Hi there! This is Braden, the artist and creator of Kitty Hawk.
What you see here is a test flight of sorts. We’re all sort of new at this kind of project here, so we’re taking it slow the first few weeks. Once we’re in the groove we’ll have a grand opening and be on a regular schedule – two to three pages a week every friday.
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-BDL
Hey, everybody! I’m Vin, I do the writing chores for Kitty Hawk, and I just wanted to second Braden’s welcomes and let everyone know that we’ll have our first full update early next week. This will be the three page prologue to chapter one, which we’re putting up as a sort of appetizer while we get both the website and the comic backlog where we need them to be.
(Until then, please enjoy a couple of pages from Braden’s preview comic “The Sting of Defeat!”, available right now at San Diego ComiCon.)
The strip will kick off officially some time around mid-August, but you should absolutely check back often, ’cause we’ll be posting updates, info, progress reports, and art as we go. Enjoy!
-V.
(Edit: Prologue pages are up!)
Still here! Still here! After a brief delay, production be back in gear, and we are officially eying the 19th of September for FULL-SCALE RELEASE [thunder, lightning, pounding of drums]. Stick with us ’til then for progress updates and art snippets!
-V
Hey, everybody! Welcome to Kitty Hawk 1.0, live and functional! We’re still tweaking things, but everything should be readable and, I hope, eminently entertaining. We’ll be adjusting the site over the next couple weeks, but we should be posting new issues every Friday come Hell or Bank Failure.
For those just joining us, don’t forget to go back and read the Prologue! And tune in next week for an issue I will most likely call Not Quite Strangers. In the meantime, feel free to drop us a line!
Comic lettering + ambitious dinner plan = late night. I will entertain you with ramblings later.
(baked pork chops with feta and red wine sauce = yes.)
(oops, this was me. -V.)
Don’t worry, I promise you this kind of in-joke will only appear once in a blue moon.
At the end of page two of issue 2 you may spot an interesting item on the newsstand – a copy of Inbound #1. This is the first issue of the Boston Comics Roundtable’s anthology, featuring a piece by me and Ryan Wheeler, a variety of other fantastic comic pieces, and a beautiful cover by Shelli Paroline. Issue 2, with a cover by me and a story illustrated by Shelli, will be available for online orders soon. You can find this and the first volume at the link above, or you can also get your hands on these books at conventions like SPX and APE.
-BDL
Three weeks, three updates! Was there ever any doubt? No! There was not!
Still, lettering is very taxing on my aged self. Next week: Complete silence!
This week: The secret of Old Bones–REVEALED!*
New issue is up, it’s a three-pager!
Braden managed to squeeze this one in on a super-compressed schedule and still make it shine. If you are in Boston, buy him a beer.
Just thought I’d toss out this interview with Berkeley Breathed about the end of Opus:
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/10/18/opus/
I’ve only been reading it online for the past few months–I can’t recall what kept me away from Bloom County as a kid, it may have been too risque to be reading around the house–but in my mind, it’s the last survivor of the iconic newspaper comics of my youth (Garfield having something of a “walking dead” feel for some time now). This may be nostalgia, or it may have something to do with a phenomenon Breathed points out here:
The very, absolute last comic strip characters destined to become true household words across America were invented 23 years ago: Calvin & Hobbes. There are and will be no more new ones.
That’s a technology and cultural issue. Not a talent issue.
It does seem to be the new media trend… Are we trading a market of cultural icons for a more diverse market of creative freedoms and niche audiences? Is that a step up, or a step down? (my guess: both)
(discuss At the Elephant.)
Just a quick note, the gallery is up and running under the “Extras” tab.
Also, if you’re going to be by the Alternative Press Expo (APE) out in San Francisco (CA), you should try to track down Braden (BDL), who will be exhibiting with the Boston Comics Roundtable (BCR). I hear tell he might even have some posters (POSTERS) for sale.
I have more stuff to say, but no time to say it! I’ll be back for more ramblin’ perhaps later this evening!
-V.
