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Update #13: Check out the Twarts!

Posted on January 19, 2010

TWART (Twitter + Art)

Over the last year I've made a lot of great friends and a LOT of really good illustration and comic connections via Twitter. Recently a group of 15 or so of these great comics professionals and I started picking characters for us to sketch on the same days. Thor Thursdays etc. Well a couple days ago, Chris Samnee (DC's The Mighty, Marvel's SIEGE: Embedded, etc.) took the bull by the horns and we've now officially amassed and started a weekly blog based off this concept!

The idea is that each week we'd rotate and pick a new character. Then you have five days to post your illustration to the blog. We unofficially started with RONIN (Clint Barton, Marvel) but now officially we've started the blog with Mitch Breitweiser's (Captain America, The Futurists, Marvel sequential artist) pick of Zorro!

Since we started posting last week we've gotten a lot of great internet press ( http://ow.ly/YjRW ) and I couldn't be more excited to be lumped in with this great group of artists. I've had an amazing last couple weeks, both in my career and personal life (I mean HELLO, we reached our goal and became Project of the Day here on Kickstarter!). To be included with these guys is just unreal.

So I urge you all to keep checking out our work over at the new blog...

http://www.comictwart.blogspot.com

As for the humongous news about reaching our goal and the future of JOHNNY RECON here on Kickstarter, I just finished editing a Thank You video we put together last night and I'll post that first thing in the morning. Thank you all!

M!TCH

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You will receive ten signed and numbered copies of JOHNNY RECON No. 02 (five copies with the exclusive cover and five copies with the standard cover) as well as a signed and numbered sketchbook with original art on its cover, plus we'll let you design an alien race that will appear in issue No.02 and will play a big role in future issues. You will receive the page of original art that the race appears on, and we will credit you in the issue for your creation as well as in all future issues featuring the alien race you helped design. Please keep in mind that your creation will become the intellectual property of POPGUNPULP Comics.

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POPGUNPULP Comics is the creative studio of Mitch Gerads (illustrator) and Scott Dillon (writer), lifetime friends (20+ years!) and creators of the "currently" self-published comic book series entitled JOHNNY RECON.

MITCH GERADS is an illustrator from Minneapolis, MN. After earning his BFA Degree in Graphic Design from the University of Wisconsin-Stout in 2005, Mitch worked in the packaging design industry for five years where he illustrated for such brands as Cookie Crisp, Trix, Lucky Charms, Cheerios, Teddy Grahams, and more. Mitch is currently hard at work illustrating and writing The Daring Hi-Fi Adventure Tales of Johnny Recon as well as a number of other illustration and design projects for both print and other media. You can contact Mitch at mitch@popgunpulp.com

SCOTT DILLON is a fiction writer who hails from St. Paul, Minnesota, where he lives with his wife, Kristin, and dog, Bailey. Scott holds a BA Degree in English and Journalism from the University of Minnesota and has worked as a project manager in the publishing industry for the last five years. He is currently writing the first Johnny Recon story arc, "What a Wonderful World," as well as managing the craziness at POPGUNPULP Comics as co-owner. Scott is also currently hard at work on an upcoming original novel. You can contact Scott at scottdillon@popgunpulp.com

You can find out more about Mitch and Scott, as well as everything that's going on with POPGUNPULP Comics and JOHNNY RECON, at their website:

  1. popgunpulp.com