Because without them We would not have the freedoms
we have today. So one night I was talking to a friend of mine from
Canada and I said to Roger, Do you think anyone would be interested in
hearing the real stories from our troops that have served in Iraq &
Afghanistan? Roger asked me what did I mean. I told him I had been
thinking about gathering together stories from our troops and
illustrating them in a comic or graphic novel. Letting their stories be
told from their own mouths. Roger said it sounded like a good idea .So
We talked about the best way to go about it.
I decided that I
wanted to not only undertake this myself but wanted to see if I could
bring together the comic industry to help with it as well. So I started
putting the word out what I was undertaking. The hardest part was
gaining the trust of our troops and having them feel comfortable enough
to share their stories with me. This took me nearly a year in itself to
establish the trust with the members of our military.
Then as the
stories started to come in I had the job of finding
artist,writers,inker's, colorist & letterers that would be willing
to do this project gratis no payment that was one of the stipulations I
made that NO One involved with this project would make money of the
backs of our troops . This is where I had the most difficulty as I would
have members of the industry both main stream like Marvel & DC come
on board then due to things beyond their control they would be gone.
The same with a lot of the independent and small press guys.
So
one minute I would have a story fully covered the next not so much! LOL
but I didn't give up. I just kept refocusing and regrouping.I will admit
their were many times I though I just wanted to give up because of the
many setbacks I kept having. When your dealing with this many people on a
project this big it is one heck of an undertaking. But finally it has
come to pass!
The Graphic Novel is complete and is being printed,
and it should be out by the end of January! It is being published by
our Not-For-Profit organization Heroes Fallen Studios Inc. Printed by
Automated Graphics Systems, And Production was done by Darren Sanchez
from After Hours Press. The Proceeds from the sale of this graphic novel
will be split between four non-profit organizations.
1) Soldiers Angels
2) Wounded Warrior Project
3) USO
4) Fisher House
Heroes
Fallen Studios Inc. will retain a % from sales which goes back into the
cost of printing the graphic novels . And for other print runs and
other similar novels supporting our military.Visit us here http://www.heroesfallenstudiosinc.org