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thomas_catbiscuit
10-11-2006, 02:28 PM
So I've pimping these images a bit recently and I'm going to explain what i'm upto:

6 months ago I and a friend decided to go into printing some comic canvas's, as he owns a canvas business. And it didn't go to well so i decided to look into printing some origanal work (remember howy?) and started scouring deviant art for work to use (with the artist's permission of course). And i came across this artist's deviant site (http://sanaril.deviantart.com/gallery/).

The artist's are called Alison Acton who has worked on 'The Ren and Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon' and her b/f colours them and he is called Jim Charalampidis, jim is currently colouring the comic rokkin for wildstorm. After months of talks (it takes a while as we are in the uk and they are in canada) and ideas we decided to come up with the company twistedworldz and two brands:
minonz and doomcat. To which we are going to produce t-shirts/posters etc using their artwork.

Now we've but £10,000 into this which I can tell you does'nt get you far
With this we are doing the following:
Website (to sell the products through) www.minionz.com
1000 t-shirts (of 3 desgins/ 3 colours and various sizes)
2000 posters ( 500 of 4 desgns)
+ various other things that you need to get a company up and running.

We're officaly launching at a con here in the uk called collectormania gmex/ (http://www.collectormaniagmex.co.uk/) @ manchester in nov.

this is where the cbr comunnity come in were all spent up and zip for promtional stuff so can you help me come up with any ideas that doent cost much?
Also if you have a myspace account add my two myspace sites to yours (if you dont mind) there in my signature box and help me pimp my stuff.

also

So what are cbr-ians thoughts?

oh and thanks to lobo ( i think ) who came up with the idea for the name. And I stand by my promise that he'll get a t-shirt when they are printed.
oh oh i'm also a company director now hehehehe...

many thanks for reading this and the comments that follow

i_mmmchocolate
10-11-2006, 02:35 PM
Excellent!

I can't wait to see the stuff on the website.

thomas_catbiscuit
10-12-2006, 02:20 AM
I'm not trying to spam, i'm after your thoughts and ideas. Is that because i'm in the uk?
dont worry about that we post to all over the world. here a the posters so you get a idea of what i'm talking about:
http://tn3-1.deviantart.com/fs8/300W/i/2005/272/a/9/Midget_Zombie_Attack_by_MonkeySeed.jpg.
http://tn3-1.deviantart.com/300W/fs7.deviantart.com/i/2005/173/f/c/Half_sized_Heavenly_Havoc_by_MonkeySeed.jpg
http://tn3-1.deviantart.com/fs6/300W/i/2005/102/9/d/Pint_Sized_Pirate_Mayhem_by_MonkeySeed.jpg
http://tn3-1.deviantart.com/fs10/300W/i/2006/123/6/3/Deep_Space_Slugfest_by_MonkeySeed.jpg

thomas_catbiscuit
03-03-2007, 09:34 AM
right time for a update: the website is finally up and running and were just about to start contacting retailers to see if there intrested. we've also done this as a product:
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j182/thomas_catbiscuit/mini2.jpg
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j182/thomas_catbiscuit/mini1.jpg

its not photoshoped thats real wallpaper and thats not me in the picture i'm much more happier.

howyadoin
03-03-2007, 06:11 PM
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j182/thomas_catbiscuit/mini1.jpg

its not photoshoped thats real wallpaperHoly shit, that thing is huge.

thomas_catbiscuit
03-04-2007, 11:49 AM
Holy shit, that thing is huge.

damn right and we can do it with any of the posters we have.

howyadoin
03-04-2007, 04:11 PM
damn right and we can do it with any of the posters we have.If I owned a house (as opposed to a shoebox apartment), I'd do whole rooms like that, I think. I could almost live inside one of my paintings.

Agent Helix
03-05-2007, 05:53 AM
This stuff looks real familiar. Did you ever post any of it at the Drawing Board?

thomas_catbiscuit
03-05-2007, 08:31 AM
to be honest i'm not really sure, i haven't posted the new stuff on their.

i really would like people's opinions on the website etc. its been fun doing this and its all coming toghether nicely.

HomerJay
03-05-2007, 08:52 AM
Wow.
How awesome would it be to have the Alex Ross CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTH spread on an entire wall.

i_mmmchocolate
03-05-2007, 08:59 AM
The wall stuff looks great, thomas. I like the idea of having one entire wall of art.

thomas_catbiscuit
03-05-2007, 12:14 PM
The wall stuff looks great, thomas. I like the idea of having one entire wall of art.

i think it looks great as welland is something unusual to do. we had to crop the picture to fit on the wall. one of the horizontal pictures would work better say like a pirate or zombie one.

thomas_catbiscuit
03-05-2007, 12:16 PM
Wow.
How awesome would it be to have the Alex Ross CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTH spread on an entire wall.

you can do it with anything, like a picture of a stunning view or a football crowd

i_mmmchocolate
03-05-2007, 02:49 PM
Where is that room with the wallpaper? Is it a studio? Or someone's house?

I like the fact that you kept the bottom bit of the wall white.

howyadoin
03-05-2007, 03:05 PM
I like the fact that you kept the bottom bit of the wall white.Only fools and communists put wallpaper over the baseboard mouldings, Lena.

i_mmmchocolate
03-05-2007, 04:34 PM
Only fools and communists put wallpaper over the baseboard mouldings, Lena.
Me am smrat!

You know what's weird, I can't remember the last time I've seen wallpaper in a house.

I remember someone having an entire wall mural though.

thomas_catbiscuit
03-06-2007, 02:20 AM
Where is that room with the wallpaper? Is it a studio? Or someone's house?

I like the fact that you kept the bottom bit of the wall white.

my business partner has a office/shop/gallery on a main road into manchester, one of the reasons for doing it is because there is a set of lights near his shop and he gets a lot of traffic past his shop window.