an ancient Gamadin spaceship, and the most dangerous weapon in the known galaxy.

The Gamadin Book Series evolved from author Kirkbride’s love of science fiction and the desire to write a thrill-packed, character driven adventure. Since its release, the series has taken the young adults genre by storm, with the Gamadin Book Series recently joining the Harry Potter and Twilight series in the Accelerated Reader Learning program in schools nationwide. The AudioComics production will present the book in a new light, utilizing the production company’s signature cinematic approach to audio drama.

The work will record in Monterey, California in the spring of 2013, with casting to be announced in late winter. As with previous productions of Titanium Rain, Starstruck, and the forthcoming Bad Planet and Perhapanauts projects, the finished work will be available on both compact disc and pay-per-Mp3 digital download, through the AudioComics and Gamadin websites (http://www.gamadin.com/), iTunes, Amazon, and at book festivals and comic book/sci-fi conventions.

Can the fate of the galaxy rest in the hands of three California surfer dudes? YES! And the rumble comes to audio in 2013…

About AudioComics:under the direction of producers William Dufris, Lance Roger Axt, and Elaine Lee, AudioComics professional full-cast “audio movies” based on stories from comics, graphic novels, and genre fiction. We offer top-notch entertainment: the best stories from the best writers, brought to life by a brilliant company of gifted actors, professionally engineered, mixed, and mastered for today’s audiences with today’s sound.

AUDIOCOMICS PRESENTS…THE PERHAPANAUTS!

The AudioComics Company to bring the Image Comics title to the world of audio drama

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The AudioComics Company announces its plans to produce and distribute a series of brand new audio adventures featuring the creations of writer Todd Dezago (Sensational Spider-Man, Tellos, Young Justice) and Craig Rousseau (Impulse, Batman Beyond, Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane): with equal parts “X-Files” and classic Saturday morning cartoon, The Perhapanauts are the agents of BEDLAM, charged with fighting the forces of supernatural and sending them back to whence they came. The twist: the Perhapanauts are themselves supernatural beings, including a Sasquatch, a Chupacabra, the Mothman, and a ghost!

Dezago will script the audio adventures of BEDLAM’s team of wild and wonderous misfits, these being new stories over straightforward adaptations of the existing material published by Image Comics, thereby expanding the universe of these characters into other avenues of media. Casting for the first Perhapanauts “audio movie” will be announced in 2013.

As with AudioComics’ productions of Titanium Rain, Starstruck, and Honey West: Murder on Mars, the finished work will be available on both compact disc and pay-per-Mp3 digital download, with cover art by Rousseau, and for sale through AudioComics’ and The Perhapanauts’ websites, iTunes, Amazon, and at comic book and sci-fi conventions.

Todd and Craig’s The Perhapanauts: this one’s gonna knock you sideways! And then frontways. And possibly a few other ways as well.

The AudioComics Company, under the guidance of producers Lance Roger Axt, William Dufris, and Elaine Lee, provides superior audio entertainment with its professional full-cast audio theatre productions of both licensed properties and original works from the world of comic books, graphic novels, and related media, accessible in today’s market with today’s sound. The AudioComics team is working to establish relationships with top name comic book companies, sci-fi writers, sponsors and the entertainment industry in Hollywood and New York, and to give these audio theatre pieces worldwide exposure.

AUDIOCOMICS BRINGS “BAD PLANET” TO AUDIO

The AudioComics Company to adapt RAW Studios’ mini-series as a full-cast audio drama

For immediate release:

In early 2013 the AudioComics Company will again enter the recording studio, this time to record the full-cast audio production of RAW Studios’ mini-series Bad Planet. The creation of RAW founders Thomas Jane (actor in The Mist, The Punisher, HBO’s Hung) and artist Tim Bradstreet (Star Wars, Hellblazer, Human Target) with writer Steve Niles (30 Days of Night, Criminal Macabre, The Mystery Society), the work will be directed by AudioComics Company Co-Producer William Dufris.

An homage to the classic science fiction and horror stories of the 1950’s, Bad Planet is the universal classification given to worlds that have fallen prey to predator races. Now the planet Earth appears to be the next to fall when a race of invading “deathspiders” wreak havoc on the populace. Our only chance for salvation lies in the hands of two scientists from opposite ends of the Earth, an African child prodigy, and a Phaedon warrior whose unwitting actions led to the destruction of his race.

Thomas Jane: “I heard their production of Starstruck, and thought ‘these guys are fantastic.’ This production’s going to rock.” The AudioComics Company: “With Starstruck we set the bar. With Titanium Rain we set it higher. With Bad Planet, we’re setting the bar on fire.” As with other AudioComics productions, the Bad Planet audio will be available on both compact disc and pay-per-Mp3 digital download, and for sale through AudioComics’ and RAW’s webstores, iTunes, Amazon, and at comic book and science fiction conventions.

RAW Studios is the comics and book publishing arm of RAW Entertainment, founded by actor Thomas Jane in partnership with Eisner Award nominated illustrator/production designer Tim Bradstreet. The subjects of our books reflect our love for the heady days of EC Comics, with a dash of Creepy and Eerie, and a heavy dose of today’s top talented creators. Horror, Sci-Fi, Crime, and Fantasy – No genre is sacred or safe from our spin. What we offer is an ALTERNATIVE to the spandex and cape-wearing creations of big publishers. But ultimately, we’re here to remind folks how good comics can be.

The AudioComics Company, under the guidance of producers Lance Roger Axt, William Dufris, and Elaine Lee, provides superior audio entertainment with its professional full-cast audio theatre productions of both licensed properties and original works from the world of comic books, graphic novels, and related media, accessible in today’s market with today’s sound. The AudioComics team is working to establish relationships with top name comic book companies, sci-fi writers, sponsors and the entertainment industry in Hollywood and New York, and to give these audio theatre pieces worldwide exposure.

LONG OVERDUE ANNOUNCEMENTS!

Hi folks – you may have noticed that the cupboard has been bare of late, and by that we mean this blog! Truth be told, we have been so busy the past few months, there’s been little time to blog! But, this weekend we have several big announcements to make, and rather than spring ‘em all on you at once, a “bring-you-up-to-speed” post is in order in preparation.

• The Battle for LA recording session went wonderfully. Everyone had a great time (as is almost always the case at these sessions), and Karen and Tom are hard at work for the next behind-the-scenes video, while Lance begins work on the first voice-over edit. Estimated time of delivery: winter of 2013. CD and Mp3.
• Thanks to everyone who dropped by our tables at APE in San Francisco and New York Comic Con! Elaine and Bill will be at Coast City Con at the Double Tree Hilton in Portland, ME this coming weekend, where Bill will entertain with a few readings…as well as a live 5 minute teaser of something really special we have planned for next year! Plus we’ll have a booth where you can buy CD’s and download cards, as well as Starstruck graphic novels. In Portland this weekend? Come by the Double Tree, we’d love to see you!
• We’re happy to say that comics legend TRINA ROBBINS will be adapting her Honey West story “Killer on the Keys” as our next HW AudioComics offering in 2013. It’s the mid-60′s in Los Angeles, and someone is out to off the star attraction of the Sunset Strip’s grooviest club, the Purple Pussy. How will Honey catch the killer? Last time around she was a movie extra…this time she’s a go-go dancer!
• Also happening in 2013 will be the remaining chapters of our first Domino Lady serial, “Moxie’s Gamble” and “Blood is Thicker” by Rich Harvey, and directed by Lance Roger Axt. Mind you our first Pulp Adventures trilogy…could wind up being a tetralogy…either way Karen Stilwell, Peter Carini, Peter Papadopoulos, Bill Chessman, Kevin Donnelly, and Mandy Brown are coming back for more!
• Finally, we’ve some outstanding reviews come in for our 2012 slate, and you can find them on our press page here!

Okay, big news coming Friday…hold on to your hats…
 

 

AudioComics is goin’ APE!

Well, not “ape” per se, but APE. As in Alternative Press Expo!

While Elaine Lee will be meeting and greeting fans at NYCC on one end of the map, Lance Roger Axt will be doing the same the very same weekend at the Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco, CA October 13 and 14 at The Concourse, 635 8th Street (zip code 94103). With over 5,000 attendees a year, APE is one of the country’s biggest alternative/indie/DIY comics conventions, the one where the cool kids who know they’re cool when no one else does go to shop for books.

You’ll find steampunk, Modesty Blaise, classic comic strips, Will Eisner graphic novels, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, webcomics-to-print books, Drawn and Quarterly, arts-and-crafts, Stuart Ng Books, the legendary Sergio Aragones, and this year, for the first time ever, AudioComics at APE 2012. Lance and his trusty assistant will be there both days selling Starstruck, Titanium Rain, and Honey West compact discs and download cards along with a special selection of compact discs from our friends at the ZBS Foundation (including, quite possibly, the newest in the Ruby series).

And yes, there will be some surprise freebies!

Lance and “Kato” will be booth 137A. So drop by and say “hi!” We’d love to see you!

“Battle for LA” and NYCC!

A short entry for this week: Pulp Adventures company member Kevin Donnelly is making the move to Moonstone as the voice of Col. Kevin Meares in Battle for LA, recording next month in San Francisco. Casting continues through the end of the month, upon which we’ll announce the full 10-actor company. And, we’re hitting the convention circuit in October, as Elaine Lee will be at New York Comic Con! She’ll be selling Starstruck and Honey West CD’s (both of which she penned) as well some of her creator-owned print books. PLUS we hope to have a major announcement regarding a new property ready to roll that weekend. (Because, seriously: what’s a convention appearance without an announcement to go along with it?) We’ll have her Artists Alley location for you soon, and we hope, if you’re there, you’ll stop by and say hi! And buy a CD or three…

More places, more choices, and recording dates!

Hi folks! That big news we were talking about earlier: our circle of distribution is widening! First and foremost, before the end of the month you will be able to purchase CD’s of Honey West and Titanium Rain through Amazon, and downloads of Starstruck, Honey, TR, both Batsons pieces, and the first Domino Lady AudioComics Pulp Adventure through Audiobooks.com, which allows you to purchase or stream audiobooks, and now AudioComics’ audio movies, through their custom web apps for the iPhone, iPad, Android smartphone, laptop…anything that supports a digital app! (www.audiobooks.com for more information). Plus, you can now purchase TR CD’s through Discount Comic Book Services at 10% off the cover price! Just head to http://www.dcbservice.com/ and enter Titanium Rain in the search engine (you’ll find it under videos/DVD, as they don’t have an audio/CD department…yet).

We’re also happy to announce that AudioComics will be a major part of an exciting new app being developed as we speak. We can’t say a lot about it yet, but if you love audio drama, this will be the app for you…

Finally, we’re happy to announce that with final approval from all sides of the script, we are ready to commence with the recording of our second Moonstone piece, Battle for LA, featuring Karen Stilwell and John Strain as The Domino Lady and The Black Bat. Casting has commenced for other roles, and we head into a studio in San Francisco this September. As always, there will be photos!

“June is busting out all over…”

Or at least it did! Busy month, so let’s hit some highlights: first off, we are very happy to announce that Elaine Lee’s first entry at the Huffington Post received enough support to warrant an ongoing blog series! YAY! Her second post on the HP, “From Web to Print,” can be found here, and we’re looking forward to entries number three, four , five, fifteen, ninety-three, etc.

We’ve also been the subject of some really fun podcast interviews we’d like to share with you: we’d like to thank Fred Greenhalgh at Radio Drama Revival! in association with WMPG in Portland for putting together the Skype hook-up for RDR’s Titanium Rain special, which aired on WMPG FM June 28, and is now available for your listening pleasure on the podcast here with extended (and uncensored) scenes and interviews with Bill, Lance, Elaine, and Josh and Kat. And you will find on the previous RDR podcast (6/22/2012) the piece Elaine wrote for the National Audio Theatre Festivals’ 2011 Workshop show, The TransMars Tango (following an episode of Fred’s ongoing serial The Cleansed), directed by Brian Price.

Mike Faber, Mike Gordon, and Bobby Nash interviewed us for the Earth Station One podcast; 3 very cool dudes. The link is here!

Finally, new links to downloads and CD’s: Titanium Rain is now available on CD and Mp3 through ZBS and CDBaby, and you’ll find downloads through Artistxite and 7Digital. (And don’t forget…it’s still only $4.99 on iTunes!)

Honey West: Murder on Mars is now available on CD and Mp3 through ZBS, as well as Artistxite and 7Digital. (And don’t forget…it’s also only $4.99 on iTunes!) And Domino Lady: All’s Fair in War is now available for download through eMusic, not to mention we’ll have some Batsons links soon as well!

More news and views:

First and foremost, mastering has begun on our second Batsons piece, The Trouble with Fang! We should have it ready to go in the next week; my thanks to those who pre-ordered Fang! a while back and have been patiently waiting; you folks will find a little something extra as a “thanks for holding on” gift with your download. And for the rest of you, yes, Fang! will be available through many of the usual suspects this month; here’s a shot of the artwork, care of the Fonteseses:

Also, you can now find The Domino Lady: All’s Fair in War through CDBaby: here is the link (you will note that with CDBaby, it’s one continuous piece over three separate tracks; simply put, it was easier to enter it as a single).

Titanium Rain and Honey West CD’s are almost done and will be in the mail before too long. We’re happy to say that our good friends at ZBS will be including the CD’s and Mp3 releases of these two titles as part of their online catalogue, as well as (again) CDBaby. Links to come!

Titanium Rain Kickstarter/IndieGoGo contributors: be checking for updates! That means your inboxes and spamboxes!

Finally, we are proud to announce that Bill Dufris has won his first Audie (the audio book equivalent of the Oscars) from the Audiobook Publishers Association. No longer can he say “always a bridesmaid…” His award is for the reading of the non-fiction title The Murder of the Century by Paul Collins, published by AudioGo. NICE JOB, BILL-O!

Releases, releases, releases, and more!

We’re happy to say that months of toil and sweat have resulted in a slew of works from The AudioComics Company, now available for purchase.

First, Titanium Rain is available through iTunes and Amazon Mp3, as well as AudioComics Digital Direct. Moreover creator Josh Finney has created an amazing website devoted to the audiomovie: www.titaniumrainaudio.com. And let’s face it, you know you’re doing good when you get this tweet from Josh: “Finished listening to the latest rough-cut of the TITANIUM RAIN audio drama. I am DEEPLY impressed. @audiocomics have done a hell of a job.” Note that CD’s are being manufactured as we speak, and you will be able to purchase them through AudioComics online store, Amazon.com, ZBS, and CDBaby.

Prior to AudioComics’ first meeting with Josh Finney and Kat Rocha, Josh had already contemplated audio movie versions of 01′s creations Titanium Rain and Utopiates; we are all fans of the works produced by Big Finish from Doctor Who to Judge Dredd, why not do the same here? But here’s where he took it a step further: he commissioned BBC composer Jonathan Sharp to create original soundtracks to go with the graphic novels. You can hear Sharp’s labor of love in the finished production of TR; AudioComics has taken it a step further with its first ever soundtrack release. The 12 tracks from the production are available as Titanium Rain: The Original Soundtrack. You can purchase it from all of the usual suspects, with links at www.titaniumrainaudio.com. In the meantime, here is the Mp3 art from Josh and Kat to tide you over…

From legendary comics writer Steve Englehart: “When my oldest son was little, he told me he didn’t like black and white movies, and I told him that it’s not the medium, it’s the skill of the people using the medium that matters. From there he went on to silent movies, and opera…and radio dramas. The new Domino Lady is a fully professional radio drama, with all the skill of the 1940s and the technological superiority of the 2010s. This is not a scratchy MP3 made from an old acetate – this is radio drama at its finest, with real actors and real writers — so spend some evenings with the Domino Lady.”

What a great idea! You can purchase a copy of All’s Fair in War here from our store, from iTunes or Amazon Mp3, and it will be on Rhapsody, eMusic, and Nokia in the coming months. Plus we have an additional review, care of Airship 27′s own Ron Fortier: http://www.pulpfictionreviews.blogspot.com/2012/05/domino-lady-alls-fair-in-war.html.

Honey West: Murder on Mars can be purchased through iTunes, Amazon Mp3, and AudioComics Digital Direct. CD’s are likewise being manufactured as we speak, and again you will be able to buy them via AudioComics online store, Moonstone Entertainment’s online store (does that make it a Moonstore?), Amazon.com, ZBS, and CDBaby.

We are also happy to announce that HW writer and co-Producer Elaine Lee has written an article on creator-owned comics for THE HUFFINGTON POST! The article on “Fair Trade Comics” is here. Feel free to “like” and make a comment! The more comments we get, the better the chances of her first HP blog continuing.

Finally, The Batsons: The Trouble with Fang! is going through it’s final mastering due to some technical difficulties, but we will have it ready to go by mid-month. In the meantime, you can buy the Mp3 of Carmilla’s Crush through AudioComics Digital Direct, Amazon Mp3, and CDBaby.