Robot Shorts - A to Z. I is for .....

It's been a busy few weeks, October and November being Comics Convention season over here in the UK are typically busy, but this year we've added to the problem with Whatever Happened To The World's Fastest Man ? hitting the November's Diamond PREVIEWS catalogue.

Good news is that it has been given a SPOTLIGHT box around the listing, which will hopefully raise it to the attention of retailers as they make their orders. Bad news is that the same PREVIEWS catalogue has so may cross over events from DC and Marvel that I can see the retailers having very little spare cash with which to try something new, which is probably the DC/Marvel plan. Still, we've emailed reviews and low res PDF link out to about 800 retailers across the globe, mostly in the USA, so we'll have to see.

I'm off to a DAMA conference next week ... nothing to do with LOST I'm sorry to say, just a Data Conference ... to do with the day job ... sigh.

Pop over to see Jason Cobley's review of Fastest Man ...

Jason Cobley picked up a copy of ''Whatever Happened To The World's Fastest Man ?'' at the BICS event and has written some very nice words about it over on his blog ...

http://jasoncobley.blogspot.com/

... Thanks Jason .. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

I also had asome great feedback from people at the MCM event, professionals, self publishers and comic book readers .... it really does make it all worthwhile ...

A Strange Times - Book 1 review ....

... from the guys taking shelter in their Parent's Basement over there in the US ... http://talesfromtheparentsbasement.com/reviews/?p=153.

another Whatever Happened To The World's Fastest Man ? Review ...

... can be found over on http://www.comicshopvoice.co.uk/reviews/comics/Whatever%20Happened%20to%20the%20World%27s%20Fastest%20Man.htm .... :o)

Robot Short - A to Z. H is for ....

At the moment I'm busy preparing my brain for the MCM Expo next weekend ... it's a huge convention but sadly not all about comics ... film stars rub shoulders with comic stars ... and us ;o)

We've managed, thanks to Diamond UK, to get 4 pages ... yes ... 4 whole pages in the MCM Expo Booklet ... you can check it out yourselves http://www.myebook.com/index.php?option=ebook&id=17552 ... we're at the end of the book .. where people tend to start their browsing ;o) Thanks go once again to Andy Bloor for designing the 'advert-that's-not-really-an-advert' page.

Also Fastest Man is still getting plugged over at http://www.hypergeek.ca/ as we near the November Previews.

Busy ... busy ...

Strange Times Book 2 .... in progress ... honest.

I thought I'd pop an image up to show that I am progressing with Strange Times Book 2, and not sitting here with my feet up watching TV. As you can see from the image, if you're following the web comic, there have been some changes in Barrington Cully's life of late .... is he happy about them ? We'll have to see ....

Strange Times and Fastest Man mentions ...

.. over on Mark Clapham's Blog http://rollbackandmix.blogspot.com/ ... Mark does contribute to our anthology titles and so may be a little bias o) Thanks for the reviews Mark .. glad you enjoyed them both ...

Robot Shorts - A to Z. G is for .....

Just recovering from a really busy and productive BICS event. Sold a good number of Whatever Happened To The World's Fastest Man ? and even some copies of Strange Times Book 1. GOSH Comics in London took a few copies of the latter for their store as mentioned on their blog http://goshlondon.blogspot.com/2009/10/gosh-authority-071009.html, you'll have to scroll down the full entry for The Gosh! Authority 07/10/09 but it is there :o).

Andy Bloor helped out once again and drew (uh oh .. pun alert) in a queue of people by sketching Wolfmen ... which resulted in them wanting to buy a copy ... they even bought a copy when he drew other requested characters .. a punk ... Thanos .. Dr. Strange and Batman ... hmmm ... Dr. Strange ... not a bad name that one ...

It was great to meet so many people I'd only ever spoken to electronically and I'll apologise now to anyone who I may have blanked a little ... I'll blame it on my state of mind over the weekend, the poor lighting and my age ... I've already apologised to one person by email (Sorry again Mr Hughes) ... hopefully I didn't do it to anyone else.

I bought a few books over the weekend and so far have read Grandville from Bryan Talbot and Thomas Wogan is Dead from Dave Hughes. They're very different and both a very good.