Rod Van Blake
@vanblaze
Member since Feb 2026 • United States
About
Rod Van Blake is a Marine Corps veteran and award‑nominated indie author whose work blends epic science fiction, fantasy, and rich world‑building. He is best known for the Ancient Illumination series and the African‑inspired Nyumbani Chronicles.
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My name is Rod Van Blake (vanblaze) and I am the creator behind Mahali Pengine Entertainment LLC. I recently joined Globalcomix as a creator.
1.) I used the "contact us" form and have not heard anything back and wanted to know the pricing for tiers above Professional so that would be Enterprise and Custom plans.
2.) If I subscribe to the Professional tier, does that come with a gold membership for the reading experience?
Please advise. I am mainly a literary author who since 2019 began expanding into comics which will have pretty long series as both Ancient Illumination and Nyumbani Chronicles are direct illustrated translations from those respective novel series.
I am thinking of subscribing and want to know which tier would be best but cannot decide if I don't see the pricing, and if the professional tier comes with gold membership that would be useful to know. I have gained some momentum during the little time I have added my comics and would like to send more digital readers there. Thank you,
Rod
Also how do we get listed as a "Publisher" instead of creator?
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Mad Cave Studios
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Established in 2014, Mad Cave Studios is a comic book publisher headquartered in Miami, Florida committed to creativity and driven by madness. With a diverse selection of books across multiple genres, Mad Cave Studios has a comic book for everyone.
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Vault Comics
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Wise Acre Comics
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I had only one book at the time, but I nearly tripled the table fee in three days at the event. I was extremely happy but kept hearing the same sentiment repeatedly as I kept going to other shows. Often people would approach my table because I had concepts drawn up of various characters from the book and would ask "Where's the comic?". Each time I would explain that there was none I only write books. Some would add that "The story sounds cool, but if I'm being honest, I'm not reading 300 pages. Can you draw it for me?"
Had I only heard this a few times I could have ignored it, but this happened a significant number of times to the point where I simply had to find a way to make the illustrated version of my book happen or risk losing out on some readers. Problem is that I have absolutely no skills as far as drawing is concerned. Luckily a couple years later an artist caught my wife's eye, and she advised me to check out his stuff. I did, we linked up a few weeks later and have been creating graphic novels and comics based on my books since 2019. I have since expanded into the fantasy genre and worked with other artists to create concepts, art prints and other things in addition to the illustrated expansions of my two universes.
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AWA Studios
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