Glow: #1-4

Created by Ray Chou

Shoddai is under siege in the fourth installment of Glow, a coming of age odyssey set in a world devastated by magic.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Glow Book 1 - Launching April 20th, 2021
almost 3 years ago – Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 11:41:45 PM

Hey Everyone,


It's been a long while! Apologies for going radio silent for so long! It's been a long winter with a lot of balls in the air for the various projects at Mythopoeia. Nonetheless, we're excited to announce that Glow Book 1 will go live on Kickstarter on April 20th, 2021! 

The standard edition of Glow Book 1.

The graphic novel will collect all four issues, resized and remastered (this took a long time...) in a beautiful hardcover with clothbound spine. We also created a special collector's variant edition for the trade:

Variant Collector's Edition featuring full cloth cover.

Vince designed the cover with the help of Hamm. It's been such a blessing having him back these couple of months. We're excited about finally getting this campaign off the ground, and for the future of Glow! Behind the scenes, issues five and six are more or less completed. We're currently arting issue seven, and issue eight is done in script form. 


But in order to get there from where we are, we really need this collected edition to do well. 


We hope you'll support us on this new campaign. Doing so would me the world to us and the continuation of the comic. 


See you there! 


- Ray and Vince

Glow Big Update!
over 3 years ago – Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 11:29:57 PM

Hey Everyone! 


Just a general update on where we're at with Glow and what we've been working on.


Glow: Book 1 Hardcover

Glow wraparound cover mockup with completed back blurb!

I've been getting quotes from printers as well as putting together the final print ready files to go to press. As part of that process, we also went back and relettered some of the pages; specifically, Myra's dialogue:

 Everyone's favorite Witch now has white over black dialogue when she speaks! We've also been working on some new merch to go with the campaign:

Chibi Vinyl Toys!
With one point of articulation! Hopefully standing around 6.5" tall, 3" in diameter.

We're talking to a 3D printing company about the viability of sculpting and producing a limited run of the above designs with some cool packaging to boot. It's an going process but we're moving! I also want to create a book plate or special edition add-on to the book, but am not quite sure what to do, given the style of the book. Maybe something like the cube or Nymeran borders might work well. Actually, those are pretty good ideas! I'll stew on them.


Mythopoeia Alumni Association

It's with a mix of pride and just a tinge of sadness that artists Anny Maulina and Dia Ja are both officially moving on from Glow. 

Congratulations to Mythopoeia Alumni Anny Maulina and Dia Ja! It's been an absolute honor working with them to bring the world of Glow to life!

Both  Anny and Dia are now quite busy with other commitments. Anny is the artist for the official Zero Horizon Dawn comic (colored by Bryan as well) and Dia is a background artist for Nickelodeon Animation now. We're so proud of them for their continued growth as artists and professionals. 


It's definitely a little bittersweet, but we knew this day would eventually come. We're happy to have been a small part of their journeys and this is not goodbye forever! We're still in touch with both of them and plan on collaborating on different projects on the future - in fact, we're already working on one of those behind the scenes now. Hopefully we can announce that one soon! 

Introducing: Vinsensius Suriantoo & Zie Fauzi

In developing Glow, we always envisioned a scalable studio system that can could support multiple artists in service of a single vision. With that said, I'd like to introduce our two artists for Issues #5-6, Vinsensius Suriantoo and Zie Fauzi! 


Vinse's linework from Issue #5.

Vinsensius Suriantoo previously helped us develop our upcoming dog fairy tale Sansha and Blanco. He's a monster of perspective and warm expressions. We're honored to have him work on Glow 

A panel of Zie's from Issue #6.

Zie Fauzi is a man with many talents, one of which is toy design! In fact, he actually designed the chibi vinyls above. We saw a lot of potential in Zie's portfolio and so far through about twenty pages of sequentials he's just gotten better and better. 


We're super excited to work with both artists going forward! 

Introducing: Arief Russanto

And... we're also super excited to introduce concept artist Arief Russanto to the team! 

Map of the Wastes. It's about time!

Arief has been helping us flesh out maps of the world and Arkadis, the next major location of the story. He's a talented sequential artist in his own right and will for sure be contributing on that end for Glow in the future. For now, check out his sweet maps which are currently being colored! 

The Free City of Arkadis, where everything is for sale.

Schedule and Progress

So here's where we're at with the next few issues:


  • Issue #5 is completely inked, ready to be colored.
  • Issue #6 has one last sequence to be inked, about 6 pages
  • Issue #7 is completely written with the first 4 pages being worked on this month.
  • Issue #8 is still being drafted, about 60% done with the first draft. 

Our plan going forward with Glow is to release a campaign every two issues instead of every issue going forward. My personal goal is to have up to issue #12 written by the end of the year. Two months to go - we'll see what happens! 


For the Glow: Book 1 Kickstarter, we are still tentatively planning on launching sometime in November, but our timeframe is narrowly shrinking. An opportunity to publish another project, The Wildsea, came up in September, and was time-sensitive. I've been building out both Kickstarters including the campaign design, merch, and production for both, but honestly I don't know if I'm going to make it. It's a lot of work and I'm grinding everyday but there's still so many things that have to be done. 


If, for any reason, Glow Book 1 is delayed, we'll probably launch the campaign in January of the new year. We'll still be continuing the work behind the scenes with manufacturing and merch, so it's sort of a matter of how much of the public facing stuff we want done before launching. Gut says more rather than less. 

Vince 

Finally, I want to let everyone know that Vince is currently taking a sabbatical from the company due to his health. He's burned out and his well-being is suffering as a result. He's going to take at least the rest of the year on the sidelines of Mythopoeia to get better. Please, if you can, send good vibes his way. 


2020 has been really hard. Hopefully the worst is behind us. Fingers crossed. 


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Okay, that's it from me for today.  As always, questions, comments, and concerns below. In the meantime I'll keep chugging along.


Choo Choo! 


Ray 

Fulfillment Complete!
over 3 years ago – Sun, Aug 02, 2020 at 02:01:20 AM

Hey Everyone!

We're done with fulfillment for this campaign!

Missing Package? 

If you still haven't received your package, please send us a DM and we'll take care of it. We can also be reached directly: [email protected].

Skies of Fire #7

We're now moving onto Skies of Fire #7 which we are planning on launching next Tuesday!

Here's a link to the campaign preview page. Apologies for the lack of pictures in this post - Kickstarter is acting up and not letting uploads through for whatever reason. 

Glow #5-6 

As for Glow: we've just wrapped up  with pencils for Issue #5 and are halfway through Issue #6. We're thinking about launching the next campaign for both issues, and to do every two issues from now on. Hopefully that means more comics in a shorter amount of time! 

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We also have a bunch of other projects cooking behind the scenes, which you can check out on our blog as well as our Patreon. We'll be firing up the furnaces of our Instagram and Twitter as well, but for the most part we tend to prefer the long-form and image based content we can put out through the first two platforms. 

Onwards and Upwards!

- Ray and Vince

Shipping Update!
almost 4 years ago – Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 01:01:48 AM

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Shipping Underway!
almost 4 years ago – Fri, May 22, 2020 at 03:48:36 AM

Hey Folks,

Very happy to announce that as of yesterday shipping has commenced! Hoping up to wrap up NA / ROW by next week and Europe about two weeks after that. 

Cheers Everyone!

Ray and Vince