New Ways to Buy Inverse Press Comics!

CLICK HERE to Buy Clown Town in Digital on comiXology!

Clown Town, the seminal tale of clown horror by writer Kevin LaPorte (Roadkill du Jour) and artist Amanda Rachels (Flesh of White; Arcana Studios’ The Book), is now LIVE for purchase on cloud-based digital comics platform, comiXology!  The series is no longer in print at this time, so digital is the ONLY way to currently get your hands on this story of killer clowns as brutally vindictive spirits avenging the abuse of children!  We have established a permanent link (to the right) to the comiXology page for Clown Town, so click through and BUY IT!

Also, we’ve established ‘Buy Now’ PayPal buttons on this website at the Buy Comics tab in the menu above, so that you can order our currently-in-print comics directly from us!  Flesh of White #1 and Roadkill du Jour #1 are available there already, and we’ll be adding some other items in the next few days.  Click through and check it out!

Flesh of White #1 - Standard Cover

 

Roadkill du Jour #1 - Standard Cover

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Clown Town Launches on comiXology May 15!

Clown Town Graphic Novel on comiXology!

Inverse Press is pleased to announce the May 15, 2013, digital release of horror graphic novel, Clown Town, via the cloud-based digital comics platform, comiXology!  Written by Kevin LaPorte (Roadkill du Jour) and fully illustrated by Amanda Rachels (Flesh of White, Arcana Studios’ The Book), Clown Town is a 124-page tale of clown horror, featuring a 96-page core story, two 8-page back-up stories, and associated art and materials created specifically to support production of the project!

CLOWN TOWN – Where killer clowns are avenging spirits for abused children. Where abused children meld into the carnie masses, masked by twisted inner faces. Where young Chelsea Schroeder is left to her own devices in the search for her lost friend, Melvin. But Melvin may already be a part of the dark circus, simultaneously its beneficiary and its victim! And Chelsea may soon join him, unless she evades the clowns who just may be her saviors!

On comiXology, Clown Town will be delivered in the same immersive, cinematic manner available to the major comics producers.  We’ll post a direct link to the comiXology page next Wednesday, as soon as it’s available!

Clown Town Graphic Novel Debuts on comiXology May 15!

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Inverse Press Artist Nathan Smith’s Free Comic Book Day Gallery!

Free Comic Book Day at FOS Comics in Mobile, Alabama included Inverse founder, Kevin LaPorte, and artistic collaborator, Nathan Smith (upcoming Last Ride for Horsemen).  Nathan was inundated with commission requests throughout the day…SO many, he had to take homework with him!  The pieces he was turning out were SO awesome, we had to share them here!  Enjoy, and look for more of Nathan’s work as our story of the steampunk apocalypse nears its completion!

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Flesh of White’s Amanda Rachels at Acme Comics’ Free Comic Book Day!

Erica J. Heflin & Amanda Rachels’ Flesh of White #2 is now funding on Kickstarter.com, and you can BACK IT HERE!  Some of the great rewards that you can score as part of this campaign include original art by Amanda, so let’s look at some great examples of what you can expect.

Amanda spent this past weekend at the Free Comic Book Day event at North Carolina’s Acme Comics!  While there, she completed more than TWENTY custom sketches, and we’re providing a sample of those below!  If you like what you see, browse to the Kickstarter campaign and BACK IT!

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Flesh of White #2 on Kickstarter THIS WEEK!

Flesh of White Issue 2 on Kickstarter SOON!

Yes, it’s about that time!  Erica Heflin & Amanda RachelsFlesh of White returns to Kickstarter THIS WEEK, as they make available the SECOND issue of the series!  20 more pages of the tale of young Kwasi and his mother Rehema’s quest to protect him from becoming but parts in the Witch Doctor’s spell!

Keep your eyes here and on our Facebook pages (Flesh of White & Inverse Press) to get more details as we approach the launch date!

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Roadkill du Jour #1 is FUNDED!

Roadkill du Jour #1 - STILL Funding - Just Click Through!

We hit that golden mark in backers and pledges on April 10, FIVE FULL DAYS before the Kickstarter campaign ends!  Now, we can work toward our first Stretch Goal of $2500, at which point EVERY BACKER of a non-PDF Reward Tier $10 and up will receive the duJour Trading Card!

The FRONT of the Roadkill du Jour Trading Card!

Thanks to EVERYONE who backed, liked or shared Roadkill du Jour with someone else!  Without your participation in the production of this project, printing and distribution of this book would not be possible!  BECAUSE you contributed…

  • We can produce a small print run for targeted distribution and sale at conventions and other events (and online)!
  • We can more fairly compensate our artists, Shawn Harbin and Laura Guzzo!
  • We can provide each of our backers with the promised rewards, to as fully as possible involved them in the production of the book!
  • We can appropriately market the book to increase exposure and potential future sales!

Although we reached the funding goal, we forge on!  Now, with an eye on maximizing funding to further each of the goals stated above!  PLEASE continue to share the link:  http://kck.st/14T1RpX and to show Roadkill du Jour to others!  Most of all, if you haven’t backed the project yet, please do so NOW!  Funding ends at 8:00 p.m. Central on Monday, April 15, so there’s still plenty of time to get in on the project and to collect some awesome rewards for yourself!

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Roadkill du Jour Character Intro: PAPOOSE!

duJour's Partner - PAPOOSE - CLICK HERE to BACK this Comic!

As we wind into the last several days of our Kickstarter campaign for Roadkill du Jour, allow us to introduce you to some of the other denizens of our motorcycle-infested, carrion-strewn swamp.  First up is Papoose, duJour’s partner (he’d never accept being called a sidekick…).  He’s featured on the Trading Card available EXCLUSIVELY available as part of the $35 Subscription Tier rewards!

In Papoose’s own words:

My birth certificate might’a read ‘Hennie Hilliard,’ but now’days folks call me ‘Papoose.’  I’m part-Indian, ‘cording to my Grandaddy, an’ duJour says I slang a tomahawk good as any brave he ever seen, so he give me a name to match!  Why I left home’s ‘tween me an’ the fencepost.  What matters in the here an’ now is I ride with duJour an’ the Roadkill MC, an’ that’s ’cause they’re the family I want, stead’a the one I was born to.  The ones what birthed me sit in the house an’ watch the world go by in 19 inches’a black-n-white…  Me an’ Roadkill, we crush that world ‘neath 20 inches’a black-n-chrome.

As of this writing, we have only 6 days left in the Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for Roadkill du Jour.  Although we’re very close to our goal, we still need YOUR help to make this a reality and to maximize funding, so that we can meet our printing goal, fully compensate our artists – Shawn Gibbons and Laura Guzzo, and distribute the book to all possible sales venues!

YOU CAN SUPPORT THE ROADKILL DU JOUR KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN HERE!

 

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YOUR NAME HERE – Right in the Credits for Roadkill du Jour #1!

Roadkill du Jour #1 - Available on Kickstarter.com NOW - CLICK HERE TO BACK IT!

One of the absolute coolest rewards available in the Kickstarter campaign for Kevin LaPorte and Shawn Harbin’s Roadkill du Jour is the opportunity to have YOUR NAME emblazoned in the “credits” of the movie poster-style, Kickstarter-Exclusive 70′s Exploitation Cover!

YOUR NAME in the Credits of the Roadkill du Jour Kickstarter-Exclusive 70's Exploitation Cover!

YOU will be credited as Producer or Director or as an Actor or Director of Photography!  At the $55 Reward Tier, YOUR NAME will be included among these credits, AND you will receive the MASSIVE 9.25″ x 14″ Treasury Edition of Roadkill du Jour, as well as a GIGANTIC 13″ x 19″ poster of that cover to fully showcase your credit and your role in producing the comic!

Roadkill du Jour #1 Kickstarter-Exclusive 70's Exploitation Cover!

So, don’t delay – several of these rewards are already taken!

CLICK HERE to back Roadkill du Jour, get YOUR NAME on the cover and in the credits and enjoy your immortality, with the knowledge that you made publication of this book a reality!

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Mama Houdoo – The Malefactor of Roadkill du Jour!

 

Roadkill du Jour #1 - Funding on Kickstarter.com NOW!

Every hero, every good guy has his opposite number, his arch-villain…his tormentor…

For duJour, that opposite is the ever-pregnant Mama Houdoo:

Some folks happy with a shack on a dry patch, but others want mo’ than what God see fit to give’em.  Take Mama Houdoo, f’instance.  She hitched up to be ole lady fo’ the head man of the Gatorbait Motorcycle Club – Crawdaddy they called him.  Now Crawdaddy, he was content with just his woman, their boys and his road dogs, but for Mama, that just didn’t get it.  She use the magicks of her ole’ pointy-nose granny and gave her left hand to spell Crawdaddy – hollowed out his soul and filled it up again full’a demon essence.  And that just ain’t right!  These days, she run Gatorbait through that devil shell – send’em on her b’ness, stealing and killing for whatever tickle her fancy.  That woman think she own the whole wide world, and she might…if she could ever get rid’a that rascal duJour.

Mama Houdoo as First Conceived by Amanda Rachels!

Mama Houdoo was one of just a few characters conceptualized visually when Roadkill du Jour was first being concocted by writer Kevin LaPorte in late 2011.

He enlisted the help of frequent collaborator, artist Amanda Rachels.  You’ve seen her vision of duJour several days ago – check out how she saw Mama Houdoo to the left!

When The Dungeon Comic‘s Shawn Harbin came on to Roadkill du Jour as primary artist in mid-2012, he took a decidedly different approach to Mama’s aesthetic – more visceral and flamboyantly wicked!

Mama Houdoo as Ultimately Conceptualized by Shawn Harbin!

Shawn’s Mama Houdoo is one more of mystic decadence and excess than of elegance.  She flaunts her horrid pregnancy for all to see and almost uses it as a cobra uses its hood – to frighten her already petrified prey…

Throughout our story, we see events unfold from Mama’s perspective only slightly less frequently than duJour’s, himself.  Her counterpoint is critical to understanding the full gravity of the threat to our main man.

CLICK HERE TO BACK ROADKILL DU JOUR ON KICKSTARTER!

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MegaCon 2013 – The Inverse Press Report!

Inverse Press founders and stalwarts, Kevin LaPorte & Amanda Rachels had a great weekend at MegaCon 2013, sharing the magnificence of comics and comic art, meeting new friends and getting reacquainted with old ones!  We’ll let the cosplay and art gallery speak for most of it, but suffice it to say, it was an absolute blast, our best MegaCon yet!  We got a lot of great feedback on Clown Town, Flesh of White and Roadkill du Jour (on Kickstarter NOW)!

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