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About Rob Lopez
Rob Lopez writes and illustrates the sci-fi, horror and fantasy comic Forsaken Stars and an accompanying blog at forsakenstars.com. He has written over thirty short stories in the last few years, thirteen of them collected in Prelude to Spiral Legion. Other stories include “The Dark Lady,” “Vampire Lost” and more recently, “The Echo Girl,” a mind-bending thriller dealing with alternate realities. The stories usually come with concept and character art and sometimes art that stands on its own. Rob works with pencils, inks, and programs like Clip Studio Paint and GIMP 2 for the art and Microsoft Word and Kingsoft Office for android for the writing. A Central Valley native, Rob was born in Dinuba, raised in Orange Cove and has lived in Fresno since 2005.
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Blog postIf you follow me over on Instagram, you may have seen a few of my posts about a new scifi horror short story I worked on earlier this year. This made me think about another scifi horror short I worked on ten years ago, and so I started working on that one, and even toyed with putting them out as a kind of double feature. I’m still working on that one, but I felt compelled to get The Creeping Itch out in time for Halloween.
The Creeping Itch is LIVE now on Amazon.com for Kindle, and I’8 months ago Read more -
Blog postRed Eye Robot Six is fighting mad that I’ll be at Ani-Me Con 8.0 this Weekend, in the Artist Alley, Booth 118, Saturday and Sunday, March 16 and 17, 2019 at the Fresno Fairgrounds in Fresno, California!
Why is she mad? She’s a robot, she shouldn’t be feeling emotions! She’s probably mad that I didn’t write this blog post two to three weeks sooner like I had planned. But I’ve been sick, my mom’s been sick, everyone’s been sick!!! And I’ve had lots going on at work and I have an online3 years ago Read more -
Blog postForsakenstars.com turns Nine on October 9, 2018, but I thought we would celebrate early TODAY! Head on over to https://facebook.com/forsakenstars for art, trivia games and some giveaways. I’ll also be fielding questions and talking about the future of Forsaken Stars!
The celebration goes all month, since I’m also doing Inktober with a Forsaken Stars theme!
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Blog postIllustration “A valley on Thranx Skellion” is from the Forsaken Stars prequel short story “Vampire Lost,” available as an ebook on amazon.com
I know the site’s been quiet for the month of August, but I was still kicking around instagram for my annual summer project, Black Gum: 13 Atomic Flavors, focusing once again on Black Gum, with a few new characters and ideas. And I still plan on working on a Black Gum comic/zine for publication in the next couple of months.
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Blog postThis is the Big Night I’ve been working towards for the last couple years! Here are the details!
The Art of Rob Lopez
Reception at CMAC
for ARTHOP!
First Thursday, July 5, 2018
from 5PM – 8PM
Community Media Access Collaborative
1555 Van Ness Avenue
Fresno, CA 93721
Featuring art from Spiral Legion, Forsaken Stars, Black Gum,
Fresno Drink and Draw and More!
Science-Fiction, Horror, Fantasy and Adventure Drawings, Sketch4 years ago Read more -
Blog postFeatured Image is from May’s Fresno Drink and Draw event, Sakura! With Model Katy French, held at Fulton 55.
Heads up, Starlings, I will be live on CentralValleyTalk.com THIS Thursday morning, June 7, 2018 at 11:00 AM talking art, writing, #ILOVEARTBRO, Fresno Drink and Draw, Forsakenstars.com, but mostly (hopefully) my upcoming Spiral Legion-themed art show at the Community Media Access Collaborative – CMAC! I’ll be their featured artist for the July Arthop! So tu4 years ago Read more -
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Blog post“For the Love of the Forest” Spiral Legion illustration complete! Juniper, ASF special ops soldier was designed for deep jungle warfare, with a combination of dormant gene actuation and gene splicing from an alien plant symbiote. This is a desaturated color variant, going for more of an evening look, with maybe some moonlight providing some of the highlights.
I ran the original inked drawing through Clip Studio Paint Pro on my PC to create the transparent ink layer, then I painted the4 years ago Read more -
Blog postIf you follow me on Instagram, or Facebook.com/forsakenstars or Facebook.com/spirallegion then you should be pretty up to date with what I’ve been up to. If not, here’s a quick rundown: in February I joined the Arts Consortium with “Because of Course There’s A Snow Spider” and “Sleek Rover Patrol 1.” I helped Fiona Cooke Hogan celebrate Women in Horror Month by spotlighting some of my stories featuring stellar ladies like Captain Sera Besh, The Dark Lady, and Psychic Agent Agnes Blackchurch.4 years ago Read more
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Blog postIt’s the 9th Annual Women in Horror Month, and I’m proud be be helping celebrate it over at writer, poet, and blogger Fiona Cooke Hogan‘s Facebook page. She’s promoting some of my more female-centric stories, including The Echo Girl, today, Sunday, February 11th, which I’m really excited about because she’s been knocking it out of the park promoting Women in Horror this last week, including Lily Luchesi, Samantha Gregory, Baileigh Higgins, Joanne Van Leerdam, Nikki Landis, and Camilla Vo4 years ago Read more
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Blog postI created “Because of Course There’s a Snow Spider” especially for the Sorensen’s “Black and White” Show in January, but it so happens “Snowie” grabbed the eye of Joanie Gray-Constable, curator for the “For The Love of Mid-Century Modern” Show for the Arts Consortium for February!
So Snowie is moving to the South Valley for the next month, AND I’ve created a piece especially for the Mid-Century Modern show too! I call it “Sleek Rover Patrol 1,” I’ve posted a FULL Time Lapse Vid4 years ago Read more -
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Titles By Rob Lopez
--This itch is a bitch.
--This itch scratches back.
--Ever had an itch you couldn't scratch? This one's out of this world.
--Itching for a good story? This one's a killer.
--The monkey on Javi's back is a monstrous pain in the ass.
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Javi works aboard a space station convenience store called Neutrinos, with his young charge Kuona. Javi is afflicted with an itch he has trouble scratching sometimes--because it moves.
In 2577, an asteroid appears out of nowhere over the planet Altar and crushes the city of Newfall. It is filled with these space rats--the Shrekar--and we realize they are a spacefaring race unto themselves, bent on our destruction.
Doctor Segad Havel, an officer in the field, during repeated encounters with the Shrekar, develops a series of imperatives to prepare for an inevitable war. This is his brutal story of survival and the beginning of either our hope or doom.
Nearly a thousand years later, Kyton, now more machine than gremlin, has built a small cadre of robots to keep him company, most notably his butler Horatio, Achilles, commander of his army, and knights Belch and Ajax. However, they just don't fill the emptiness inside. Then a Mechan Dreadnought drifts near Kyton's asteroid field and he prays a little adventure might offer up some distraction and possibly a visitor or two to answer his silent cries for living, breathing companionship.
The Gremlin's Daughter takes place in the Forsaken Stars Universe, some time before the fourth issue of the webcomic series. Though it has clues and implications for the future of the comic, this is a self-contained short story packed with suspense, robots, aliens and adventure. Also contains illustrations and concept art!
This is one of those adventures...
This is a prequel to Forsaken Stars, taking place some 350 odd years before Azzi enlists the aid of Captain Sera Besh and her ship to get to the Godshield. This is a story about the passengers and crew of Arcasia's Scimitar--Captain Corolis, the mysterious Lady Vaas, Aimless, the Mechan Gunslinger, the Soulless First Mate Rev, the Delven Science Officer Sirtis--and the time they crashed on a wildly alien world called Thranx Skellion, as told by Warren Wheatley, a Gentlemonster of the Floppy variety, in this case, a hipster billy goat. This is another tale from the Forsaken Stars Universe.
Hello, Kitties -c.2014- Wherein a young girl learns about her genetic origins.
Cleaner Than Spotless -c.2150- Wherein an android-robot hybrid makes a terrible choice.
Our Ocean Wedding Day -c.2176- A tale of two lovers with an ocean of genetic material between them.
Time to Put the Toys Away -c.2230s- A telepath, a clairvoyant and a telekinetic play a game only one can win.
Acceleration Curve -c.2245- Wherein a group of scientists discover a paradigm shifter!
The Skies of Mars -c.2265- Wherein the last UFOologist gets a peek behind the curtain of conspiracy.
Preyer Jar -c.2300?- Wherein a man undergoes a radical genetic make-over to forget his sins.
The Great Space Joke -c.2333- An entertainer vies for the spotlight against a world-changing invention.
The De La Torre Family -c.2381- An officer responds to a domestic disturbance call and encounters a family most disturbing.
She is Not Herself -c.2474- Wherein a professor receives an admirer in the dead of night.
Soul Saver -c.2495- A story of clones and revenge.
Future Vagrant -c.2513- A vignette about a homeless man and his robot doll.
A German Shepherd, His Lord Magician and the Chippendale Arm Chair -c.2572- Wherein a blind agent of the Vatican and his guide dog are dispatched to another planet to investigate the claims of a possessed arm chair!
Brothers Andre and Volkov Kasper are borrowing the Last Sheila, a creaky old Zanthium Ore arc-jump star freighter, to make a run that will take them near the Delven Homeworld so that they can spread their deceased sister's ashes at the waterfalls of Ascandia. Upon passing the Indigo Nebula, Volkov sees the impossible--a woman, sans spacesuit, wearing the cosmos like a dress, floating just outside the ship! Andre guesses his brother has been drinking too much fauxdka, but she is far more than a figment of Volkov's drunken imagination. And she's not alone...
Set in the Forsaken Stars Universe, the Dark Lady is a self-contained short story with all the thrills, chills and sexiness of the comic. Also contains illustrations and concept art!
A stormy morning in June, nearly fifty years since the Great Quake, Coast Guardsman Lieutenant Derrick “Dee” Keyes, first mate of the 310 foot, MYSTIC-Class Cutter Zyrfass, had cut his bachelor party short to join a rescue operation. Semper Paratus, “always ready,” was the call to duty that drove him to become a Guardsman in the first place, but he sure hoped the op wouldn't spill into his wedding day.
His fiancée, marine agriculture technician Anjaneia Nui Waikamali`i, a third generation mermaid, homo sapiens aquarius, was teardrop-shaped for aqua-dynamics; she had long, webbed hands and feet that looked more like flippers; and gills that ran along her neck and ribcage for long term submerged breathing. She was funny, fierce and had a voice like a Hawaiian sunset.
Architeuthopolis shook and groaned with the churning of the sea. City maintenance teams worked tirelessly to batten down the hatches and fortify connecting corridors in the vast ocean floor habitat composed of thirty-five interlocking modules. Each module was self-sufficient, at least in the short-term, and, if necessary, could be rearranged or moved according to environmental conditions or the needs of the inhabitants. Many of the modules were designed after sea creature archetypes and had been given their counterpart designations like Crab Hall, Sand Dollar Station, and Coral Row.
Derrick's family had arrived three days before, from Florida, and his mother Gladadale had complained from the moment she had set foot in the undersea habitat. Sand Dollar Station was too cold, Lobster Pavilion was too hot, and the whole thing was claustrophobic. Oh, and she hated seafood. Anjaneia took this all in stride. Derrick had warned her that his mother hadn't been the same since his father died in one of the last great quakes, and she had made the difficult decision to move back to Florida to live with her folks. So she was a little bitter and angry, but once she warmed up to Anjaneia—and how could she not?—she would be fine.
Anjaneia felt three years, never mind days, wouldn't be enough to warm this woman up.
There was going to be a wedding.
And there was going to be a tsunami.
Would love survive?