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Sketch Attack: MEDIEVAL!

noreply@blogger.com (Sal Cipriano) — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:33:00 +0000

The next Sketch Attack has now been posted. For this round, designer and illustrator Phil Balsman chose the wide ranging topic of "Medieval." While I've always dug the subject matter, having this broad a subject had me scared that too many options would lead to little turnout, but I was very (and happily!) wrong. The work looks great! As for myself, maybe not so much, but more on that later, for now, let's see how I got there...

I knew dragons would be popular so I wanted to stay away from them (I was correct, BTW), but I knew that it would be hard to resist. Indeed, my first doodles involved a warrior or knight shielding himself from a dragon's flame, albeit the dragon was never in the frame. The warrior was also going to be bloodied and beaten, and possibly on his last legs as he defended a child. Sounded cool, but again the dragon idea wasn't sitting right with me. I did, however, determine that I kind of wanted a more down to earth feel, hence the battered warrior. A little more inspiration was in order.

I turned on the Netflix to see what I could stream, and found the British movie Ironclad. I gave it a whirl, and it got me thinking Knights Templar. Those would be my warriors. I can't really recommend the film completely unless you're a big fan of gore, because it has it in spades! Anyhoo, I at least had my knights. But what would they do?

With the movie The Grey out in theaters, I decided they should fight wolves. If it's good enough for Liam Neeson, it's good enough for me. And, yeah, "they". I drew a few KT characters that basically resembled the A-Team with Snake-Eyes. I then turned to composition, and from the beginning I determined the cool Snake-Eyes Templar would be front and center lopping off a wolf head, and the Hannibal/Neeson character would be on his knees with a dead wolf at his feet. And then I didn't feel so well.

Out sick a few days, I finally returned to my drawing and started laying it out. And so far, I dug it, and kept going, but then I just couldn't place the kneeling Liam just right, and lots of erasing ensued. Frustrated and making a mess, I gave up on the sketch and decided to start fresh.

Before I did, though, King Arthur (Clive Owen version) came on free TV last Saturday afternoon, how fortuitous! I watched it for the first time, enjoyed, and felt reinspired. Back to the sketch, laid it out better than the first time, and went clean through till I had a decent pencil sketch.

For the next few days I fiddled with it, until Tuesday night when I decided to sit down and finish up. Unfortunately, I tried to lay in some ink, which I've never been great at, and it became questionable rather quickly. Blah. I stayed with it, though, gave it my best, and made my inks nearly as dirty as my pencils. A couple of saving decisions included making the wolves black and using just one color, red, for their eyes and the Templar crosses. I felt this gave the sketch a good unity at least.

The next day, on due day, I fiddled with it some more, and finally scanned it in. The last element was the motion blur I added in Photoshop to Snake-Eye's sword as it hacked across the wolf in the foreground. Call this my Ironclad inspired moment.

That all said, sadly, while this one had the most days(!) spent working and most research probably done it's my least favorite of the 4 thus far. Not saying I hate it, and maybe being ill didn't help it's progress, but something about just didn't feel as good as the first three. Oh well, it's done, and the next Attack has been picked. I may just chill out and use only pencils on this coming one. We'll see, for now, here's the sketch and be sure to check out the rest of the latest Sketch Attack!

Sketch Attack: MECHAGODZILLA!

noreply@blogger.com (Sal Cipriano) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:19:00 +0000

This time it was my turn to pick, and I went for my favorites: Godzilla and Friends! Well, actually the theme I gave was Toho Kaiju 1954-1975, AKA the Showa Era, and I provided this handy dandy chart to choose from:

I think, as far as giant monsters go, the only one that didn't make the cut was the Giant Sea Serpent from King Kong Escapes, and that's only because I wanted to keep to this 36 character grid. It's basically just a white Manda, so no big loss. Anyhoo, the gang seemed to be pretty excited about this one, and many characters were chosen. The first batch of sketches went up today, and there are AMAZING pieces there! (even though looks like a couple strayed from the Showa Era a bit, still awesome) You can check them out here: http://sketchattack.tumblr.com/

As for mine, I chose MechaGodzilla. I fell in love with the big MG early on in my life, and to this day no G-Foe has ever been more badass. That said, I was super intimidated to draw this. 1. It's a lot of pressure to pick the topic and deliver the goods. 2. I've never been good at drawing this stable of characters. 3. I wanted to pay homage to my all time favorites and not suck!

My first SA (Sebulba) came together well after doodling the character in my sketch book for awhile. The Sherlock one had less prep, a few character drawings and a small thumbnail, and I was off and running. Easy Peasy. This one, ouch, the first week and a half of sketching went about as well as any of my Kaiju sketches have ever gone: badly. The last one, though, gave me a modicum of hope, but I only had this weekend left to execute something!

I started the drawing on Friday night, using gray card stock paper as my canvas (figured MechaG=Grey, right?) but could not get down a composition at all. Frustrated, I turned on some inspiration, the Best of Godzilla 54-75 Soundtrack, and went back to work. After a bit of dirty sketching, I got a comp I liked and a drawing I started to dig. Definitely better than my previous attempts. I think the music made me forget about trying to get the character right, and more just loosen up and be true to myself.

The next night, I went in and changed a few things, made two of his fingers shoot off, and added his eye-beams. I mean, seriously, MG is just a big weapon, I had to show this! But then while looking at ref for some details, I noticed a HUGE error, I gave MechaG five fingers in instead of four!!! Oof, that's a lot of erasing. After finally fixing, taking away one the shooting fingers, I exposed his left leg more and noticed the placement of it was waaay off. Blah. A solution would have to come tomorrow...

Last night, after a trip to Ikea and watching the end of the Giant game, I sat back down to (hopefully) finish up. First, the leg issue. After failing to set it right, I decided the sketch needed an extra element anyway, smoke and fire! Sometimes introducing a new idea into the mix super charges you, and this one did. Fire and smoke added, it was time to decide whether it was done as a sketch or if there would be more. After some conversing and coaching by my wife, I decided to work in some ink and color by hand. Stabilo colored pencils, FW Acrylic ink, some acrylic paint (can't recall the brand), and a Papermate black pen (!) made its way onto my drawing. It became a mixed media assault, and in the end (which came at some point thankfully, that last hour was a blur), I dug that I did it.

So, now that I've explained all that, maybe next time I'll take pics along the way, here's my latest Sketch Attack...MECHAGODZILLA!

Again, here's the link to the fantastic rest: http://sketchattack.tumblr.com/

Sherlock Scan

noreply@blogger.com (Sal Cipriano) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:06:00 +0000

Here is the original scan for the Sherlock sketch I did for Sketch Attack. Note the warped look caused by the dying scanner. This was why I decided to mess with my sketch further.

Kung Foodies!

noreply@blogger.com (Sal Cipriano) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:19:00 +0000

After years of talking about it, I finally launched a food blog with some friends. Kung Foodies will be our spot to give restaurant and product reviews, share recipes and tips, and just spout our love for food. If you dig reading about food, then give our palates a check! http://www.kungfoodies.com/

Sketch Attack!

noreply@blogger.com (Sal Cipriano) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:29:00 +0000

One of the newest additions to my life is Sketch Attack. Started by one of my coworkers, SA is a Tumblr site where current and former employees of our company will be working on sketches on various subjects. Our frequency is about every two weeks, and so far our assignments have included Star Wars and Sherlock Holmes. I'll post mine up here as well once all of the sketches for a particular subject go up. Here now are my two so far:

Star Wars: Sebulba
For our first attempt, subject picked by SA founder Pat Brosseau, I decided on the evil, or should we say competitive, Pod Racer from Episode One: The Phantom Menace. Of all the faults the new series had, the idea of the Pod Race wasn't one of them, and Sebulba emerged as one of the cooler characters of the series. Standing essentially on his hands, the character easily lent himself to interesting positioning. This was also my first serious drawing in awhile so I really worked at making every detail seem right. At the same time, I got really messy with it, too, which felt pretty good. I thought about inking it, but exhausted myself, and afterward just didn't have the heart to muck it up with potentially (probably) bad inking. A fun Sebulba quote later, and wallah:

Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock and Watson "versus" a Lovecraftian beast.
Next up, Corey Breen chose Sherlock Holmes. Timely with the new movie just coming out, Corey was the only one to actually tackle that movie's version with very good results. I've never been the hugest fan of Mr. Holmes, but have loved the Guy Ritchie/Robert Downey Jr. retelling. That said, I opted for a more classical look with my sketch, but added a very unHolmesy element with the inclusion of a tentacled beast in the Lovecraftian vein. I figured that Holmes and Watson were just about from the same era, so why not the crossover? This was fun to do, but I learned a valuable lesson when dealing with something coming off panel: figure out what the damn thing looks completely first! It wasn't till I went back and thought this over that the sketch really started flowing. The eyes on the beast tentacles gave it a sort of goofy look which I kind of liked. The last step of the sketch sort of happened because our scanner is a bit messed up and couldn't give me a clean scan. Coming out sort of like a paper texture, I decided to duo-tone it and white out Watson and some of the background tentacles. I think the result gave it some nice layers:

And these two are just the start, the rest of the Tumblr is filled with excellent artwork, so please give it a check, and look for the next Sketch Attack around the week of January 23rd! http://sketchattack.tumblr.com/

2012...

noreply@blogger.com (Sal Cipriano) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:37:00 +0000

"Wow, I haven't been here in how long?!"

"This time, I'm going to kick..."

"Time for a reboot!"

How about this instead:

"Hi, blog, miss me? I certainly missed you."

After more than year and a half of absence, that's really all I've got.

If you want a more in-depth look at what I've been up to since May 2010, feel free to check my Facebook page. It's all there.

I just want to get started again.

GET DARK ON AMAZON!

noreply@blogger.com (Sal Cipriano) — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:46:00 +0000

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Horror-Anthology-Bryan-Wolford/dp/1451596227/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273851927&sr=8-1

DARK MP3 PROMO!

noreply@blogger.com (Sal Cipriano) — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:28:00 +0000

Enjoy!

DARK NOW AVAILABLE!

noreply@blogger.com (Sal Cipriano) — Wed, 05 May 2010 21:13:00 +0000

Dark: A Horror Anthology with my zombie/goomba story, Groan of Tedium, is now available for purchasing! Thanks to anyone that gives it a whirl! https://www.createspace.com/3445511

FF: DISTRICT 9 REVIEW

noreply@blogger.com (Sal Cipriano) — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:56:00 +0000

My review of one of '09's best movies.

http://www.flixfiend.com/2010/03/dvd-fiend-district-9.html

MOCCA ART FESTIVAL THIS WEEKEND!

noreply@blogger.com (Sal Cipriano) — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:13:00 +0000

And guess who's back? Me! I will be sharing a table with the esteemed Mr. Kensuke Okabayashi and the lovely Ms. Marilyn Patrizio. I'll have advance copies of Dark, A Horror Anthology (with my Groan of Tedium story) for sale, as well as The Hill and other assorted goodies. Come on by!

Sal, Marilyn, and Ken @ Mocca!
Rable D11
Saturday & Sunday
April 10 & 11, 2010
69th Regiment Armory
68 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY

DARK, A HORROR ANTHOLOGY

noreply@blogger.com (Sal Cipriano) — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:37:00 +0000

I am pleased to announce that I have a short story in a collection called Dark, A Horror Anthology. The book is coming out very soon both in print and in digital formats. I have a few copies that will be available prior to the official release, post about that coming later.

The story is called Groan of Tedium, and it's about a group of friends stuck in a funeral home with mafia zombies looking to gobble them up. Naturally, it's a dark comedy-horror mash-up. Hope you all dig it!

Here's the cover to the book, and check out more info at their blog.

BT: KILLING CONFIDENCE, THE YANKEE WAY

noreply@blogger.com (Sal Cipriano) — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:34:00 +0000

Moving the line-up around early in the season is not a great idea.

http://www.besballtalk.com/2010/04/killing-confidence-yankee-way.html

BT: MY AL PREDICTIONS

noreply@blogger.com (Sal Cipriano) — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:20:00 +0000

I break down the American League in 2010 including MVP, CY Young, ROY, playoffs, etc. Give it a read, and then click the BT logo to check out Seung's NL write-ups! Thanks!

http://www.besballtalk.com/2010/03/bts-american-league-predictions.html

FF: NETFLIX RELEASES 3/23

noreply@blogger.com (Sal Cipriano) — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:49:00 +0000

My latest article on this week's DVDs is focused on Directors: http://www.flixfiend.com/2010/03/this-weeks-netflixs-releases.html

FF: THIS WEEK'S NETFLIX RELEASES

noreply@blogger.com (Sal Cipriano) — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:16:00 +0000

My thoughts on this week's DVD's including New Moon, Astro Boy, and Armored. http://www.flixfiend.com/2010/03/this-weeks-netflix-releases_14.html

BT: REALIGNING A NEW WILD CARD SYSTEM

noreply@blogger.com (Sal Cipriano) — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:13:00 +0000

On the heels of all the realignment talks going on through baseball, I offer up my own ideas on it including making the Wild Card its own division and adding a new Super Seventh race.
http://www.besballtalk.com/2010/03/realigning-new-wild-card-system.html

SNOW DAY

noreply@blogger.com (Sal Cipriano) — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:22:00 +0000

Snow storms usually don't knock me out of getting to work, but the storm that swept through the Northeast Thursday and Friday knocked my usually reliable D Train out of service to Manhattan from where I am. Instead, me and Marilyn drew these "self-potraits".

MY LETTERER OF THE YEAR AWARD

noreply@blogger.com (Sal Cipriano) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:23:00 +0000

Just received my award from Comic Monsters! It's awesome!!! Thanks to everyone at CM, my friends, and fans(?)!

For all the awards check out their forum!

I WON THE HORROR COMIC AWARD!

noreply@blogger.com (Sal Cipriano) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:00:00 +0000

Thanks to everyone that voted for me! And thanks again to Comic Monsters for the nomination! This was a great book to work on as Scott Kolins wrote and drew his heart out. I was honored to letter over his work. I think we put together quite the unique monster mash-up book. If you missed the mini-series, look for the trade paperback in the next couple of months!

Here's the complete list of winners:

2009 HORROR COMIC AWARD WINNERS

Letterer of the Year:
Sal Cipriano on Solomon Grundy

Best Scene:
The Walking Dead #60 - Morgan searches upstairs and finds something terrible. Kids poisoned and drilled in the head, a wife shot and the husband blew his head off.

Best Cross Over:
Monster Mash up as Freddy, Jason and Ash square off for round 2. (Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash 2 Nightmare Warriors)

Best Manga:
Vampire Hunter D Volume 3

Best One Shot:
Hack/Slash Entry Wound

Best Web Comic:
High Moon

Best Anthology:
Creepy

Colorist of the Year:
Drew Berry on Sullengrey: Sacrifice

Inker of the Year:
Rob E. Brown on Bane of the Werewolf

Cover of the Year:
Zombie Tales #10

Best Mini Series:
Dead Irons

Best Ongoing Series:
The Walking Dead

Best Kill:
Batman: Unseen #3 - The Invisible Man cuts off an old flames head and then shows it to her husband!

Writer of the Year:
Robert Kirkman on The Walking Dead

Artist of the Year:
Rob E. Brown artist on Bane of the Werewolf

VOTE FOR ME FOR BEST LETTERER OF A HORROR COMIC!

noreply@blogger.com (Sal Cipriano) — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:57:00 +0000

Voting has now commenced at ComicMonsters.com for their first annual Horror Comic Awards. Again, I thank them for the nomination for lettering the Solomon Grundy mini-series, but now it's up to you to give me a vote or not. You have to register to the site to vote, but it's really easy to do, just go here: Register

Then after you get that squared away, go here to vote for me: Vote for me!

And here's some pages from issues 2 and 4 to help with your decision.

Thanks to everyone that votes!

I'VE BEEN NOMINATED FOR A HORROR COMIC AWARD!

noreply@blogger.com (Sal Cipriano) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:35:00 +0000

WHOA, COOL!!! I've been nominated for my lettering work on Solomon Grundy! I'm completely flattered. Thanks to the folks at Comic Monsters for noticing my work! Now it'll be up to the fans to vote for the winners. Voting starts December 24th!

First Annual ComicMonsters.com HORROR COMIC Awards!

And here’s the official release-

ComicMonsters.com is hosting it’s first annual Horror Comic Awards. The awards fans of Horror Comics have been waiting for. Voting is open via the ComicMonsters.com site on December 24th, 2009 and ends on December 31st, 2009. Best of Luck to the Nominees……May the most brutal comic prevail!!!

The categories and nominees for 2009 are:

Writer of the Year:

Robert Kirkman - The Walking Dead - Image Comics
Tim Seeley - Hack/Slash - Devil’s Due Publishing
Peter Milligan - Hellblazer - Vertigo/DC Comics
Phil Hester - The Darkness - Top Cow Productions
Steve Niles - Batman: Gotham After Midnight - DC Comics
Jason Aaron - Ghost Rider - Marvel Comics
Mike Mignola - Hellboy - Dark Horse Comics
Garth Ennis - Crossed - Avatar Press

Artist of the Year:

Jason Shawn Alexander - Dead Irons - Dynamite Entertainment
Jason Craig - Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash Nightmare Warriors - Dynamite Entertainment/Wildstorm/DC Comics
Rob E. Brown - Bane of the Werewolf - Silver Phoenix Entertainment
Steve Pugh - Hotwire: Requiem for the Dead - Radical Publishing
Emma Rios - Hexed - BOOM! Studios
Charlie Adlard - The Walking Dead - Image Comics
Jacen Burrows - Crossed - Avatar Press
Duncan Fegredo - Hellboy - Dark Horse Comics

Inker of the Year:

Guy Davis - BPRD: The Black Goddess - Dark Horse Comics
Todd McFarlane - Spawn - Image Comics
Ryann Winn - The Darkness - Top Cow Productions
Charlie Adlard - The Walking Dead - Image Comics
Rob E. Brown - Bane of the Werewolf - Silver Phoenix Entertainment
Mico Suayan - Dead of Night: Werewolf by Night - Marvel Comics
Steve Pugh - Hotwire: Requiem for the Dead - Radical Publishing

Colorist of the Year:

Jay Fotos - Locke & Key: Head Games - IDW Publishing
Dave Stewart - BPRD: The Black Goddess - Dark Horse Comics
Drew Berry - Sullengrey: Sacrifice - SLG Publishing
Ian Hannin - Dead of Night: Werewolf by Night - Marvel Comics
Steve Pugh - Hotwire: Requiem for the Dead - Radical Publishing
Dave Casey - Proof - Image Comics
Jean-Francois Beaulieu - Marvel Zombies 4 - Marvel Comics
Wes Dzioba - Aliens - Dark Horse Comics

Best Letterer:

Sal Cipriano - Solomon Grundy - DC Comics
Rus Wooten - Marvel Zombies 4 - Marvel Comics
Rob Leigh - North 40 - Wildstorm/DC Comics
Joe Carmanga - Ghost Rider - Marvel Comics
Chris Crank - Hack/Slash - Devil’s Due Publishing
Kurt Hathaway - Resident Evil - Wildstorm/DC Comics

Best Ongoing Series:

The Walking Dead - Image Comics
Hack/Slash - Devil’s Due Publishing
The Darkness - Top Cow
Ghost Rider - Marvel Comics
Hellblazer - Vertigo/DC Comics
Grimm Fairy Tales - Zenescope Entertainment
28 Days Later - BOOM! Studios
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Dark Horse Comics

Best Mini-Series:

North 40 - WildStorm/DC Comics
Locke & Key: Head Games - IDW Publishing
The Strange Adventures of HP Lovecraft - Image Comics
Solomon Grundy - DC Comics
Marvel Zombies 4 - Marvel Comics
Dead Irons - Dynamite Entertainment
Hotwire: Requiem for the Dead - Radical Publishing
BPRD: The Black Goddess - Dark Horse Comics

Best Anthology:

Zombie Tales - BOOM! Studios
Creepy - Dark Horse Comics
Dark Delicacies - IDW Publishing
Asylum of Horrors - Asylum Press
Cthulhu Tales - BOOM! Studios
House of Mystery – Vertigo/DC Comics
Kolchak Tales Annual - Moonstone Books
Tales from the Crypt - Papercutz

Best Web Comic:

Dr. Shroud
High Moon
Lily of the Valley
La Morte Sisters
Split Lip
Halloween Man
Xombie
Pray for Death

Cover of the Year:

The Astounding Wolfman #16 - Dale Keown - Image Comics
Zombies Tales The Series #10 - Drew Rausch - BOOM! Studios
House of Mystery #13 - Esao Andrews - Vertigo/DC Comics
Dead of Night: Werewolf by Night #3 - Mico Suayan - Marvel Comics
Crossed #4 - Jacen Burrows - Avatar Press
Night of the Living Dead: New York #1 (convention edition) - Mike Wolfer - Avatar Press
Hellblazer #261 - Simon Bisley - Vertigo/DC Comics
Asylum of Horrors #2 - Aly Fell - Asylum Press

Best Kill:

Epilogue #4 - Ethan drinks – IDW Publishing
The Dead #4 - Zombie entrail dinner – Berserker
Batman: Unseen #3 - Invisible decapitation - DC Comics
The Living Corpse Annual #1 - Corpse plunger - Zenescope Entertainment
Jesus Hates Zombies Volume 2 - Zombie baby bashing - Alterna Comics
Incarnate #1 - Mot rips em’ - Radical Publishing
FVZA #2 – Vampire feeding frenzy - Radical Publishing

Best One Shot:

Hack/Slash: Entry Wound - Devil’s Due Publishing
Abe Sapien: The Haunted Boy - Dark Horse Comics
Angel vs. Frankenstein - IDW Publishing
Hector Plasm: Totentanz - image Comics
The Perhapanauts Halloween Spooktacular - Image Comics
Clive Barker’s Seduth 3-D - IDW Publishing
Zombie Tales 2061 - BOOM! Studios
Dead Space Extraction - Image Comics

Best Manga:

Vampire Hunter D Volume 3 - Digital Manga Publishing
Jack Frost Volume 1 - Yen Press
Parasyte Volume 8 - Del Rey
Cirque Du Freak Volume 1 - Yen Press
Dance in the Vampire Bund Volume 4 - Seven Seas
Higurashi When They Cry: Abducted by Demons Arc Volume 2 - Yen Press
Tetragrammaton Labyrinth Volume 5 - Seven Seas
Soul Eater Volume 1 - Yen Press

Best Cross-Over:

The Living Corpse and Hack/Slash - Zenescope Entertainment
Witch Hunter and Night - Monarch Comics/Jester Press
Dethklok and The Goon - Dark Horse Comics
The Darkness and Pitt - Top Cow Productions
Freddy, Jason and Ash - - Dynamite Entertainment/Wildstorm/DC Comics
Kolchak and Barnabas Collins - Moonstone Books

Best Scene:

The Dead #3 - Shower interrupted - Berserker
Crossed #7 - Patrick talks back to his mom - Avatar Press
The Darkness #10 - A thirty foot well of what? - Top Cow Productions
Army of Darkness #20 - Ash meets Brad - Dynamite Entertainment
Jesus Hates Zombies Volume 2 - Nurses don’t get paid enough - Alterna Comics
Locke & Key: Head Games #3 - A look inside Bode's head - IDW Publishing
The Walking Dead #60 - Morgan finds some bad stuff - Image Comics
Marvel Zombies 4 #2 - Morbius is a monster - Marvel Comics

The 2009 Horror Comic Awards will be determined by fan voting via the following link: http://www.comicmonsters.com/modules.php?name=Awards

About ComicMonsters.com:

ComicMonsters.com, founded in 2004 is the first and only site of its kind to focus solely on Horror Comics. With up to date news, interviews, and special features, such as, “The Making of”, Comic Monsters has managed to stay one step ahead of other sites reporting on horror comic news. Not only focusing on the mainstream, Comic Monsters makes it a point to highlight up and coming, as well as, independent comics…..and there’s more to come in 2010! For more information, contact: info@comicmonsters.com.

HISTORICAL MCSORLEY'S BASH #10 TONIGHT!

noreply@blogger.com (Sal Cipriano) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:35:00 +0000

Yup, it's that time of year again! This year is obviously extra special. Check out our "Bash Pass" designed by Joe Milazzo and my Facebook reminder letter. Come on down!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

This Friday night, we embark on a most epic journey. For the past 9 years we, the Four (Fore) Fathers, have brought you all together to celebrate our vast array of friendships, intermingling one and all. For many, you only see each other at the Bash, you may never even of met, but you've Bashed together, clanged your hearty mugs, sang all the legendary songs, and made sure merriment abounded.

And now we've come to Year #10, a milestone many scoffed would never happen, but to those we laugh. The power of the camaraderie of the Bashers cannot be broken, and this year we toast to that crowning achievement. For those uninitiated, this is no typical gathering at a bar. This is a coming together of brothers and sisters from all walks of life, a celebration of all that has past and all that is yet to come. When our mugs come together we are one.

The most perfect venue, rather the most perfect vessel for this event is, of course, the legendary McSorley's Old Ale House, NYC oldest continually operating saloon. We acquired a sort of Nirvana when we first came here, and the ghosts of this hallowed hall drew us into creating the Bash, to make sure the traditions held in the walls and petrified dust will always be celebrated. You may laugh, but there is truly something special that happens at McSorley's, and there is no greater time to experience it, than at the Bash.

So once again, we remind you that Friday evening at 7pm we begin our 10th journey together, and those undecided we extend this invitation once again, and hope you can make it. To those that cannot attend, we are sorry that you will miss an extraordinary, historical event, but are also hopeful that, one day, you too may Bash.

Thank you,
Sal, Joe, Jim, Sean
When our mugs come together we are one...

SAL ON BROOKLYN REVIEW

noreply@blogger.com (Sal Cipriano) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:16:00 +0000

As part of a King Con review, I say a few lines about comics in Brooklyn. Warning, my name and fellow letterer Cory Petit's names were switched.

http://briccommunitymedia.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/comic-festival-brooklyn-review/

FLIX FIEND WILL POSSESS YOU!

noreply@blogger.com (Sal Cipriano) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:19:00 +0000

Well, I'm finally getting back into reviewing movies. The only difference is I'm not doing it here. Flix Fiend is website dedicated to film reviews, trailers, opinions, and news, so like BeSBALL Talk I'm going specialized there, too! Come by and check it out!