Page 99 – the Nigel Contest and the Group Bear Fight Print
Page 100 comes next week and I came up with two pretty crazy ideas. I have two conundrums: I need to take time away from Bearmageddon for my wedding, and I need to raise some more money for my wedding. So, here are my ideas:
The Nigel Contest: Next week I will post page 100. Nigel has taken off, he is now on his own. I want to have a contest where people submit their own comics with alternate futures for Nigel. The idea is not to predict what happens in the actual story, but to come up with a satirical alternate ending that shows us where Nigel goes, what he does, and how his story ends. The more ridiculous the better. The idea would be to post these through the last two weeks of April and the month of May. This will give me time to focus on my wedding, honeymoon and get back into the swing of things. Hopefully it will also give us an opportunity to get the colorists caught back up. These comics could also be to celebrate the 100 page milestone. Once all of the comics have been posted, you guys pick your favorite and the winner gets to be drawn prominently in my NEXT idea…
The Group Bear Fight Print: What if I was to do a print that is a big crowd battle VS. bears of all kinds. You guys get to be in it. Whoever contributes financially to the print, gets to be in it. You get to tell me what your weapon of choice is, what kind of bear you are fighting and how you are attacking or being attacked. I will work Joel and the gang into the crowd fight as well. It will take a while to complete, so I will post updates on my progress here, much like I have been doing with the Axe Cop print. This print could serve as a celebratory landmark at page 100. If you would have any interest in being on this print, you tell me how much you would pay, total, to be caricatured into the print and then to have the print itself in your hands. I will average out the prices you guys name and that will be the price, as long as it is reasonable. I’m thinking the print would be 18×24 or 24×36. Let me know what size you would most likely buy. They would all be signed, and would need at least 20 participants, so it looks like a real epic battle and not just 3 or 4 people fighting bears. It would be very detailed, in the spirit of page 69. What do you think?
I need your input on both of these ideas, because both require audience participation. I think this could be a lot of fun. You?
Ethan
P.S. A note for those of you who have purchased “bearicatures” but have not appeared in the comic yet. I know you have been very patient, and I know hiatuses make you nervous. If you ever feel like you want your money back, let me know. You WILL be in the book. The story is barely into Act 2, we are not even to the midpoint yet. There are a lot of big scenes coming up with a lot of extras and bystanders, and you will all make it into the comic, it is just going to take a while to get there. If you purchased a bearicature and would like to put that money towards being on the Group Bear Fight Print, let me know, we can work that out too.
I like the alternate ending idea! I don’t have any funny ideas yet for it, but it would be a great way to stem the hiatus.
The print idea is cool! I would probably pay something like $45 to be in it and have a copy. Thanks for being awesome!
I’ll get something drawn up for future Nigel.
sweet
So yeah. I can’t draw for *$@&. But I have a good idea for what happens to Nigel…can I email it to you or something?
please do!
Great!
…sooo I don’t know how to email you. Haha
info@bearmageddon.com
I have to say that I love the attention to survival as you’re writing this, such as mentioning the expenditure of energy. Les Shroud would be proud.
Hmm…before I’d personally set a price on the Group Bear Fight print, I’d have to take into account the level of detail, size, amount of people, autographing, etc. That being said, I would likely pay up to $50, though you could get a lot more people interested around the $30-40 range.
ok, tell me the size you want too. It would definitely be autographed and limited print run. It would be very detailed, similar to the Axe Cop print I posted. I’ll add some of this info to the blog. Thanks!
I’d be in for a hundred if you could do a family bear hacking portrait for the three of us with my one year old delivering the kill shot.
bad ass.
I’d be down for 75 but would be thrilled if it was closer to 50. As for size, I think 16×20 would be fine. I’m thinking BEAR/MAN Cave Shed with centerpiece.
I’m thinking I’d have to use a Darth Maul style light saber.
If I had artistic talents I’d totally submit a comic where Nigel seduces the queen bear and becomes a bear overlord
do it anyway!
$50 was my first thought. $20-25 is the going rate for a signed print at a con, so I just doubled it.
Must get out the graphics tablet for this one!
I’d imagine about $40-50 for the 18×24, so about double the Axe Cop print cost seeing as it features anyone who pays.
I’d definitely be in for $50. Chainsaw cutting off the tentacles of an octo-bear!
Ermegod! I want to be in the bear fight print! I would totally be in for $50!
Whatever happened to Chuckles wounds? When he first reappeared he had some gashes from what looked like a bear paw. But then he healed. Is Chuckles just that awesome?
um… that’s just the lighting
Well the lighting looks like four red gashes across the dogs back in the panel where it bites Joel. Maybe the colourist added them?
I’m gonna have to give this contest a shot.
I’m counting 9 so far. If 20 people say they would be buyers I’m making it happen, then I’m capping it at 50.
So, I was trying for the Nigel contest thing and I was wondering, where do I send it to you?
just send it to info(at)bearmageddon.com
Wow, that was fast! Thanks.
Sorry to drag this out farther, but I can’t seem to find info@bearmageddon.com. I found a link to it on another website but that doesn’t work, and There aren’t any links on the site. I was wondering if you have a Yahoo or link you could post? Once again I’m REALLY sorry.
Not sure what you mean you can’t find it? It’s just my email address. Are emails getting returned to you? you can also do info@axecop.com
After some more investigation I found the problem. Chrome doesn’t support mailto: . I fixed it , thank you for your patience and guiding!
hey ethan, names Blake A. Roten, I’m a cartoonist on DeviantArt and I’m a huge fan of the axe cop comic, you and your little bro made, by the way is the idea of nigel driving away in a van based off a scene where lilly steals the RV and leaves her group behind to fend themselves off in TWD the game season 1:episode 3?
$50. Hypnotizing a bear (kind of a pacifist/animal lover–sorry–but could be a really funny counterpoint to the mayhem.)
Nigel looks like one of those angry ex-girlfriends or wives who takes your stuff and leaves without warning after she has either been broken up with, or discovers that she has been cheated on.
I’d be in for the bear brawl! and yeah, $40-50 works for me. Still deciding on method of bear destruction though.
PS if any bearicature spots open up, I’d be interested.
I would pay $100 to be in it and get it in my hands since there are a lot of people also involved and contributing funds to it. The size would depend on the detail. 18×24 at a minimum, but if at that size it wasn’t clear enough for someone to walk in my house and say “hey, that’s you” then 24×36 or bigger.
Because I’m poor right now, I’d pay $15 to get in the picture (fighting a stretchy bear with a halberd, of course) and $25-$30 to get a physical copy of it. I wouldn’t blame you if you’d want the price to be a bit steeper, though.
Not sure where others fall on this but I’d greatly prefer 11×17 to larger sizes. Giant prints are awkward and unwieldy, and will cost you more to print and ship as well (though you probably already know that better than me). But more to the point, 11×17 is a common standard size for a comic print (or comic page for that matter), and as a collector of comic art that’s definitely my preference.
I am print collecting fool with 100+ prints on my walls and just as many I don’t have wall space for. While 11×17 is a typical comic book print, if you have 20+ people fighting 20+ bears, you would lose too much detail at that size. You may pay for a print and not even be able to make out details.
I would definitely be in for the print! Can I be hanging by Keller?
I forgot to add I could probably do $50-$75, possibly more depending on when you’re looking at doing it. I have never bought anything like that before so have no idea what it’s worth.
I would drop $30-$50 on being a part of this, I think it is such an awesome idea.
I would want to be machete-ing it up with an octobear.. or a zombear?!? Perhaps being eaten by a crocobear? Ahhh to many rad bear hybrids 🙂
I’d pay $50 to be in the print fighting a regular bear with a set of epic bear paw gloves to even the odds (a little…). Proper squaring off like.
Also, is there any problem/caveats with me being in Scotland (e.g. cost of postage etc)?
I’d be in for $50, or pretty much where ever it ends up. Fighting large angry bear(s) with weapon of choice shotgun.
That bear head must be pretty stinky by now.
Long time reader, first time poster. I would be happy to invest $50-$75! I’d want to go out in a (literal) blaze of glory on a motorcycle and take out a bat bear with me.
I could probably do $30-50… If we’re keeping this fairly comic-book realistic for now (i. e. I can’t have awesome wands that shoot lightning) then I’d go for a nice axe, and maybe chop up a moosebear.
Hey though, if you’re cool with the wands than yes please do that. In that case maybe an eaglebear? I could shoot it.
As the “Hellz Yeah” guy in page 69 I could do 30-40 to appear again. I don’t want to actually fight or anything. I’m happy drinking in the middle of the chaos.
Yeah, I’d be in for 50, or even 75. I’d go after a sinister PenguinBear with my trusty celtic style claymore.
Emailed about the limited print. Haven’t gotten a reply so was just throwing it on here too. But was thinking like $100, not sure if that’s a low blow or not though.
I’m totally in. In fact, I’d love to shunt my original Bearicature order (“Extra/Bystander” rank) over to this project, because it was a gift to a person I’m…uh, er…no longer with.
And I’d happily kick in more to feature both me and my…um, ah…new significant other. And her 3 greyhound dogs.
So, dunno what it’d bump it to, but I’m in!
$50, plus pnp, sounds about right to me… will there be link for ‘ordering’ spots in the brawl?
Haven’t read the comments but I love both ideas. I’d consider financially contributing for the bear fight – I’d be holding a transformer toy as a weapon probably – maybe my Megatron in gun form?
Well, I couldn’t pay more than $40 without feeling like I’m being irresponsible, but I’d so love to be on a print like that. Maybe this is silly, but I’d like a bit where I’ve forced a bear to wear headphones, and I’m pointing and screaming something like “You will feel the TECHNO!!”. And maybe I have a bloody bear paw in one hand, like I was munching on it for a snack.
I’d be down for $25-50 (depends on our budget). 🙂
I would have chainsaws for arms and a white sword coming out of my mouth and the head of a griffon, the tail of an eagle, and the feet of a goat.
Or maybe I’d just be drinking a Slurpee and stuff…
As my budget is really tight, I have no idea what I can commit to spending right now. Can you send me an email with the going rate and I can make a final decision from there? Thanks. (The price is both to get into the bear battle print and to buy it right?)
If I do end up in the print, I want to be using a pickaxe handle to lay the smackdown on a machine gun bear.
I just read about a kid named Dustin Self, 19, a vegetarian that was inspired by ” back to the wild “. He grew his hair long and wears a bandana. Sounds like Nigel. They found his truck stuck off road and are looking for him. I hope they find him safe and wiser.
It’s weird, it’s like you knew this would happen and you just changed the name of the person, is this strip prophetic? Should I load up on Bear Begone spray? 🙂