New Pencils and News!

Happy Friday All!  The week is over and the weekend is upon us!  Hooray!!  We hope you all have wonderful weekend plans that prove to be relaxing and enjoyable.  We are looking forward to what the weekend offers us.  For one, we have a new script draft of Burning Gods in from Brook and Bobby is cooking up some new development art for the graphic novel.  We hope to be able to share all the juicy goodness in due time.

We got exciting Zombie Lucy news - a local store inside the Galleria Mall in Riverside California is now carrying the T-shirts.  If you are in the area, swing by the 2nd Floor at Custom Creations and you can pick up a tee at any time, instead of waiting to meet up with us once a month at the Arts Walks or every six months at the Uptown Whittier Zombie Pub Crawl.  Exciting!

Today we are posting the Rowel's tightened pencils on Page 5 from The Destiny Gauntlets.  We're hoping to get some of the inked and lettered pages up on here soon but the going is slow as Mike is doing both duties.  Be be patient, we feel that it is totally worth it.  We are also talking to other artists about some more pin-ups to share.  (If you are an artist and interested in doing a pin-up, feel free to contact us, we'd love to talk to you!)

Have a great weekend and we'll see you all back here on Monday.

Valentine's Day - Tiki Machine style

Happy Monday everyone!  We hope all your weekends were fun and exciting.  Last week was pretty much a runaway train and we wanted to apologize for being MIA from the Twitterverse as well as dropping the ball on our normal twice weekly blog posts.  Unfortunately, we were juggling a lot of balls (professionally and personally) and the blog suffered.

To show our Tiki-love to you all (and to use the Valentine's Day holiday that's tomorrow as an excuse to do so) we wanted to share,once again, some of the love that we've been shown by artist friends for our fantasy comic The Destiny Gauntlets.  We have several pin-ups that showcase our characters (and there are more coming!) from the talented point of view of:

Animation Director Lauren Montgomery

Video Game Artist and Digital Painting Instructor for Laguna College of Art & Design (and frequent Tiki Machine collaborator) Bobby Hernandez

Music Artist, Graphic Designer and Comic Book Artist (as well as the Designer of The Destiny Gauntlets logo) Peter Wonsowski

As well as Lucy art by resident artist Mike Collins celebrating the Day of Love both in Cute Stylings and Zombie Stylings.

So, enjoy the love!  Enjoy the day tomorrow and do something special!  We're getting back on track and many new and exciting things to announce.  Here's a big Tiki-hug and much Mahalo to all of you out there that we consider our friends.  See you on Friday...

The Destiny Gauntlets - page 5

You ever have one of those days that just runs away from you?  I kept thinking that I forgot to do something yesterday but with all the craziness I couldn't put my finger on it.  It wasn't until right now I remembered what exactly it was that I forgot to do!  I thought last week was crazy with all the different events, meetings and freelance opportunities but so far this new week has got last week beat.  Wow!

So, without further adieu, here is the Rowel's rough pencilled page 5 from our Fantasy/Adventure Comic The Destiny Gauntlets.  (Hopefully due out later this year.  We'll keep you posted on that.)

Here's to a week that becomes more manageable than it has been (and it's only Tuesday!) and we'll see you all on Friday.  Cheers!

Feelin' the Love

Happy Friday everyone!  The week has ended and a weekend is before us.  If your week has been anything like ours, then this weekend brings with it the hopeful respite we feel we need.  Lots of cool things happened this week - Story meetings, possible consignment locations, Arts Walks, and the like.  We can't say everything that is happening but, as you know, once details solidify, we will let you all know.  What we do know is that... 


Last nights Arts Walk in Riverside was the place to be!  The crowds showed up before the doors were officially open and lasted the entire 3 hours.  It was a LOT of fun!  We had some friends who have been MIA for a little while show up and share the exhibitor floor with us.  We had some friends we consider "regulars" show up and say hi.  And we met new people, families, art students and the like.  Little Lucy was quite popular, as was many of our other characters, including the Baku from our Monster Mythos book.  It was great.  We are very grateful to Jo and all her hard work in taking over the reins of the Arts Walk and all her efforts to expand it.  If last night was any indication, the event will continue to grow.  Unfortunately, we left the camera at home so the only pictures we have to share were taken with an iPhone 3GS.  Sorry for the poor quality.

This afternoon we were also pleasantly surprised to see little Lucy's face peeking out on the homepage of the website Comic Related.  For those of you who don't know, Comic Related is a website devoted to daily comic book news, reviews, columns and message boards.  It's a great site and our good friend and Jedi Master, Bill Nichols is one of the major contributers as he is a great advocator of DIY/indie comics and the creator movement.  He has helped us quite a bit with information on self-publishing comics and graphic novels.  (Information we are currently using as we plan out the future of The Destiny Gauntlets and Burning Gods.)  

Bill has a little section on the website where he asks 5 questions about the projects artists/creators are working on and then posts the answers with the intent of helping spread the word on the projects.  He talked to Mike a couple of weeks ago about participating in the 5-Q's to help get the word out about our projects and today is the day the answers went up.  Click here to read the answers to Mike's 5-Q's.  Super Tiki-thanks to Bill for all his help!!


Have a fantastic weekend friends!  Thanks for the support, encouragement and love.  We feel it and send our own brand of Tiki-love right back at ya.  See you on Monday!!

February 2012 Arts Walk

Good morning everyone!  Today is the first Thursday of the new month and we will be participating in the downtown Riverside Arts Walk once again.  Because February marks the month of love here in the States, we will have the Valentine's Day Lucy postcards available.  Plus we've decided that the best way for us to show/share our love is to offer a price cut on prints and the Lucy tees.

If you come to the table tonight, all prints will be $5 and the "Even Zombies Need Love Too..." Lucy t-shirt will be $13.  This offer is for tonight only.  

So, if you find yourself in the Riverside area of Southern California tonight, swing on by The Life Arts Center located in the red brick building on the corner of Lemon and University in downtown Riverside.  The physical address is 3485 University Avenue. Doors open at 6pm and the event shuts down at 9pm.


See ya tonight!

Last post of January....

Happy Monday Evening everyone!  Here's to a new week, the survival of the weekend and this week, the end of the first month of 2012 and the start of a new one.  Wow!  That's quite a lot to think about.  We thought it would be fun to continue showing the slow-and-steady progression of The Destiny Gauntlets.  Last week we showed Rowel's rough pencil pages for page 4 and here's is the tightened page.

Also, this Thursday will mark the first Thursday of February (since January officially ends tomorrow) and once again, Mike and Deb will be participating in the Riverside Arts Walk, inside the old red-brick building which is the Life Arts Center on the corner of Lemon and University in downtown Riverside.  The address is 3485 University Avenue in Downtown Riverside, CA. Doors open at 6pm and then close at 9pm.

We have been advised that parking is still kind of tricky as several of the lots are being worked on by the city.  There are lots of vendors/artisans lining the streets as well as inside the building, so make sure you come with plenty of time to check everything and everybody out.


We anticipate that it will once again be a fun evening and encourage all of you, if in the area, to come on by.  There are going to be some new prints available.  Mike has some Star Wars fan art, plus the new Lucy illustration from our January team-up with La Fuji Mama.  And there may or may not be new buttons too, which we find very exciting!  :)

Cheers to you all and the new week.  Enjoy it, survive it and we'll see you back here on Friday with some pics from the Arts Walk.  Woot!

Tiki Bar iPhone Game

Happy Friday all!  Tiki Machine shares the talented Nate Funaro with what we consider to be our sister company, Caldera Studios.  Nate has worked with them on several fun (and sometimes educational) iPhone games, like Abby Crabby and iSkream in the past. You can check them out in the iTunes App Store.  And they have a game that we find near to our collective Tiki-Loving Hearts.  We thought you all would like to hear about it.

Most recently Caldera Studios has updated their awesome new tiki drink-mixing iPhone game, “Tikibar” and now it’s free!  Can you believe that?!  It’s a very cool (not to mention extremely fun and addicting!) game where you get to mix up tiki cocktails for crazy bar patrons and work for tips before the clock runs out.  Bar patrons come up and order drinks and you, the tiki bartender get to shake, chop, mix and serve up the drinks!

So if you like tiki, cocktails, iPhone games, free stuff, or all of the above, then check out Tiki Bar for iPhone!

CLICK HERE

Have a great weekend and we'll see you here Monday!  Try not to spend all your time playing the game.  :)