Special Lunatic Cancer Fighting Mission

Greetings Lunatics! You can fight cancer AND own a piece of original art by bidding at my Comics2Games site on eBay. I drew four cards to support the Comics for CuresSketch Card Benefit Auction. All proceeds support the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life.

The eBay auction only lasts four days!! So tell cancer to “suck it,” and get some one-of-a-kind hand-drawn art for doing so. What a deal! I wish I got art when I told people to suck it. Never works out that way.

As an added bonus, if you are the lucky bid winner of one or more of the cards, send me an e-mail, and I will draw and color the subject of your choosing on a loverly piece of Bristol and send it to you for free! But no bonus unless you bid! So bid! Bid like the wind!!!!

May 18, 2010 | No Comments

Sketch Cards! Appearances!

Sketch Card Auction for Charity

Mark your calendars and save your pennies for May 15th! I created my first sketch cards for Comics for Cures, a charity auction that benefits the American Cancer Society. My cards, and the cards of artists whose skills I envy and admire, will be up for auction on eBay on the 15th.

My Kentucky-area peeps can attend the Gallery show on May 22nd. It will be hosted by Comics 2 Games in Florence, Kentucky.

For more information, email: Sketchcards@bluelinepro.com or call 859-282-0096

Buying my sketch cards will be telling cancer to suck it, so be sure to bid!

New Convention Appearances

Because we’re not crazy enough, we’ve added three new conventions to our action packed schedule.

Bak-Anime - Bakersfield, California – Sunday May 2

LepreCon 36 – Mesa, Arizona – Friday, May 14 – Sunday, May 16

SacCon – Sacramento, California – Sunday, June 6


April 22, 2010 | No Comments

Convention Madness!

Lunasea Studios appearances for Winter/Spring 2010

At long last, convention season is beginning for us. Matt the Cat has been fighting his cancer tooth and claw, and is at the point where he can be left with the vet for a few days while we travel. And we're at the point where we can leave him without getting all weepy. :)

So here's our appearance calendar for the next few months. Come see us at these great events! If we're not coming to your neck of the woods, let us know about your favorite conventions or book fairs. If we can, we'll be there.

 
Long Beach, California - Saturday, February 20
Come find us in Artist Alley.
 
 
Austin, Texas - Saturday, March 6
Come see us at Table 3 in the Auditorium.
 
 
Seattle, Washington - Saturday March 13 – Sunday March 14
Visit us at Booth 808.
 
 
Powell County Reading Celebration
Powell County, Kentucky - Saturday, March 27
 
San Francisco, California – Friday, April 2 – Sunday, April 4
We'll be in the Small Press area at SP 25
 
Burbank, California - Friday, April 9 – Sunday, April 11
 
Anaheim, California – Friday, April 16 – Sunday, April 18
Find us in Artist Alley.
 
Phoenix, Arizona - Thursday, May 27 – Sunday, May 30
We'll be sharing a booth with our friends from Weregeek!
 
February 15, 2010 | No Comments

New Year, Same Crazy

Enjoy the Little Vampires Webcomic! New joy every Wednesday!

Happy New Year to all you Lunatics! Here’s the latest news from the coal-dusted depths of Lunasea Studios.

SacAnime appearance cancellation

I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but we won’t be able to make it to SacAnime this January. It is one of our favorite shows to attend, and we have so much love for our NorCal fans and friends, but cat and family health issues are keeping us in San Diego. I can’t even begin to express how sorry James and I are about this cancellation. Continue reading to learn how we’re going to do our best to make it up to you Lunatics.

If you were planning on attending, please continue to do so! Supporting shows like SacAnime means they’ll continue to run, which means we’ll continue to attend them when we can. So go forth and SacAnimate! Be sure to say hello to my bud Searnold while you’re there. He will be manning the table we would have been at, and he’ll be manning it with super awesomeness.

My Own Personal Ninja, I humbly request that you guard Searnold and bestow upon him Ninja wishes of prosperity. Princess Mononoke, Steampunk Goddesses, and Brother and Sister Super Sound Effect Duo, I expect you to assist Ninja in his duties. Domo arigatou gozaimasu. *bow*

It’s the “We’re Sorry We Can’t Make it to SacAnime” sale!


I’ve already received e-mails from Lunatics saying they were looking forward to buying a T-shirt or a Little Vampire Plush Doll at Sacanime. We don’t want our cancellation to keep you from getting your happy on, so we’re offering FREE SHIPPING on all items in the Lunasea Studios store! The sale will run from January 5 through January 11. Enter discount code SACANIME when checking out to get free shipping.

It will be just like buying it at SacAnime, except you won’t have to put up with talking to me and James.

You don’t have to live in Sacramento to take advantage of this sale, of course. We’ve spent quite a bit of time updating the store to make it more user friendly for all the lovely Lunatics around the world. Please e-mail if you have any trouble ordering, and let us know what’s gumming up the works. We want you to be able to give us money. It makes us feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Thanks for your understanding, all!

January 5, 2010 | No Comments

Lunatic Update!

 

Hope all you Lunatics had a fun Halloween! Be sure to check out the Halloween pics at the end of the update. They are full of sugar-fueled win. 

 

Upcoming Appearances

We're gearing up for our final appearances of 2009! If you want to see us in 2009, these upcoming conventions will be your final chance to do so. If not, there's always 2010, which we're planning on making as crazy as this year, as far as travel goes. Just make sure you see us before 2012, 'cause you know what those Mayans said would happen in 2012. Come see us before the end of the world! 

Bakersfield Comic-Con – Sunday, November 8 – 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
We had a ton of fun and met some great people at the premiere Bakersfield Comic-Con. We're back with the merch this year, plus James and I were invited to do a panel! It would be cooler than pudding pops to see some Lunatics in the audience!

11:00 am: How to SELF PUBLISH Comics 
(or… If Marvel won't hire you… do it yourself!) 
Ever wanted to be a comic book artist? We'll hear from Mike Hampton (Hot Zombie Chicks, Capt. A's guide to Dating) and Rebecca Hicks (Little Vampires, Project Elohim) with tips and insites on publishing your own comics. 

If you're in SoCal or NorCal, it's worth the drive to Bakersfield to attend this show. Seriously fun!

Qualcomm Arts and Crafts Festival – Thursday, November 12 – 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
This is only open to Qualcomm employees and their families, but I know there are a lot of Lunatics up in the Qcomm! 

Dallas Webcomics Expo – Saturday, November 14 – 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
DWEX is a brand new show for us, and our first as webcomickers . . . webcomicants . . . webcomicians? We do love our Texas Lunatics, and would love for you to come out and see us!

Little Vampire Webcomic
The Little Vampire webcomic is updated every Wednesday. Be sure to make it a part of your Wednesday routine.  
Halloween

It's no big surprise to anyone that knows me that Halloween is my favorite holiday. But just when I think Halloween can't get more awesome, the wonderful Elijah dresses up as a Little Vampire for this year's trick-or-treating. 

If you're on Facebook, become friends with Asagi DuLacar! Elijah's mom, Barbara, created a site chronicling the adventures of her Little Vampire plush doll, whom she named Asagi. Even if you're not on Facebook, check out the pictures Barbara has posted on the site. Asagi attacking the pumpkins because he thought they were huge blood oranges? Awesome!  

Oh, but it gets better! My mom was already supreme for making Little Vampire flags. But she's nacho supreme for incorporating one of those flags into a tabletop display that included Kermit the Frog wearing Halloween socks. 

 

 

November 4, 2009 | 1 Comment

Webcomic! APE Report!

Little Vampires Webcomic!

It’s finally here! The Little Vampires and their friends will be appearing in a weekly webcomic at the newly updated Little Vampires site. Be sure to visit each Wednesday to say hello.

APE Con Report
APE in mid-October was like a family reunion, if the family was the kind with naughty secret handshakes and a strong belief that Iron Maiden and Daft Punk music mash-ups are great ideas.

We got to see some familiar fan faces, like Paul. He was nice enough to rock the runway in one of our shirts. Fierce!

Alina Pete of Weregeek and Moosehead Stew fame taught us a lot about Canadian accents while knoshing with us at Sam’s Diner. Nick and Angela of Think Weasel were awesome enough to help us get a quirky cool hotel room at the Good Hotel. The five of us invaded the Cartoon Art Museum APE party, where we studied the line work of classic cartoonists, danced with a guy in a gorilla suit, and drew each other’s characters on our hands and arms.

This is Alina’s take on my Little Vampires. Good thing Alina’s so cool, ’cause otherwise I’d hate her for drawing my character better than I do. *shakes fist northward*

It felt like everyone else we knew from the crazy creative community was exhibiting at APE again this year. Monster CommuteBinary Winter PressEmonicBen Walker, and Kid Beowulf were nearby to warm our hearts with their awesome heart warmyness. Our friend Woody had his first table and had great success with his Between Mars work. And we got to talk shop with artist Joenis Norac, who is now yet another purveyor of heart warmy creative community building.

Erin Milligan of the Timothy Green webcomic drew some Little Vampires fan art, moving me from warm heart to full-on SQUEE!

October 28, 2009 | 2 Comments

More Store News

Some folks have had a little trouble ordering from our store, due to a clumsy bit of web design on my part. It’s not very clear in the shopping cart screen that you have to enter your ZIP code and click “Update Subtotal” before you click the “Check out with PayPal” button. Here’s a clumsily scribbled-upon screenshot to call attention to what I mean:

Cart

If you don’t fill in your ZIP code and click “Update Subtotal” you won’t be able to advance past the shopping cart screen.

We are sorry for the inconvenience, and are working diligently to make the shopping cart a more friendly experience. Thanks for your patience and support, everybody!

October 26, 2009 | No Comments

Breaking News

UPDATE: Shipping calculation should be working again, with no more mysterious overcharges. Thanks for your patience. If you are still experiencing problems, please send e-mail to info@lunasea-studios.com describing what went wrong, and we’ll fix it!

Seriously … breaking. Our store is currently overcharging for shipping on some orders. If you place an order before we get it fixed, we will manually refund the excess through PayPal to you, or you can wait and check back here for further updates. We are working on fixing it as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience!

October 15, 2009 | No Comments

Conventionpalooza!

We had a great time at the West Hollywood Book Fair this past weekend. We got to hang with UberLunatic Laura, who showed us just how much she loved blood oranges.

And I saw just what it means to lead the Pug Life, yo.

But there’s no time for love, Dr. Jones, ’cause this weekend, October 10-11, we’re off to Sacramento for Witchapalooza! We’ll be at booths V23 and V24. We will be selling something very special while there . . . you’ll have to come see us or wait for our post-con report to find out what it is. *eeeeeevil grin*

Then it’s off to San Francisco for APE on October 17 and 18. Yes, my lovely Lunatics, we are bat poop crazy.

Our loc at APE is table 429. Follow this handy-dandy map and come see us!

October 8, 2009 | No Comments

Lunatic Update

Art Prints in Store

You see that wall over there? Yeah, the naked one. You know what it needs? It needs some art prints.

Art prints are for sale in the Lunasea Studios store! Each print comes in three sizes: wee, not so wee, and FRIGGIN’ HUGE!

Upcoming Appearances

SoCal Lunatics! James and I will be in the Los Angeles area the first weekend of October. We’ll be wandering around the Long Beach Comic Con on Saturday, October 3rd. We won’t have a booth there. We’ll be free range geeks. But we have a good reason for that, because on Sunday we’ll be exhibiting at the West Hollywood Book Fair! We will be in the Comics Scene section, booth number D16. I’ll be face painting my Little Vampires and friends for the first time, so be sure to come see us!

ScareFest Report

We had a blast in the bluegrass at Kentucky’s Scarefest the second week of September. Doing a convention in Kentucky is such a thrill because we get to see family, friends, and fans. And we have some serious UberLunatics in Kentucky.

Brianna not only rocked the Little Vampire shirt at ScareFest, she wore it to Dragon*Con in Georgia. Serious props for pimping my stuff over state lines. Serious.


Susan, the incredible craftswoman behind Paranormal Babies, got my little vampire bats tattooed on her arm. She even had my signature inked on there. Mikey King, of Castle of Color, did the ink work. I teared up when I saw it, ‘cause jeez, someone got my art permanently attached to their body! That’s pretty freakin’ cool.


Allison Tuttle gets a shout-out for interviewing me for The Darkerside Magazine. Anyone fool enough to interview me gets the love.

Lunatic love also goes to Ashley, Thea and Amy, Heather, Christy, Sonia and the most rockinest of librarians, Emily.  They helped us achieve a first: we sold out of all of our books at a convention.

Sonia and Bri, your sketches are in the works!

One last fan shout-out to Chad S. Hawks, proprieter of Chateau Grrr .  Now I’ve had many a fine looking gentleman approach my table and buy my books and art, but Chad was the first with fangs! I am a happily married woman, but am not ashamed to say that I had me quite the Sookie moment when Chad smiled and showed those pointy pearlies. Oh my.

I don’t think my most uber of UberLunatics could top our family when it comes to support, though. James’s mom and her cousins Bill and Evadene drove out from Elizabethtown to see us do our thing. My Mom and Dad spent Saturday and Sunday helping us out in the booth. Ma even danced the merch danced by making outdoor flags featuring the Little Vampires.


My Dad showed the world that he truly understood the meaning of the “Can’t Work. It’s Banana Time” shirt. Look how good that shirt looks on someone not working.


If you’re not working, whether it’s because it’s banana time or some other time, you need to be sportin’ one of these shirts.

We seem to have great luck when it comes to our neighbors at conventions, and ScareFest was no different. Across from our booth was Katherine, a palm reader. I’ve never had my palm read, so I had to give it a go. Katherine had warm hands and confirmed that I was, indeed, crazy. There’s something to this palm reading thing, ‘cause that’s just right on the money. The Fortunato Ink ladies were also across from us, and I just couldn’t resist buying one of their adorable Believe shirts.

Craig and Amy were beside us selling their incredible Dark Imaginings changing portraits. They shared our love of ancient mythology and self-publishing. So they were the kind of people we could talk to for hours at Cracker Barrel. So we did. There’s not much better than good conversation at Cracker Barrel. The only thing that could top that is good conversation at Waffle House.

September 20, 2009 | 1 Comment