rscarbonneau

C2E2 Announcement

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 13:33:15 GMT

It's official! I will be exhibiting with Cellar Door Publishing at booth 746 at C2E2.

Reed Expositions have set up a nice con planner and booth locator here. I've marked our spot on it for your convenience.

I will have a limited number of copies of "The Marvel" for sale, as well as some t-shirts from store.rscarbonneau.com

It's looking to be a great show, and I can't wait to see you there!

Hi There!

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:45:48 GMT

Been awhile LJ friends!

I hope everyone's been enjoying the work of Zak Kinsella on Zoroaster In Aethiopia. Expect to see two more pages from Zak this month, as well as new art from Jonathan Wyke, a talented British artist (and antiques collector from my understanding) who furnishes Zoroaster's world with realistic settings and styles. Such as these:

Next Saturday is the Kinzie Corridor Art Walk, for which I will be IN CHICAGO to support my good friend Patrick Morrissey. He will be occupying the Fulton Street Collective as his own private gallery for an afternoon. Join us, won't you? For more information, visit their website.

October 10th 2009 | 12 p.m. - 8 p.m. |

2010 W. Carroll Ave Chicago, IL 60612 | 312 . 829 . 2787

Also, you can expect a very short little comic from me and Patrick in the near future, as soon as I get around to digitally manipulating the thing. It's entitled "We Are Pilots" and here's a tease:

Higher res pics available at rscarbonneau.com/wordpress

New Pages Today

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:25:17 GMT

Both "The Marvel" and "Zoroaster" are new today!

If you haven't checked out my interview at alterati.com you can still download it here.

The "G-spot" is a great fringe culture podcast, and I really hope you continue listening to it, not just for my interview. Joseph Matheny is a wonderful interrogator interviewer, and a really cool guy. His questions are insightful, and he showed a real enthusiasm for Jack's story, and an appreciation for the comic.

I also want to remind you that Side:B The Music Lover's Comic Anthology is still available for preorder in this month's Diamond Previews.

I'm still looking for fill-in artists for "Zoroaster." I've got some great artists lined up with whom it is my pleasure to work. But there are many facets to this story, and your vision could be a part of it.

Email me for details at richard@rscarbonneau.com

And if you're visiting from the gspot, thanks for stopping by!

Finally, Sekhet-Maat Lodge of the O.T.O. in Portland is using Robin's art from "The Marvel" on their website as well as on hand outs promoting their Gnostic Mass. You can view the image on their website here.

Updates for 4/11

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:32:23 GMT

Today marks the return of updates (for a little while anyhow) of The Marvel, as well as a new page of Zoroaster in Aethiopia!
From the blurb I posted under "Zoroaster:"

This first installment features art by Sergio Carrera, best known currently for his work on "After the Cape 2" but from whom you'll be seeing a lot more in the future.

There will be other artists as well bringing the tale to life. Will you be one of them?

If you are interested in helping create this vision, you can email me samples of your work at r.s.carbonneau [at] gmail.com

The obligation would be no more than 5 or 6 pages of your finished art.

Update for December 29th

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:34:39 GMT

New page today! webcomicsnation.com/rscarbonneau

Also simul-toon-casted at rscarbonneau.com

Jack gets flirty with his wife’s sister, and I name drop Byron and a Greek Titan. Good stuff!

New Website

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:17:19 GMT

Ok, so I realize I don't post here much, except to tell you when a new page updates, but in spite of that I've launched a new website:
http://rscarbonneau.com
It's still in its infancy, so any suggestions as to how to make it sexier would be appreciated. I will be using it to post some previews of things to come in the Marvel, as well as new projects that I think deserve your attention. I'll still be using livejournal, and my other networks, but I want to treat the new rscarbonneau.com (bookmark it!) as a homebase for all things me.
Please visit and let me know what you think.

Update for December 22nd

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:10:28 GMT

New page!
http://webcomicsnation.com/rscarbonneau
Happy holidays, everyone. Whatever you celebrate, do it safely and in good spirits. I for one will be celebrating Mandatory Paid Thursday Off.

New Page Today! December 15th.

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:17:37 GMT

http://www.webcomicsnation.com/rscarbonneau/

Update for 12/08

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:01:48 GMT

The Marvel is new today! http://www.webcomicsnation.com/rscarbonneau
Jack leads the Gnostic Mass (attended by some of his friends in the LA Sci-Fi Society), plus an excerpt from a letter to AC by W. Smith.
In addition we've got a bomb new logo from Robin, and I've tweaked the site settings slightly to make it more appealing to you, the reader.
Enjoy!

Forrest Ackerman Dies at 92

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:56:00 GMT

Only 1 week after appearing in The Marvel with his LASFS...Forrest J. Ackerman passes at 92 years.

Blasphemy On A Sunday Morning

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:34:43 GMT

Jack Parsons quote of the day for you:
"Science which seeks to know and art which seeks to interpret are two forms of love which constitute the only availing way of worship. That these two greatest expressions of the human spirit should be subservient to religion, politics, nationalism and war is the ultimate blasphemy."

Twitter

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:59:23 GMT

In case you wondered what was going on in my head 24/7: add my twitter: http://twitter.com/rscarbonneau

I'm working on a "top secret" project with Patrick Morrissey as well as a comic about Zarathustra and the origins of secret societies. Yes, there will be lizard-men.

Not to mention "Grope for Luna" with Jonathan Bass.

Life is pretty good.

Jack Parsons meets the LA Sci-Fi Society

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:40:03 GMT

New page is up today. Jack addresses the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society hosted by Forrest J. Ackerman. Jack would frequently meet with this group, and through them he met many of his idols in the Science Fiction community, some who would later attend the gnostic mass.

Update for 11/17/2008

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:53:15 GMT

New page is up at http://www.webcomicsnation.com/rscarbonneau

Update for 11/10 (or 10/11 for my international friends)

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:16:25 GMT

I'm keeping this short because I am quite ill today, and I don't even know why I thought coming in to work was a good idea. It's damn cold out there!
There is a new page of The Marvel up today! Invoking of Archangels! Some of Robin's best work yet; I can't wait for you to be able to see the detail he put into this when the book is released in print!
He's also just sent me another 11 pages of pencils which are mind-blowingly amazing.
Thanks for the continued support! And check out our Cafe Press shop too for a limited-edition Magician's Journal featuring a Tarot-inspired sketch cover by Robin! More cool merchandise to come soon.

Update for 11/02

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:07:04 GMT

I just finished scheduling and uploading pages for The Marvel through the month of January. You'll be getting one page each Monday.

Tomorrow you'll get to see Jack perform the first part of the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, vibrating his voice in a pretty neat font!
I think it's an appropriate way to kick off the new season.

Tuesday is voting day here in the States. Please remember to do your part. Even if you're an anarchist, if you are a citizen of this country, you deserve to exercise this right. Protest, make some noise, contribute how you will, but remember that apathy is not anarchy.
Having an opinion is not the same as making a statement.

Happy Halloween, everyone

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:19:41 GMT

My Pan costume has fallen through. Too bad too, because the weather would have permitted me to galavant about town wearing only horns and fur leggings. Any good last minute ideas?

There's a new page up today! I absolutely love the mysterious and sinister image of Jack that Robin created for the last panel of the page. It may be one of my favorite images of Jack so far in the series.

I just received two pages from Jonathan Bass for my next wee little project and they look great! More info on that later!

I'm assuming everyone has seen the images of Christians worshipping the Golden Calf on Wall Street by now.

Man, when Moses comes back from his trip to the Adirondacks he's gonna be pissed!

Seriously though, it looked like a fun time, I'm sure everyone had a Baal! HA!

I'm here all week, folks...

Aren't you glad it's Friday?

ZING!

Update for 10-26

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:36:39 GMT

Two new pages this week, since I've been a bit of a slacker lately. Updates Monday and Friday.

I attended the Windy City Comicon yesterday, and though it was small, it was full of heart. I can see it becoming a significant event in the near future. It was good to have a good old-fashioned con in Chicago, and in Boystown no less. Theatre up the hall from the con, Drag Queen pageant on the second floor, and an air of community all over.
The original plan was to attend the con then head to my buddy Patrick's studio space with Michael Peterson and work on a comic jam together, but instead we retired back to my place with colleague, friend, and writer Len Kody who skipped the after-party for some Chinese food, bourbon and grab-assing. Take that how you will.

I'm also working on a project with talented artist Jonathan Bass to be revealed in the near future.

I'm so happy for the feedback and love that The Marvel is receiving. Jack is an important figure to remember in these times of change when individuality, personal ambition, and a rebellious spirit struggle against ego, herd mentality, and complacency. It is my hope that Jack's life can be an inspiration and a lesson. He was far from perfect, but he can inspire us to reach beyond ego and the demands of society to take control of our future.
Whether you believe that change will come with the November election, or with global consciousness expansion in 2012, or you think it's aliens or revolution that will cause that change to happen, what we need to change first are ourselves. It's not enough to hope for change. We need to be the types of beings who are ready to embrace the future. Evolution on a personal scale, love, and awareness can change the world.
I'm going to leave off today with a quote from Jack from the first chapter of "Freedom Is a Two Edged Sword." It concerns tyranny, and also liberalism. I tend to agree with him. If you're interested, you can read the rest here.

For numberless centuries society accepted the proposition that certain men were created to be slaves. Their natural function was to serve priests, kings and nobles, men of substance and property who were appointed slave-masters by almighty God. This system was reinforced by the established doctrine that all men and women were owned 'in mind' by the church and 'in body' by the state. This convenient situation was supported by the authority of social morality, religion and even philosophy.

Against this doctrine, some two hundred years ago, rose the most astonishing heresy the world has yet seen; the principle of liberalism. In essence this principle stated that all men are created equal and endowed with inalienable rights which belong to every man as his birthright. This idea appealed to certain intractable spirits -- heretics, atheists and revolutionaries -- and has since made some headway in spite of the opposition of the majority of organized society. As a slogan, however, it has become so popular that it is rendered unwilling lip-service by all the major states and yet it is still so distasteful to persons in authority that it is nowhere embodied as a fundamental law and is continually violated in letter and in spirit by every trick of bigotry and reaction. Further, absolutist and totalitarian groups of the most vicious nature use liberalism as a cloak under which they move to re-establish tyrannies and to extinguish the liberty of all who oppose them.

Thus religious groups seek to abrogate freedom of art, speech and the press; reactionaries move to suppress labor, communists to establish dictatorships -- and all in the name of 'freedom'. Because of the peculiar definitions of freedom used by some of these camouflaged tyrants, it seems necessary to redefine Freedom in the terms understood by Voltaire, Paine, Washington, Jefferson and Emerson.

Freedom is a two-edged sword of which one edge is liberty and the other, responsibility. Both edges are exceedingly sharp and the weapon is not suited to casual, cowardly or treacherous hands.

Since all tyrannies are based on dogma and since all dogmas are based on lies, it behooves us to look beyond them for truth and freedom will both be far away. And yet the Truth is that we know nothing...

Secure? Maybe. Convenient? Definitely.

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:29:40 GMT

Just installed the quick poster for iGoogle. Maybe now I'll keep content on here. There's a new The Marvel page up at http://www.webcomicsnation.com/rscarbonneau

Looks as though we'll be posting one new page a week with slight deviations for the next couple of months.

Update for 9/02/08

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:30:21 GMT

There will be a new page of the comic up tomorrow, and another Friday. We're aiming for a Wednesday/Friday update schedule. Robin has sent me the latest pages and they are fantastic. Jack gets his first taste of recognition, his introduction to the works of Crowley, and attends his first Gnostic Mass all in the next two weeks.
I'd like to thank all of you again for your continued support. The response has been just fantastic.
Keep the emails and messages coming!

Ad Astra Per Aspera.

-R

Elevator Lady Syndicate Me

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:10:21 GMT

Hey! "Mad Ups" to LJ user popjellyfish for promoting me on his LJ! The flap of his wings caused a tsunami of new readers. He's a promising artist, and we should expect great things from him in the future. Thanks to those of you who've visited from Technoccult as well, and for the continued support of friends all across internet-land.
And always, thanks to Robin for being an outstanding collaborator and friend.

I've been a bit lazy with updates to wcn, as I'm working on getting The Marvel: A Biography of Jack Parsons publication ready, as well as collaborating with artists on two new projects. However, I return to a weekly-ish schedule tomorrow! Look for Page 33 on 8/27/08.

Congratulations to my good buddy Len Kody on his marriage to the lovely Susan. Len, as you may know, is the writer of Cisco Kid vs. Wyatt Earp (with art by Eric J) from Moonstone, and the genius behind the historical fiction Chicago: 1968 (with art by Jenny Frison) available from webcomicsnation as well as Shadowline's recently launched webcomic site. Len is currently in Mexico getting tattooed by a shaman and unleashing his latent spider-totem-related-powers.
No, I assure you he really is.

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:21:27 GMT

In Space, Aliens can hear Earth Scream!

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080701-st-earth-sounds.html

Earth emits an ear-piercing series of chirps and whistles that could be heard by any aliens who might be listening, astronomers have discovered.

The sound is awful, a new recording from space reveals.

Scientists have known about the radiation since the 1970s. It is created high above the planet, where charged particles from the solar wind collide with Earth's magnetic field. It is related to the phenomenon that generates the colorful aurora, or Northern Lights.

The radio waves are blocked by the ionosphere, a charged layer atop our atmosphere, so they do not reach Earth. That's good, because the out-of-this-world radio waves are 10,000 times stronger than even the strongest military signal, the researchers said, and they would overwhelm all radio stations on the planet.

Theorists had long figured the radio waves, which were not well studied, oozed into space in an ever-widening cone, like light from a torch.

But new data from the European Space Agency's Cluster mission, a group of four high-flying satellites, reveals the bursts of radio waves head off to the cosmos in beam-like fashion, instead.

This means they're more detectable to anyone who might be listening.

The Auroral Kilometric Radiation (AKR), as it is called, is beamed out in a narrow plane, as if someone had put a mask over a torch and left a slit for the radiation to escape.

This flat beam could be detected by aliens who've figured this process out, the researchers say. The knowledge could also be used by Earth's astronomers to detect planets around other stars, if they can build a new radio telescope big enough for the search. They could also learn more about Jupiter and Saturn by studying AKR, which should emit from the auroral activity on those worlds, too.

"Whenever you have aurora, you get AKR," said Robert Mutel, a University of Iowa researcher involved in the work.

The AKR bursts -- Mutel and colleagues studied 12,000 of them -- originate in spots the size of a large city a few thousand miles above Earth and above the region where the Northern Lights form.

"We can now determine exactly where the emission is coming from," Mutel said.

Our planet is also known to hum, a mysterious low-frequency sound thought to be caused by the churning ocean or the roiling atmosphere.

Also, Monkeys that can count!
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14231-counting-monkeys-tick-off-yet-another-human-ability.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news7_head_dn14231

(And Chimps too!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM5QS_adrIQ&NR=1

Synchronicity

Fri, 30 May 2008 18:15:07 GMT

The day that I first posted "The Marvel" to webcomics nation, May 7th, this article appeared in the L.A. Times. Neat.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2008/05/jack-parsons-ri.html

The Marvel is ONLINE

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:18:03 GMT

After a long wait, "The Marvel: A Biography of Jack Parsons" is available online - as a webcomic. The book which I researched and wrote over the last few years, with gorgeous art by Robin Simon, can be viewed in "chronological" order below:

The plan is to eventually release a Graphic Novel which will appear very different from the web version; with new pages and a parallel narrative detailing the fall and apotheosis of Jack while the chronological narrative details his rise.
Of course it features all of the sex, magic, and rocket science you've been expecting. With new details of his life in the OTO and his relationship with L. Ron Hubbard, the comic is sure to be as thought-provoking as it is entertaining.

This is my first serious attempt at publishing online, and so far webcomicsnation.com has the resources and tools that suit my needs best. I've also been using ads by projectwonderful and the results were almost immediate.

I hope you'll enjoy watching the life of this controversial and important figure unfold, and keep your eyes open for the graphic novel in print soon.

Yesterday's Dinosaur Comics Truly Spoke to Me

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:56:51 GMT

The last panel really resonated with me.