Frankie Dingle

Well my dear supporters and what not I have wonderful news, good news even. My second "Frankie Dingle" book is completed, the manuscript and the Illustrations are all complete. I am just in need of finding an agent and a publisher is all. I have sent a query letter and two illustrations out to the Andrea Brown Lit company. I am expecting to hear from them sometime before November. So here's to crossing my fingers to that! Above is what the cover will look like.
There will be a total of seven illustrations, the cover and six introductary illustrations to the story that follows. I hope you will all support me as I attempt to find an agent and publish this book. As soon As I have more information all will follow! Thank you guys, tell your friends!!

Working Hard

What ap bitches?! Just kidding...but seriously yeah, what up?

Lately I have been working and busting out art like a friggin fiend on crack hooked up to an IV pumping Monster!!!! GraaaaaaAAAhhAHHHHH!! For real! As soon as I think the world is ready to see what I'm working on I will post the shit out of it!

I've been continuing to work on my graphic novel series pencils, I started a watercolor painting; started my first digital painting, finished completely the cover to my next book and one of six inside illustrations for it , did two t-shirt designs which you guys saw on my deviantart, oh and also started the first of my illustrations in a series!

The only thing I haven't done in a while is write, which I will have to fit in somewhere....

Mike D. Burke
www.ananami919.deviantart.com

Fragments of Fate

On Wednesday August 25, 2010 at 9:00AM my fiance and I arrived on the set of what would be our first debut as actors on the big screen, hopefully. It was amazing, we arrived there dressed nicely with only the hope of maybe being an extra and getting to help with the equipment. Somehow we ended up getting to do more. Rich Talarico the amazing director/actor/writer allowed us to have a scene with one of the talented actors in his film. To us it lasted for at least a half hour, in the film it will probably only be around three minutes tops depending on how they cut it together. We got to improv a whole scene for his new short film which was untitled as of the shooting. It was great! We were so pumped! During the takes and improvisation I actually made the other actor we were working with burst into laughter. All the other actors on set said that we were really hilarious and they just kept talking about the scene after! The one guy there, Jim Stevens who plays the manager of a bank wanted us to move out to L.A. and start going on auditions. He said to quote, "You have a very unique look about you and that scene was just hilarious." about me and us. Our plan is to eventually move out to L.A. and go on auditions and such, not to mention out in L.A. we will have a lot more access to our outlets for our talents. So that will be awesome, most def.
In any case I am currently still working on all my projects; "Masters of Fiction" I have one page done of the rough pencils and working on the second page, "Commercials" done with Act One and onto Act Two, "A Little Valentinus in your Samhain" currently on chapter Six. So still plugging away at everything!! More news sometime.

Promotional!!

Greetings and salutations earth beings!! Oh wait, I'm an earthling too...Never mind. No. I'm not changing my first greeting, I don't care if it doesn't make sense. I like it. Sheesh. Inner monolouges.
In any case I wanted to let all of you know that I finally received my BUSINESS CARDS!!!! YaY! I can feel how excited you all are across cyber-space. Yes this is very exillerating and what not! I shall be handing out my business cards to local businesses, coffee shops, libraries, t-shirt stores, local restaurants, people I want in my network (everyone who can help me and who needs help) and random places that have business cards out hahahahhahahahaha!!!!
Also here is a list of projects I have going at the moment and what it is I'm doing with them:

1. "The Quest for Dairy"-Play: Currently under consideration by the Utica Players committee (I'm awaiting their approval to start working with them on casting, directing and what not)

2. "Masters of Fiction"-Graphic Novel: Currently in the rough pencils stage. I do have two finished mock covers for it as well which will be posted on my deviant art page.

3. "A little Valentinus in your Hollows Eve"-Novel: Currently I have been writing at least four pages a day it is no wheres near done yet (on p.50 out of a 240 p. book) but working on it.

4. "Commercials"-Screenplay: First rough draft version is being written right now. It is a 114 page script roughly and I am on p.20.

5. Commissions status: Open (email me or message me on here and we can discuss prices)

The Wheels are in Motion

Well ladies and germs I be on me way to becoming a playwright/director hopefully pretty soon!!! I finished up writing my comedy play, "The Quest for Dairy" and recently emailed a local theater organization and they emailed me back. As is customary in polite society, and they said they might have a venue for my play to perform! So I sent them a proposal letter and a copy of my play and well, hopefully things work out. The only thing I'm nervous about is the fact that I had no clue how to write a proposal letter for a play, so I kind of winged it. But still...it seemed like a good letter to me, and I believe my play speaks for itself.
Don't mock my title for the play either, it's hilarious. You will see! You will all see! (fake crazyness in those words) In any case though, I have to hope to God that I get picked up for a performance most definitely. It was my first play so heh, here's hoping!
Also production on my graphic novel is in motion now too, and as soon as I get my hands on some sort of scanner I will post up some pictures and such on here and other various sites I hold dominion over. Please look forward to all that is coming from me and continually give me support, whoever checks out this site and actually reads the blogs.....

Possible Work

So yesterday the fiance and I went to the Philadelphia Comic Con and I got a lot of people to look at my portfolio and what not! I talked to tons of artists and some companies (there wasn't very many there). I actually, surprising to me got a lot of good feed back haha. I have two companies interested in me, Avatar Press and BuyMeToys, pretty damn sweet!! They just have to review my stuff and what not but hey a shot is a shot ya know?
Other than that, still doing the polyproject structure theory thing and what not!! Most of the advice i got was to just work on more details in my backgrounds and then i got it, all the artists I talked to said I def have the talent and stuff I just have to keep at it every single day, practice, practice, practice!! As I have said so before myself I believe haha.
But yeah just hoping to hear from those companies n such, hopefully good news!! Wish me luck!!

Projects update

Sorry to not update in so long I truly apologize for real. I am currently working on six projects all at once, here is a list of them:

1. "Masters of Fiction" graphic novel
2. "Three White Wolves" graphic novel
3. "The Quest for Dairy" play
4. "Elemental Warriors" move
5. Pencil samples for portfolio
6. A manga/anime

Now within these project I have teamed up with two of my friends who are also very creative. The movie I'm working on is the one that has the biggest number of people working in it, currently all of my friends and my fiance will be in it and working on it. The manga/anime is something me and another friend of my fiance's and I are working on. These project I want to try and get all done and successful hopefully by the end of the summer, namely September I suppose. Hopefully, working on project all at once is great though.

Here is my theory for the: "Polyproject Structure"- The need to have various projects going at once keeps you focused and busy, while allowing many creative outlets to be pursued. Resulting in the output of many different materials seemingly at the same time.

Try it out and wish me luck!!! I shall keep you updated!!