Arctos Comics

Back in May, Dad (Cliff to you guys) and I attended a small convention in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Summit City Comic Con was a pretty laidback affair, couple thousand people I think moved through the con as the day went by. Not so many costumes, but still enough to amuse and surprise. Our Orion the Hunter table was situated between a fellow who’s name I forgot (he didn’t talk to us much), and a comic book rock band by the name of Wednesday Heroes.

That’s right, a comic book rock band. It is certainly a very specific genre niche; we spent the day listening to songs like “The Call of the Green”, a song about Green heroes, and the full version of the Firefly theme song, “Ballad of Serenity”. We of course got to talking with them (Cliff is very verbose), and after a couple of hours we made an exchange. They got one of those gorgeous (hint hint) printed editions of Orion the Hunter, and we got their debut album “Slight Advantage”. They loved Orion so much that they offered to make us an Orion the Hunter theme song. We thought this was a brilliant idea.

After several weeks of back and forth, we have finally received the final edition of the theme song, which you can listen to right here!

Orion the Hunter by Wednesday Heroes

Also feel free to visit the Wednesday Heroes’ website where you can listen to more of their music and perhaps even buy one of their CDs. Nerds gotta stick together!

Wednesday Heroes

- Caitlin

This actually started over on FaceBook as an answer to a fan who mentioned having his local comic shop order his copy of Orion the Hunter Part 1. Since it’s apparently not clear, let me make it so. with the exception of a handful of comic shops that are purchasing directly from us, you are about as likely to see Orion the Hunter or any of our future products in a comic shop as you are likely to see Elvis (the real Elvis — the dead one) there.

So let me get this out there, right off the bat. I love comic shops. My friend Brian Kelly runs a terrific shop in Detroit, and we have a great one called FanFare here in Kalamazoo. I frequent comic shops, I buy most of my comics in comic shops. I LOVE comic shops.

So why aren’t my books going to comic shops? ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Orion the Hunter’s Facebook fans page just passed 1000. To celebrate this milestone, we’re giving a few things away.

David Alexander McDonald, our 1000 fan wins a black & white & red all over t-shirt with free shipping and a cameo appearance in an upcoming episode with lines.

Raymond Jacob, Scott Schlazer, and Sean Woods all win t-shirts.

Sketch Maven has a fairly long interview with me on my background and on Orion the Hunter. There’s a profile and cover feature on Orion in the next issue of Self-Publisher Magazine and we’ve got a couple of other interviews and a possible podcast coming up. Keep watching here on on Facebook to see what we’re up to.

Its going to be a busy month round the ol’ homestead.

Here’s hopping we get some new readers off’a it.

I’m not a whiner, nor usually a beggar, but I figure best be honest about what’s going on and hope. Like a lot of comics guys getting their own thing rolling, I’ve been self-funding Arctos Comics from my day job as a web and graphic designer. I live in Michigan, those of you who pay attention to the ecomnomic updates coming from Michigan may see where this is going.

I got laid off today.

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We got a better deal on our t-shirts than we originally thought so we’ve cut the price to $10 + shipping.

Great artwork by Joe Querio and you can get it signed by Joe and I for free if you’d like.

Chapter 1 of Orion the Hunter will be complete on Tuesday of next week with Episode 11. Soon after we’ll be releasing Chapter 1 as a high resolution digital download featuring a cover by Joe Querio and a pin up by one of our upcoming guest artists — Guy Davis (the 2009 Eisner Winner), Larry Stroman (of Alien Legion fame), or Jim Califiore ( of Aquaman and Exiles).

The digital editions will be $1 and will be available directly on our website in PDF, PSP compatible, and CBZ formats.

The Orion the Hunter digital editions will be the first, but Belter will also be collected into high resolution digital editions as each chapter is completed. There are also currently plans to release a flip book print edition with chapters of Orion the Hunter on one side and Belter on the other plus additional material such as the aforementioned pinups.
We will also soon be announcing our new partnership to produce $1 chapters for distribution to iPhones and the entire iPhamily (iPod and iPad).

Thanks to all who are helping make Orion the Hunter such a success.

Arctos Comics  publishers of the popular webcomic Orion the Hunter, announced an upcoming title today. “Belter” will be a weekly webcomic updating on Thursdays beginning in March.

Like Orion the Hunter, Belter is science fiction set 230 years into the future in the decade following a devastating inter-species/interplanetary war. Unlike Orion, which is set on the fringes of the Federation, Belter’s is set in the Asteroid Belt of the Terran system on Ceres Station. Right in the heart of “civilization”. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Woodward Talk, a local newspaper here in Ferndale and the surrounding area has a great article and interview with Joe and I. You can read all about it here.

Special thanks to Brian over at Detroit Comics for letting us do the photo shoot in his shop.

An updated and shortened video trailer with all new music created via Apple’s Garageband by writer/editor Clifford VanMeter.