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Thank You For Your Service

At the end of 2017, the authors of the Steampunk comic book series The Jekyll Island Chronicles (Steve Nedvidek, Ed Crowell, and Jack Lowe) teamed up with Don Barden, CEO of 3Ci, and Dominique Wilkins of the Atlanta Hawks for an extraordinary collaboration. In this partnership, 140 of The Jekyll Island Chronicles: A Machine Age War books were given to Army Rangers for Christmas. It all started in middle school when author Jack Lowe and Don Barden became friends. They were passionate about comics growing up – they loved talking, drawing and even writing them for fun. This friendship made its ...

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JIC: The Video Interview

We had a great opportunity recently to be on camera together with Titania Jordan with 3Ci’s program Connect. She was a great host and spent a lot of time with us, asking a lot of smart questions about The Jekyll Island Chronicles. We give you more interesting perspectives in this interview, as we delve into some of the “why” issues that we worked on this book. If you wanted to see Jack, Ed and Steve live on video telling the tale, this was the first time we did something like this. It’s kinda like our version of an interview in Hall H at ComicCon. But without Hall H. And without ComicCo...

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Art in Motion

We work with two very talented artists on The Jekyll Island Chronicles. Pencils and inks are done by Moses Nester and color is added by SJ Miller. If you want to see them “work”, check out this video of them creating our JIC Kickstarter poster. You can see how they use style and techniques to give Jekyll our unique and very cool look. We are so fortunate to work with these “kids”—their talent blows us away and we hope that working on our project ultimately catapults them to bigger and better things—like Book Two, which is coming out in 2018!

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