TJIC is on Twitter! [Member Since: October 17 '07]
I’m one of the founders of HeavyInk.com.
I live in a house with two dogs, a pile of books and comic books, and
five lathes (three metal lathes and two wood lathes).
The dogs are a 12 year old male Australian Cattle Dog named Strider,
and a 2 year old Corgi / Australian Cattle Dog mix named Ocho.
I was interviewed about HeavyInk over at ComicsReporter.
HeavyInk was profiled in MassHighTech here.
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Travis, help me. For some reason I keep getting crash Bang! error whenever I try to access HI from work on my lunch break. What changed? My company doesn’t block it or anything. I go to the site, just get crash bang error.
Thanks for setting this up, dude. Looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with!
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NaNoWriMo is go! http://heavyink.com/National_Graphic_Novel_Writ...
Posts* – Wow I can’t even write English properly. No wonder you don’t like me. ;)
Lies! I have 4400 post!
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There are new “add as friends” buttons in the forums; I click those on everyone I see. Haven’t seen a post by you, I guess. Anyway, rectifying the problem…now!
testimonial for you: “If you live in the middle of bumfuck nowhere, but still love comics, this site doesn’t rape you on shipping costs!” you might have to edit it a bit
Hey, just wanted to say that I’m very impressed with the site! I just switched over from Mile High and I’m eagerly awaiting my first shipment! Bad thing is the DCnU #2’s from u guys will be here before the #1’s from Mile High! Impressive! …Most impressive.
I’m confused. It looks as though the cover pictures for Arkham Reborn #2 and #3 may have been switched. I own #2 and your cover does not match. I want to buy #3 (cover matches my #2) but am hesitant.
Thanks for the reply.
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Hey, thanks for getting in touch. Right now we’re buried under so much other stuff that a site redesign is VERY low on the priority list. I can’t imagine it happening inside of the next 12 months.
Hey, who would I have to talk to about a heavyink site redesign. I emailed you guys a link you might wanna give a look, http://www.beoriginal.com/heavyink
Thanks, love the site, except the style I guess.
That’s awesome. Zombiedictator and I have thought about getting an ACD. They are awesome dogs too. You know you have an awesome dog when there is a comic written after it. :)
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That’s a cute corgi! I’ve got an Australian Cattle Dog, and a half-ACD / half-Corgi myself.
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Dynamite Pilot sounds interestng – I’ve just subscribed!
It’s Beartato from http://www.nedroid.com/
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cute avatar – is it from some comic book?
I am an Environmental & construction/brushing consultant in the Utility & Oil and Gas Industries. I ensure that when projects are being brushed and constructed that they are done in a manner that is in line with all environmental & construction acts, polices and laws.
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Your blurb says that you get paid to do work that’s similar to reading comic books. What is your job?
Hey Trevor,
I was hoping to possibly interview you (preferably over the phone but I could do an e-mail interview as well) about HeavyInk. I’m writing a magazine article for a class at the University of Utah about comic shops vs. their online counter parts. The article is called “In the Comic World, HeavyInk is the New Black”. I love HeavyInk and want to weigh the pros and cons of the online format vs. in store. Your input would help to give the story weight. There is a possibility the story could be published.
I’d need to have the interview finished by Oct. 31. Let me know if you can and if you can’t please point me in the direction of someone who could.
Thanks :)
Dana
I’m kind of confused =| I subscribed to the nightwing comic book. Will it charge me automatically and send me the comic book? or will i have to buy each issue buy clicking the buy button.
thanks and sorry
yeah exactly…its called a duck-walk…brutal on the whole body…and I must agree, my arms do look damn sexy in that pic. cheers dude!
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Dude – you’re buff!
What’sthat thing that you’re man-handling? Some sort of T-bar with plates at the end?
I have tried my best to get my friends into comic books. In fact, I even started a group in my city for the book “Drawing Words and Writing Pictures” (if you haven’t already, you should check it out)so a bunch of people can come together and learn how to create comics. However, I’ve come to find that most of my friends are more into drawing comics than reading them. All I can say is that they’re missing out.
Marketing books always strike me as a whole buck or facts about psychology with no data or sources. The Marketers who write the books are so gosh darn good at their jobs that the students believe it unquestioningly and soak it up like a sponge. If you want a real good basis you marketing, get some kind of major/miner combo in Psychology and Business. Or heck, skip the business altogether, since both marketing and psychology is the study of searning about and controling other people’s minds. I wanted so desperately to be a biopsych major… basically controlling minds with drugs..
The bowl from your May 27th post is awesome! What is the wood and what sort of finish did you put on it?
Thank you for supporting Robotika!
You have created a great thing. Also, I want a corgi, they are big dogs in small packages.
Hey, are you guys planning on setting something up for comic-con (the one in San Diego) this year? This is going to be my first one and I’d be psyched to see something from Heavyink at the con!
Yeps – I’ve been LARPing since before I worked for TVR. I also do things for a LARP con in Boston. Since I’m just THAT much of a geek. _
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You LARP?
You know, I just realized that it would make an awesome forehead tattoo.
I’ve got to get drunk, pronto!!!
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Just noticed the new avatar. Ha!
Thanks! I wish I was cool enough to wear combat boots and a skirt.
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Most excellent avatar! (I love Daria!)
He has been rightly chastised.
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Daynah, we are definately going to create T-shirts (including limited edition ones), and because you’ve been such a great customer (blogging, forums, all that good stuff) you were already on the short list to get a freebie in the mail.
Someone (cough) has been a bit tardy in delivering the T-shirt design, so it’s not going to be done in time for your con…but keep checking the <s>skies</s> mailbox!
I will be working at a convention on Memorial Day weekend… and I haven’t decided what to wear yet! The only rule for staff is that we wear… “clothes.” If there were a magical heavyink shirt that existed, I would be very happy to wear it for some of the con (not every day, ew).
Great interview with The Comics Reporter!
http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/cr_newsmaker_interview_travis_ji_corcoran_of_heavyinkcom/
(Sorry I don’t know how to link properly to that.)
You guys were our Knight in Shining Armor with that whole Atomic Robo/Diamond fuck up.
Thanks again for getting the book out to people!!
hey there, Gravel has me intrigued but I see it linked to Strange Kiss (and the sequel) on some reviews on the web. I saw you really didn’t like the Kiss books but yet are pulling Gravel. What’s your take on it? Good, not good, interesting? Many thanks in advance.
hey – go check out http://dreamcafe.com/firefly.html, where awesome scifi author Stephen Brust posted, for free, his own novel set in the ’Verse (set between the end of Firefly and the events of the movie)
Hello – Thanks for ordering, taking the time to read, and then your very thoughtful review of my new comic – THE INFINITE HORIZON. It makes all the difference when a shop owner or in your case – a site operator gets behind an indie book like ours. Thanks for that. I noticed that you’re sold out – I’m sure that’s do to your kind words. I hope you like the rest of the series – issue 2 and the reprint are out in January. Thanks again, and Happy New Year – congrats on this cool site too –
Best,
Gerry Duggan
xkcd is comprised entirely of win. I don’t remember how I discovered it ages ago (I mean, the comic was still in the 20s) but I have since performed exacting and rigorous scientific tests on it. We have confirmed a concentration no lower than 94.27% win with a .03% margin of error.
Good job on the cover thing..was that you? I justs pent way to much time clicking it…good job.
When I figure out how and where I’m going to publish it.
I’m actually quite proud of the title, I can’t wait to get the book done and out there… I’ll probably let you guys see it before it’s done, because you’re all so cool and what not
p.s. why are there so many freaking private profiles on here?
Gentleman, good job. I’m VERY interested to see how this’ll turn out. -mE!
You guys and this site has gotten me back into comics and for that I am very grateful. Thank You!
Are you guys going to be offering toys and such, the same that we would find @ a comic shop?
That service vs. price comparison is gonna be a key differentiator when it comes to marketing this bad boy. Also, the usability of this website far surpasses anything else I’ve seen in terms of strict comics retail online—that alone is worth paying for.
When I’m very very mellow, I transform into a regular fleshy human, but the rest of the time I hang out in my rock-like state…
Wonderful! Love the design.
Mazel tov on the birth of a beautiful website! May it have a long and healthy live. L’chiam!
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Graphic Novels Reviews
The novel doesn't quite get 5 stars...but that's just because it was so short and elliptical.
2 pts.
I’m a big Warren Ellis fan, and I’m not exactly squeamish – I enjoy Mafia flicks and violent action movies just fine, thanks! ...but I was a bit put off by Strange Kiss. It seemed to be a bit shocking just for the sake of shocking – there wasn’t, IMO, a lot of heft or interesting story behind the grit and flare.
Unfortunately, I didn’t learn my lesson and also bought the sequel.
Eh.
3 pts.
I’m a big Warren Ellis fan, and I’m not exactly squeamish – I enjoy Mafia flicks and violent action movies just fine, thanks! ...but I was a bit put off by Strange Kiss and this, the sequel. It seemed to be a bit shocking just for the sake of shocking – there wasn’t, IMO, a lot of heft or interesting story behind the grit and flare.
1 pts.
This is an amazing, unique graphic novel. David Petersen, with his background in print-making, has an artistic style that’s rich and evocative, even as he is conservative in the colors and number of lines that he uses in each image. The story is full of bravery and adventure, and is appropriate for all ages. I love it in my late 30s, and I can’t wait to read it to my godkids and nieces, in their single digits.
5 pts.
I’ve read great things about this graphic novel…but, ehhh, I just didn’t get it. The artwork was fine – nothing special. The dialogue was OK…but the plot (as much of it as I could get through before giving up on the book) really left me cold. I didn’t care about the world, the characters, or the culture.
2 pts.
Sometimes a piece of art, or food, or something will come along, and you’ll say “Dang – I totally understand the mastery with which this thing was prepared … and yet, I don’t care for it at all”.
Say you’re not into mushrooms, and someone gives you a perfectly seasoned mushroom soup.
You don’t enjoy it.
Well, that’s how NYC Mech is for me. The artwork is fabulous. The page layouts are great. The dialogue is snappy and crisp.
...and yet, I don’t get the book at all. All of NYC is filled with anthropomorphic robots, who act EXACTLY like people do. They smoke, they do drugs, they eat, they act like idiots towards each other. In fact, the only way that they are not people is that they have silverish skin.
I don’t understand the world they robots live in.
I don’t understand their meaningless lives.
I don’t understand the plot threads.
I don’t care about them as characters.
I just don’t get it at all.
Maybe it’s social satire?
If so, it’s going over my head.
2 pts.
Ted Naifeh is rapidly becoming my favorite comic book author and artist. First, Polly and the Pirates – charming (yet not sugar coated) adventures, salty (yet not harmless) adversaries and other characters, a wonderful drawing style that really conveys a sense of dream like otherworldliness while being deceptively simple – I just can’t get enough of this stuff!
Courtney Crumrin tells the story of a misunderstood young naif with two soulless (figuratively!) yuppie parents who move in with an old – a very old – uncle who is dark and brooding in his Victorian manse. Courtney is excluded by her materialistic classmates, hectored by her teachers, and mostly ignored by her parents. In this dark period of her life she discovers that there is more to the town than meets the eye – dark forces, amoral critters, and dangerous magic. Courtney responds with wit and verve.
Go read it!
1 pts.
I’m somewhat disappointed in this. The cover art is beautiful, but the interior art is a bit amateurish. Also the writing isn’t really world-class.
I’ll let my subscription run a few more issues to see how it pans out, but I’m not convinced that I’m going to stick with it.
2 pts.
His style and sensibility remind me a lot of Moebius, who is my favorite comic artist ever.
Some of the works are a bit trivial / cliched (gee, what happens when evil government agents use technology to create automata who always kill anything dressed in red? Is there any chance that those very same government agents … nah… that could never happen …).
Still, aside from that complaint, really good stuff.
Go. Read.
1 pts.
Wow.
The graphic style of this comic book is DIFFERENT.
...and I love it. It’s like a cross between Sin City and the first scene of Saving Private Ryan – the look is somewhere between “grainy film stock” and “run through a xerox machine” ten times…but not in a cheesy art-school / hardcopy ‘zine way – this style is a tool wielded deftly in the hands of a pro.
The story is brawny and two-fisted.
Why was I note told about Danijel Zezelj before?
I’ll be reading more by him!
1 pts.
This is not a comic book.
I don’t know what it is…or, rather, there’s not yet a word in the language for this new thing.
The Chomsky-quoting politics annoy me a bit, but the graphic design of this comic book is going to make waves that won’t settle down for decades. This is something entirely new – full page, double page spreads, no frames, infographics and footnotes sprinkled across the page. Footnotes and cynical asides from the author scattered here and there. Distressed logos, ink spattered pages, a look like USA infographics took a bunch of crystal meth and then swallowed three dozen cutting edge web-2.0 websites.
I really can’t rave about the artwork here enough.
And the writing! Even though I can’t stand the politics (and Jonathan Hickman tries to distance himself from them, but I’m not swallowing that disclaimer 100%), he’s taking big bold steps in a way that I haven’t seen since “V for Vendetta”.
Wow.
Go buy this. Now.
3 pts.
I’ve been reading Walking Dead (the best comic book being published today!) as it comes out … it was a real blast to see these previews – I had pretty much forgotten this story arc – time to pull it out of storage and re-read it … these are some great comics!
2 pts.
Got to agree with you one of the best storylines out. I even like the whole black and white thing gives it an extra edge to it.
1 pts.
This is what got me really into comics in the past three months. I spent like everyday for a week trying to find the compendium. I finally got it and read it straight through for two days. I totally dig how the focus is more on how insane they become in order to survive. The zombies just become part of the scenery.
1 pts.