The State of Business

We have been very busy at Dark Elf Designs on lateral movement building foundations for future IP's and so on. We hope to get some more forward momentum back going very soon. thank you all for your patience and thanks for being fans!

-Brian Germain
Executive Director
Dark Elf Designs

Crescent Hawk unleashed!

Jeff Beineke and Tyrone Lamar Jamison team up to breathe life into Dark Elf Designs' own caped crusader Crescent Hawk. A dark action story that is naturally familiar yet wholly unique.

Release date TBA but as early as summer 2015

What's New?

So what have we been up to lately? For your best opportunity to find out keep up with our Facebook page Facebook.com/darkelfdesigns but for a little update we have a new site in the works, we have about ten new titles in production, and we are looking seriously at the prospect of having another convention. More to come soon.

Xcape reality

So where have you been lately? This question applies to what people could be asking me lately about myself, our comics, or blog, and last but perhaps even more importantly our convention. Well hourly we'll be answering all this and even more in the next few weeks. Till then might wanna follow us on Facebook.

Boston Marathon - Benefit Art Book

ATTENTION ARTISTS and VOLUNTEERS: We Need Your Help! Dark Elf Designs needs artist contributors and people to spread the word. We will be working on producing a benefit art book for the victims of the Boston Marathon tragedy. if you would like to be involved in the book please make sure all of your images are about 300 dpi and proportionate to 11"x 17" pages. Images can be black and white or full color. (due to limitations some images may not be used)


We are looking for uplifting pictures and powerful imagery featuring fire fighters, EMT's, Police, memorial pages, marathon runners, and any types of first responders doing what they do best.

This is for charity so it is non-paid, make sure you sign your work there will be room in the book for crediting the artists so include all credits. the deadline for entries is May 31st, and proceeds look like they will be going to "The One Fund" Please share and re-post.

Event Page
https://www.facebook.com/events/149196361929868/


Dark Elf Designs facebook pagewww.facebook.com/DarkElfDesigns

For more information on The One Fund or to donate separate from the book, visit their website.
www.onefundboston.org

Dark Elf Designs twitter page
www.twitter.com/DarkElfDesigns


F.A.Q.
"When is the deadline for art?"
May 31st

"to whom do we email the artwork?"
brian@darkelfdesigns.com is fine make sure if it is over 10 megs to e-mail it via sendspace, or yousendit, or dropbox or some such client.

"What size and format is the book?"
Standard comic format or proportionate to 11x17. Pplease make sure all of your images are about 300 dpi and proportionate to 11"x17" pages. Images can be black and white or full color."

"Do you have a publisher?"
Dark Elf Designs is a publisher.

"When the books are complete are you going to sell them on your site?"
I will probably have links to them and just put them on Indy Planet as well as several other digital downloads services.

"When do you tentatively think the books will be done?"
Hopefully not very long after the deadline for the images (May 31st, 2013). Lets put a tentative date at June something. (hopefully early June but Let's just get all the images in first.)

For those of you who haven't heard Dark Elf Designs very own Jwan Jordan is working his way toward a rather lofty but attainable goal. With your help Affairs of the Mind can be made into an epic strategy rpg video game.  The goal is set at $175,000 with only 58 days left to meet it. That's why Dark Elf Designs is telling all its fans to check it out and try to help him raise the money the prizes and rewards are great and the final product is looking amazing check out the screen shot above.  If you are interested in funding or sending others to learn more about it follow this link...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/298892766/affairs-of-the-mind-chibi-a-day-in-the-life

Dark Elf 2.0

Greeting fans, friends, and fellow Dark Elves. For far too long it has seemed like Dark Elf Designs has been idle.  We have in fact made little in the way of forward motion in the last year, however instead we have been moving in more lateral directions building foundations and getting ready for the next incarnation of the company that has brought you such awesome comic, art, design, and content for over ten years.  Next year Dark Elf Designs celebrates the anniversary of its flagship title MoonShadow we hope to bring you even more great books soon. we have plenty of books scripted and people under contract for said books. We have lots of new content and expansions on old content. Our company's mission statement will be set about in a newer, more firm, time-tested business model. Or contractees will have a better understanding of what their responsibilities to Dark Elf Designs are as well as DED's responsibilities to them.

This bold new direction for the company is not so much a change from the original ideas of the company but hopefully it will prove to be a better more fruitful, way of bringing those ideas to realization. So stay vigilant my fellow comic fans and lovers of all things geek. Keep an eye on things to come and "like" / follow us on facebook and so on. We are at the dawn of a new era for comics and we are on the precipice of new technologies and networks that will help affirm our position as one of the indy mainstays in the comics world.

Thank you for your loyalty, faith, and good will. All of us here at Dark Elf Designs hope you enjoy the holiday season, and have a great new year!

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Argh Thar Be Comics Off The Port Bow Matey!

Dark Elf Designs is proud to announce the the launch of Veteran Member Ozzy Longoria's new blog site Sails of Blood. This new blog is part of a release in conjunction with Ozzy's latest creator owned comic of the same name. Sails of Blood, will undoubtedly be full of the hard hitting action and great art that Ozzy is quickly becoming known for. When questioned about the site and storyline further Ozzy let us in on the fact that this storyline is actually a pre-cursor to an epic story that has been nearly ten years in the making. Arrrr we excited? You Bet your booty matey, YOHO!

For more information check out the Sails of Blood Blogsite to keep updated by clicking here<===
Or copy and paste this URL into your browser http://sailsofblood.tumblr.com/

Upcoming Schedule

This schedule is subject to change but currently these are our appearance plans for 2011...
May 7th, Free Comic Book Day Signing @ Comic Relief -

Address	4050 Fenton Rd., Flint, MI 48507 · Get Directions

From Noon til Close. Featuring Brian Germain(Dark Elf Designs, Sketch Card Studios), William Messner-Loebs(DC, Marvel, BOOM, Vertigo) Justin Faber(It Is..., The Gryphon) and Gemma Keech(Clay Shaper, Squeeze It Out Your Brain)

May 13th-15th, Motor City Comic Convention - Novi, MI http://www.motorcitycomiccon.com/

June 2nd-4th Swartz Creek Hometown Days - Swartz Creek, MI http://www.hometowndays.org/

June 5th, Metro Detroit Conventions http://www.metrodetroitconventions.com

June 18th-19th, Kids Read Comics - Chelsea, MI http://mlatcomics.com/krc/

August 18th-21st, Montrose Blueberry Festival - Montrose, MI http://www.montroseblueberryfestival.net/

September 24th-25th, Detroit Fanfare - Detroit, MI http://www.detroitfanfare.com/

Again this is our tentative schedule and highly subject to change.