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Shiptember Sampling

by Sean Wang on October 1, 2019 at 12:12 pm
Posted In: Blog Entries

For the bulk of last month, I was posting #shiptember sketches over on my Instagram account (@seanwangart). I ended it about a week early so I could focus on penciling actual Vol 3 pages, but I did manage to concept the bulk of the new ships that will be appearing in Vol 3. You can see them all on Instagram, and on my Patreon account (seanwangart), you can get higher-res versions along with design commentary.

└ Tags: Concept Art, shiptember, Sketchbook
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Vol 1 Available & Call for Reviews!

by Sean Wang on September 25, 2019 at 10:42 am
Posted In: Blog Entries

For those who don’t already know, the color version of RUNNERS Vol 1 is now available!! All the Kickstarter pledges have been fulfilled and I am now looking to get the book into even more hands. You can order it from my Store (including the exclusive hardcover edition), Amazon, or ComiXology!

About a month ago, I went through and cleaned up, merged, and amended several RUNNERS listings online to get everything updated and optimized. Now that that’s all done, I would LOVE to have readers leave positive reviews for the series! It’s definitely hard as a small-press book to pull in new people, so every bit of positive word-of-mouth helps immensely. 

You can leave reviews on Amazon here:

  • Vol 1 (color edition): https://www.amazon.com/Runners-1-Bad-Goods-Color/dp/0976851733
  • Vol 2: https://www.amazon.com/Runners-2-Big-Snow-Job/dp/0976851725
  • (You might want to mention that people can buy it from me directly from the All Buying Options, since I am often not listed as the main seller of the book.)

You can leave reviews on GoodReads here:

  • Vol 1 (color edition): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47943464-runners-vol-1
  • Vol 2: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19571289-runners-vol-2

And if you buy the books on ComiXology, please feel free to leave ratings and reviews there as well. Thanks, everyone!

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Webcomic Site Survey

by Sean Wang on August 1, 2019 at 1:38 pm
Posted In: Blog Entries

I am currently doing some revamps on my runnersuniverse.com site to get some things updated before the new story launches. For visitors of the site, I have a few questions, and any input would be greatly appreciated.

  1. What would you like to see as the home page? I am debating between having it be the latest page of the story (along with its commentary and reader comments) or a static, landing page that is an intro to the series, including info on the characters, world, and archive. On that home page, there would then be links to the latest page and start of the story.
  2. Would readers like it if I implemented Disqus to handle discussion and comments on the site? Would you find it better or worse than the current system for leaving comments?
  3. Would you like the blog to be a part of the home page or on a separate page? If the home page hosts actual comic pages, the blog being a part of that can clutter it up a bit, instead of just having the focus be on the page itself and comments. But if the blog is on a separate page, I’m not sure if it will be seen as much.

Please feel free to chime in with your thoughts! Thanks!!

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RUNNERS Now Available On ComiXology!

by Sean Wang on April 18, 2019 at 11:02 am
Posted In: Blog Entries

I am SUPER excited to announce that RUNNERS is finally available on the digital comic site ComiXology!! The Volume 1 graphic novel is available for purchase, and even better, I also have a FREE preview issue available, which includes the first 2 chapters of the series! Please help me spread the word: now anyone on ComiXology can try the first 2 issues of RUNNERS for free! And Vol 2 will be coming to the site shortly as well!

 

For anyone unfamiliar with ComiXology, you have to BUY the books through their website. Once you buy them, you can read them via the app. I just don’t think you can buy through the app. And through the ComiXology app, you can read the book with their cool Guided View feature, which advances the story panel-by-panel on your device. It makes for a fun new way to read the series other than page-by-page (although that is also an option).

You can get the FREE Preview issue HERE.

And you can get the full Volume 1  graphic novel HERE.

And please remember to give it a good rating!! 🙂

└ Tags: ComiXology, graphic novel
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RUNNERS Now Live on Patreon!

by Sean Wang on April 12, 2019 at 10:26 am
Posted In: Blog Entries

It’s official: I have launched my ongoing RUNNERS comic project on Patreon!

For those unfamiliar, Patreon is kinda like Kickstarter, but instead of making a one-time pledge for a physical product, you back a project’s ongoing creation and are charged a regular monthly amount (although you can cancel, upgrade, or downgrade at any time). Like Kickstarter, there are different tiers, and I will (eventually) be offering different ongoing rewards, including access to the comic at the script, pencil, and ink stages, as well as fully-layered color files. Also, sketchbook pages with commentary and even some polling input on designs.

Right now, it is a “soft launch” since Patreon is changing its structure a bit in May. In order to get grandfathered into the current rates, I needed to launch now, before the changes take effect. So I currently won’t be offering the actual rewards. Those will start later this year, once I get through the pre-production phase of Vol 3 and start producing actual pages.

In the meantime, the current tiers are just set up as donations. If you are a fan of the series or just feel like supporting me in this endeavor, you can join Patreon (it’s super easy to create an account) and back and any of the tier levels. You’ll be charged that amount at the beginning of every month, but you’ll be helping me finance the long-term production of the series. And later this year, depending on the tier, you’ll be getting access to a number of behind-the-scenes content that will be exclusive to Patreon backers.

Thanks everyone! It’s a very exciting time to be a comic creator but still an incredibly uphill battle, as an indie creator, to get the series into financially solvent territory. But I’m excited to get the series going again and keep it going until the full story is told!

Check out the RUNNERS Patreon project HERE.

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