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.

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