Uphill Battle Comics

Crybabies are redundant.

uphillbattlecomics — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:18:13 +0000

Done with first chapter of UberBlud. It’s mostly a day in the life type of crap. But I think it’s pretty good and funny. Seems like there’s a lot of media out there where the main character works in a cubicle and bitches a lot.I think what makes what I wrote more palatable is that Rhodes isn’t an asshole. He’s just stuck and doesn’t know what to do with himself. Another thing is that his dull & dreary life only lasts 2 small chapters and then completely changes to where it’s pretty much a totally different book. So I hope you like sexy, raunchy humor, and a hero who starts off as such a sad sap that you don’t know whether to laugh at him or cry with him!

Be good,

Brad

Gettin’ S.P.A.C.E.d

uphillbattlecomics — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:54:10 +0000

By Brad

I guess 2 days is enough time to reminisce before I write a blog about our first con Experience! We were pretty much bagging and boarding our comics up until we shoved them in the car to leave. All the way to Columbus, Brian talked about how we were sure to be rich and famous by the end of the weekend!Actually we were crying and hugging because we thought everyone would hate us. . . but lies make things more interesting!!

Once we got settled into our sleazy motel, we met up w/ Jake and went to go eat @ The Pub with Naomi and Matt from Thrill Vulture Tattoos! I wrote a blog about our experience there but I fear that if I posted it; most people would think I’m hateful and intolerant of acoustic guitars. . . so I may post it later. Dinner was expensive and tasty. I wish I could’ve had a decent conversation with everyone that was sitting 3 feet away, but the asshole with the guitar wouldn’t quit his stupid butchery of other people’s songs. Even the waitresses with the shooooooooort plaid skirts had trouble making me smile.

But anyway, back to comics . . . we awoke at the ass-crack of dawn th next morning and packed up everything we had into the car and headed across the street to the Ramada where SPACE con was going to get started soon and we would be spending the night. Because of our paranoia and our inability to check in before noon, we had to put all our crap under the table. . . it was a lot of shit.

Our neighbors to the left were awesome (Rob, Kate, and Josh.) they were much easier to talk to than our other neighbor who had a table full of porn comics . . . nice! But strangely enough he got more attention than we did. We didn’t really do shit for sales but we met some awesome people like Nikola Jajic and Michael Czerniawski, 2 of the creators of THE BIG BAD BOOK! Brian talked to them more than I did (not uncommon), they both seemed to really like the book and both took the time to come back over with words of advice and praise. This meant even more to me after reading their laugh-riot of a book! Go buy! It’s on Amazon too, if you wanna use your free shipping perks, you wanker!

Of course we would have felt like strangers in a strange land if it weren’t for our buds in Ringtail Cafe! I can’t thank Darren, Jackie and Krista enough for their continuous friendship and support. Go to Ringtailcafe.com, I’m waiting for more Confectionaries and I’m about as burly as men are allowed to get without dragging their knuckles!

P.S. Brant, I’m not an asshole, just aloof. Now when’s our interview and am I allowed to cuss?

Off track again. Between the ADD, Dyslexia, and Alcohol it’s a wonder I ever get anything done. Speaking of not getting anything done I had a good chat with the amazingly talented Mark Bloodworth about balancing a day job and doing kick-ass art. He’s good at both and appeared to actually enjoy his day job, though. . . Another awesome artist I was surprised to see there was Guy Davis artist of BPRD and creator The Marquis. Of course both of these guys were on the ONE FUCKING PANEL I REALLY WANTED TO SEE AND MISSED! fml! It was the horror comic discussion panel and I fucking missed it . . .

Lora Innes . . . she’s hard to recognize from her Twitter picture, I thought Kari Byron from Mythbusters was tooling around a comic con. I attended the webcomic panel she emceed, don’t think I’d ever do a webcomic, but I do think I have a lil’ geek-crush on the lovely and talented creator of The Dreamer. Brian gave her a sketch of Alan from the book and a copy of our comic in hopes she would read, enjoy, and critique it. I stood by silently and think I waved. I hope she likes the book . . .

As things wrapped up I thought about how next year we should have 2 volumes of UberBlud to unleash on the unsuspecting masses. I don’t know how it will be received; will it be too professional for indy-geeks? Too violent for tender-foots? Too hilarious for assholes? Or will our table be in between our Ringtail Cafe friends and the Dreamer in 2 years? Guess that’s up to us; there’s an ass for every seat, we just gotta build them.

Be good and stay tuned,

Brad

Soooo…. We have a normal website now!

uphillbattlecomics — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:53:23 +0000

We just put up UPHILLBATTLECOMICS.COM for you’re viewing pleasure. It’s minimal and under construction so please bear with us! The book is finished! It’s now in the caring hands of the folks over at ka-blam.com! Let’s all hope and pray they make us look good.

-BRIAN

cover preview!!!

uphillbattlecomics — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 01:34:43 +0000

here’s a b&w preview of the cover of our first book!! kick-ass artwork provided by our very own Brad Edwards!

Brian

MY WIFE!!!

uphillbattlecomics — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:14:25 +0000

on SPACE con’s website my wife Erin is listed as the Exhibitor… sooo…. I should probably get a hold of them.

OH YEAH! follow us on TWITTER! twitter.com/uphillbattlecom

-Brian

PANELS!!

uphillbattlecomics — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:34:11 +0000

The investigation is underway

Finished panels from This Is Hell and UBERBLUD preview (page 5)! Enjoy! CONFIRMED: Uphill Battle Comics will be at S.P.A.C.E. con in Columbus Ohio, April 24-25 2010
-Brian

First of the Clattering and gnashing teeth.

uphillbattlecomics — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:55:25 +0000

Brian made this site. I don’t rightly know what to put as the 1st blog, so I’ll jst say that for today I am going to draw the 2 Frosts and think of a name for the (spoiler deleted). It may be hard for me to really tell y’all what is going on so please forgive me if i play it a bit close to the chest. My frozen pizza is done so I’m a gonna break dese cuffs and eat em shits. Send Kahlua, and winning lottery tickets if yo want to see this shit sooner.

I wanna make a face book later.

Hello world!

uphillbattlecomics — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:16:01 +0000

Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!

This Is Hell Preview #1

uphillbattlecomics — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:34:25 +0000

Hey! Brian from UBC, here! Here’s page one of our preview of “This Is Hell” that we’ll have for S.P.A.C.E. con in Columbus, OH. for more info on SPACE check out these links here and here.