Cover of Tiny Wizards #1: Lord of the Onion Rings
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AVAILABILITY & Format
Tiny Wizards is produced both in-print and digital formats; currently self-distributed from the creator’s websites.
Aimed at young adult and adult readers.
Parental guidance suggested for readers who are ages 10-13.
In Print: Presented in a prestige format at 64 interior pages, 37+ comic pages, full-color giant-size book at approximately 8”x 12” size — features bonus content including an original “Adventure Snack” - an interactive short story by Geoffrey Golden. Plus additional fun includes guest illustrations from artists like Thomas Hope, Lane Lloyd, D.Bethel, and more, plus a “Making Of” gallery, a mailbag, and games & puzzles.
Target Release Date: Available now $13.99 or 10£
Digital PDF: 96 DPI version of the above. Available at $2.99.
Target Release Date: Available for downloads now.
Available from DriveThruComics @ Pay-What-You-Want
Would you like to review a physical copy? Just ask!
email eben@bsquadcomic.com with an address to get a physical book for review.
POTENTIAL STORY ANGLES
Tiny Wizards was independently produced using crowd-funding services like Kickstarter.
Tiny Wizards was produced during the COViD-19 pandemic and frequently used tools like Zoom to meet and collaborate from a distance and lead to some pretty epic sessions of trivia week-to-week!
Tiny Wizards will also feature a D&D 5e-compatible adventure zine! The adventure was written by the series author for dungeon masters and players to further explore the world of Tiny Wizards! Complete with over a half dozen maps illustrated by Eben Burgoon! Kickstarting as part of Zinequest in February 2022.
Tiny Wizards is also a craft beer! Brewed in collaboration with writer Eben Burgoon, this New Zealand-hopped Pilsner is brewed in honor of the comic by Sacramento's award-winning brewery, New Helvetia Brewing.
The label features artwork from the comic book series!
Sample Scenes
The Prestige Edition of Tiny Wizards #1: Lord of the Onion Rings is here!
Tiny Wizards smashes the wizardry and magic of high fantasy with the greasy delights of burger-flipping and deep-fried mayhem to create a new series of comic books! Tiny Wizards shrinks a magical kingdom of legendary wizards and fantastic beasts, and now they face extinction as they struggle to survive amid the fast food joints of a remote truck stop town. In this first chapter, readers will meet an assortment of characters, see battles between chicken nugget golems and ketchup packet goblins, regal negotiations amid deep fryers, a guided tour with snarky children, flatulent chubby unicorns, and magic spells that frighten even the most jaded of the burger flippers.
“Dean Beattie has done a stellar job at bringing a pretty fantastic (in the truest sense of the word) concept to life. I LOVE The Wizard and Hugo, his derpy Unicorn buddy and the slightly grotesque look of the humans. There are also puns a-go-go throughout, including one close to the end that actually made me groan when it registered and then chuckle like a madwoman!” -Clare Hemsworth, FANdemonium Network
The debut first issue of Tiny Wizards presented in a giant-size, perfect bound 64-page comic book.
The book collects the 33+ hand-painted illustrations by series artist, Dean Beattie. Tiny Wizards was written, lettered, & created by Eben Burgoon, with additional lettering by Michael Sekigahama.
In addition to the comics, the book is supremely packed with all sorts of wonderful sides! Featuring an Adventure Snack — a multiple-ending interactive short story penned by Geoffrey Golden, plus illustrations by Mister Hope, Lane Lloyd, D. Bethel, and many more, plus puzzles & games, a reader mail bag, and making of notes from the author.
The creators feel the books is suitable for readers of most ages, but parental guidance suggested for readers age 10 and under.
ELEVATOR PITCH
An ancient realm of magic finds itself dying, but are spared by using their magical power to transport their world to a new one. Ours. Unfortunately, they arrive in our world at the wrong size, merely as tall as a prize inside a Happy Meal, and are now stranded in a remote California truck-stop town mostly populated by fast food joints and gas stations.
Tiny Wizards takes the meats of fantasy genre classics like Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones and smashes into a warm bun of absurdity and the small-scale of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids! and Ant-Man slathering it in a rich sauce of adventure-comedy of urban fantasy tropes like Onward or Harry Potter.
Created and authored by Eben Burgoon and masterfully illustrated and hand-painted by Dean Beattie, this across-the-pond collaboration by two independent comic book creatives each with decades of work under their belt.
A dropbox containing a promotional JPGs of scenes from the book, a digital PDF of the full book for review, and dozens of images for online use only.
Please note images are suitable for digital use only, print-ready images are available by request.
Digital copies are for review purposes only; please do not circulate.
Please contact Eben Burgoon with any additional questions
Eben Burgoon & Dean Beattie will be at Comixology Hall Table 125 to debut Tiny Wizards at Thought Bubble 2021.
FAST FACTS
CREATIVE TEAM
Eben Burgoon
(Creator, Writer, Lettering, Book Design)
Dean Beattie
(Illustration & Art - pencils, inks & colors all using physical materials)
Michael Sekigahama
(Lettering)
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Eben Burgoon- eben@bsquadcomic.com
Series Creator, writer, lettering, book design
Eben Burgoon is a cartoonist, educator, and comic book writer. His award-winning webcomic, Eben07: Covert Custodian was followed up by B-Squad: Soldiers of Misfortune, which is currently being shopped for development into an animated series by Starburns Industries, the Burbank-based animation studio founded by Dan Harmon and Dino Stamatopoulos to create Moral Orel and Rick & Morty. As an educator, Eben has been committed to inspiring future generations of comic book creators since creating cirriculum to empower youth storytellers, including helping elemntary schools in Sacramento publish their own comics in 2014 & 2015. Eben has been a guest speaker at the Sharjah International Book Festival in 2019, and Maker Faire: Cairo in 2019 & 2020.
Eben is also an accomplished sculptor and teaching artist known for his masking tape figures that have been exhibited in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Rome, Cairo, Xi'an, Vilnius, and Berlin. In 2019, he was bought to both Cairo and the United Arab Emirates as a guest speak on comic book storytelling.
Eben is based in Sacramento, CA.
Dean Beattie
Illustrator — pencils, inks, & colors done with physical materials
Dean Beattie lists in illustration, writing and poetry as his 3 main creative skills. He's known for his own independant comic series, Random Trials, and his illustrated poetry books, including Bad Words - an illustrated collection of poems about crimes and the people who commit them. He lives in Kent, England.
Michael Sekigahama
Series Creator, writer, lettering, book design
Michael lives with his wife and cat in Sacramento, CA. When he's not working his day job or talking to his cat, he’s taken on lettering and coloring work for B-Squad: Soldiers of Misfortune, youth-authored comic projects of the non-profit 916 Ink, and on a couple projects for Ghost Thunder Collective and comics writer, David Andry.
Mike’s Website
SOCIAL MEDIA & WEBLINKS
For Tiny Wizards
WEBSITE: www.tiny-wizards.com
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