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Tin Not Tintin

By Ilya Dvilyanski

I'm incredibly lazy.

At least that's what I was saying until yesterday when it suddenly dawned on me that staying up till 3 to work on a comic book then getting up and going to my day job and skipping lunch to do some more comic work is most likely not considered lazy. I've been doing that for the last 4 months. Take that high school!

The countless stories that I've started, outlined, then promptly put to the side, sit on my hard-drives as a testament to how things used to be. I love crafting intricate worlds, cultures, dinners, what have you. But pushing through the nitty gritty of actually setting it all on paper, one sentence at a time, is usually when all my effort and vigor trail off. Anyone want to read a series of novels that are ⅓ finished? Didn't think so.

It wasn't until I read Saga, written by Brian K. Vaughan (on a subway by the way, which I don't recommend unless you want disturbed looks cast in your direction) that I saw how my stories can come to life. His characters are so vibrant and his worlds so detailed (with the help of his amazing artist Fiona Staples) that it gave me a longing deep in my guts to show the worlds and characters that were in my head.

The best part of trying to write a comic was that I could do it on the subway. Squished onto a ④ train in New York during rush hour? Not a problem if you're writing on a cell phone!

That's how Tin started. Dialogue-only scripts.

Tin is the story of two robots, Rob and A.L.I.C.E, on a cataloguing mission through space. Aboard their ship, arguments of what or who can be considered an adventurer are commonplace, and whether a lowly maintenance robot can exhibit these traits. Pretty simple stuff. Until they stumble on an derelict pod containing an unidentified woman. Rob, the janitorial bot, embraces the chance to be the adventure that he's always built himself up to be. However the mysterious woman shares a name with someone already onboard the ship. Identity crises notwithstanding, there will be heists, death, self-discovery, and most importantly adventure.

Elevator pitches aside, I saw this story so clearly that I wrote the first issue in one day. The next few weeks were spent making crappy drafts of characters and figuring out how I can get this on actual paper. That's when I found the incredible artist from Italy, Manuela Soriani.

I've never written something to full completion before and shown it to others. How do you call something finished and then send it off to the world and expect good things to come back? Having faith in your story is one thing, putting it on Reddit and reading the comments is an entirely different one. Oh well.

Here we go.

Tin is a comic book written by Ilya Dvilyanski and illustrated by Manuela Soriani. Currently the first issue is being released one page per week for free online at clunkerspace.com. A Kickstarter is planned for the near future to bring the first issue and subsequent issues to print. Two trades are planned as well as a release through comiXology.

The best way to get updates and news for Tin is by visiting facebook.com/TinComics or twitter.com/tincomics.

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