Inktober 2016: Beware the Ink Monster!

It's October again -- and that must mean it's time for Inktober! Each year, artists all across the Internet complete one ink drawing each day and post their work online.

Kyle has participated in past years (see here and here) and loved it. However, as of this writing he has only 30 pages (!!) left to finish drawing of SMASH Book Two!

As exciting as that news is for SMASH fans, it sadly means he doesn't have a lot of time to finish a drawing each day. But we will post as many illustrations as Kyle manages to complete! Starting with the revenge of the Ink Monster.

Guess Who's Coming Back In Book Two...

SMASH Book 2 will have plenty of new villains to hiss at and root against. But it just wouldn't feel right if we didn't invite the biggest, baddest villain of them all to return and make life difficult for our ten-year-old superhero, Smash!

SMASH Book 2 In Production!

Just a quick update that Chris and Kyle are still hard at work on SMASH Book 2. And it's more than halfway finished! Here is a penciled panel from p. 92.

SMASH Visit to Sweetbriar Elementary School

SMASH writer Chris A. Bolton had a wonderful time visiting with a couple of fifth grade classes from Sweetbriar Elementary School, where he read from SMASH: TRIAL BY FIRE (with the help of his good friend, Levi Buchanan) and answered students' wonderful questions -- including a few he had never heard before!

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Lots of ideas exploding from this amazing group of creative kids!

Chris collaborated with the students to create an original comic strip based on their suggestions. These brilliant kids volunteered awesome ideas for panels and dialogue, then the class voted for their favorites. Being a writer, naturally, Chris struggled a little with the artwork. Check out the zany results below! (Click on the pic for a larger view.)

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Can you tell they're supposed to be a monkey, elephant, and unicorn?

Special thanks to Lynn Reaney for inviting me, and to the whole staff at Sweetbriar for making me feel so welcome.

The Smash Family Is Growing!

SMASH artist Kyle Bolton and his lovely wife, Jamie, are thrilled to welcome their baby, Brooke Antonella Sandejas Bolton, into the world! (And Uncle Chris couldn't be happier.)

Tacoma Battle of the Books!

We're incredibly honored that our graphic novel, SMASH: TRIAL BY FIRE, is featured in this year's Battle of the Books by the Tacoma, Washington, school district! Click here to find out more about it.

Read All of Our Webcomic, "Monstrous!"

We've finished posting our weekly webcomic, so now you can sit and enjoy all 27 action-packed pages in one reading. Click here to get the action started!

INKTOBER Day 27: SUPERMAN vs. BATMAN

Who will win, the Dark Knight or the Man of Steel?

INKTOBER Day 26: BACK TO THE FUTURE

Kyle has fallen a couple of days behind, alas. But here's a classic scene from "Back to the Future" with Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, post-guitar solo.

SMASH Webcomic "Monstrous" - New Page!

The newest page of our SMASH webcomic is live now. Check it out here!