The Sixsmiths

The Clock Strikes Thirteen

admin — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 06:21:21 +0000

The fine lads at lassies at Thirteen O’Clock have reviewed The Sixsmiths.

“The artwork is spare and simple, but consistent and effective. Once you get used to the style of art and storytelling, the two fit together very well. There are poignant moments and a good dose of comedy. It’s all very entertaining stuff.”

Click thee hence:

http://www.thirteenoclock.com.au/the-sixsmiths-by-j-marc-schmidt-and-jason-franks-review/

Graphicly

franks — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:02:08 +0000

Hey, beasts and beastlings,

The Sixsmiths One Shot is now available for purchase from Graphicly. It’s $1.99–why hesitate?

Get yours now!

http://graphicly.com/slave-labor-graphics/sixsmiths/1

Sélection Noël

franks — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:48:02 +0000

Mathieu Doublet has put The Sixsmiths in his Sélection Noël 2011 list in the ‘Rigoler’ category (that’s ‘comedy’ or ‘fun’, I believe)! Thank you very much, Mathieu!

Mathieu’s site is in French, but google will translate it for you nicely:
http://onirique.free.fr/spip/spip.php?article892

Cheers!

End of 2011

franks — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:15:17 +0000

Fred Van Lente, author of the magnificent ACTION PHILOSOPHERS, as well as some other stuff you might not have heard of (like, oh, COWBOYS AND ALIENS, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, IRON MAN ADVENTURES and COMIC BOOK COMICS), gave SIXSMITHS a shoutout on twitter as one of his top five graphic novels of 2011, alongsideATOMIC ROBO VOL 3, WHO IS JAKE ELLIS?, ASTRONAUT DAD and Dan Sabine’s THE HUNTER.

What a lovely way to close out 2011.

The SIXSMITHS vol.02 is now underway and I can’t wait to show you what we have in store for all y’all.

Happy New Year!

Review @ Black Mermaid

franks — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:12:23 +0000

Julie Ditrich from Black Mermaid Productions has written this wonderful review of the book:

http://blackmermaidproductions.blogspot.com/2011/12/recommended-not-so-christmasy-graphic.html

Click for the review. If you’re into mermaids and elves, you should also check out their book Elf~Fin, written by Julie and illustrated by Jozef Szekeres, while you’re on the site.

THE SIXSMITHS VOL.02

admin — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:31:10 +0000

Hey, beasts and beastlings,

Well, it’s official. Franks has started writing the script for Vol.02.

At this point that’s all the information we have, but Franks is extremely excited to have this opportunity to tell the rest of the story. Sign up to the facebook page for a more detailed view of how the new volume is progressing, an early look at new artwork and some hints and clues about what’s next for everybody’s favourite clan of dysfunctional devil- worshippers.

Rambles.net Review

franks — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:53:15 +0000

Tom Knapp over at Rambles.net has reviewed The Sixsmiths.

He says:

“Some are funnier than others. Some are even a little touching. The final sequence is startling, and leaves you hanging…”

Which, I think sums up the book nicely. Check out the full review over here:

http://www.rambles.net/sixsmiths_the10.html

Nerd Culture Podcast Review

franks — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 06:20:55 +0000

The fine folks at the Nerd Culture Podcast have given us a review.

http://nerdculturepodcast.com/2011/09/meet-the-sixsmiths-a-review/

Check it out. Buy the book.

franks — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:22:32 +0000

J. Marc Schmidt gets a bit of coverage in his local paper, the Hornsby Advocate. The Sixsmiths is the focus of the article.

http://hornsby-advocate.whereilive.com.au/news/story/quirky-story-hits-a-chord/

Ideas and The Sixsmiths

admin — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 09:28:20 +0000

An essay by J. Marc Schmidt about “Where ideas come from” and how The Sixsmiths evolved, posted on his blog at the Red Room:

http://www.redroom.com/blog/j-marc-schmidt/where-do-you-get-your-ideas-from

Reciprocal essay from Jason Franks is here on his own blog:

http://www.jasonfranks.com/?p=577

Check them out if you want to get an insight into the creative processes of these creators, and how they turned the various seed ideas grew into The Sixsmiths.