We have some fresh fan art for you.  Dakotah Gilmore created these fun renditions of the Martian and his returning enemy.  It looks like he had fun creating some new weaponry for both of them!

The year was 1991. Elton was in 8th grade, and I was in 7th… but we had study hall together in our little school up in Kalispell, Montana. It was there that we discovered our mutual nerdiness and began crafting attempting comics. Our first ever comic was a 87-page monstrosity called Featured Comics which Elton wrote and I drew. We came up with an incredibly unique story… a band of heroes defend the world from an alien threat. Amazingly, even selling it at 50¢ to mostly relatives, we moved very few copies. But hey, it was our first book. And thankfully the first of many.

While we were putting Random Ink #2 together for print, I decided it would be fun to revisit our first comic. So I redrew the cover. I tried to stay true to the original and not redesign anything… just draw everything better. Then I added color and computer lettering (two luxuries we couldn’t dream of back in junior high). The results are still pretty goofy, but it was great fun to do. Elton and I both have poster versions of it hanging up now.

We hope you like it.

(By the way, if for some reason you want to see more of the original comic… you can here. Don’t say I didn’t warn ya, though.)

Just a quick note to let you know that Elton and I are both on Twitter now. Elton mainly posts about his Life, the Universe and Sci-Fi blog, while I’ll be keeping everyone up to date on the progress of our comics. Feel free to follow us if you want updates even more frequently than this blog!

Elton on Twitter

Seth on Twitter

(When my dad heard I was on there, he asked if this meant that I was “twitterpated.” See where I get my witty sense of humor?)

Welcome to the new site!  It’s exciting to finally have all these stories up in their entirety on the web.  We’re looking forward to hearing your reactions to them.  Random Ink is the first comic we published back in 2005, and it’s great to have this anthology where we can do any style of comics we want.  Hopefully, you enjoy the variety, too!

Be sure to poke around the site.  The stories page will give you a quick overview of the different tales on here.  You can check some character sketches and pin-ups, as well as download some free wallpapers and even bookmarks.  And remember… if you want to have our comics in print you can get them in our store.

And here’s the big news… every Tuesday for the next six weeks we will be posting a new complete story right here. Currently you can read all the stories from Random Ink #1, but starting next week you will begin to see the ones from #2.  And they’re all in full-color!  So be sure to check back then (or subscribe to our RSS feed), because we’ve got a lot more to show you!