Yes, we have a table at Thought Bubble and as we've been busy during Lockdown Year the table will look quite different to the one at the last Convention I made it to, which was True Believers back in Feb last year.
This year we may also be joined by some of the V2A guys, as we'll have issue 1 of V2A Wasteland Chronicles available.
Can't wait.
Yes, I know it's April Fool's Day, but we are launching our latest Kia Wordsmith comic on the 1st of April.
This is the issue that shows us where Kia goes when she follows the creature into... well... The Inbetween.
Our WesterNoir Kickstarter is now pretty much complete.
I've mailed out packages to all the Backers who responded to the survey.
Feedback has been great, people loving the book, the extras and for those who backed them, the personalised Wanted Posters.
If you have yet to respond then please do so. It's nice to have a clear campaign as Kickstarter does archive old Projects and it's more hassle when people respond after a year or so, which is a thing.
It seemed only appropriate that Drone and I have been interviewed on a podcast asking us how we would deal with serving an apocalyptic event.
Appropriate in that we're producing a post apocalyptic comic book, not that we are actually living through a similar event.
Check it out over at :-
We had a fun time doing it, Samuel London is a great host.
It's only been a few weeks, but somehow this latest Lockdown is more draining than the last.
Sometimes you just have to get out of the house.
Today I walked down some country lanes, not too far from my flat.
But it was great to be out.
I thought I'd share a few pages of character studies by the very talented Joseph Parangue for an upcoming Blessed/Cursed comic.
Joseph accepted and has made a start already.
It's a little more difficult to plan ahead with releases this year.
The situation is less clear with regards to which Conventions will run, if any, and if they do then how late in the year will they start.
Crowdfunding Platforms at the moment are the only game in town, and we're lucky to have them, so they let us carry on producing and selling our books. The issue then becomes one of storing the comics until we have a chance to ship them out and equally importantly, start selling them at Conventions. An added complication, that I hadn't even considered, was our printer getting the special paper required for some of the extras we do as Kickstarter Stretch Goal Rewards.
All of this considered, my intention for 2021 is to print:-
V2A - Wasteland Chronicles - Doomsday
Kia Wordsmith - The Inbetween
Stephenson's Robot - the collected edition
WesterNoir - Vol 2 (which collects coloured versions of issues 5 to 8, plus some extras)
If the Convention season supports it then also
Tales of WesterNoir - the collected edition (which also sees some new tales)
The Accent Volume 1 - collecting Fastest Man, Invisible Man (out of print) and some new stories.
In the background I'll be working on more titles as always, so we'll have plenty ready for printing when the world reaches its new normal.
