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Asylum Ink Magazine

admin — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:35:29 +0000

The covers have been selected for the year! Stop on by and take a look. We’ve also had to make another change, all back issues are now $1 as a pdf from wowio. Click the cover for a preview and to purchase. PDFS are high resolution and a great way to support the asylum! There’s a new Ellium book out too – ELLIUM: Declassified! A definite DON’T MISS for Ellium fans!

http://www.asylumink.net/issues.html

Hello, Is there anybody out there?

admin — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:00:42 +0000

Just nod if you can hear me

Is there anyone home?

>ahem< sorry about that. Anyway, I’d like to make this place more interactive. I really would like some feedback, so what do you think about the Ellium comic? What would you like to see different? Have you visited the AsylumInk.net site yet or perhaps the forum?

Let me know what can be done to make this place and Ellium the book more enjoyable!

Hiatus in January

admin — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:26:20 +0000

Well, we will have made it through 9 whole issues this Christmas eve, and so we’re taking a little break. Just a little time off for the holidays! Ellium will return the first week in February, so keep us bookmarked!

And if you’ve missed out, we’ve started an online magazine devoted to the dark and twisted at AsylumInk.net! Our third issue is live today so enjoy and spread the word!

Lastly, you’ll notice below the pages on the ellium site (asylumink.net/ellium) we’ve added a “subscribe to our newsletter” section. Once a month we announce our new issue of Asylum Ink and little tidbits like that. It’s not spam and we don’t sell your contact info. So if you’l like the occasional reminder about Ellium or Asylum Ink, please sign up!

Thanks for the support!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Asylum Ink magazine is looking for submissions!

admin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:54:02 +0000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Asylum Ink magazine is looking for submissions!

June 23, 2010 – Asylum Ink is a compendium of horror, dark art, comics and fiction that entertains and horrifies – and we’re looking for submissions!

Premiering in August, our bi-monthly online magazine will feature some of the very best in mainstream and independent fiction. Asylum Ink will showcase these works building a greater awareness and traffic between the various contributors as well as create an easily digestible anthology for fans.

If you are interested in submitting to Asylum Ink, please visit our submissions page at http://asylumink.net/submissions.html

However, if you’re looking for entertainment on the web that brings together the dark and twisted beauty lying just beneath the surface, then visit us at http://asylumink.net and bookmark us. We’re only weeks away from our initial launch!

Asylum Ink is the home on the net for an audience bored with the usual and seeking the unique and terrifying. We publish for free, funded solely by advertising and the souls of our fans – There’s always room for one more in the Asylum!

Contact:
Asylum Ink
Jason Moser
contact@asylumink.net

For advertising opportunities, please contact:
Stacy Moser
sales@asylumink.net

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Vote Incentives

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:08:41 +0000

What does everyone want for vote incentives through top web comics? I’d like to crack that top 100! Basically it requires no registration and you can vote once a day.

Also, in case you’re not aware, we have Tales Of The ELLIUM, a companion comic running every Tuesday and Thursday HERE.

Update time…

admin — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:12:25 +0000

Until I can figure out why wordpress keeps missing the schedule, updates will happen at around 10 am Est for both Ellium and Tales Of The Ellium. Sorry for the inconvenience and hopefully we get this sorted asap. If anyone has a clue how to fix this, I’m all ears!

Jason M.

Recommend to friends!

admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:52:35 +0000

Please feel free to recommend Ellium to friends! We’re trying to grow our audience and can use any help available! If you have an idea for something in the forum, or a contest, or anything that can help us get the word out, we wanna here it! Post it here, the forum, or click contact up above and email us!

Revisions…

admin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:50:50 +0000

The thing I love about doing webcomics most, is that if I’m not happy with something, I can still make changes. I’ve been revising the lettering on the early books (and will do so on the current issue as well), but also I discover new things every day, like a characters chin, that I want to fix. You just can’t do that in print. And while I see the importance of just moving on, something’s it’s nice to be able to update.

Currently I’m lettering issues 7 and 8, and working on the art for issue 9. My honest opinion is the work gets much better in issue 6 and I really start to hit my stride in issue 7.

Wikipedia users…

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:24:17 +0000

I’d like to have an Ellium entry in Wikipedia if anyone could take the time. Below is a link to the request page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Webcomics/Requests

Also, if anyone know of another site that lists comics that doesn’t already have Ellium listed, please let me know so I can make an entry. Thanks!

Stubbornness will take you far

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:39:58 +0000

A while back, Dave Reynolds (creator/artist of Shadowgirls) wrote this wonderful article about Ellium and I wanted to present it again heere. I’ve changed the titles of stories so they match what was actually published online, but other than that, this is what was written. Enjoy and swing by his comic to see some great work!

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Stubbornness will take you far.

No really, I remember when six years ago Jason Moser came to me about some idea of a girl getting a sword from her recently dead father, which would thrust her deeper into a world of conspiracy and supernaturalism. You know what I told him?

“Hey Jason, you remember that old Nintendo game, Ninja Gaiden? It sounds just like that! Except with a chick.” Well, one middle finger later, he ignored my dumb joke and moved on and started to work the idea out on paper. And after tweaking the initial premise over and over again, the only thing ELLIUM has in common with Ninja Gaiden is that there’s a sword in the story. So I had to move on and start making fun of him on other topics. Hey, he’s my best friend. If I can’t insult him, who can I insult?

All joking aside, ELLIUM has turned out to not just be a labor of love for Jason, but myself as well. I’ve stood by him and helped him plot out and refine the story for so long, the character of Angelica Cain has become more real to us than actual people we know. So after a few years of plotting and planning, ELLIUM debuted with book one in the fall of 2003, with some pretty decent critical acclaim. What started off as a bunch of idea pitching between two college friends had turned into a rather epic story of love and political intrigue.

ELLIUM had evolved into this rather intriguing story about a war between two secret societies. Not because they’re trying to rule the world… They already do. We just don’t realize it… But because they’re trying to destroy each other. “ELLIUM: RISE OF THE FALLEN (first 5 issues)” merely touched on the iron clad grasp the two societies, the Ellium and the Plato Continuum, have on the world. But in “TALES OF THE ELLIUM (HYBRID)” we get to fully grasp the depths of the total control of these powers, and more importantly, how absolute power corrupts absolutely. We’re shown the eccentricity of Doctor Sutton, the bloodline of the succubus Riel, the heart and drive of an agent wanting to do the right thing, and the mind of a mad transsexual. (See the critically acclaimed story “Fair Play” for that one!)

Also introduced in TALES OF THE ELLIUM are two characters Samantha Snow and Chris Hendricksen, who not only take up integral roles in the mythos that is the Ellium, but also end up directly affecting the lives of ELLIUMS’ two protagonists, Angelica Cain and Jonathon Kassad.

TALES OF THE ELLIUM features stories by some of independent comic’s finest creators, including Ulf Imwiehe (LUCIFER FAWKES: ORCUS EX MACHINA), Chad Lambert (Upcoming POINT PLEASANT), and Paul Tucker (AIT- PLANET LAR’S PROOF OF CONCEPT).

-Dave Reynolds

Author of Ellium: Fair Play