He's
Mute, He's Cute,
And He Just Might Be Crazy...
Illusive Arts To Release Tony Loco #1
In December...
No
way around it. I can't be writing a comic book and not be
mentioning it on this site. So allow me to toot my horn
and say that I hope you'll like this book -- we're getting
some positive feedback from the few pages we showed around
at Comic-Con and now we're official.
We're
real, people. And we've got a Diamond Previews code to prove
it: OCT063538.
From
Illusive Arts Entertainment:
Illusive Arts Entertainment announced the official release
date for their newest publication, Tony Loco. As readers
can discover in the October Previews, the bi-monthly comic
will have a street date of December 6, 2006, with a cover
price of $3.50.
Tony
Loco tells the story of Tony Cabrera, a brooding mute who
has suffered for twenty years, rotting in a mental institution
while his hometown descends into corruption and despair.
Hope arrives in the form of a new social worker who discovers
clues to Tony’s past. Now Tony must confront his enemies,
both inside and out. But are they ordinary men, or something
far more dangerous? Good thing his trusty stuffed elephant
gives him courage against the darkness.
Anna
Warren Boersig, Chief Operating Officer for Illusive Arts
Entertainment, feels that Tony Loco is the natural choice
for their second book. “[Mark Teague and Derek McCaw's]
use of multi-media to create lush and vivid scenes echoes
what we're doing with our current series, Dorothy. The story
is actually witty and sweet. I thought, ‘How could
we not publish this?”
A western
horror tale of madness and justice, Tony Loco spawned from
artist and filmmaker Mark Teague’s experiences as
an orderly in a mental institution. After completing his
first film, Superguy: Behind the Cape, Teague wrote a Tony
Loco screenplay, adding his inside knowledge to his love
of Sergio Leone films and superheroes. In the back of his
head, though, Teague also wanted to find a way to explore
one of his earliest passions: comics.
Enter
writer Derek McCaw. Batting around ideas last spring, the
pair hit upon a way to transform Tony Loco into an ongoing
comic book series. For years, they had been looking for
a project on which to collaborate. Tony opened all the right
mental doors.
It must
have been fate. Shortly after returning to Northern California
to work on the comic book pitch, McCaw learned that Illusive
Arts Entertainment, publisher of Dorothy, was accepting
new material. He sent an inquiry, finished the first issue's
script and gathered all the art samples he could get from
Teague.
It worked.
“This
is the right project for Teague and me to start our collaboration,”
says McCaw, “and we’re absolutely with the right
people.”
ABOUT
THE CREATORS
Mark
Teague: In his Hollywood career, Mark Teague has
worn many hats (and tights). After an early career in comics,
Teague became an animator for several studios including
Disney, Marvel and Universal. However, he proved he could
do it all by writing, directing, producing and starring
in the critically acclaimed mockumentary SuperGuy: Behind
The Cape, released on DVD by Razor Digital and Creative
Light Entertainment.
In addition
for Creative Light, he worked as graphic art director and
animator for Mark Hamill’s Comic Book: The Movie and
as a production designer on Jekyll. Teague flew the Creative
coop to form his own Godspeed Studios, an effects house
that has worked onhorror films for Lionsgate, as well as
animation for Bravo, MTV and BET. For more information,
visit www.superguy.net and www.godspeedstudios.us
Derek
McCaw: Founder and editor-in-chief of the pop culture
website Fanboy Planet, Derek McCaw works as a high school
teacher, actor and freelance writer. He has worked with the
comedy groups ComedySportz San Jose and Mumblypeg, and written
several short plays produced in San Jose, California and Austin,
Texas. Yet the dream has always been to turn comic book writer.
ABOUT
ILLUSIVE ARTS
Illusive
Arts Entertainment, LLC, publishers of the critically-dug
Dorothy, is a multimedia dream factory, dedicated to publishing
creative lies and renegade truths by any means necessary.
For more information, visit www.illusivearts.com
If you're
a retailer interested in an ashcan copy, or for more information,
contact:
Anna
Warren Boersig
[email protected]
Remember
that Diamond Previews order code (in the October Previews):
OCT063538
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