Science Ninja Action Team: Cosmic Hellcats IX

Max and I are going to be appearing at the "Good and Evil" show at Pittsburgh's Creative Treehouse displaying photos from the Hellcats photoshoot as well as the comic.

If you're in Pittsburgh or near here, by all means stop by and buy a print or a signed book. Should be a blast.

This is an 18 and over show, and BYOB. There will be live bands. I've presented my photography at these shows before and they're generally quite fun. So if you're not busy Saturday night then please come on by.

And if you are busy. Well, cancel your plans. We're much cooler than whatever you were going to be doing anyway.

Since there's no update to the comic itself til Monday, and since so far in the current story, only Damsel and Amaya have appeared, I thought it might be a good time to post these sketches of Chaste and Sarah by Kristoffer Smith.

Kris is a local Pittsburgh artist and comic book creator and insanely talented. He's been "in the biz" since he was a teenager and had his own table at comicon. He stopped by our booth and saw the comic on the first day, and then came back a few hours later with this sketch of Chaste, simply because he liked the book.

The next day, Sarah asked him to do one of her, so he did that as well.

I love Kris's art and hopefully there'll be some future Hellcat project we can collaborate on.

If you have Hellcats fan art, please send them to us at feedback@cosmichellcats.com.

Flickr user Elston, who is a member of my 365 Project recognized me and approached me at the Con.

We spoke for a while about my 365 book and the Hellcats comic and he asked if it was ok if he took a picture with me and the team for his daily self-portrait. Being total camera whores, we of course obliged. 

He also gave us a picture of Chaste that he took at the convention before he even knew that i was involved in the project.

Thanks to Elston, and if anyone else has any pics they'd like to share, please send them to feedback@cosmichellcats.com.

-Mav

-Max

∑8-)

We had a great time at Comicon, of course. The book did really well and we met a lot of fans and even did a couple of interviews. The girls seem to have had a blast. I keep looking around Flickr and seeing Hellcat pictures popping up everywhere.

Took a lot of pictures out there of a lot of people in a lot of great outfits. Decided to add them here. In the future, any pics we have from fans, be they photos with max, the girls, and myself, or fanart that people have drawn will be added to the Fan Pics section of the website. I actually have a couple of really good sketches by Indy Comic artist Kristoffer Smith that I will be putting up as soon as I have time. But until then, enjoy these photos from the con. Even more pictures from comicon, including all those without the 'Cats, but with some great costumes nonetheless are on my flickr page. If you have your own pics with the 'Cats you'd like uploaded here or if you have any fan sketches, please send them to feedback@cosmichellcats.com.

Also, we're hard at work on issue 2 of Cosmic Hellcats IX. But until then, be sure to check out the website for the new Web Comics section of the site for the brand new Cosmic Hellcats Adventures webcomic that Max and I just started. We'll be updating it a couple times a week with further exploits of the 'Cats. These will probably even be sillier than what happens in the main book, which from now on is going to center more on story. Hopefully, we'll also be making Adventures into a published comic or manga as well, once we have enough of them. But that's off in the future. Until then, just enjoy them here. 

The first issue of Cosmic Hellcats IX is also still available. So if you don't have it yet, head over to the Bookstore and grab a copy. The more we sell, the sooner issue 2 can come out.

Thank you to everyone who came out to visit us at Pittsburgh Comicon this last weekend. We all had a great time.

And a special thank you to everyone who supported us by buying the book and other merchandise. We look forward to many great Hellcat adventures in the future, and seeing the support makes us feel like it's all worth it.

If you didn't make it out to the show, or you did, but didn't get a chance to pick up the book, you can now do so on our new bookstore page. Mav is going to continue working on updating the site in the next few days, so keep coming back. More pics from the comicon will be posted here soon as well as some other news about the future of Cosmic Hellcats.

Again, thank you to everyone for all the support and we look forward to hearing from you soon. In fact, if you've read the book, please write us and let us know what you think. Send mail to Feedback@CosmicHellcats.com, or just comment on this entry and let us know what you think. 

More cool stuff will be up very soon as the site grows and the comic continues. We hope you continue to join us.

-Fluffy

Cosmic Hellcats IX is a comedic science fiction epic. The story of a four woman team of Felinoids on an intergalatic mission of scientific discovery and peacekeeping. 

The characters are based on four gorgeous real life models, Chaste, Damsel Reed, Sarah Prankha and Amaya Solace. All four girls had worked with photographer, Chris Maverick, and inspired him to write a comic featuring him. Art is provided by Mav's longtime friend and collaborator, Maximilian.

Or order the comic online from IndyPlanet. If you'd like something really special order the Portfolio edition from Blurb.com. The Portfolio edition includes the first issue of the comic as well as a collection of pinups (both drawings by Max and Photographs by Mav) of each of the Hellcats as well as photos of each of the Hellcats from other photoshoots they've done with Mav. 

Pick one or both up today. Then come back here, to CosmicHellcats.com for the debut of the Cosmic Hellcats webcomic.