From the company behind The Sunday Comics, Polar Press publishes a bright, exciting children’s poetry book, The Love of a Bingle Lancer - NEW YORK (February 16, 2016)

Golden Bell Entertainment announced today that they will launch their first illustrated children’s novel, The Love of a Bingle Lancer. The illustrated novel, sized at 8" width by 10" height inches, houses over 30 pages of beautiful full-color in a hardcover casebound book. The book is written by Paul Gullen with stunning illustrations by Rachel Korsen. Prosed like an epic love poem set in a faraway Kingdom, the book will capture the imaginations of children and entertain their parents equally with its love conquers all theme.

The illustrated children’s novel features a wide array of locations and characters; showcasing the two leads, prancing posing Babaloo Bandini and his love, the Spanish fancy dancer Hoochie Coochie Smoocherini who’s banished to the island of Fettucine after stealing the prince’s heart. The Love of a Bingle Lancer is a book where love triumphs through all adversity. It’s a story for dancers, romancers and everyone will fall in love with the Bingle Lancer.

POLAR PRESS CONTINUES TO PUSH QUALITY CONTENT GEARED TOWARDS ALL AGES

Golden Bell’s Polar Press reaches audiences of all ages. The Polar Press team believes that through birth, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood there should be a story for everyone. The seeds for our creative endeavors are planted early on in our lives and we feel that having a division centered around creating children's books, such as The Love of a Bingle Lancer, that parents and their children can enjoy together is a must! From Fantasy to Family, these are truly unforgettable stories!

THE WONDERFUL COLLABORATION OF PAUL GULLEN AND RACHEL KORSEN

Paul Gullen, currently working at Hofstra University as an esteemed professor/educator, is an author of various novels and poetry books such as The Lake Ladies, Momentary Gods and a selection of his poetry in Beginning in Silence. Paul teaches writing at Hofstra, and is proud to be publishing his first book for children with Polar Press today. He lives in New York with his family.

Rachel Korsen, a founder of Golden Bell Entertainment, started drawing when she first picked up a pencil and hasn’t stopped since. The Love of a Bingle Lancer is Rachel’s first children’s book, with many more hopefully on the horizon. An illustrator, a painter, and an animator, the multi-talented artist currently lives in New York.

To see a preview The Love of a Bingle Lancer you can find it on Kickstarter today! The book is already completed and just needs your support https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/831309281/the-love-of-a-bingle-lancer

ABOUT GOLDEN BELL ENTERTAINMENT

Golden Bell Entertainment was formed with the hope of merging new and classic content to create timeless experiences for consumers of entertainment. With The Sunday Comics, Saturday Morning Cartoons, and Polar Press, Golden Bell illustrates a passion for various mediums and a dream to jumpstart the nostalgia of a time gone by. The Sunday Comics merges an age old medium of newspaper strips by fusing it with serialized storytelling of the modern comic age. While The Sunday Comics houses over 300 creators, Saturday Morning Cartoons strives to inspire audiences with humorous, emotional, and story driven animations created in house and in collaboration. Lastly, Polar Press aims to deliver novels, children’s books and other illustrated stories that will be sure to bring joy to all modern American families. Golden Bell was formed by Marc Goldner, Rachel Korsen, and Robert Gross. For more information, please contact Marc Goldner at 516-984-1466 or email at Marc@GoldenBell.TV, or visit the webpage www.GoldenBell.TV to learn more.

Hi, guys! Today I have some very exciting news! The Valiard Mansion is going to be a legit, published book! Like, honest to goodness on bookstore shelves! This has been in the works for a few months already — since right after I finished the manuscript, actually — so I apologise for keeping everyone in the dark for a bit. I don't much like sneaking around or keeping secrets, but do I make an exception for happy surprises. Setting out on this writing journey, I decided early on to create a checklist for an ideal publisher. Anything less would be shown the door, if it ever came to it. If you're clued in on traditional publishing, you would know this checklist to be stupidly ambitious and unrealistic, but that's just how much I valued a freely distributed Valiard's potential to allow me to connect with readers. I wasn't prepared to accept anything that would impede that. The publisher had to: 1. Allow me to do the illustrations myself 2. Let Valiard keep its existing logo as part of its established brand 3. Vote in to keep at least a few chapters for free online Trust me when I say this was an impossible checklist. But sometimes, the impossible turns out to only be highly improbable.

AND THEN ALONG CAME GOLDEN BELL ENTERTAINMENT

Golden Bell Entertainment, now Valiard's official publisher, is allowing the above and much, much more. They understand that the very basis ofValiard, and my online presence, lies in constant communication with readers and free distribution of content and information. They have a fresh perspective on online marketing that aligns with my own in a lot of ways. I'm very excited to work with them and to learn from them. I've also signed a merchandising deal with Golden Bell, so there will be all sorts of Valiard goodies to grab in the future. I'm talking the usual like mugs, t-shirts, and phone cases, sure — but also fun stuff like figurines, coloring books, stationery, and plushies. I'll be involved all the way, creating artwork and designs for the merchandise, so you can have the true Valiard experience no matter how you choose to indulge in it.

HOW LONG UNTIL THE PRINTED EDITION COMES OUT?

Pre-orders will open in August, 2016. Publication and release will take place in time for Christmas, 2016. If you would like to see detailed progress updates on this as well as some behind-the-scenes insights, kindly navigate to the Official Valiard Website and Subscribe to the Newsletter. Otherwise you can catch quick updates at all the usual places.

SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR VALIARD ONLINE?

From here on out, only the first two chapters of Valiard will remain online for free, and I'll have to be secretive about official artwork that will be in the final printed novel. But other than that, I'll keep going as I have been, posting lots of pics, sharing fun updates, and just being my good ol' own self online. You won't even notice the change. In fact, with Golden Bell staff sharing the load,Valiard updates will be far more frequent on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr — platforms which I often have neglected in the past in favour of deviantART.

AND WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR THE SECOND VALIARD BOOK?

If things run smoothly for the release of The Valiard Mansion, its follow-up novel, The Valiard Mansion: Destiny & Fate, will also be published with Golden Bell. How much you will see of D&F, and when you will be able to see it, is uncertain for now. The tight timeline for getting the first book released will encroach on my development and writing time for the second book, and it will very likely not be published online as freely as the first book was. But trust that no matter what happens, I will finish writing D&F, and I will do everything in my power to make sure you guys get to read it. I will not allow the Valiard story to lie incomplete in your minds. Just thinking of it makes me want to go crazy.

HERE WE GO!

So, yes! Exciting times ahead, but a lot of hard work from both me and Golden Bell before we get there. First priority is getting The Valiard Mansion edited and illustrated. I promise each of my readers that I will give this my all so that you can hold my very best effort in your hands if you decide to purchase a copy. It's honestly the least I could do to thank you guys.

YOU CAN HELP VALIARD!

Have a favourite scene in Valiard that you feel must absolutely be illustrated in the novel? Please mention it! We're still deciding which scenes to illustrate and we need help! Want to rate or write a review of Valiard? A kind soul had submitted it to Goodreads.com some time ago and it'd be amazing if you could rate the novel or even write a review!CLICK HERE to navigate to Valiard on Goodreads! Is there an item of Valiard merchandise you'd love to own? Literally anything you could think of, please let us know. We're still bouncing ideas around on our side, but in the end you are the one we're making this merchandise for! We want to make things you want to own!

Remember to Sign Up to the Valiard Newsletter if you want to stay updated on Pre-Order and Release Dates!

To paraphrase an old saying: times change, people change. There are still people alive today that have lived through the Great Depression, two World Wars, the birth of personalized computers, and the fall of newspapers somewhere in between. Within those papers, The Sunday Comics have been a staple of every generation over the last century from Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland to Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant. The Sunday Comics of yesteryear were an art form to be admired, a world that saw cartoonists looked at as celebrities, but that sadly isn’t the case anymore. “They are not part of the national conversation anymore”, cartoonist Mark Tatulli tells ABC.

While some newspapers may continue to thrive either online or in print, it’s not debatable that the comic section has been reduced to near nothingness. Creators are pinched for space, a compromise that’s been made for some time considering Prince Valiant was the last full page comic strip produced in 1971 and Little Orphan Annie’s now a fraction of her former size.

Major Publishers all have the same mindset, no one wants to try anything new. With a traditional newspaper, a traditional business mindset has been adopted. In some respects, it makes sense why the size and format of the old Sunday Comics isn’t being taken advantage of anymore. Printing costs are high and many creators have abandoned the old models, looking for freedom online where there are less restrictions and little to no censorship. The United States market has become over-saturated, with over 200,000 “web” comics circulating online, no one person could read it all. The cream of the crop would ideally rise to the top but that’s too idealistic of a dream. The traditional newspapers haven’t done much to change their model outside of a special, limited insert or supporting the recently released Peanuts movie. Yet it’s still impossible to replicate online what was once so large and impressive in its original size, nothing today matches the scope of Little Nemo’s full page stories that saw a little boy exploring fantasy dreamlands drawn in full color.

Some of the best talent on this side of the planet can go unnoticed and that isn’t mentioning thriving talent in developing nations. Without a vision to expand across borders, allowing artists the chance to create something new alongside established creators, while dropping boundaries on restrictions in both content and size, we will see a resurgence of comics enter the mainstream audience once again. There is an untapped audience in foreign markets that is still developing, and there’s a well of unknown creative talent in these nations waiting to reach these respective audiences. What’s the future, then, hold for The Sunday Comics?

Fortunately, there’s still hope on the horizon. Despite newspaper comics fading over the last few decades, a new take on the medium aims to bring back the forgotten pastime that once gave countless generations joy. “To create a renaissance in comics, you need to look outside of what’s being done today. To recreate that timeless art form, you must not only go abroad, but look at other mediums and see the most creative and effective way to bring people together. Creating unforgettable masterpieces doesn’t happen overnight, it’s something you must work for constantly. With every new idea, you need an equally creative way to execute a vision. ” Marc Goldner of Golden Bell iterates.

Spearheading a recently funded project on Kickstarter, Marc Goldner launched the Sunday Comics with his two partners Rachel Korsen and Rob Gross, to bring newsprint comics back into the hands of consumers in stores outside of traditional comic book shops. Spotlighting over 300 creators including big name talent such as Paul Dini of Batman fame, Glenn McCoy Story Artist of Minions, Mike Collins Storyboard Artist of Doctor Who, Clinton Hobart Disney Fine Artist, Dave Alvarez Disney Cover Artist, Julieta Colas Cover Artist of Rick & Morty, Jorge Gutierrez Director of Book of Life, and John Sanford Director of the How To Train Your Dragon Netflix Series “Dragons”, both within the US and abroad, this paper throwback looks to use the broadsheet sizing of 15’’ by 22’’ to display a host of new stories in full color.

Every new day has it’s dawn and with the successful launch of Golden Bell Entertainment’s Kickstarter campaign, over 900% funded as of November 28th, there’s new hope that comics can thrive in the size they were meant to be read once again. No longer confined to tiny strips inside their limits.

“It’s a shame that so many people have now just grown up without even an afterthought of The Sunday Comics.” Marc said when asked where he believes the medium will be in the future. “Like vinyl, I believe that there’s a future for print comics and we’re paving that road!”

There’s always a chance to bring something back into the fold, especially when the ink hasn’t run dry yet. There’s a bright future waiting for the newly resurrected comic section and you can order your first one year subscription on Golden Bell’s The Sunday Comics Kickstarter!

Recently funded on Kickstarter, The Sunday Comics project brings back the best part of the newspaper with a unique spin on the classic format. Completely funded within the first hour, the new publication will feature a host of various artists from all over world working on new stories.

1) Not your Parents’ Sunday Comics Inspired equally by Prince Valiant and Little Nemo in Slumberland as much as Peanuts and Garfield, Golden Bell’s The Sunday Comics takes a modern approach to its selection of stories and pieces included within the publication. Mixing both traditional and funny strips the general populace at large is familiar with was only the first step, in the early 20th Century newspaper comics were lavishly drawn and the stories were often serialized week to week. The story arcs were not only serialized, but the style was influenced by very specific art styles that inspired Winsor McCay, where he had the creative allowance to draw the story out in full page color. While the arrival of film, television, and the Internet have certainly diminished the commercial desire for these comics, it does not mean that the medium as a whole has lost its wonder. The same can be said of Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant. Running until 1971, Foster used the whole length of the page to tell a story of knights, kings and adventure. It spanned years of continuity and its epic scope and scale has been largely unmatched.

Additionally, it’s also important to note that popular characters like Superman, Batman and even the Amazing Spider-man also had their day in the newspaper strips. While Spiderman differed from its trade comic run in its humor, both Superman and Batman were pretty serious in their melodrama and fits of action. Modern Sunday Strips have clouded the initial experimentation and genre defying storytelling from the early days, make no mistake, these new stories within The Sunday Comics are NOT the funnies we mostly associate with the Sunday Paper. Genres ranging from Science fiction, fantasy, crime noir are bolstered by samplings of slice-of-life drama and surrealist experiments with the comics medium. It’s true, yes, that artists will pay respect to the likes of Jim Schulz, Bill Watterson, Hank Ketcham, and Jim Davis, but what the Sunday Comics is truly about is using a respected format to bring new stories to the forefront with a talented pool of creators from across the globe. 2) The Size

Second, the size! The Sunday Comics return to the newsprint canvas of their former original glory at 15” by 22”, larger than all papers in print currently. The sizing of the paper recalls a time long gone by, with this size in mind multiple strips can fill the entire page, better yet full stories can be seen on one giant page! There’s no restrictions that are imposed on the publication since it doesn’t need to be inserted into any of the current editions of the newspapers still in syndication. Like the recently resurrected vinyl format, the new comics in the Sunday Comics exist to take advantage of the print medium, the wide spread and feel of newsprint in your hands. It unfurls and takes up the corner of your living room the way the old comics used to, making the new anthology partly an exercise in nostalgia, part fusing modern comics with a timeless format. The flexibility allows every single creator free reign to go wild with the size, adding value to every page. Moreover, this flexibility applies to readers as well. While it’s not wholly recommended, readers can again take out their scissors and cut out their favorite, full color comics and pin them wherever they see fit, we’re not going to lie, some make awesome posters! Not to cut out modernity entirely, there’s also a PDF version available so Sunday Comics are available on the road.

3) From all around/over the world

Showcasing a variety of different artists and creators from different countries has chiefly been The Sunday Comics’ mission from the start. Flipping the page and seeing Little Orphan Annie next to Dick Tracy translates to seeing work by Clinton Hobart, Disney Fine Artist, beside Paul Dini, lead writer of Batman the Animated series, side-by-side brings the Sunday Comics into the modern era. Getting to read and appreciate the workings of so many established creators is a visual treat, yet it’s also an entirely new wonder to showcase an artist that is just entering the medium comics and visual storytelling. Whether it’s locals from every outskirt in United States or the many artists from abroad, the Sunday Comics is the 21st answer to the newsprint comics industry. Not only merely invited, artists from every corner of the world are welcome to participate and tell their stories using a format normally reserved for a select few or none at all. There’s a future for the Sunday Comics and it starts with making quality content that will surprise new and old readerships alike.

4) New Garfields

Last but not least, the original grumpy cat is getting a makeover worthy of the newest iteration of the beloved Sunday Comics. For the first time ever, Jim Davis and the rest of Paws Inc. are allowing other artists to do their own renditions and stories of Garfield in The Sunday Comics. This reinvigoration of a Sunday staple shows the new takes only being made in this new publication. Creators like Mark Mariano and Mark Jackson have submitted their own strips on Garfield, printed for the first time on US broadsheet newspaper. This method of experimentation and risk taking shows that there is indeed a future for well known properties like Garfield from artists willing to take the character in new directions.

5) Yooka Laylee and other licenses

For modern audiences today it helps to have licenses from current industries making waves. It’s a new era and videogames are important to the future of media storytelling, especially following the advent of the Internet. Playtonic Games has given the license to Golden Bell’s The Sunday Comics to create original tie-in strips to their games. Marc Goldner, Rachel Korsen, Rob Gross are proud to be creating new stories with the charming characters present in the game brought to gamers by the developers of Donkey Kong Country and Banjo & Kazooie.

Regardless of its recent past, recent times show that there’s a home for all manner of stories and mediums once believed past their prime. The Sunday Comics are moving forward, while respecting its past, there’s a new dawn approaching and it looks like a very bright future! Pledge today from one of over a dozen different reward tiers for you to choose from whether it’s original art, comics, or behind the scenes. Thanks for reading and we’ll see you in The Sunday Comics.

Creators from LOST, How To Train Your Dragon, Minions, Disney, Nintendo, Doctor Who, Batman, and Garfield join The Sunday Comics - NEW YORK (November 24, 2015)

Golden Bell Entertainment announced today that they will launch their first collaborative arts project called The Sunday Comics. The start of this endeavor begins with The Sunday Comics, a monthly 15’’ by 22’’ inch newspaper publication. The publication includes over 300 artists with hundreds of pages of full color content. The Sunday Comics officially launched on Kickstarter on November 24, 2015 with astounding success, the goal was surpassed by 300% on the first day.

Where The Sunday Comics truly shines is in its partnerships with creators throughout the entertainment industry. With writer of “LOST” and “Batman: The Animated Series” Paul Dini, Oscar Nominated animator and Cannes Grand Prize Winner Bill Plympton, Eisner Award Winner Bill Sienkiewicz, Glenn McCoy storyboard artist for “Minions”, Director of the Netflix series “Dragons” John Sanford, Storyboard artist of “Doctor Who” Mike Collins, and Director of “The Book of Life” Jorge Gutierrez, The Sunday Comics plans to empower creators through a unique, new platform to showcase innovative stories in a well known, timeless format.

GROUNDBREAKING COLLABORATION WITH THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY’S BILLY IRELAND CARTOON LIBRARY & MUSEUM AND VARIOUS SYNDICATES

Additionally, Golden Bell is working with The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum to bring original copies of comic strips such as Little Nemo in Slumberland, the Passing Show, and many more back to their original format. The Sunday Comics will also be collaborating with various syndicates to bring classic titles such as Garfield, Peanuts, Dennis the Menace, Archie, Tarzan, Dick Tracy, Prince Valiant, Rugrats, and many others back to their original publication platform. The Sunday Comics sees itself as a hub for cutting-edge comic ideas and intends to honor the rich history of comic books by merging what’s become entirely separate industries back to one.

ACCLAIMED CREATORS FROM EVERY INCH OF THE GLOBE AND UNPARALLELED LICENSING AGREEMENTS WITH GARFIELD AND NINTENDO’S DONKEY KONG ARTISTS

Golden Bell Entertainment has received the rights from Jim Davis and Paws, Inc. to create original Garfield comics, which has never been done before. Additionally, Playtonic Games, creators of Banjo-Kazooie, has given Golden Bell Entertainment the rights to create the official companion to their game. The “Yooka-Laylee” comics will debut in The Sunday Comics.

The Sunday Comics plans to empower creators through a unique new platform to showcase innovative stories all under one publication. All of the amazing artists are working hand-in-hand with The Sunday Comics to express themselves in a way never seen before in the industry. Bringing people from across the globe together and creating new stories in a different medium has proved to attract household creator names to new and upcoming talent.

To follow The Sunday Comics on their Kickstarter please visit them at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/831309281/thesundaycomics to order today!

ABOUT GOLDEN BELL ENTERTAINMENT

Golden Bell Entertainment was formed with the hope of merging new and classic content to create timeless experiences for consumers of entertainment. With The Sunday Comics and Saturday Morning Cartoons, Golden Bell illustrates a passion for various mediums and a dream to jumpstart the nostalgia of a time gone by. The Sunday Comics merges an age old medium of newspaper strips by fusing it with serialized storytelling of the modern comic age. While The Sunday Comics houses over 300 creators, Saturday Morning Cartoons strives to inspire audiences with humorous, emotional, and story driven animations created in house and in collaboration. Golden Bell Entertainment was formed by Marc Goldner, Rachel Korsen, and Rob Gross. For more information please contact Marc Goldner at 516-984-1466 or email at Marc@GoldenBell.TV, or visit the webpage at www.goldenbell.tv to learn more about them.

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