For the last 5 days I’ve been at San Diego Comic Con and now that it’s over, I’m surrounded by piles of business cards, hand-outs and comics and today I’m going to share a little of my thoughts. For the last 3 years I’ve been an exhibitor at SDCC in the Small Press area. (Which …
So your friend or family member is flooding their Facebook feed with posts about their Kickstarter. Maybe you’ve already pledged, or maybe you just can’t afford to chip in at the moment. You want to help out but you’re flat broke! Here are three ways to help at little cost to nothing. 1: SHARING …
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It’s all about play-testing. Playing and playing. Finding people (victims) to spend their limited time after work to do this with you is the real test, and luckily I have some rad people near me who don’t mind, but of course I don’t want to push my luck. So after a few plays, we are …
So you wanna play-test Pariah, Missouri? Great. A couple of things first. This is to play-test Pariah Missouri scenario for TIME Stories. You need TIME stories to play this. It’s a deck of ~195 tarot-sized cards that you will need to print out, put them in a stack and run through the game. It took …
T.I.M.E.Stories is a board game published by the French Space Cowboys which I have fallen in love with recently. As a big-time Role-player I found the board game a brilliant way to tell story, and for me, that is always paramount. It’s Quantum Leap, going back in time and finding the cause of a ‘temporal …
Well, we’ve moved from potion-making with Voodoo Mama to Frankenstein-ing and monster creation to Greek mythology. After a number of iterations and sketches I found that my idea of matching animal parts to make a griffin or chimera was not going to work. I loved that visual of building a creature/monster but soon I realized …
Just when I was liking the name Voodoo Mama, I was driving down to the LA Festival of Books this weekend at USC to work my booth selling my graphic novel series Pariah, Missouri and I thought, “You know this game doesn’t have to be about potions, it’s a simple set-building card game, it could …
I made a few changes to the rules of Voodoo Mama (the working title, every time I say it it grows on me). I added a way to get in the cauldron (discard pile) to retrieve reagents (now called ingredients) that players have discarded. I changed some of the powers/abilities of the potions and made …
My mind is always going. It’s a curse. I’m at a temp day job and at 11:13 Am I was thinking about the T.I.M.E. Stories scenario I was working on based on my graphic novels series, Pariah, Missouri, when I was thinking of adding crafting to the scenario. One of the characters in the books/game …
Those who know me know that my favorite boardgames are Puerto Rico and Agricola, called Eurogames, not only because of the development teams, but the style of play and lack of dice and luck. These games are all about PLANNING, and for some reason they hit home. So when I heard about Terra Mystica …
Pariah, Missouri, the graphic novel series will be concluding with book 3, set to launch on Kickstarter the spring of 2016. “I wanted to do something special with the conclusion of the series,” says writer and creator Andres Salazar. When asked about why it’s taken longer than originally planned he responded, “Jose is a …
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Once again I went to Gateway board game convention in Los Angeles. It’s one of the highlights of the year for me. Unlike other conventions where I am working and selling my books, this is a time to relax, play tons of new boardgames, and RPGs and meet new people and friends. One the way …
As most of you know, I’m a comic book creator. It’s been my full-time occupation for the last two years of self-publishing and selling books. Comic conventions make up a large portion of my income, along with online, brick & mortar sales and crowdfunding, so it’s important for my business to select the right convention …
Hey folks, we will be at SDCC again this year! I have tons of new stuff to show off, the Pariah comics, role-playing game, SpaceBear book, Werewolf Tokens game, and the exclusive numbered print. It’s all there and if you come by, I’ll give you a Red Vine! Booth K-07 in Small Press AJ