Just a little update about our great experience this year at Gen Con Indianapolis.

We were at Gen Con Indy this year showing some of our shorts (The Transient, Unicorns, Free Robot, etc) AND I grabbed a few other films that we have talked about on the site or are connected to the area (Michael Lynch’s Burden, Jens Christensen’s and Jonas Mouritsen’s Connected, Andrew Mitchell’s Kill Your Television, and Sean Brown/Magic Hugs’ Time To Evolve) The crowd is really awesome – especially if you have ridiculous genre films- and it is great that they had an expanded film track. I ended up moderating 3 panels over the course of the weekend (preproduction, production, and scriptwriting) and both the audience and filmmakers were fantastic.

If you saw us at Gen Con and want to pick up a DVD or Shirt go to our store page! If we don’t have your shirt size in stock, email us at killvampirelincoln@gmail.com and we’ll see what we can do about a reprint soon!!

I started this project back in April 2008, as a final project for my Time Arts I class.  I “finished” it then, but I was never really happy with it.  After a while, I just didn’t want to work on it – I created it in Apple Motion, which ran reeeeeally reeeeeally slow when all 22 (full res) frames were playing at once.  Anyway, I finally bit the bullet and finished it, mostly so I (and my actors) could finally use it in our reels.

I emailed Joel Johnson, who originally posted the high-res scans of “Wally Wood’s 22 Panels That Always Work,” to let him know how I used the original, and he posted it on his website…and then it went up on Gizmodo and Boing Boing.  A pretty exciting day for Kill Vampire Lincoln Productions!

Anyway, check out Joel’s blog for more information on the original.  It’s a really neat story and a great piece of comics history.

Here’s my video (22 Frames That Always Work):

Since it was mostly spoiled by the group photo, here is our first amazing Vampire Lincoln sketch from C2E2. As you can see, The President is quite adamant about his integrity!

It is by James Heffron an, obviously, great independent artist and a really fun guy to talk with. The site for his current project is http://www.lawdogcomics.net/ and he also was promoting a comic from several years ago called Territory 51, about aliens in the old west!

We had a great time this past weekend at the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo. Our screening was a blast, best Q&A I think we’ve ever had, and we met a ton of great fans, artists, and other creators. Will post more detailed info and pictures later but, for now, I will leave you with a small sample of our sweet free swag!

Heyo! Just thought I would make a “formal” post about the upcoming screenings of THE TRANSIENT. We’re showing at two different events this weekend (April 15-18).

The short will show in Chicago at the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo (C2E2) AND in Champaign-Urbana as a part of The New Art Film Festival. The cast and crew will actually be at McCormick Place in Chicago for the C2E2 screening, so, if you happen to be going to the convention, stop by our show at 5:30 on Friday in room E271a. As for the New Art Film Festival, we will be showing on Thursday and Saturday at various times.

More information about C2E2 can be found at http://www.c2e2.com/
and more information about The New Art Film Festival can be found at http://www.thecuart.com/

With a bunch of conventions and film festivals coming up for us, we printed a VERY limited run of T-Shirts!

They are glow in the dark. Which is awesome.

They are $11 plus shipping for the preorder and more expensive after.

EDIT: we have a paypal button up in the store – but if you didn’t take part in the preorder email me first to make sure we have your size in stock

We’ll be cold-launching this site soon with a few new posts/pages a week.

Check back for more updates in the future and let us know if there is anything you’d like to see on the site!