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A Piggy’s Tale the Comic Book about a Three-Legged Rescue Dog with Superpowers

A Piggy’s Tales Comic Covers Issue 1 , 2 & 3

After an accident takes his leg, a rescue dog named Piggy discovers he has super-powers, and must fulfill his fate to save other critters from despair. Accompanied by a street smart cat and a girl who can talk to animals, this unlikely hero must stop evil from befalling victims in New York City.

A Piggy’s Tale is published by Bohemian Press by Tod Emko and Ethan Young, and is a charity comic book with all proceeds going to the Darwin Animal Doctors who conduct Pet Rescues in the Galapagos Islands.

Tristan the Teddy Bear meets Piggy the Three Legged Super-Dog

Tristan and I met the one the books creators and Piggy the Three Legged Dog (lovely dog by the way really soft) at Baltimore Comic Con, and caught up with them again at Annapolis comic con.

They are current on book three of a four-part mini-series, the book is entertaining for all ages although it is written for ages 6 – 10. If you bump into A Piggy’s Tale at a convention, buy the book and help out a great cause.

You can also pick up the book at Piggytale.com

Welcome to #TeddyBearTuesday

#TeddyBearTuesday is almost upon us!

And Teddy Bear Artist Dan Nokes has a something special to planned for the Cuddly Defenders Kickstarter.

Tomorrow (Tuesday) Teddy Bear Tales Lead Artist Dan Nokes is doing the first ever #TEDDYBEARTUESDAY

This is how it works.

Drop $5 or increase your current pledge by $5 dollars you can collect a Teddy Bear Tale themed quick sketch by Teddy Bear Artist Dan Nokes. Any Teddy Bear as any character you can think of!

Go to https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/altworld/tristan-the-teddy-bear-and-the-cuddly-defenders

Pledge, tweet about the Kickstarter with the hashtag, #TeddyBearTuesday and drop a message via #kickstarter and collect your reward!

Arigato,

Nick Davis

Creator of the Teddy Bear Tales

The Teddy Bear Tales & Charmingly Geeky are going to Annapolis Comic Con

The Cuddly Defenders go to Annapolis Comic Con 2014

Tristan, the Teddy Bear Tales, the Cuddly Defenders and Charmingly Geeky are heading Annapolis Comic Con this Sunday.

What you need to know

Annapolis Comic Con 2014 is a one day show and will be held at the Roger “Pip” Moyer Recreation Center.

Sunday, Oct 19 – 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Located at the Roger “Pip” Moyer Recreation Center, 273 Hilltop Lane, Annapolis, MD 21403

Look for the Teddy Bear Tales Banner once your inside!

The Teddy Bear Tales Artist Alley Table

What I am bringing to my table

Make sure you spend some time about my Artist Alley Table your going to find a lot cool stuff on our table.

The Alt World and Teddy Bear Tales Books

Tristan and the Cuddly Defenders Comic Book
Tristan and the Cuddly Defenders Graphic Novel – Friends
The Teddy Bear Tales Illustrated Adventures One and Two
Tristan the Teddy Bear Goes to the Moon Imagination Adventure Story book.
Fabula Zero Exposition – the uniquely super-heroic Graphic Novel
Sigmartyr – an unofficial action figure Graphic Novel
The Tether Saga Books – None Good and Accept One

Orioles Baseball Teddy Bear by Nick Davis

Plus

The Cuddly Sketch Cards Prints – including the Rocket Raccoon and new Teddy Sports Bears.
Exclusive Full Size Prints Groot, Rocket Raccoon, Deadpool Bear, Harley Quinn Rabbit, Bat Bear, Star Bears, Giant Size Man Thing and much more
Original Art
The Cheap $10 Original Art Bin
T-Shirts – The Teddy Bear Tales And The Teddy Bear Army
The Cuddly Hero Toys – Tristan, Archer, Wilma, Fernando and more

The Tristan & the Cuddly Defenders Preview Comic – Cover Variants by Nick Davis (left) & Dan Nokes (right)

But wait there is more!

Charming Geeky Jewelry

I will be joined by Charming Geeky, custom geeky jewelry and figures, and they will be my neighbor for this event.

Don’t Forget the Art Board!

Nick’s Artboard

All through the convention I will be producing one-off art pieces which you can buy direct from my artboard, come take advantage of this chance to own some very unique art.

See you there!

Look forward to meeting all the Teddy Bear Tales fans at Annapolis Comic Con 2014 see you all there.

Rebooted Kickstarter – Introducing The Cuddly Defenders Adventure Comic #PleaseRT

Tristan and the Cuddly Defenders Kickstarter

Tristan and the Cuddly Defenders Comic book – the ongoing all-ages adventures of our heroic bed time pals against the evil Bogeyman and his Legion of Monsters under the Bed.

What is this Kickstarter?

We are rebooting the Cuddly Defenders and moving away from the Graphic Novel ideal, and we are asking you to pledge to help us, the writers and artists for Tristan and the Cuddly Defenders to launch a comic book. This is what we want to do.

24 page full color all-ages comic book
Comic and illustrated stories
Quarterly release
New characters, new adventures ever three months
Bonus material for subscribers and Kickstarter members
Available as a print or electronic comic.
Exclusive cover for only Kickstarter backers.

You can view the Cuddly Defenders Comic Book here.

Rebooted Kickstarter – Introducing The Cuddly Defenders Adventure Comic #wewontstop

Tristan and the Cuddly Defenders Kickstarter

Tristan and the Cuddly Defenders Comic book – the ongoing all-ages adventures of our heroic bed time pals against the evil Bogeyman and his Legion of Monsters under the Bed.

What is this Kickstarter?

We are rebooting the Cuddly Defenders and moving away from the Graphic Novel ideal, and we are asking you to pledge to help us, the writers and artists for Tristan and the Cuddly Defenders to launch a comic book. This is what we want to do.

24 page full color all-ages comic book
Comic and illustrated stories
Quarterly release
New characters, new adventures ever three months
Bonus material for subscribers and Kickstarter members
Available as a print or electronic comic.
Exclusive cover for only Kickstarter backers.

You can view the Cuddly Defenders Comic Book here.

Inktense Teddy Bear Orioles Baseball Player #wewontstop #inktober

Orioles Baseball Teddy Bear by Nick Davis

Based off my day ten inktober sketchcard of a Teddy Bear Baseball player (view the gallery here) I applied my Derwent Inktense pencils to add a little local color.

And thus my Orioles Baseball Teddy Bear was born as a tribute to how well Baltimore Orioles are doing, well done chaps! Don’t understand the game, but you seem to be playing rather well.

Our Teddy Bear Batter was finished in faber-castell ink pens and will be available as a sketchcard print at the next couple of conventions you can find me at! Which in this case will be Annapolis Comic Con.

Inspired by the adventures of Tristan the Teddy Bear from the Teddy Bear Tales

My #inktober Challenge… 31 Days… 31 Original Inked Sketch Cards…

Batbear by Nick Davis

The month of October is now known as Inktober, a special event for artists to draw just using ink. The bare bones of this event is you must draw one original ink art piece a day (full marathon), or every other day (if you want to do the half-marathon).

I have decided to take up this challenge and I have just completed day six (at time of writing), heading into day seven. I am going for the full marathon, and to make it a little more fun I am limiting myself to sketchcard size art pieces and trying to keep the creation process under twenty minutes. So far though it is working out well.

My progress so far…

You can follow my progress through Inktober or learn more about this event visit the comic easel.

Tristan the Teddy Bear went Retro at Retrocon 2014

Tristan the Teddy Bear at RetroCon 2014

It has been a week since RetroCon 2014 and enough time to collect my thoughts and give a quick overview of the event from my little section of it.

The Cosplay

Tristan the Teddy Bear meets Poison Ivy & Catwoman Cosplayers

First off I am sure you’ve all checked out the RetroCon Cosplay post, although most of the pictures are from day one, some of the second day pictures made their way into the post which is good. Because I am experiencing some difficulties retrieving all the pictures from the second day of this event. I will post them when I get them.

How did it go?

Tristan the TEddy Bear goes Minecraft

I will admit in terms of trade I have had better shows, RetroCon is still very much a Toy show and I a lot of the people there were after that fix for their classic toy collections. While the convention is seeing more artists, and comic culture, it still has a long way to go before it becomes an all-encompassing pop culture show. I have no doubt it will make it.

What did you take?

Well along with the usually Teddy Bear Tales gear I sat down and drew six super-deformed Transformers to add to the Cuddly Sketch Card range.

Did you do some art?

Yes I did, every show I attend I normally a few unique art pieces, and this event was no different. Check out the gallery below. Remember these piece will never be duplicated, and will be available until they are gone forever.

Totally random Retrocon pictures

What is going to follow now is a small total random series of pictures in a gallery from Retrocon 2014.

So will you return?

Out of state conventions are difficult things to judge, I suspect if there isn’t a local show conflicting I will return to RetroCon next year and bring more Teddy Bear goodness to the show. See y’all soon!

Tristan and his Creator Nick hanging after RetroCon 2014

News Release – Tristan the Teddy Bear Goes to Hollywood

Tristan, Wilma and Fernando ride the Teddy Bear Tales Toy Train

Tuesday, September 30 2014 – Tristan the Teddy Bear, the Teddy Bear Tales, Wilma, Archer and Fernando of the Cuddly Defenders and the Imagination Adventure books were signed up on Friday, September 25, 2014 by a Hollywood Literary Agent from a successful Agency with a track history of getting properties produced, and on the screen.

The Teddy Bear Tales are now signed to a six month shopping agreement, allowing the Agent to show Tristan and friends to various studios and productions companies as a possible future film/animated show.

As the Creator of the Teddy Bear Tales I am very excited about this development for my characters, it is more than I ever hoped for and the possibilities of bringing Tristan and the Cuddly Defenders into every child’s home is an amazing thought.

This is of course the first step on a long road, and Hollywood is a fickle town when it comes to productions, it is hard not to ignore what this all could mean for Tristan’s future.

It has been a lot of hard work on my part, and on part of my artist Dan Nokes to get to this very unexpected point. Fingers crossed… And ever onwards into wonder and beyond!

Arigato,

Nick Davis

Creator of the Teddy Bear Tales

Tristan the Teddy Bear Meets… #Cosplay from RetroCon 2014 Day One

Ethan and Tristan the Teddy Bear meet Peter Griffen at RetroCon2014

I am going to write a summary of my RetroCon 2014 experience in a post later this week, but to kick the Retro experience off I thought it would be fun to feature my stepson Ethan’s pictures. During the convention  he kept himself busy taking pictures of Cosplayers with everyone’s favorite Teddy Bear Tristan. You can view Day One of the Cosplay Gallery after the jump.

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