New Airship Adventure Launches on Kickstarter

LOS ANGELES, CA– March 12th, 2013 – Mythopoeia is pleased to announce the launch of a brand new, creator-owned comic book entitled Skies of Fire. Skies of Fire takes place in a fictional world and features massive, diesel-powered airships and their duels in the high skies.

“It’s everything we love in a story,” said Skies co-creator Vincenzo Ferriero. “Action. Adventure. Betrayal.”

“ –and explosions!” added fellow co-creator Ray Chou. “Lots of explosions!”

A Kickstarter is currently underway to fund the completion of issue one. According to the creators, the funds raised will be mostly used to pay for art assets, which include sequential images, inks, and colors. “Making a comic isn’t cheap,” said Ray. “Especially with such a talented team behind the pages.”

Indeed, the Skies of Fire team includes artists from around the world. Pablo Peppino, the project’s penciler and inker, hails from Rosario, Argentina, while Bryan Valenza, the team colorist, calls Jakarta, Indonesia his home. “Our comic is truly the product of the millenial generation,” Vincenzo said. “Our entire team is under 30, and there’s no way we would have been able to collaborate without the cloud and communication tools available today.”

The art itself invokes a more European aesthetic, claimed Ray. When pressed, he listed the Adventures of Tin-Tin, Moebius, and Miyazaki’s Porco Rosso as major influences. “We had over a thousand images in our reference folder at one point, from things like history textbooks to art deco magazines,” said Vincenzo. “Really, it was all pretty exhaustive.”

The Skies of Fire Kickstarter runs through April 11th 2014. As of writing, the project has garnered 30% of its target goal. “It’s a good start,” said Ray. “But we need to keep the momentum going.”

To visit the Kickstarter page, or to find out more about Skies of Fire please visit:

Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/skiesofire
Twitter: twitter.com/skiesofire

ABOUT MYTHOPOEIA: Mythopoeia is the creative imprint founded by Vincenzo Ferriero and Ray Chou in 2011. Skies of Fire is its first published project. http://mythopoeia.us