Sugary Serials :: Comics for All Ages!

The Cosmic Adventures of Gena Kranz, by Anne Drozd, Jerzy Drozd, and Mark Rudolph

Attention, lovers of comics for all ages!

This 12-13 of June, The Chelsea District Library will host the first comics convention geared especially to kids, parents, and educators: Kids Read Comics!

This is a free event to the public, featuring over 40 creators of comics that are good for kids, including Dwayne McDuffie (of Ben 10 and Justice League Unlimited fame), Chris Yambar (author of Bongo Comics’ Bart Simpson Comics), Marc Sumerak (writer of the Marvel Adventures Spider-Man series), as well as talents from some of your favorite cartoons, such as Tara Platt and Yuri Lowenthal (voice actors from Cartoon Network’s Naruto series and Legion of Super Heroes).
Sugary Serials will be represented, too–Sara Turner of The Boys of the Den, Mark Rudolph of Curse of the Pharaohs, and I will be seated in artists’ alley.

But this is more than a convention. If you check out the programming page, you’ll see that Saturday is chock-full of interactive workshops and demonstrations for kids and adults to get up to their elbows in the craft of making their own comics and characters. I’ll be leading two events geared toward educators on how to use comic books in the classroom to foster reading comprehension.

All in all, it promises to be a fun and interactive event. And did I mention that it’s free? If you have a young or young-at-heart comics lover in your life, or have a healthy curiosity as to what makes these comics things so darned exciting, I hope to see you there!

Sugary Serials #10’s web serialization is complete, which means you can now own the print edition by navigating to our IndyPlanet store!

I’m hard at work getting Sugary Serials #11, #12, and #13 into print, after which we will collect the entire run in a massive 300+ page trade paperback. More on that as we get closer to release.

We’re also working on lining up content for Sugary Serials "Season Two", which will feature follow-up stories to the comics in Season One, as well as some new titles. I’ll post previews for those new comics soon.

For those of you who have yet to purchase those great character valentines to share with your friends, I have good news for you! We have added some Sugary Serials branded valentines to our downloads section for you to print out and share, absolutely free of charge.
These valentines are in convenient PDF format, with the reverse images on the second page. Just print out page one, flip over the paper in your printer tray, and print page two. Presto! You can now send valentines the same way you did when you were 8 years old, only this time instead of having Yogi Bear or Darth Vader tell someone how you feel, it’s the Champion from Mark Rudolph’s Curse of the Pharaohs and Pockit from Naomi Jardine’s Flatland!

Enjoy!

For more Valentines Day fun, be sure to check out the Smoochie Grams over on the nemu*nemu site!

This month marks the end of the first “Season” of Sugary Serials. After #13 we’ll be taking a few months off from daily updates as we prepare for the next round of stories for the anthology. My deepest and most heartfelt thanks to everyone who has contributed to the first year of the anthology. I encourage you to check out our creators page to read more of the comics made by the incredibly talented folks who contributed to the series. If you liked what you’ve read here, I’m confident that you’ll be thrilled by what you find on their sites.

However, just because the comics won’t be updating every day doesn’t mean that we won’t be updating at all. While we gear up for “Season 2″, I’ll be posting some new preview pages, more Supercast interviews with the creators, and I’ll be catching up with releasing the print editions for issues 9 and on. I’m also working on collecting the entire first year into a massive 300+ page trade paperback. Stay tuned for more on those fronts.

On the topic of closing the first year out, I should point out that the final story, The Cosmic Adventures of Gena Kranz, will be updating not quite every day. This is totally my fault–other comics and teaching obligations have stretched me a bit thin lately, and I’m doing all I can to catch up. A huge thanks to Mark Rudolph for chipping in to complete the comic.

Finally, a big thank you to everyone who has read the series, purchased print editions, and emailed us to share their enthusiasm for the concept and content. Everyone who has participated in this project has worked very hard to make it as good as it is, and it helps keep us going to know that you’re being entertained by it.

So check back here in the coming days to read the last story of the year, and for more updates on some exciting news for Sugary Serials Season Two. More all-ages excitement is coming!Jerzy

The Supercast returns with another creator interview! This time we’re talking with Naomi Jardine, creator behind the recently completed Flatland. We talk about the comic’s beginnings on her own website as well as the struggles Naomi faced when creating a long-form story about her characters for the Sugary Serials anthology. The second half of the interview is more of an audio commentary track, where Naomi and I discuss the first act of Flatland page by page. Enjoy!

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