Video Nasties: Vol 2.

Been watching (on-and-off) the second Video Nasties boxset over the last few days. I was a big fan of the first one, and I’m looking forward to finishing the second edition. I’ve notices you recognize a lot more of the titles on the Section 3 list. It’s very depressing to think we came close to losing movies like Night Of The Living Dead or Texas Chainsaw Massacre. My teenage years would have been a lot more boring if this law had been passed.

I should say as a warning this trailer is pretty gory. Like… really gory…

Korgoth Of Barbaria.

As well as reading a huge amount of Conan this weekend just gone, I also watched the pilot for Korgoth Of Barbaria. It’s a shame they never made a series out of it. It made me laugh. Worth watching for the title sequences alone.

Home At Last.

This week on Babayka-Lives… the rained out picnic comes to an end, as our Brides and British Bachelors return to the hotel to dry off. But how long will it take the guys to realize their group is now one short?

Had a slight bump in the sales of my book last month. A big thank you to those who bought a copy. My theory is because we’re getting up there in page numbers (we’re on page 46 now, for those not counting.), people have a pretty good idea of what the stories about, and if they wanna invest in getting it as a graphic-novel. So again, a big thank you to all those brave enough to press that buy button. Hope you enjoy the book, and no spoilers please (remember… knowing the secrets of Babayka many months before the online readers holds great responsibility.)

For those wondering if my recent Fantasy genre kick I’ve been going through lately has cease by now… this came in the post this morning. At this rate, I’m gonna be wearing a Wizard’s cap and playing D&D by the end of the summer.

Elf Problems.

I’m not gonna lie… I’m kind of going through a bit of a fantasy genre kick right now. Watched both Conan and Willow in the last week, and listened to the theme from Zelda a fair few times as well. Instead of drawing an ugly troll to quench my recent fantasy thirst this week, I thought I’d have a stab at doing a sexy elf girl. Never really drawn any elf characters before, but kind of enjoyed drawing this one. I wanted her to look cute, but kind of tough as well. Drawing pointy elf ears is strangely satisfying, I’ve found, weirdly enough.

If you like comics about girls wearing nothing but panties and aprons while cleaning up brain splatter with bits of hair in it, then tomorrows page of Brides Of Babayka should be right up your street. Not for the squeamish, tomorrows instalment.

Word Of Mouth.

Just a quick blog update today.

Over on Babayka-Lives this weekend, Alina and Zoya get out of their bloody clothes, and Julian lets rip with his inner bitch as the group make their way back to the hotel.

Also, if you’re enjoying Babayka-Lives and feel like helping out, please feel free to blog, tweet, like, review and recommend to friends this web-comic if you’re enjoying the story and wanna help this title. All word of mouth is very welcome and helps greatly. From naming this web-comic when people ask you what you’re currently reading. To sending links to friends or just name dropping Babayka-Lives when you’re about online. Every referral helps big time and is much appreciated.

And a big thank you to anybody who may have done this already. Considering readership has slowly been growing in recent months, I’d like to think this may be one of the reasons for that, and I would very much like to thank anyone who has given my web-comic a shout out or kind word online or to friends. You people are awesome.

Animated Ad.

In the last couple of days I’ve been running my first animated ad. I’ve been experimenting with gifs, and very basic animation lately and thought I’d have a go at making one. I love trailers for horror movies, and as a web-comic creator, this is probably the closes I’m going to get to that.

Over on my Deviantart page I posted my Alina meets bloody backsplash gif, and even managed to the fix the final two frames to make sure they were pure black.

Yana’s Crimson Smile.

Blood drench women seems to be a theme these last couple of weeks. First my Alina caught in the crossfire gif from last week, and now this recent pin-up. I’ve always shied away from doing giant close up face shots. They’re tricky and hard to pull off. But I was feeling brave these last couple of weeks, and so thought I’d give it a go. It was both fun and nerve racking to flick ink at a piece of artwork this big. I only had one go at doing it, too. No room for mistakes. I think all-in-all it came out looking ok. I like the creepy smile.  

My plan is to do the odd pin-up now-and-then between sequential pages for my web-comic. I think the pin-ups in the back of Brides Of Babayka look pretty snazzy, and if there is a book 2, I’d like to do a similar thing (if not bigger and better.)

And if that hasn’t fulfilled your Yana fix for the weekend, it’s a pretty Yana heavy page over on Babayka-Lives this week.