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Welcome to the Official GoldMane Entertainment News blog!!!
Starting today I will be using this blog page for all news updates and info for my company GoldMane Entertainment (and Xmoor Studios!).

The NEWS button on my Goldmane website will send everyone here starting asap - this is a much faster way for me to add information since I have so many things planned for 2008 and want to post up sneak peeks of works in progress, tutorials, 2D artworks, shows I'll be attending and all my Xmoor Studios (indie comic book publishing company that publishes Galtow) endeavours as well. There will hopefully be some big changes and happenings for GoldMane in 2008 (and Xmoor Studios too!)

Just want to say thanks to all my friends, clients, associates and family for their unwavering support in 2007. It was a interesting year for me as I got to break out and do some of the things
I always wanted to do artistically for a very long time now.
On that, I'll close with my favorite phrase:

"Passion...will build you bridges from nowhere - to somewhere..."
END

The Crush vinyl toy is finally here!!!
...aaand....he has a friend (Harry) in progress on the Neptoon Studios blog:
http://neptoonstudios.blogspot.com/

Lord Wu Reymos poster tease for the Galtow comic book series...coming soon.

My second art jam over at DWdeathwish's page on Deviantart. I did the Yellow Jacket (blue arrow). I have one more jam I did based on SpiderMan's villian's that I'll post soon as it goes up. Art jams are fun when you have time for them.

Almost done...

Want win a FREE Harriet Carney vinyl toy made by Carnival Cartoons (and sculpted by me)? Plasticandplush is having a contest and is giving one away here:

http://www.plasticandplush.com/plasticandplush/2007/11/contest-win-a-h.html#comments

www.plasticandplush.com

I'm off to vacation! See ya in a week...

I'm dying to see how Marvel Comics concludes World War Hulk in issue #5. John Romita Jr. is doing some awesome work in that series...got my money on the Hulk...

Fanart for my friend and fellow indie publisher Stacey Robinson ( creator/artist of Abraham the Young Lion comic book series). Check him out on Devart:
http://blackstar-shabach.deviantart.com/

Hehe...

Some single panel fan art for my buddy Jan Michael Franklin awesome comic book series Deadly Artisans. Check him out at www.epsalonpress.com
He's got 3 issues out and a fourth in the works.

Another Surfer...who will be next on the sketch list???

The sketching continues...Silver Surfer...

Hmmm....what's this all about??? Check out Andy's Toysrevil blog:
http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/search/label/dookiepoo
...and the Dookie Poo site:
http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/search/label/dookiepoo
...and hilarious blog:
http://dookiepoo.blogspot.com/


I finally took part in a art jam over at Deviant art (months ago...) trying to get back to drawing more often lately. I did the tiny Atom drawing on the bottom right. Just want to say thanks to DWDeathWish for the invite to jam with him and his crew...now to shake the rust off...

My Darkseid bust painted up by the uber talented Rick Cantu. Wait till you see what we got comin up next...

The first wave of Tales of the Haunted - Revenant busts are here and ready to ship!!! Each bust comes in all grey resin (some assembly required) with a signed Certificate of Authenticity signed by artist creator Dave Flora and myself as sculptor and each will have a mini step by step sculpt booklet showing the bust being sculpted in various stages to finish. Check the info
on the bottom image on how to order one.

Off to the painter!

Photoshop paint over of a wax bust sculpt.

Harriet and her son Buzz Carney made their debut at the San Diego Comic Con at the DKE Toys booth. For more info on these toys check out www.carnivalcartoons.com and Jared Deal's blog:
http://jareddeal.blogspot.com/ (if you check the archives you can find some step by step shots of the Harriet sculpt in progress that I sent to Jared while I was sculpting her up).

Picture from coverage at www.palsticandplush.com

The Revenant in color!!!
Doug McCord is the first to take a shot at painting up a Revenant bust - and as you can see from the results he was not fooling around (great job Doug!!!)...this is the first of many different color schemes to come for this bust. Since it's a "paint it yourself" garage kit who knows what will show up down the road.


More full color images can be seen here:
http://hauntedrevenant.blogspot.com/

The webcomic it's based on can be read here:
http://www.drunkduck.com/Tales_of_the_Revenant/

Dave Flora's Comicspace site:
http://www.comicspace.com/dave_flora/

The Revenant bust kit is now available for pre-order. For more info hit Dave (daveflora1968@yahoo.com) or myself (eric@goldmane.net) up via email. The Revenant bust kit retails for $65 (plus S&H) and will be very limited.

My next project from GoldMane Entertainment is:





“The Revenant!!!” - A resin kit sculpted by myself and produced by GoldMane Entertainment (www.goldmane.net). The sculpt is based off of a ghostly occult detective created by artist Dave Flora and featured in the noir webcomic “Tales of the Revenant”, currently hosted on DrunkDuck
(http://www.drunkduck.com/Tales_of_the_Revenant/?p=132906])....This beautiful, 6 1/2 inch tall 3-piece kit cast in a light grey resin includes great box art with a certificate of authenticity signed by both Dave Flora and myself (and a step by step booklet showing how the sculpt was made). It‘s priced at $65, and can be primed and painted or, since the webcomic is in a moody black and white, it can be enjoyed right out of the box!

If you are interested in purchasing one of these garage kits, feel free to email either Eric or David at - eric@goldmane.net or - daveflora1968@yahoo.com

Dave Flora's blog:
http://hauntedrevenant.blogspot.com/
Dave Flora's Comicspace:
http://www.comicspace.com/dave_flora/
Devart page:
http://roguehill.deviantart.com/

This is the second garage kit I have ever produced and the followup to the Xmoor Studios Keylon Jakes Galtow Warrior prepainted bust (still on sale in the online store at www.xmoorstudios.com...)

The Buzz Carney vinyl toy makes his television debut on the hot TV show - Miami Ink!!! The episode titled..."Staff,Staff,Staff" will air again on July 3rd @ 8pm!!! Luk Mah - wheeze orn TEE VEE!!!


You can see more images here on Jared Deal's blog:
http://jareddeal.blogspot.com/
Harriet!!! Come out and pla - ay!!!

My Shiitake DIY Parade plush custom entry:



Erick Scarecrow's show was a big success at the Toyqube store out in Flushing Queens NYC earlier this month...To see the other awesome mushroom plushtoy customs go here on Scarecrows blog:
http://erickscarecrow.blogspot.com/
...and here at the Toyqube store where they all went up for sale:
http://www.toyqube.com/index.php?cPath=21_97
...and more coverage here on the Toysrevil blog (where I swiped the above pic - thanks Andy!!!):
http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/2007/06/shiitakes-parade-event-and-custom.html

Big thanks to Erick Scarecrow for inviting me to take part in his awesome show.

June is the month for contests and FREE stuff!!! Want to win some MoneyGrip vinyl toys??? Designed by Kano and sculpted up by yours truly...



All the details on how to win right here:
http://arthammer.deviantart.com/

Enter to win a free uber rare (only 5 made!) all grey maquette variant of the Keylon Jakes Galtow Warrior bust sponsored by Action Figure Times!!!! Go here for AFT:
www.aftimes.com

...and here for the rules and more info to enter and win (not much to do but enter and submit online - that's it!) Good luck...:
http://www.aftimes.com/cgi-bin/newspub/search.cgi?mpos=begin&category=1&keyword=galtowcontest123&submit.x=10&submit.y=5

It's so on next weekend!!!
I don't do a lot of customs (especially plush, actually never plush, LOL) - so when Erick Scarecrow of ESC Toy asked me to do a custom on his new line of DIY mushroom toys for his show - I said why not...Customizing plush is not easy I'll tell ya that! Took forever to come up with a idea and get everything together to pull it off....and yeah I'm late with it too (sorry E! hehe...) But I will have a customized piece in the show (don't screw me up Mr. Post Office!!!). This show is shaping up to be a blast from the lineup on the flyer and all the late additions...Oh - all the white DIY's SOLD OUT!
Better watch this Scarecrow kid - no sleeping here...nope.

ESC Green Liberty vinyl toy - sold out!
ESC Pink Liberty vinyl toy - sold out!
ESC White DIY plush shiitake mushroom's - sold out!

Kid's no joke...

Stay tuned for my free MoneyGrip vinyl toy (by Kano) free give away contest - that's next...

The ECBACC convention this past weekend in Philadelphia turned out to be quite a success. We sold out of all the advance issues of Galtow #3, color tshirts and posters we brought with us. We almost sold out of issue #2 (again) and even issue #1. The response to the Xmoor properties was tremendous and I just want to say a big THANK YOU!!! to everyone that attended and supported us this far. The convention was packed all day and had a really good line up featuring DC comic's Eric Battle (who I got to talk shop with - an immensely talented and all around great guy!) Kyle Baker and Dwane McDuffie. I got to also catch up with my old buddy Taimak (played Bruce Leroy in The Last Dragon) and you know I dropped a GoldMane tshirt and cinchbag on him (said he'd wear the tshirt too, hehe). So yeah - issue #3 of Galtow is finally now available!!!
Up next - Wizard World Philly!!! I think I'm starting to really like downtown Philadelphia....

CONVENTION TIME!!!
Saturday May 19 - Philadelphia...East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention. Got a table there with Robert Garrett and we'll be hawking some Xmoor Studio books and merchandise. Issue #3 of Galtow will finally be available along with a healthy 2nd printing of the sold out issue #2 (and issue #1). For more info and the guest/exhibitor list - www.ecbacc.com



Coming soon - "Parts Unkown"....from-
www.xmoorstudios.com

Garage Kits!!!
Been a while since I did one but it looks like The Revenant bust sculpt (based on Dave Flora's hit online webstrip The Haunted Tales of the Revenant) will be available to own very soon. Thes kits will be produced by GoldMane Entertainment in conjunction with Dave Flora mid to late 2007...We're working on what these guys will go for pricewise and looks like there will be only 20 for now. We may even do a pre-order since so few will be available...we'll see.



They will come with signed certificates of authenticity by Dave Flora "artist etraordinaire" and myself...some assembly will be required and you'll have to paint it yourself - or don't - since we're looking to do them in a nice grey resin. When? Stay tuned!

Check out Dave Flora's blog:
http://hauntedrevenant.blogspot.com/

...and The Haunted - Tales of the Revenant online webstrip (warning...it's very addictive!):
http://www.drunkduck.com/Tales_of_the_Revenant/index.php?p=132678

Want to see more images of the bust?
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/47911406/?qo=6&q=by%3Aarthammer&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps

FLCL CANTI WAVE 2!!!
Dagnabbit robot toy getting a lot of mileage, LOL. That Hernandez version is killer and I don't know who oooOOOooo is but that skeleton design is wicked! I think I want those two...hehe - images swiped from the hottest blog going right now (go Andy go Andy, hehe) - Check his blog out here:
http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/

JIYA!!!
The second bust from Xmoor Studios Galtow property is well under way finally...hopefully the next batch of images will have the base and sword rough in place.

Finally got around to starting the female Galtow warrior bust sculpt - Jiya!!!...also for any of you that wanted to check out the Galtow comicbook series - Galtow issue #1 is now available to view for free (downloadable in pdf. format) in the preview section on
www.xmoorstudios.com
Check the blog section there too for exclusive sneak peek images of the Jiya sculpt in progress.

Galtow on Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/galtow

Galtow on Comicspace:
www.comicspace.com/xmoor/

Issue #3 is finished and is at the printer and issue #4 is under way (issue #2 is being reordered since it sold out)....busy, busy, busy.........

Found this on Jpidgeon's blog - a really nice pic of my old Capt. Fred toy sculpt from the Mcfarlane Beatles yellow Submarine line I worked on a bunch of years back. This was a chase figure I'm really surprised was released at all at the time...Jeff had some really nice things to say about the line - thanks Jeff!...(quoted below the image) - I'm glad people really liked that Yellow Submarine line as I had a great time working on them with my old buddy Rick over at the old FunHaus...


J_pidgeon on flickr says -
I was ecstatic when McFarlane Toys announced a line of Yellow Submarine
figures - I love the film's design, and the prototype stills treated the
character models like holy writ. The line completely lived up its promise,
and my only disappointment was than it didn't go beyond two series of toys.
There were so many more cool characters and creatures to make!

The Beatle figures were all paired with a supporting character - Musicland had an
exclusive two-figure blister featuring Paul McCartney and Old Fred, the
captain of the titular ship. The sculpt here is terrific, and the paint work,
while a little spotty, is generally fine. Fortunately, the designs made for
meaty figures that stand well and won't sag over time.

Check out Jeff's awesome pics on his blog here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/67896537@NOO/

SECOND PLACE!!! - aint that bad....
Andy Heng over at the www.toysrevil.blogspot.com finally recieved his second place prize for entring our Xmoor Studios draw Galtow characters contest. Talented devil made a comic strip showing the arrival of the rare Grey Maquette version of the Keylon Jakes bust...he took a lot of nice pictures too - check them out here:
http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/2007/03/my-keylon-jakes-galtow-warrior-bust.html


This one was my favorite. Congratulations Andy!!!
(He's got a hot little blog there too so make sure to go check it out!)

Also - Rob and I are currently updating the www.xmoorstudios.com website so it may be down for a bit (got a lot of new stuff to put on there, so please be patient...soon, soon) - got some interesting news coming....

What?! Another contest?! With free stuff??? Who - what - where - how - and when.....

Xmoor Studios (www.xmoorstudios.com) has a contest running over at www.mania.com and we're giving away some free Galtow merchandise:
http://www.mania.com/C-81/
"Mania is happy to announce our latest contest, a giveaway of various merchandise from the comic Galtow. Prizes include: One Galtow bust, three copies of an autographed issue of Galtow #1, a Galtow t-shirt and Galtow hat."

Interested? Email maniaent@gmail.com to enter and include Galtow somewhere in the subject/body of the email!
That's all you have to do to win!!!
Good luck to all.

NYC COMIC CON Part 2!!!
So many awesome toys n stuff debuted at the con this year and you know I rolled up my sleeves and got some while the getting was good. Here's some of my comic con haul (some of which did not make it out the building with me...)

NEW YORK COMIC CON part 1!!!
I had a blast at this years con even though I didn't have a table in Artist Alley (con powers that be had lost our application -WTF?! or should I say - yeah riiiiiight!!!) with Robert Garrett doing our usual Xmoor studios shindig. But I got to catchup with some biz associates and good peeps like my pals Lesean Thomas (we couldn't walk like 5 feet without him getting interviewed or stopped by fans and friends - way to go man, way to go), Erick Scarecrow (who's Liberty toy SOLD THE F*$K OUT!!! at the show - Congrats man!) and Manny Galan! (Dookie Poo rules!!!) Got me some awesome swagg and Kaching/Mindstyle was gracious enough to host the Galtow Warrior bust in their glass case display (big ups to MD for the prime real estate hook up!!! ) Shucks - I even dropped the gold exclusive ESC Toy version up in there - which MD is now proud owner of...rumor has it next years show will be even bigger and in a warmer month?! I hope to hell so - it was dagnabit cold as a witches you-know-what on Saturday morning!!! I heard the line to get in went all the way up to the Bronx! No way!

Big ass crowd everywhere all 3 days!!!

Can't keep Galtow out the show!!! Best set up was the Kaching/Mindstyle booth...bad ass black tent!

Big dog Lesean holding down the Midtown booth signing - all the sketchbooks sold out! I didn't even get one - WTF?!

Liberty vinyl toy - Sold Out!!! I don't want to say I told you but hey - I told you so!!!

Big dog Manny G! Killin em with the funniest character out right now - Dookie Poo! Want to laugh? Go to the Dookie Poo blog and that's that!
Part 2 next!!!

TOY FAIR 2007!!!
The Plasticandplush site (http://www.plasticandplush.com/plasticandplush/) had some nice images of round two of the FLCL Canti robot done up in some new crazy designs for 2007 for Ka-Ching Brands. The Toytoons site (http://photos.toytoons.com/showgallery.php?cat=997) had some great coverage of the Toy Tokyo booth with a nice shot of Kano's MoneyGrip toy.

The Big Apple Con NYC this past weekend was not only big fun but good business. Robert Garrett and I held a raffle to give away two free Keylon Jakes Galtow Warrior busts (one regular red version for 1st place and a soon to be revealed all grey maquette version for the 2nd place winner). Any purchase from the goodies on the table got everyone a raffle ticket and a chance to win...we had a great turnout for only 2 days and sold out of issue #2 of Galtow!!!
AND THE WINNERS ARE....check the Xmoor studios blog to find out...hehe...
http://robertgarrett.wordpress.com/

As soon as I get some confirmed mailing addys the prizes will be mailed to both winners....Thanks to everybody that came by to talk shop and support us!

Big Apple Con - NYC!!!

Xmoor Studios and I will be at the Big Apple Con (http://www.bigapplecon.com/) this weekend, Fri and Sat only - January 19th and 20th!!!
Fri 1-8pm - Sat 10am-7pm

Admission is FREE!!!
So come on down. We'll be raffling off another free Galtow Warrior bust and I hope to see some of you there.

Penn Plaza Pavilion
401 Seventh Avenue at 33rd St.
DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET FROM MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
FAN APPRECIATION SHOW !
FREE ADMISSION!
1996-2006
to Celebrate Ten Years of Fandom !

Anybody going???

These are the first wave of the Galtow Warrior limited bust variants...this series of 5 come with metal claws (like the original bust) and a metal sword. We have a few other variants in the works over at Xmoor Studios...maybe less than 5 of each probably...not sure yet. When I get the other variants done I'll take a pic of all of them together.