Reluctantly reunited, Tyler and Rose have rejoined the S.Q.R.L., the covert agency that nearly destroyed them. Now, in Los Alamos, the discoveries they make about the organization's history will lead to even more mystery — and greater danger.
This book collects issues 8 through 11 of Raised By Squirrels, a gallery of new art (including pinups from Evan and Matt) and the first four Squirrel Tales.
Available, along with volume 1, at the Raised By Squirrels site.
Free Mini Comic Day
A group of Atlanta-based comics creators has started Free Mini Comic Day, to be held Saturday, May 5 along with Free Comic Book Day. Interested mini-comic creators can submit copies of their book(s), which will then be sent to participating stores across the country to be given away.
How To Make Mini-Comics
Steve and some of his fellow members of the ICC have posted How To Make Mini-Comics. This assemble-it-yourself mini-comic provides a practical guide to production and assembly.
We've launched the Panel Press Web site. Panel Press is the imprint we've established to handle some projects we're working on, as well as the Raised By Squirrels trades.
The first issue of our new title is available: Death, Cold As Steel with artwork by Jamie Chase. This 3-part, full-sized comic miniseries takes place in the world of the Squirrels, but the story stands on its own: the time is 1946, and the newly formed SQRL is confronted with an extraordinary crime.
You can also order the Raised By Squirrels books and check out the upcoming New West.
Staying in a hotel, so was flipping through USA Today this morning, and ran across their fall reading preview. Prominently featured and billed a "Graphic Memoir" was a profile (free registration required) of Cancer Vixen by Marisa Acocella Marchetto, cartoonist for The New Yorker and author of Just Who the Hell Is She, Anyway?.
Receiving capsule reviews were Brian K. Vaughn's Pride of Baghdad, the latest from Marjane Satrapi, Chicken with Plums, and The Best American Comics 2006. Also worth noting that except for Pride, all of these are coming from major book publishers.
We spent about a day-and-a-half at the Con, and had a great time. Maybe not quite as action-packed as Jason, but we were there as tourists. We did get to meet Greg Rucka, who couldn't have been nicer. And pick up all sorts of new books and visit with their creators.
It's really, really, really big. Exhibit floor alone is 525,701 square feet (a football field is 57,600 square feet). More than last year's 104,000 attendees were expected (the city of Santa Fe has around 62,000 people, 140,000 in the "greater metropolitan" area). So a lot of the photos are of people in costume, 'cause that's easier than trying to capture the whole scope of the show.
Pictures are at Flickr.
