WOAH BUDDY!  What a weekend!  C2E2 was awesome this year (although I was unable to complete sentences by the end of Sunday...oh brain fatigue :D)!  We're really excited with the number of people who stopped to chat and look at some tiny (but mighty) mice from our hearts.  We really appreciate everybody's support more than I can express.  Drew and I have laid out some more long-term plans and goals for the comic book and web comic, so we're going to keep chipping away at that.  We received some great feedback from people at C2E2, so continue we shall!  Thanks all!

Hello again!

Yes, I know it's been a while, over two months maybe even pushing three.  Which is a bummer.  But I swear to you we're alive! And big things are in the works, well at least big things are in the pre-production works.  So here's a run down of everything that we have been working on during our absence.  

1. Well, the Kickstarter was un-succesful. I have to believe it's due to a couple of things, one being us not being able to keep up with the up dates as promised.  There was just so much involved that we had not planned on, or that we just didn't think would take up as much time as it did.  So, that was our bad.  The second, well it's kind of us again, we tried to go too big too quick. With the way that we set it up this was going to be a HUGE undertaking, and the prizes (er... rewards? incentives? fat loots?) were going to take up more time then actually drawing and coloring the comic. Which would have meant that we would have been scrambling to get each issue out to our lovely supporters, and the quality probably would not have been there. This doesn't mean that we won't be trying again... oh no, we'll be back.  Just this next time we will be better prepared and further ahead of the game when we start.

2. Danielle was in an ART SHOW! YAY! Through the company that we work for she was able to show some of her pieces at the historic Flat Iron art building here in Chicago.  While it wasn't a show just for her I still can't be more proud of her.  She had a short amount of time and was able to come up with some new pieces that were absolutely amazing! Once we are able to we will get pictures of those works up on the site.

3.PRINTS! Yes that's right, we will have prints soon.  We're going to start with some of the more "popular" ones like the one of Othello and Oliver, Harley Quinn, a few of Danielle's untitled pieces, and a new piece featuring our cat and mouse duo tentatively titled "This is my Cat, there are many like him, but this one is mine." (wow, that title may get cut down...drastically)  We are getting quotes from different printers but hopefully these guys should run from ten dollars to twenty, depending on the size and all that fun stuff.

4.Finally, we're busily creating an online comic strip to tie into "Tails from Out There!" The purpose of this strip is to fill in the backstory of our heroes and to try and bring in more readers.  We're planning on releasing them every week and then possibly twice a week if the work load isn't too much and we're able to produce them in the quality that we want.  At the same time we are working on the actual comic book, which may seem crazy but it has to be done.  Once the book is out the comic will be the filler for in between "issues", we're still trying to figure out how we would like to release the comic whether it be in trade paperback or what but hopefully that will come to us as we go.

I apologize for the length of this post, there has been a lot of stuff going on in our lives and I didn't want people to think that we had given up on this since our Kickstarter didn't happen.  I promise we are creating new art, and that we will be on here more often.  The support that we got through our KS campaign and through FB has been incredible, we won't let you down and hopefully the best has yet to come.  In the mean time, here's an image (unfinished) that I created trying to flesh out what Othello would look like as a younger mouse.  In this picture he is geared up to go mine sniffing.  Would you like to know more? Then stay tuned because this is only the beginning!

Love,
Drew

Hey Everyone!

Hey there!  So, what is today?  Aside from being Monday, and yet another day that I listened to a guy have a full-blown argument with himself on the train?  Today is the first day that we are launching our kickstarter!  I'm a little nervous, but super excited to see what happens with the whole thing.  I'm also super new to blogging, so everybody will have to bear with me as I find my flow.  I'm a scatterbrain by nature, but I'm also a quick learner, so I'll try to keep the train on the tracks.  It's not easy when Drew puts on  Space Jams.   

So, KICKSTARTER!! Drew and I are working on a comic book.  We're finally getting these saucy mice into some adventures and giving them the tools and space to blossom into something special.  The story revolves around a space traveling bounty hunter mouse named Othello, and his faithful yet slightly dimwitted, sloth of a cat-steed, Oliver.  Please check out the kickstarter and let us know what you think!  All feedback is a chance to grow, and I would love to see this take off.  More soon!  

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/392960968/of-mice-and-madness-presents-tails-from-out-there

Hello World!

Lots of things happening all at once!  First off we're still polishing the Kickstarter which we want to be perfect so that it works.  And that July 1st due date (made by myself) is looming so we are going a little batty on that end. But, it looks like it's going to be good, the work is there, the weirdness/passion is there ( I mean who would do a story about mice in space?), and hopefully the support will be there. Working out the prizes, or maybe they should be called incentives, is tough as I am not sure what people would appreciate for donating their hard earned money to us.  Ah, well if you have any ideas of things that you would like to see in the prize...incentive... section, leave a comment or shoot me an email!

What else... OH YEAH! Business cards are here! For a first card I think it's pretty cool, we designed them that way so that they wouldn't take up as much room on a convention table.  What do you think?

Next up will be designing the t-shirts, finishing the layout for the first comic, shooting the video for our Kickstarter, launching our Kickstarter, finishing up work for family and friends, finishing up paintings, and so on and so forth.  Wow. when I put it all down in type it really is a little daunting, but such is life.  

Just know we're pushing ourselves real hard at this, and that we know that the final product will be something both you and I will be proud of!

Stay tuned!

D

Well, it's all over now... AND WE WON! I would like to congratulate the Chicago Blackhawks on a spectacular finish! Two, that's right TWO, goals in seventeen seconds to clinch the Stanley Cup! What a way to end a season that we didn't even think was going to happen.  

Because of this I have been working on a little something that I will debut here within the next day or two.  But for now, I need some sleep... 

Stay tuned!

GO HAWKS!

Drew

Hello World!

Well, here is our website, I think it's pretty neat and I hope you do too! 

I won't be posting here as often as Danielle, but from time to time I'll pop on to let you know what's going on in our world!  Check this part out for listings of where we are going to be and what we are working on.  We are getting ready to launch our Kickstarter so look out for that too!  In the mean time please enjoy our site!

Oh, yeah, it's hockey season still! So GO HAWKS!

-Drew