For one thing I will have a larger built-in guarantee that someone will read it. Then all I have to do is go back and transcribe it to keep it. 140 characters is a fun bit. This is just a typing text. Wow.
Category Archive: Personal Projects
Apr 24
Hu’ta’ QISt!
German – Christus ist auferstanden! Italian – Cristo è risorto! Greek – Χριστός ἀνέστη! Polish – Chrystus zmartwychwstał! Irish – Tá Críost éirithe! Filipino – Si Kristo ay nabuhay! Japanese – ハリストス復活！ Swahili – Kristo Amefufukka! Hebrew – !המשיח קם! באמת קם Mandarin – 基督復活了 他確實復活了 Hungarian – Krisztus feltámadt! Klingon – Hu’ta’ QISt! English …
Jul 30
Metro Med trailer and Facebook page
I’ve created a new Facebook page for Metro Med. This also allows me to have an embeddable version of the comic book’s trailer: If you’d like to embed this in your blog or other web page, use this code: <object width=”400″ height=”224″ ><param name=”allowfullscreen” value=”true” /><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always” /><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.facebook.com/v/1179573177875″ /><embed src=”http://www.facebook.com/v/1179573177875″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” …
Jun 22
Tom Russell’s superhero novel now available on Amazon
My novel JOLT CITY is now on sale for $25. From the back cover copy: When Jolt City’s sworn protector the Green Knight falls ill with cancer, his former sidekick Martin Rock embarks on an incredible journey: from self-reliance to friendship, from pain to peace, from anger to joy. Along the way, he’ll fight a …
Jun 04
Metro Med featured on Comic Book Trailers home page!
After months of development, Metro Med’s trailer has hit the Internet! I’m so excited that I can finally show this to you. I was planning to upload it to YouTube and feature it on all of my web sites as an embed, but Comic Book Trailers posted it and featured it on their home page …
May 21
Okay, everyone. Fine!
I’m on Facebook, too. So now I’m on Twitter and MySpace and ComicSpace and Facebook and LinkedIn, and none of them are going to be maintained well enough because I’m trying to keep this blog going and I’m not even doing THAT very well!
Apr 20
Hey, It’s My Film on DVD
One of the last things I posted before my long sabbatical from Monitor Duty was a trailer for a film my wife and I have made. In the interim, we’ve made another feature and we’ve begun writing yet another still. For reasons explained in this interview, we’re self-distributing our films on DVD via Amazon.com and …
Apr 06
My best friend has written a book!
My lifelong best friend Brian Collins, best man at my wedding and the nicest guy I know, has written a book. Entitled “To Dream Of Flight,” it’s the picture-filled story of how man first dreamed of flying by watching the birds. Brian’s been a nature nut and shutterbug his entire life. He looks up into …
Mar 25
Keep up with Phil Meadows
Many of you know Phil Meadows from his time as the art director for Fanzing.com or as the illustrator of the comic works I’ve written (Job Wanted, Time Meddlers and Metro Med). Phil and his wife Sherry are currently in China adopting their second child, and you can follow their adventures in their blog. Their …
Oct 10
FallCon 2008 – Biggest FallCon EVER
FallCon, annually held on the first weekend of October at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds, celebrated its 20th anniversary with its biggest convention ever. For the first time, it was held in the grandstand facility, which was not only bigger but more comfortable than past conventions. (We were freezing in 2006 and drenched in sweat in …
Sep 18
Life officially sucks
Jimmy Jams Comics here in Rochester is closing its doors next week. I’ve just found out tonight, having missed the announcement earlier. (On top of everything else wrong with this, I’m very late to their storewide 50% off sale on trade paperbacks and I’ve missed a lot of goodies!) This leaves me without a comic …
Jul 30
Metro Med Special Edition #1 – NOW AVAILABLE!
Toldja there was a big announcement coming! Metro Med Special Edition #1 is now available at IndyPlanet. It’s 36 beautiful pages, with two Metro Med stories, pinups, character profiles, a new Annotations section, plus an all-new color 1-page story on the back cover. As a bonus, I included my out-of-print story “Melvin and Marvin Middler, …
Jan 01
My New Year’s Resolutions for Monitor Duty 2008
I will become more adept at scanning and editing images from my comic books and text from my books for articles I will update my Image Archives and create a system for their sufficient and efficient use I will improve the Chris Arndt homepage and make Apologies Demanded more accessible to new readers; I will …
Dec 27
Pulling for my buddies
Kurt Belcher and Phil Neundorf, two gents I had the pleasure of working with on “Job Wanted“, are attempting to get a book published by Alterna Comics and they need your vote. All you have to do is post a comment and give them a star rating (the higher the better). No registration is necessary …
Oct 21
My Guest Column Over At CSBG
I did a guest column for Bill Reed’s “365 Reasons to Love Comics” over at Comics Should Be Good! Here’s a link: Thought Bubbles
Dec 26
New Christmas story from Neundorf
Philipp Neundorf, illustrator of the “Gone To Texas” story in Job Wanted, has published a new Christmas story online. It’s in both English and German. It was up before Christmas, but I didn’t read the e-mail announcing it until I returned from vacation, so my apologies for getting this link posted so late. Remember, you …
Aug 05
Want a free $6 comic?
Awright, here’s the deal… All the rave reviews for our time traveling comedy story in SSCA #4 is making artist Phil Meadows and I a bit wistful about our first tale that ran in Job Wanted. We received our copies rather late, when there wasn’t a lot of time for sending out advance copies for …
Aug 05
Another rave review for Time Meddlers
Shooting Star #4 got reviewed by Silver Bullet Comics’ Small Press department, and my story “Melvin and Marvin Middler, Time Meddlers” received another thumbs up. Exxxxxxcellent. (Hard to type when I’m steepling my fingers.) Everyone loves SSCA #4. You haven’t bought yours yet? Grab it online!
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