Vader Phone Call #1
It was about time for a change of scenery and the return of our favorite Sith Lord. Oh, and the return of somebody else too. Smoking Jawa seems to be gaining popularity. More about him soon…
Yesterday we announced that Blue Milk Special would have a table at Baltimore Comic Con (August 28-29) and New York Comic Con (Oct 8-10). If you will be attending and would be willing to not only meet us but to help us pass out our stash of exclusive Blue Milk Special promotional postcards to passers-by, then we would be most grateful. We would ideally like to find some Star Wars costumed fans to help drum up some attention and direct attendees to our, most likely, hard to find table. If you or any fans that you know might be interested, please get in touch with us.
Gift items that we currently have planned include badges, postcards, bumper stickers, BMS milk cartons (assembly required) and sketch cards. We will not be selling any compilation books this year, so all you collectors look out for our all new exclusive convention gifts. By Baltimore Comic Con we will be in the midst of our Splinter of the Mind’s Eye parody, and by NYCC we will finally be starting The Empire Strikes Back. Expect to see some early previews of Yoda and Lando, exclusive to the con. Credit to one of our readers, T. Gatto, for the milk carton idea!
If you will be attending Star Wars Celebration V in Orlando and would like to help out Blue Milk Special (we sadly can not attend), again please get in touch with us.
Are you new to BMS? If so, then you can start reading this webcomic from the beginning by clicking here.
Watch the Star Wars Holiday Special animated short below, courtesy of YouTube.
wow, nice, i like the bms poster in the background of your photo. speaking of which, what is that robin-poster? Batman? JL? TT?
Wow, Smoking Jawa sure does get around…
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Jars of queso? Starbucks coupons? You’ve gotta love the….um….priorities of the Empire. And the incentives/bribes.
I love: “Yep I can see that”. So amusingly human.
LOL that smoking Jawa is like Wally or Lookee from She-Ra.
BMS milk cartons! You guys are geniuses. Also, I’d forgotten how much I enjoy coffee-fiend Vader.
One of our readers, T. Gatto, has to be credited with the idea of the milk cartons. We have smart readers!
I finished making the mockups, with some sample art (borrowed from your strips).
You will not offended me if you make any changes, or use a totally different model.
I also have some samples of Vintage Kenner Action figure re-cards, using Blue Milk Artwork (again borrowed from your strips). They need to be cleaned up better before I can print them out and use them, as they are approximately 1/2 scale but they would possibly make some good handouts. If I can get it to work (My computer was manufactured before the Abacus) I was going to post then to Facebook, with a bonus Biggs card, for the fan club page.
I’ll E-mail you what I have no later than tomorrow.
Out of curiosity how big are your original strips, and backgrounds, before you post them? Also is most of your work done on the computer, or drawn by hand and then scanned ?
Looking forward to it, T!
To answer your questions, all the strips are made at print quality and about 8 inches wide (at 400 DPI). The original art is primarily sketched on paper, scanned, and then colored and touched up in photoshop. All the characters are made like paper doll models and also at high resolution. In the past 6 months I’ve drawn a number of new character entirely by myself straight in photoshop using a mouse. This is because Leanne was tied up with her professional commitments. But, when it comes to the action figure BMS cards you are making we could provide you with much higher resolution art to use in place of the low resolution web-quality on the site.
Everything was sent, let me know if you got it, and what you think š .
That’s very interesting Rod. Last year you were literally scanning in leanne’s finished black line work – now it’s drawn on the computer? And… you’re doing some yourself. I’m impressed. You’ll have to get yourself a Wacom pad now. They’re much cheaper in the States. I should know, my 70 year old mother in law smuggled one back for us a few years ago. To be fair, she was also the mule for her daughter’s digital camera! 2 wrongs making a right – clearly!
A lot of the art has been mine out of necessity from January to April. But Leanne is doing a brand new incentive strip this afternoon entirely original art by pencil and ink and I expect she will color this one so that I can focus on this coming week’s strips. She’s also providing new Chewie art, drew Han and Luke upside down, etc. The spacecraft are coming from Geoffrey Padilla. So, I have to emphasize the TEAM. And it’s also fantastic to be getting advice and help from readers concerning the con and gift/merchandise ideas.
I ahev been wondering , who dose what ? Do you write and she draws ? I’d love to know.
Heh or the Observer from Fringe!
Debating heading down to the Baltimore convention, it’s up the street from the Science Center and I would probably split the day between the two with my son.
He’s 6 so the con probably would be a bit boring for him…but he is named after Wolverine, so maybe not.
If I show up I shall stop by to say hi and pass out some flyers for you.
We would love to meet you and Logan (I’m guessing that’s his name ;-). And thanks for the offer of help with the flyers! We appreciate any assistance we can get even its a handful.
Stands back from the keyboard in amzmaeent! Thanks!
hmm, that starbucks coupon is tempting, but I never go lower than a five dollar gift-card. gotta keep your standards up, boba fett.
and I wish I could go to the con, but it’s across the country. š I will have to settle with emerald city comic con for my first one, though I hope get lot’s of people to help you!
Thanks Flo. I’m sure we will get some help at the shows. We’re sorry out shows are on the East Coast only, but we don’t have the funds of the time off work to travel so far afield for a non-profit webcomic. Perhaps next year, IF we get a big enough following, some of those expenses will be reduced by sales and we will be able to hit the Mid-West and West Coast.
I’m also in the Emerald City, I’d help if I can/could.
The smoking jawa needs his own adventures (as well to quit smoking and start hunting ewoks!)
LOL: “Yep, I can *see* that.” Gotta love DV! Great work!