Books All Out -- Plus A Huge New Announcement!
about 1 year ago
– Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 02:35:24 PM
Hey everyone! We got the books all shipped this week so thank you again for backing this project. Flying Sparks has been a wonderful journey -- but we're not quite done yet!
With These books all complete and out, I wanted to put together a collected edition of all the rest of Flying Sparks' stories, since we have 3 more issues worth of content following the adventures of Meta-Girl. And so we have The Flying Sparks Companion volume! This contains:
- The Meta-Man Special
- Issue #0 (Meta-Girl's Origin!)
- Unleash The Kraken
Three issues which are standalone fun but play an integral role for character development for our heroes. To commemorate this awesome 80-page book, we got MIke S. Miller (Injustice, Shadow of the Conqueror) to do the cover.
I also want to support my friend Luke Stone who started his own crowdfunding site, so we're running this exclusively on FundMyComic at the link here. It's only available for 14 days and I've already got the book done so we will be printing and shipping IMMEDIATLEY. Don't miss out on Flying Sparks The Companion Volume. Get it today!
Some Variants Out -- Hardcovers Should Be Here Today
about 1 year ago
– Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 10:01:13 AM
Hey everyone figured I'd send an update. The variants came back damaged for a second time from the printer. They're giving me lip now but they are replacing them. About 2/3 were unusable so some of them went out. They approved sending me ne ones though they should be here within the next week or so for me to get them out.
Hardcovers also should be in today.
T-shirts and posters I'm told are with my fulfillment group and are starting to go out this week as well. Flying Sparks should be completely wrapped up soon!
In the meantime, I launched a comic brand called ACKTUAL COMICS which I think is very funny. I have merch here: https://diversity-comics.creator-spring.com/
And also on Subscribe Star we are launching a few new comics. My goal here is to be able to produce monthly full-length omics like a full on comic company. To do so we'll need about 300 subscribers. Once we're up and rolling I'll figure out print options exclusive to subscribers there too. Please sign up and help us get going: https://www.subscribestar.com/jon-del-arroz
See you soon!
Flying Sparks Fulfillment Update
about 1 year ago
– Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 01:10:14 PM
Hello everyone! The campaign is 2/3 fulfilled with more getting done every day. Gotten some great pictures of people posting their books which I appreciate. Definitely spread the word on this series because more people should be reading it!
I'm waiting for variants and hardcovers to come in from the printer, should get here any day now.
On the t-shirt/poster front as usual those come from an outside vendor so look for a separate package but we had a hiccup-- unfortunately the guy who fulfilled these usually died this summer. He was a good friend and I'm really saddend by his loss. His brother has taken over the company but needed some time so we had a little delay, but he assures me they're getting printed this week and should be shipping in August. Thanks for understanding there.
Otherwise, we're hard at work on the next Ayla Rin installment, and doing some short tests for comics including doing my popular Steampunk novel series, The Adventures of Baron Von Monocle. It's looking really good so we might go forward finally after all these years. You can read the series on Amazon here.
Printer Has Shipped The Books To Me
about 1 year ago
– Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 09:35:21 AM
They're on their way! This is exciting news, but at the same time, I am going to San Diego Comic Con next week so I might not get these in time to get some books out before my trip. If I get them by Tuesday, Ill start mailing out a batch, but otherwise I'll start shipping upon my return next week.
If you're at the convention and want to say hi drop me an email jdaguestposts at gmail and I'd be happy to get together!
Otherwise, my Von Monocle series is almost entirely available on audiobook. You can start the series here and catch up to the new book, The Crystal Conspiracy. I'm doing a test now to see if we can pull off steampunk comics to make this a multimedia universe and the pages are looking REALLY good.
Thanks all!
JDA
Printer Is Printing!
about 1 year ago
– Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 09:19:14 PM
Hey everyone! Last week I got my proof copy in and it looks beautiful in person. Very happy to be able to get these out to you soon. I submitted the full order at the printer and am now just waiting for them to deliver. Usually takes 1-2 weeks on that front so we should start shipping by the end of the month.
I'm hard at work on a few projects: a new superteam, the next Ayla Rin comic, and a special surprise for Flying Sparks fans which will come as soon as these get shipped out.
I also dropped my new Von Monocle novel on Amazon if you didn't see it -- the paperback and kindle versions of The Crystal Conspiracy are live. Zaira takes her airship to uncharted territory to try to uncover ancient technology to turn the course of the war against the Nightmen. Read it here.
Back to writing for me. See you guys soon!
