MAM goes DIGITAL!!!

That's right folks!

The book that looks like it's from the Golden Age is finally jumping into the Digital Age! We've got issues 2, 3, and 4 available for $2 downloads. Please check out these books-- there are SO many talented guys that have contributed.

Scott Godlewski (Boom Studios' Codebreakers & Dracula: Company of Monsters), Joshua Covey (Nobody Likes Jimmy), Ben Perkins (NeoTrash Comix), Ryan Cody (Icarus from Super75Comics & Villains from Viper Comics), Joe Dellagatta (Egg & Atomic Robo: the Getaway), Mikey Babinski (Wonder Woman & She Hulk), Matt Kaufenberg (Shrek), not to mention Michael Kasinger, Dan McDaid, Andy Kuhn, Dan Schkade, Evan Shaner, Dave Flora, Simone Guglielmini, Anthony Schiavino, Michael Powell, Guy LeMay, Sean Hartter, and still to be seen grace the pages of MAM, Lee Gaston, Derrick West, Andy Poole, Claudio Muñoz, Shawn Ullom, and many more!!

Just jump over to your right hand side, scroll down, and click on the "Add to Cart" button below the issue(s) that you'd like to purchase digitally. We understand that times are tough and the cost of a physical book plus shipping plus whatever else is just outrageous these days. We figure if your average 32 page (24 pages of story w/ about 7 pages of ads) comes to $.99 or more for a download. There's over 40 pages in each of these issues (about 4 or 5 of which are ads) hopefully you'll agree that the book is worth the little bit of extra coin.

We're still plugging along on the 2011 MAM Annual. We've gotta a ton of great stories from many of our MAM veterans, so keep an eye out for that.

Thanks for looking
-Matt

Issue THREE available online NOW!!

Mysterious Adventure's Issue 3 is finally available online. Thanks a lot for your patience...hopefully we haven't completely lost your interest in our long absence.

This thing is packed with stories by Joshua Covey, Anthony Schiavino, Dave Flora, Ryan Cody, Ben Perkins, and of course Scott Godlewski, and Matt Bennett.

ISSUE THREE...GET IT FROM ME!!

Heya folks, we can't apologize enough for all of the delays of availability with issues 3 and 4. They've been done for months and it's just impossible to get them into anybody's hands for some reason.

Kablam/Indyplant's site got hacked and so neither of the new issues are available yet. Both Issue 1 and 2 are still up there but the addresses are changing almost daily. Every time I post a link, it's dead in a day or two.

So in the meantime this is what I'm doing to rectify that...for a limited time you can order Mysterious Adventure Magazine Fall 09 (Issue 3) directly from me for $6.00. I'll be throwing in some MAM postcards and the shipping's included. I only have a handful right now, so ORDER NOW!!

This issue boasts an all-star cast of creative titans. Josh Covey, Simone Guglielmini, Anthony Schiavino, Ben Perkins, Mike Babinski, Dave Flora, Ryan Cody, Scott Godlewski, and Andy Kuhn.

Comment on this blog with your email address and I'll get right back to you.


Here's a little preview of a story that I worked on with Josh Covey called "Dust to Dust."

Bulletproof Beetle PREVIEW

Here's a little preview of something that should be showing up soon.

art by Claudio Muñoz
written and junk by me

-matt

PHOENIX COMIC CON!!

Scotty and I will be attending this year's Phoenix Comic Con on May 27th-30th. We'll be way in back at table T129.

I'm really excited to see all the Arizona guys again and check out the awesome that is Phoenix Comic Con. We'll have a TON of great stuff with us: We'll have all four issues of Mysterious Adventure Magazine (two of which haven't been available yet) and an all ages off-shoot starring the Bulletproof Beetle, called Adventure Into The Mysterious- this is a Phoenix Con EXCLUSIVE! We'll have prints, some freebies, a giant poster raffle, and be sketching for a modest stipend.




Stop on by, say Hi, buy some stuff! Hope to see you out there!

-matt

MAM sallutes a LEGEND!

We lost Frank Frazetta today.

I'm sure he's okay with it, he's back with his wife (who was his whole world). He'd done it all- the only thing left would be to start painting with his feet...which he could probably do.

I will ALWAYS list Frank as one of my top influences (not that I have anything approaching his work or style even) but he ignited my imagination like no other. I would spend hours in the "quite room" at my library (when I was a kid) pawing through his art books. Copying, tracing, and just plain ogling his stuff to no end.

The bite of fantasy, folklore, and mythology that my stuff may have, comes from him and the material that his art inspired me to seek out.


I'll miss knowing that he's still out there.

-matt

Mysteriously Adventurous COLORING CONTEST!

Hey folks!

SOOoooOOOooo, I guess this will double as the official (second) announcement of our Over-sized Full Color Mysterious Adventure Magazine Annual 2010!! We've been talking about incorporating some colored stories for a while and we've already got some of the best guys out there working on material for it as we speak!

One of the features will be a reprint of the story that started it all, "Ambush at the End of the World" starring the Phantom Ace, one of MAM's flagship characters. This won't be you're grandfather's reprint thought, we're giving the story a FULL COLOR OVERHAUL!

Not only do we already have stories underway by a bevy of talented gentlemen, but we also have one HUMONGOUS special treat. The cover for our annual (as you may have read) has been done by none other than Mr. Charlie Adlard, the artist from Image Comics "WALKING DEAD" written by Robert Kirkman.

This brings me to our contest: Scotty and I have decided to throw two uncolored pages out there so that anyone who wants to give it a shot at coloring them, can do so. We're not going to give out a bunch of restrictions and provisions. There's no house style we're looking for- simple cell shade? crazy over rendering? Do whatever you do best...Do whatever services the line work best...because that's how we're going to pick our winner! Keep things in mind like setting and scene transition, atmosphere, and all the other things that make a truly gifted colorist good at what they do.

So what's this contest for? To put it quite plainly...if you really kick butt on these two pages, you win the unpaid gig of coloring the full 21 pages for us. Isn't that nice of us? But seriously, you'd be a member of the team and if history has served, just about everyone who has participated in MAM related content so far has had doors open for them out there because of it.

The only thing that we ask is this: if you are chosen, please be willing and able to finish those 21 pages in a timely and efficient fashion to be discussed later.Instead of bugging all of our colorist friends, we wanted to do bit of a talent search. Worst case scenario, a bunch of different people see your work.

We're still talking prizes and bonus participant stuff, so hopefully a little mystery is incentive as well.


Shoot me a note if you have any questions and send me the links to your colored pages (feel free to post them publicly as well) or you can email them to me directly if you'd like, at epicallyuninventive@msn.com

Thanks alot, and have fun!

-matt