Check out this interview with me and Bobby from Multiversity Comics! It's all about NIGHT OWLS, which you can buy in March for less than the cost of a house, but more than a stick of gum.

Peter

Thursday, December 10, 2009

NIGHT OWLS Series Finale

NIGHT OWLS FANS! Today is the big day. Page 180 will go live on Zuda. If you need to catch up on The NIGHT OWLS, now is the time. If you've never read the comic, now you can read it from start to finish!

Also, comments are always appreciated!

Peter

Thursday, October 15, 2009

The Night Owls Season Finale and a quick recap.

We've followed the Night Owls on many adventures since they debuted on Zuda Comics in December of '07.

As season three draws to a close, lets take a look back at all the crazy stuff that happened since then.

Since their memorable introduction in screen one, we've witnessed a gargoyle wedding, the Pied Piper playing in a Harlem Jazz Band, a blank-headed villain rip the faces off his victims, a jealous lover sick a werewolf on Mindy Markus, and seen a vampire cabal kidnap Professor Baxter and accidentally unleash the terror of Big Owl on the unsuspecting citizens of New York City! And that was just in the first 60 screens!

Season Two raised the stakes while revealing even more about our main characters. We saw a young Ernie defeat Big Owl for the first time, and we travelled to Mindy's fairy-tale home world of Funari. In between they matched wits with a magic gaspipe wielding gangster, a reanimated Egyptian mummy and Mindy's own step-father Rumplestilskin!

Season three is almost over and so far we've witnessed a new relationship for Mindy, Ernie getting payback on Louie the Gaspipe, The headless horseman making a grab for Ernie's head at the policeman's ball and Roscoe getting kidnapped and forced to join a traveling freak show.

Now, after 162 screens of Night Owls zaniness, the exciting conclusion to season three (and Night Owls Volume 1) began on Screen 163 with the re-imagining of a fan favorite villain and will carry on in high octane craziness to screen 180.

How will it end?

Will they or won't they?

What about Big Owl?!?

Come on over to Zuda to find out! Or I guess you could also wait till March and buy the book. OR you could do BOTH, which is what I recommend. Thanks!

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Timony Twins UPDATE

First of all, San Diego Comiccon was a blast! It was great meeting everyone who took the time to stop by while we were signing and sketching. Thanks for coming out!

Second, you may not have heard this yet, but we Timony twins have been nominated for THREE harvey awards!

The Night Owls have been nominated for "Best New Series" and "Best Online Work" and I've been personally nominated for "Best New Talent". (I know. I'm just as surprised as you are.)

The Award ceremony will be held this October at Baltimore Comiccon, so Naturally, we'll be there.

Details about where we'll be specifically are still being ironed out, but I can tell you that we'll not only be hanging with our pals at Zuda, but you can also find us with the good folks in the "Kids Love Comics" area!

Kids Love Comics is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the development and growth of children's comic books in North America, and that's a goal I can really get behind!

I'll be sure to update you all with more info as I get it, but I think its safe to say, I'm really looking forward to October!

The final bit of info I have is probably the most exciting bit of all. The print edition of the Night Owls has a release date! Look for it in stores March 9th, or you can pre-order it right now at Amazon.com for $10!

As the date gets closer, we'll be planning some events to promote and celebrate including parties, signings, interviews, and whatever else we can think of! In the meantime, why not support your Timony pals and order a book?

It's our first professionally printed book ever and we obviously want it to do really well. We're very proud of it. I happen to know of at least one person who's gonna buy at least ten copies just for herself! (Thanks, Mom!)

UPDATE!

A friend of mine pointed out to me that it was inconsiderate of me to point you to Amazon when so many of your local comic stores would very much appreciate your business. So, in order to better serve your community, go to your store and request that they carry the Night Owls! My Pal Lionel Ruland of Bad Moo comics and games would love to order a copy for you!

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

SAN DIEGO SCHEDULE

We got our signing schedule for the San Diego Comic Con!

You can find us at the DC Booth from Thurs-Sat at 11:30 -12:30 alongside Michael Walton, creator of DUAL for Zuda, and again from 3:00-4:00 alongside Jeremy Love of BAYOU fame.

On Sunday, we'll be there 10:30-11:30 all by ourselves.

We will also most likely to be attending Zuda's panel at 3:00 on Sunday. Here are the details: SUNDAY
@3:00 PM – Making Webcomics (Room 4): Join Ron Perazza (ZUDA COMICS), Kwanza Johnson (ZUDA COMICS), Kevin Colden (Fishtown, I RULE THE NIGHT), Cameron Stewart (Sin Titulo, SEAGUY, OTHERSIDE), Molly Crabapple (Backstage, Dr. Sketchys Anti-Art School ) and others for an inclusive, round table discussion about the advantages, challenges, questions, solutions, costs and benefits of making webcomics for fun and profit. Topics include working with a publisher, self-publishing, promoting yourself, best practices, style and moving from web to print (or vice-versa)!

For full info on all of the SDCC plans for Zuda in general, check out this link: ZUDA PLANS

See you in San Diego!

Peter

P.S. Michael Walton is the guy who drew this for us:

Friday, July 10, 2009

Ten Things you didn't know about Mindy Markus

The Friends of Lulu has a short piece up called "Ten Things you didn't know about Mindy Markus".

Most of the people who read this blog already know a couple things on this list, but some of them are pretty obscure, and some have never been mentioned on-panel! I'm pretty sure even Peter didn't know all of these!

So, who are the Friends of Lulu? According to their FAQ:

Friends of Lulu is a national organization whose main purpose is to promote and encourage female readership and participation in the comic book industry. Among the goals of the organization are:
1. To increase female readership of comics
2. To promote the work of women in comics
3. To offer networking opportunities and general support to women in comics
4. To facilitate communication among women and men who share the organization’s purpose

So, there you go. That's a mission statement I can get behind! I just realized that Twin Comics has no mission statement OR a FAQ page... Oh well. Thank you Friends of Lulu!

Thursday, July 02, 2009

TWIN COMICS, 5 Days a Week!

With the inclusion of the SIR ROLAND comic strips on Geekerdome, You can now get a new Timony Twin Comic every day of the week! The comic schedule looks like this...

MON: SIR ROLAND

TUE: NIGHT OWLS

WED: MINION MAZE

THURS: NIGHT OWLS

FRI: SIR ROLAND

Enjoy the comics and tell your friends! As always, feedback is greatly appreciated.

Peter

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

NIGHT OWLS HARVEY AWARD NOMINATIONS

The Harvey Award Nominations are in, and NIGHT OWLS was nominated for BEST NEW SERIES and BEST ONLINE COMIC WORK, not to mention a nomination for Bobby for BEST NEW TALENT!

And congratulations to the other nominees, especially our fellow Zuda creators, David Gallaher, Steve Ellis and Scott O. Brown for HIGH MOON, Johnny Zito, Tony Trov, Sacha Borisich, John Dallaire, and Jaco for BLACK CHERRY BOMBSHELLS and of course Sheldon Vella for SUPERTRON!

Congrats, guys!

Peter

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Announcing Night Owls Season 3 and Commentary Track

WUXTRY! WUXTRY!

The Night Owls have been renewed for a third season on Zudacomics.com!

Bobby and Peter Timony's fan favorite webcomic, "The Night Owls" recently wrapped up completion of it's second season. Those anxious for more can breathe easy knowing that another 60 screens are heading their way, every Tuesday and Thursday at http://zudacomics.com/the_night_owls.

To celebrate the completion of their second season, the Timony Twins are offering a free PDF commentary track on their website. Fans can download it and read along as they go through the archives. It comes loaded with insights, asides and some historical facts about the era.

Download the commentary here!

Set in 1920's New York City, the Night Owls follows a trio of detectives that solve supernatural crimes. The brilliant Professor Ernest Baxter leads the group, whose members also include the scrappy flapper, Mindy Markus, and a hot dog loving gargoyle named Roscoe.

Created in the style of an old Sunday Newspaper serial, the strip deals with the sometimes macabre subject matter in a humorous and lighthearted way.

Monday, March 30, 2009

The event at Wild Pigs was a ton of awesome fun. It was great hanging out with everyone and drawing all night.

I believe Peter Timony and Pete Stathis, who draws the excellent comic, Evenfall, were the only two to complete a 24 hour comic. I didn't even try. Instead, I used the time to work on the Night Owls, finishing the art for five comic strips and penciling a sixth one, which, as it turns out, is the final episode of season two!

I also found a little time to work on a top secret NEW webcomic idea that we've been kicking around for a while now.

I've got a picture here to share with you, too.

This is a little collaborative effort by me and the amazingly talented Danielle Corsetto of "Girls with Slingshots". I pencilled it and she inked and colored it. Honestly, Danielle made it look so good, I wish she could work on everything I drew!

Enjoy!

Monday, March 23, 2009

Agent Fat Kid!

There's a new cartoon on the YouTube called "Agent Fat Kid". It was written by my brother Peter (You may know him from the Night Owls) and animated by the good people over at "The Untitled Project". (You may also know them from "The Night Owls".)

Agent Fat Kid is the story of one portly juvenile who stands up for justice with his amazing gastronomical powers of regurgitation!

Just for fun, here's some original design sketches for Agent Fat Kid by me.

Friday, March 06, 2009

Google Jumbumblebutt.

That guy up there? That's Jumbumblebutt Markus, who is currently appearing in The Night Owls.

As my pal Dave pointed out, if you Google Jumbumblebutt, the only links you'll find are references to him! What are the implications?!?

That means we created an entirely new search term for Google that's never been used before!

Jumbumblebutt used to go by the name of Rumpelstilskin, but had it legally changed, because everyone already knew his name, and he likes to be anonymous.

If his goal was to pick an unguessable name, than he picked a good one, seeing as Google can't find any other instance of it in any language. It can, however, find 584,000 results for the name "Rumpelstilskin".

Good job, Jumbumblebutt!

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Watch out!

I'd like to send a big thank you to Marc J. Fletcher over at the Den of Geek website for naming us as one of the Ten Comicbook Creators to Watch Out For! (Or would that be two of the creators? No, I guess we'd count as .5 creators to watch out for each.)
Anyways, Thanks Marc and the Den of Geeks! We wear our geek badges with honor.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

For Your Consideration, The HARVEY Awards

2009 Harvey Award Nomination Ballots Online Now!

Download .pdf Nomination Ballot
Download .txt Nomination Ballot

While you are nominating, please consider any number of Zuda projects (Including HIGH MOON, BAYOU, or THE NIGHT OWLS) for BEST ONLINE COMICS WORK, BEST NEW SERIES, BEST SYNDICATED STRIP, BEST WRITER, BEST LETTERER, or BEST NEW TALENT.

Ballot Deadline March 27,2009

E-Mail Submission: harveyballots@hotmail.com

Snail Mail : Paul McSpadden
Administrator Harvey Awards
605 West Arapaho Road
Richardson, Texas 75080

All ballots must include the requested professional verification information. Name :Address :City :State :Zip :Email :Brief List of Work in Comics :

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Thursday, January 08, 2009

ROSCOE has INTERNET!

Hey everybody! I just thought I'd give a heads up to fans of the NIGHT OWLS that you follow Roscoe the Gargoyle online at either Facebook or Twitter or BOTH!

On Twitter, he can be found @RoscoeGargoyle

He is Roscoe Gargoyle on Facebook too.

It can get a little confusing, since he is still in 1927. He has a computer from the future, and all the necessary wires run into a small time warp and are plugged in in someone's house here in 2009.

Peter

Sunday, December 14, 2008

NIGHT OWLS Anniversary!

This might be a day late, but yesterday was the one year anniversary of the launch of NIGHT OWLS on ZUDA! There was much celebrating, illegal hooch was consumed, and I just woke up at 2:30 today, hence the late blog post.

Anyway, I prefer to think of it this way: This Happy Anniversary is not one day late, OH NO! It is in fact 364 days EARLY.

Peter

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

A New Chapter Begins!

A new page of NIGHT OWLS is up, and a new storyline is started, this one features Irish v. Italian mobsters, with the added complication of a family banshee!

Read it HERE!

Monday, November 10, 2008

Zuda week at Schwapp! SCHWAPP!

The folks over at SCHWAPP online have excellent taste in webcomics. They reviewed Street Code, High Moon and of course, The Night Owls. You can find some reviews of the Zuda November Competition as well!

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Happy Birthday to ZUDA!

Today is the one year anniversary of the launch of ZUDA! Man, I remember that day well! The whole website had that "new website" smell. I remember reading Bayou first, then reading the competition comics. I thought to myself, "Myself," which is how I address myself when thinking to myself, for myself is me, "Myself," I thought, "These comics are good, and so different from what we're doing... does Night Owls even stand a chance?!?" Then I logged in and voted for High Moon.

It also happens to be Free Pie Thursday, so have a piece of pie in honor of Zuda! Then go there and read free comics... FREE COMICS!!!

Monday, March 08, 2010

Wednesday, February 17, 2010