As our own butterfingers, donning our favorite pair of Magic Jammies, headed out to the San Diego Comic Con, he met a few interesting characters along the way….

First up from the con,

Here is a great segment about Sparks on The Electric Playground, thanks to everyone at the playground for the love.

http://www.elecplay.com/episode/view/season/19/episode/199#

Con News

Catastrophic Comics is at booth #2107 and today our first star arrives and she is a mega one at! Super model, Super star and super cool,  Kelly LeBrock will signing starting at 12PM.

You stay classy san diego because William Katt is coming to your air waves this morning

The Katt man will be appearing on San Diego Living which is a live, morning lifestyle show on the San Diego CW affiliate. It’s an hour long show on after our morning News show – from 9am to 10am with hosts Renée Kohn and Greg Phillips.

Media Alert

“The Woman in Red” herself, Kelly LeBrock, will be making her first Comic Con appearance on Friday, July 24th, from 12PM to 3PM in the Catastrophic Comics Booth #2109 to promote her new tell-all Hollywood novel.

(July 21, 2009) HOLLYWOOD – Kelly LeBrock, mega model and well-known movie star of such films as “Weird Science” and “The Woman in Red,” will be appearing at Catastrophic Comics booth 2109 to sign autographs Friday July 24th from 12PM to 3PM.” LeBrock, who has enjoyed a long and successful acting career, was also a hugely popular model, appearing on countless magazine covers. In the late 1980s, she popularized the phrase “Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful” in a series of television commercials.  Kelly is currently appearing in a new movie titled “Mason”, directed by Billy Prince, and in addition, devotes her time to people who are terminally ill.

First off we got a really cool and surprising post on MTVs gametrailers.com, which their audience was as cool as them.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/part-ii-sparks/52527

Not the greatest of rating, however, it’s getting some eye balls

This whole week will be dedicated to Comic Con and the preparation for it.

Sparks Part 1 “redux” which features the same lip synch technology as Sparks 2 and also has twice the animation as the previous version is now available for download and purchase at ITUNES.

In a few days we will post the schedule for Comic Comic, however, at this point we do know Bill and Mike will only be there for the 25th Saturday

We are working with Michael Bell to see which day we can beg him to show as well.

The booth will have monitors and will be showing off our motion comic books.

And we will have some announcements to make at the show as well, however, right now our lips our sealed.

Independence Day marks an independent “first” for the little guy.

“SPARKS PART 2″, the first-ever iPhone/ iTouch motion comic book with lip-synch——released by Catastrophic Comics

Voiced by Hollywood actors Michael Paré, William Katt, and Michael Bell

(July 4, 2009) Los Angeles—”Sparks Part 2,” the first motion comic book with lip-synch, created specifically for the iPhone and iTouch, is proudly presented by Catastrophic Comics. The SPARKS PART 2 Application, which includes original artwork, in addition to the original motion comic, can be downloaded for 99 cents at the iTunes Store (keywords: “Sparks Part 2″ or  ”Catastrophic Comics”).  A superhero noir-thriller that was published as a comic book series in 2008, “Sparks” bridges the gap between the printed page and full-fledged animation. 

“Part 2” is voiced by actors Michael Paré (“Eddie and the Cruisers”), Michael Bell (“Transformers”),  Charlie Brill (“Star Trek”),  Kevin Sherwood (“Gamers”),  Courtenay Taylor (“Justice League Heroes”),  and Ashley Bell (“United States of Tara”).

***Please contact us to book interviews with Michael Paré, co-creator, William Katt (“The Greatest American Hero”, NBC’s “Heroes”) , Michael Bell (“Transformers”), Ashley Bell (“United States of Tara”), and Christopher Folino (writer/ director “Gamers”).  Pre-taped interview footage is also available on request. 

Here the direct link to Sparks Part 2 for sale on iTUNES:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=313631847&mt=8

***Michael Pare, William Katt, and Michael Bell  are available for interviews via email, phone and will also be appearing at San Diego Comic-Con, Saturday July 25, 2009 at the Catastrophic Comics booth.

 

“This won’t be Robot Chicken style, where they draw the mouths moving, which, for the record, I love Robot Chicken. However, our Animation Director, Sean Ruge, did an amazing job perfecting the lip-synch. It really adds to the overall story without looking like a big bowl of cheese”, commented William Katt, co-owner and executive producer of Catastrophic Comics.

“Sparks Part 2 will be a standard for this genre for a very long time. This is the future of comics and it will reach a whole new audience which a traditional comic book is incapable of doing”, stated Christopher Folino, writer and co-director of the Sparks series.

For more information contact chris@sideshowproduction.com 

To learn more about the comic book creators, visit us at:

www.catastrophiccomics.com

www.sideshowproduction.com

The day has finally arrived! Sparks 2 uncut and unrated is now available for the iphone/itouch!

This bad boy features twice the animation of Sparks 1 and also includes the first ever Lip synch for a motion comic on the iphone/itouch.

Sean Ruge our animation director did his best work to date.

And the best part of all this news is that we went back to Sparks 1 and did the lip synch and added the same animation as Sparks 2 and that bad boy will up on Itunes in a matter of hours.

And Sparks 3 looks sweet as we are working away on it right now.

So get Sparks 2 here!

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=313631847&mt=8

Sparks 2 by the way is very dark, this is where Ian Sparks life falls apart, it’s almost as though he’s an average American living in California and lost his job almost a year ago…hmmm.

Enjoy!