Memphis Comic and Fantasy Convention Shirts
If you haven’t heard yet, here it is. Memphis Comic and Fantasy Convention is going to be held November 5th and 6th 2010 at the Cook Convention Center Down Town! This is sure to be the con to go to if you are wanting to see and meet the talent and stars behind some of your favorite comic books and animated movies. MAW Productions will be on hand as well and the Convention asked us to be a part in a huge way. Check it out!
Jetta is gracing the front of the official convention tee! How cool is that?! Get your shirt the convention website! Quantities are limited, so order yours while they are still available.
The Saga Continues This Week!
The newest page in this toshigawa.com event is up now for the world to read.
JETTA: TALES OF THE TOSHIGAWA – LAST CHANCES
In Trouble!
Vol.0 The Toshigawa clan has long guarded and ruled Japan from the shadows. Now, one of the clan’s former members has become emperor of Japan and wants to destroy the remaining members of the Toshigawa clan, including his own daughter, Shianndrea! But before she can flee to America, she has to deal with the formidable Desai – and rumors that her sensei is a traitor! Don’t miss this hard to find 80 page first issue of the TOSHIGAWA SAGA.
“Last Chances” is an 80 page graphic novel.
Written by: Martheus Wade
Inks by: Janet Wade
Illustrations by: Martheus Wade
Colors by: Gareth Melvin
Editor: Kevin Williams
Nanovor: Game Day
Martheus Wade’s Nanovor illustration made the back cover of the graphic novel from IDW.
A killer video game tournament, energy drinks, nigh-immortal microscopic monsters fighting to the death – that’s all Lucas Nelson and friends could ask for in a weekend. But another crew has their eyes on the game championship, and will do whatever it takes to get it.
Grab it now at your local comic book store.
THE CRAP HITS THE FAN TODAY!
Aw Crap!
Page 6 of the adventure continues today in Kim’s Story! Check out our web comics page to join in the excitement.
Synopsis:
Kim, the young leader of the Toshigawa ninja clan, is on a secret recon mission in the heart of new Tokyo. His back-up is a young group of ninja excited to begin their first mission. However, can the inexperienced group of warriors make it back from this mission alive when they encounter the demon army of the Knave?
Written by Janet Wade and illustrated by Sean Izaakse with colors by Kevin Williams
For those of you who don’t know, this is a free web story that will be running at toshigawa.com. Each Friday, we will post a new page of this exciting story. Each story is illustrated and written by guest artist and ties in with the main Jetta: Tales of the Toshigawa graphic novel series.
Turra: Blacksheep Full Color in the web comics page
There is an added web bonus this week here at toshigawa.com. Turra: Blacksheep is up online! However, this time it’s in FULL COLOR! Check out our favorite gun slinging ninja in full color action as we get the low down on her bounty hunter background. Click here to read the adventure.
Written by Martheus Wade
Art by Alex Zemke
Colors by Gareth Melvin
Kim’s Story page 2 up Today!!!
Cho© from Kim's Story!
Page 2 of the adventure continues today in Kim’s Story! Check out our web comics page to join in the excitement.
Synopsis:
Kim, the young leader of the Toshigawa ninja clan, is on a secret recon mission in the heart of new Tokyo. His back-up is a young group of ninja excited to begin their first mission. However, can the inexperienced group of warriors make it back from this mission alive when they encounter the demon army of the Knave?
Written by Janet Wade ( [link] ) and illustrated by Sean Izaakse ( [link]) with colors by Kevin Williams
For those of you who don’t know, this is a free web story that will be running at toshigawa.com. Each Friday, we will post a new page of this exciting story. Each story is illustrated and written by guest artist and ties in with the main Jetta: Tales of the Toshigawa graphic novel series.
Speaking Geek with Comic Geek Speak
Jetta creator and new dad Martheus Wade joins Comic Geek Speak to talk about the new Previews for books shipping in December. Also, Pants and Jamie talk a bit about this weekend’s Baltimore Comic-Con. (1:47:24)
Check it out www.comicgeekspeak.com
NEW WEB COMIC UP TODAY!! Page 1 of Kim’s Story!
There is a new web story starting up this Friday at our site [link]. This one is called Kim’s Story! If you picked up our graphic novel, Jetta: Tales of the Toshigawa-Defiance, then you will notice that Kim’s Story fits right in the middle of that book. Hope you guys check it out!!
Synopsis:
Kim, the young leader of the Toshigawa ninja clan, is on a secret recon mission in the heart of new Tokyo. His back-up is a young group of ninja excited to begin their first mission. However, can the inexperienced group of warriors make it back from this mission alive when they encounter the demon army of the Knave?
Written by Janet Wade ( [link] ) and illustrated by Sean Izaakse ( [link]) with colors by Kevin Williams
For those of you who don’t know, this is a free web story that will be running at toshigawa.com. Each Friday, we will post a new page of this exciting story. Each story is illustrated and written by guest artist and ties in with the main Jetta: Tales of the Toshigawa graphic novel series.
Artists Spotlight: Jason Negen
MAW Productions’ editor had a chance to sit down with writer and artist Jason Negen who is responsible for scripting “Crucible” in the saga of Jetta: Tales of the Toshiwgawa.
Tell a little about yourself and where you come from.
The truth is, I come from a frozen northern wasteland so bitterly frigid that at the wrong time of the year it will freeze the blood solid within your very veins. It’s a land known as “Minnesota”, and I would not recommend the feint of heart ever venture there.
All kidding aside, Minnesota’s a great place. But yeah, it’s too freakin’ cold for me. I came here to live with my mother (long story) as a teenager and have never looked back.
What are all your interests? (Writing, art, any sports or other hobbies)
I’m a pretty big fan of creativity in general. I really love writing stories and songs, and have even dabbled in poetry (don’t laugh). I love drawing, I love playing guitar. I enjoy playing sports casually, but I don’t really watch much.
What got you interested in comics?
To tell you the truth, I can’t think of a time I haven’t had an interest in comics. As early as I can remember I was in to Spiderman, Superman and especially the Hulk. I was such a Hulk fan that in the first grade, my mother shredded an old pair of jeans along the sides for me and I would run around the house shirtless, just the jeans on, Hulking out on people, probably annoying the crap out of them. We had an old green truck at the time, the paint was so old it was coming off, and I was so Hulk crazy I even rubbed that green paint all over me once. That all finally ended when I had a nightmare that the Hulk came after me and kicked my ass. Suddenly, the Hulk wasn’t much fun anymore, so I moved on to Star Wars. I always had a toy blaster and a flashlight clipped to my belt everywhere I went from then on.
Another amusing story is when I was still in Kindergarten, maybe earlier, I would draw my favorite super heroes on paper and cut them out and play with them like toy figures. My parents loved it, saved them having to buy me real toys. Eventually I decided to make secondaries of all the characters though, only without their costumes on. And by “without their costumes on” I mean buck nekid. When my parents saw that they were not as thrilled, and it was time to have a little talk.
The sad fact is, this is just the tip of the ice burg when it comes to embarrassing stories of my early comics love. I could go on and on.
Tell about some of your prior projects.
I was the artist for Pride’s Fall from One Shot Productions. I’m not especially proud of how I did on it, but it was a start. I feel I’m a much better artist now. Any ways, I’ve also done a silly little comic strip style mock interview thing that appeared in the Midsouth Cartoonists Anthology 2. It wasn’t good, but it was fun. Other than that, I was the co-writer on Jetta: Crucible, and I was writer on the Jetta web comic “Simple Lessons”.
Tell about your projects now.
My major upcoming project is called “Aura”. The plan is for it to be an ongoing series, or perhaps a series of miniseries similar to Hellboy. It’s the story of Rhian Turner, a girl who has been born as sort of a natural conduit for magic. As a result, she is chosen as the champion to bring magic back into the world. I’m the writer on all of the issues, and for the foreseeable future
I’ll be trading off on art duties with Curtis Rhodes, who’s a fantastic artist. We have a ton of Aura work done, so I can say there’s a lot of material coming along soon.
Aside from that, I have a few other one-shots I’m working on, both as writer and artist and as writer with other artists. I like to wait until things are looking really good and far enough along before I announce them. But I will say I have a LOT of scripts out there, waiting for artists to finish them up. Anyone interested can checkout my site, Dreamscape9productions.com, for updates.
Antone and I had both done some work for One Shot Productions, and I really admired what he was doing with Jetta, it seemed really cool. As well, I was really interested in getting some writing projects, anything, as long as it was good. So I came up with some ideas, Antone suggested I write an 8-page web comic. I knocked it out in one night, handed it back to him the next day. He liked it, he gave it to Stanley Weaver to draw, and Stanley just did a killer job. Antone and Janet inked it, and it seemed the finished product was pretty well received. That was the story called “Simple Lessons”.
Somewhere along the line, I wrote a full sized issue and proposed it to Antone. He liked the pitch, so I wrote a full script. Along the way, he and Janet edited and expanded the story to fit their vision. That was Jetta: Crucible.
I’ve written two other scripts for Jetta web comics, one called “Rearview Mirrors”, the other called “Encounters”. I’ve seen early pencils for Encounters, and they look great. I have no idea when they may be posted though, so those are still in the “forthcoming” category. Maybe.
Where do you find your inspiration while writing for Jetta stories?
I think with writing any story, the trick is to find a good, compelling “voice” for the characters, and think of a good plot to motivate those characters. For Jetta, I really found the voice I wanted for her once I came up with the idea of Taki Sato for her to play against. Once I got rolling with that character conflict, the hard part was to stop writing.
Other than Jetta, who is your favorite character and why?
Taki Sato, simply because I had a hand in her creation. The concept of the character was mine, I gave Antone a description of what I envisioned, and he nailed it in spades the very first time. I just love his design for her. Plus, at least in my mind, she’s completely nuts, so that’s always fun to write. I look forward to seeing what Antone does with her in the future.
What do you think about creating a character that fits so well into the epic Jetta stories?
It’s always nice to hear that someone likes my writing. It also makes me want to do better and try harder. Also, I look forward to seeing how that character develops in the future.
THE KEVIN QUESTIONS:
Paper or plastic?
I should say paper, but plastic. Just too convenient.
How do you like your eggs cooked?
Are you hitting on me?
Where do you squeeze your toothpaste tube?
All over baby!
Toilet paper: roll over or under?
What, are you insane? Over, it’s always over.
Favorite color?
I like all the colors. Except teal. I just don’t like the sound of it.
If you had a girl’s name, what would it be?
This is an obviously loaded question, and I resent being asked it. I can tell what you’re up to.
Heroes Corner Special and Comic Timing
The celebration of independence keeps rolling on throughout the month of July. Celebrate your independence by ordering our new book Jetta: Tales of the Toshigawa – Crucible.
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Heroes Corner gives huge discounts on your favorite comic books and they are celebrating Independence Day by offering huge discounts on our indy hit Jetta. Right now, order JETTA: TALES OF THE TOSHIGAWA – CRUCIBLE for only $1.95 and receive an exclusive FREE sketch by myself, AND a coupon from Heroes Corner worth a FREE comic book in your next order! You can’t beat that!
A little about the story:
A WEAPON IS FORGED! Prophesy says Shianndrea Toshigawa (aka Jetta) of the Toshigawa clan is the Chosen One, the one who will protect the earth from the impending invasion of the demon army of the Knave. But, before he can save the world, she has to save herself! She has to prove herself to one of Japan’s most deadliest wariors, The killer Taki Sato.
Also in stock at Heroes Corner is:
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JETTA: TALES OF THE TOSHIGAWA RAIN VOL 2
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JETTA: TALES OF THE TOSHIGAWA REVELATIONS VOL 3
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COMIC TIMING POD CAST EPISODE 92: Part 2
Here we go, time for Round 2 of the convention wrap-up on Comic Timing! This time, Jon Carroll, Shawn Pryor of PKD Media, and Martheus Wade of Jettta: Tales of Toshigawa join in to discuss their adventues at Heroes Con, and the Superman Celebration in Metropolis, Illinois. We also go on tons of tangents, and discuss conventions in general. Listen in, and enjoy!
