Minor League Baseball

I am so lucky!

TYPOS AHEAD PROBABLY! PLEASE LIKE AND COMMENT SO I KNOW I’M NOT SCREAMING INTO THE VOID. IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT TO COMMENT, JUST SAY HEY..

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The Big Guns Stupid Rednecks Collected Edition is on pre-order from Source Point Press, powered by Prana!

After a string of unexplained disappearances in the southern parts of the United States, retired detective Clint searches for his white trash brother. While searching for him he ends up being abducted... by aliens! He is now in the arena for Big Guns Stupid Rednecks. Intergalactic cable’s newest hit show, which puts humans in laser gun gladiatorial combat, and his brother is the reigning champion with 27 kills!

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PODCASTS:

I have been hitting the podcast circuit hard to promote Big Guns Stupid Rednecks. I am recording a new one tonight, but here are 3 since my last update:

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Hello all! There are a lot of new readers here. Some from the recent Kickstarter, the events I’ve done this year, or otherwise. I just want to thank you all for being hear. This means a lot to me. This is one of the best ways to support me. This is my dream and you being here means a lot to me.

Hospice: The Collector funded last week! Thank you everyone! This is the most backers I have ever had and the most money I have raised on Kickstarter. I know some people are able to get 10k every other month, but I am me and they are them… yes I am a professional journalism I promise haha. Beating a personal best shows growth. Trey has been hard at work on pages the entire time the campaign started and I can’t wait for everyone to read it.

I was talking to my friend Trevor this week. We were catching me up and he asked how things were going with Comic Book Resources. In our conversation we talked about how even though I might not be where I had hoped I’d be in my creative career it doesn’t mean I haven’t done a lot of cool things.

So my main income right now is writing. I’m writing about comics and covering comic book news. I would prefer to be making my living writing comics, but this is still super amazing. Trevor compared it to minor league baseball players.

It clicked in my head he was right. I am living the dream just not in the way I had imagined. In the way minor league baseball players might not be in the MLB they are still playing a children’s game. I’m a part of comics.

I love comics! Some people have to go do backbreaking labor to live and somedays I’m in my underwear petting my cat and writing about the Fantastic Four. In the words of my friend Issac “How wild is it that this is my life?” He’s right. I am a lucky mother fucker.

I told my mentor this week something. When I get to where I’m meant to be, when I get to where I’m supposed to be I’m going to appreciate every second of. I will never forget how hard it was to get to that point and all the hard work I put in. The years of hard work to become an overnight success.

Enjoy your week everyone I will be at Hutch Comic Con “Smallville” Kansas State Fair Grounds this week June 11th-13. I will be set up with my comics with Dave’s Cards and Comics! COme say hi! Until next time be excellent everyone don’t be a dick.

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Upcoming Events:

June 11th-13 Hutch Comic Con “Smallville” Kansas State Fair Grounds

July 11th Convention Quad Con Cedar Rapids, Iowa

July 17th-19th Convention O-Con in Council Bluffs, Iowa

July 22nd Signing Day Dreams Comics and Collectables in Iowa City with John Ira Thomas for the Big Guns Stupid Rednecks Collected Edition

July 27th Signing Rainbow Comics in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with Dylan Jacobson for the Big Guns Stupid Rednecks Collected Edition

August 1st Signing Mayhem Comics in Des Monies, Iowa with Carter Allen for the Big Guns Stupid Rednecks Collected Edition

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Austin Allen Hamblin is a staff writer at CBR. He has written comics for Image, Source Point Press, Cosmic Lion Productions, Orange Cone Productions, and Candle Light Press.