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Like Pro Wrestling? Me Too.

If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll often see me tweet about wrestling-related things. It also used to be a part of my day job. I love wrestling, even when I hate it. Funny enough, many people that follow me for comics stuff do too. The crossover is actually pretty obvious (and something I’ve written about at length here). But dudes in tights fighting other dudes in tights, amirite? Anyway, there have been many attempts at bringing wrestling and comics together — meaning using the larger-than-life athletes as superheroes in their own weird little universe — but I never particularly enjoyed any of them. Put my money where my mouth is, right?

So when opportunity to work with one of the best indie wrestling organizations out there — Chikara Pro — I said “yes” instantly. I’m happy to announce that Chikara will host a story of mine that I wrote as the secret origin of their character Frightmare — a character with fantastic visual appeal — as a weekly web comic, which you can find here.

Here’s a little tease from the first page. If you click it, you can enjoy more. Let the Frightmare begin!

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Footprints #3 Preview

I’ve got something exciting for you today: the first preview of FOOTPRINTS #3. We love this issue (not that we don’t love every one of them) and we can’t wait for people to see this. Here are 5 pages plus the cover for your viewing pleasure. Please let us know what you think!

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Page 1 From Footprints #3

You know how much we love to give sneak peeks right? Well, Jonathan tweeted this action a few hours ago, and I couldn’t resist sharing. This is the opening (unlettered) page to Footprints #3, where you get to see the ol’ Foot Bros. Detection and Recovery team in action for the first time. These flashback scenes were a blast to write and hopefully we’ll get to dive a little deeper into their history as a team someday.

For now, we’ve got things like this:

If you’re attending Long Beach Comic-Con this weekend, don’t forget to swing by and say hello. I’ll be in Artist’s Alley #1312A, copies of Footprints in hand.

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A Sneak Peek at Our Next Project…

As I wrapped up the final edits on Footprints last night, my fire was burning to jump headfirst into the new comic project that Jonathan Moore and I will be working on, something we’ve been talking about since C2E2 earlier this year.

So I did.

It’s a complete 18o degree turn from our work on Footprints and I think will be a nice challenge for both of us. It’s a deeply personal story for each of us, and I hope that we can make that shine and be something special. It’s still insanely early to talk much about it, but the image Jonathan came up with is so striking that it had to be shared. He posted it earlier on his DeviantArt page, but here it is again:

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Footprints in USA Today

Yeah, you read that right. USA Today did a feature on Footprints that includes an exclusive sneak peek at Footprints #2 and a lengthy interview with me. Huge thanks to Brian Truitt and his continued support of independent comics. Please check out the feature and read the preview. I’ve put an excerpt below. Also, tell everyone you know.

As a comics journalist, Esposito knows a lot about the positives and negatives of the industry. He realizes that a black-and-white comic like Footprints is a hard sell, it might take more than one issue to sell people on it and they might unjustifiably compare it to other properties. Not to mention the fact that Diamonds Comics, the largest comic-book distributor in North America, will only carry Footprints trade paperbacks and not single issues.

“But it’s the comic I wanted to make, so I did,” Esposito says. “It’s all about the learning experience. I love Footprints and I’m proud of what we’re doing, but I can’t wait to take what I’ve learned about the medium and the industry and apply it to the next book.”

Check out the full interview, and don’t forget that we’re having an epic party for Footprints at Meltdown Comics this Saturday night at 7PM in LA!