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Announcing the 2012 Summer Season of Velvet Rasputin

Vas — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:08:18 +0000

The new season of Velvet Rasputin is starting in about a month. Here’s what’s in store:

Rasputin Catamite Is Coming Back

We are proud to announce the relaunch of Rasputin Catamite, a dark comedy starring a small band of disenfranchised Siberian teens. This is a horror comic that meshes Russian folklore with a queer-oriented coming of age story. Ram Lama will be taking over as the lead artist for the series with Reverend Vas Littlecrow Wojtanowicz remaining as the lead writer. While still retaining the cartoony spirit of Vas’s original illustrations, Ram gives the newest chapter series a cleaner and more polished look. Our friends at Studio A.d.H.D. are currently producing a series of wallpapers as a free premium for our mailing list subscribers.

Ram’s latest graphic novel collection, Season One is now available for purchase on his website at http://www.ramlama.com/.

Rasputin Barxotka Returns

After recovering from illness and injury, Mandarr returns to the Rasputin Barxotka creative team. Mandarr and Reverend Vas Littlecrow Wojtanowicz are furiously working to finish the Rasputin Barxotka beautification project by the middle of this coming summer with the aim to release a printed graphic novel by autumn. Vas and Mandarr will also be working together for on the next chapter of Rasputin Barxotka, ”A Superkiller Rusalka Week,” after the current chapter wraps up in mid-summer.

Dissident Priest Pre-Ordering Begins In June

The new and improved Dissident Priest webcomic reboot won’t debut until fall, but we will take pre-orders for the new print book this summer. It will feature the art of Lupi, Walter Rodriguez and El Niño. Author Tristan J. Tarwater has assisted Reverend Vas Littlecrow Wojtanowicz in the rewriting of the scripts.

2012 Summer Season Webcomic Update Schedule

Rasputin Barxotka: Mondays
Rasputin Catamite: Wednesdays

The Velvet Rasputin Laboratory is Moving Back to the VAS Littlecrow Network

Vas — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:01:16 +0000

Due to frequent outages on tumblr, the Velvet Rasputin Laboratory is leaving that service moving back to the VAS Littlecrow network. Please be patient during the transition process.

SOUP Wars Has Been Cancelled

Vas — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:56:50 +0000

Due to the heavy production expenses required for SOUP Wars, it will be cancelled in its present form. We will re-release this series at some undefined date in the future under a different name. Thank you for following this series.

Rasputin Barxotka News Roundup for January 2012

Vas — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:23:00 +0000

On Velvet Rasputin’s Rasputin Barxotka, we received our first Bronze membership which was upgraded to Gold not long after by long-time fan and friend, Tristan from Back That Elf Up. We also posted some beautiful new donation wallpaper inspired by Dvorak’s Rusalka in the members section.

Don’t have a free membership to Rasputin Barxotka? You can get one here. When you upgrade to Gold, Silver or Bronze, you’ll have access to additional content such as our blog sketches, and you’ll help fund independent art.

Finally, Check out guest art from Viskamiro creator of Hallodri shares new guest art, plus fresh webcomic reviews on the Rasputin Barxotka blog.

The Velvet Rasputin Laboratory Is Moving To Tumblr

Vas — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:03:41 +0000

The Velvet Rasputin Laboratory website is moving to tumblr, but will still be accessible via VelvetRasputin.com as soon as the move is complete. The WordPress site will be deleted shortly. There may be site outages while the name servers resolve themselves. Please be patient during this process. Meanwhile, you may preview the new laboratory site here.

Sucka! Has Been Cancelled

Vas — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:20:03 +0000

Due to low viewership and lack of interest by author, this series is being placed offline.

Schedule Changes for Rasputin Barxotka and Dissident Priest

Vas — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:14:36 +0000

Starting on January 16th, Rasputin Barxotka Will be Updating on Mondays

I mentioned on Rasputin Barxotka that I would probably be cutting back on the schedule for that title. My goals are to ensure enough funding for Mandarr to get paid an appropriate rate for the art we are collaborating on, and to provide enough lead time for the creation of a higher quality presentation. Also, Mandarr and I have our work cut out for us in finishing the redrawing and re-inking the for the first twenty four pages of Bahktale Vasquez Hates Camello. For these reasons, this webcomic is switching to a weekly schedule in about a week and a half from now. New pages will appear every Monday.

Dissident Priest is going into hiatus mode on February 28

Comics are a hard gig. I’ve been doing it since I was fifteen, so I know how hard it is. This industry has very little to do with luck, and everything with constancy, heavy promotion and good word of mouth. Right now, I am dealing with the issue of Dissident Priest, a title that I really believe in, not inspiring the kind of word of mouth it requires to be self-sufficient. My guess is that it’s because the packaging is all wrong. The current style has never felt right. When I unsuccessfully did try selling it in graphic novel form, people generally overlooked it and put it down after the third page. My webstats more or less confirm that phenomenon for the webcomic version.

When people have read all the way through, the response has always been, “I didn’t expect the story to be this good” and often became fans. Unfortunately, if people aren’t expecting the story to meet their expectations based upon glancing at a few pages of the art, I feel that’s a major problem. I am guessing folks expected something funny from loose and cartoony art, only to stop when they found out it wasn’t. What worked incredibly well from a stylistic perspective on Rasputin Barxotka just did not translate well here. Dissident Priest was a spin-off and it still feels like one. It’s time to give this piece its own voice.

SOUP Wars is going into hiatus until 2013.

Vas — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:43:11 +0000

After some discussion with the project’s financial backer, we have come to the rather painful decision to place SOUP Wars in hiatus until 2013. Our viewers deserve high quality content and a reasonable weekly update schedule. Unfortunately, this requires a greater amount of income than we are currently generating. So rather than shortchange our site visitors and sacrifice the production values for this project, we have decided to focus on other projects for the time being. We hate disappointing our fans and friends, but we’d rather delay the project than not provide our very best.

SOUPWars.com Is Having Domain Registrar-Related Technical Issues

Vas — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:54:34 +0000

Due to circumstances beyond our control, the SOUPWars.com domain name is not working properly. Hopefully things should be back in order within 12-24 hours. We apologize for the inconvenience, and we hope to post today’s episode as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.

The New Velvet Rasputin Comic Updates Page

Vas — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:30:09 +0000

There is new, efficient and less overwhelming way to keep up with the latest updates from all of your Velvet Rasputin titles. The Comic Updates page at VelvetRasput.Info is constantly updated, organized by date and extremely easy to navigate. Be sure to check it out!

Velvet Rasputin Comic Updates