BIG NEWS! Freewheel is back to being a webcomic again! Long story short, I’ll be serializing Freewheel on the web from now on and will no longer be making Freewheel minicomics. Instead, I will focus on putting out paperback collections of Freewheel every five chapters or so. Freewheel updates on Tuesdays and Thursdays so click that little RSS feed thingy on the top or bottom of the page and get updates twice a week!
So hey, Freewheel official re-debuted as a webcomic today, so to celebrate, dear readers, I have a challenge for you! Obviously I want to get Freewheel in front of as many eyes as possible, so I’ve decided to reward anyone and everyone who helps me out by either linking to Freewheel on their Facebook page, posting about Freewheel on their Twitter feed, and/or posting about Freewheel on their blog. Here’s how it works:
-The post must occur this week, so BEFORE November 14th (Saturday)
-The post must contain a link to http://www.freewheelcomics.com
-The post must comment positively on Freewheel in some way (meaning not that you should write anything false, but obviously I’m not rewarding slander or something that’s just a link with no commentary)
-If you make a blog post, it must contain the following banner image:
Once you make your post(s), email me at liz@lizbaillie.com with either a link to your blog post, or a screenshot of your Facebook or Twitter feed. If you wrote a blog post, be sure to include your postal mailing address as well.
Anyone who posts on their blog will get a small, handmade thank you note mailed to them by me! Anyone who posts on their Twitter or Facebook feeds will get a digital thank you note e-mailed to them! The more awesome the blog post, the more awesome the thank you note!
Don’t forget, the Freewheel linkage promotion is still going on! All you have to do is blog about Freewheel and get a handmade thank you note from me! The more awesome the blog post, the more awesome the thank you note! Or you can post to your Facebook or Twitter feed about Freewheel and get a digital thank you note!
Here’s how it works and what you have to do:
-The post must occur this week, so BEFORE November 14th (Saturday)
-The post must contain a link to http://www.freewheelcomics.com
-The post must comment positively on Freewheel in some way (meaning not that you should write anything false, but obviously I’m not rewarding slander or something that’s just a link with no commentary)
-If you make a blog post, it must contain the following banner image:
Once you make your post(s), email me at liz@lizbaillie.com with either a link to your blog post, or a screenshot of your Facebook or Twitter feed. If you wrote a blog post, be sure to include your postal mailing address as well.
I’m stoked to start drawing up some thank you notes!
BIG thanks to everyone who’s been helping me spread the word about Freewheel by posting links in their blogs, Twitter, and Facebook feeds! It’s really helped me get a lot more people to visit the site and read the comic and that’s what really matters.
I noticed that out of all the links I saw (and there were a lot!), very few people actually chose to take advantage of the thank you note promotion! A handful of people did, though, and if you’re reading this – thank you! I’m really excited to get started on the thank you notes this week and get everything mailed out by Friday at the latest. If you posted a link to Freewheel somewhere other than on a blog, you should have gotten your digital thank you note already, so please let me know if you didn’t!
And don’t forget – just because the thank you note promotion is over doesn’t mean I want you guys to stop pimping Freewheel! I’m trying to get as many people excited about the web launch as possible, so if you like it, feel free to pimp Freewheel however you see fit! I’m not gonna stop ya! Believe it or not, every link helps!
Hey everybody! Thanks for checking out Freewheel! I know a lot of you have come on the recommendation of the awesome Evan Dahm, and aren’t necessarily familiar with much of my earlier work. I used to draw a minicomic series called “My Brain Hurts,” which centered around the various dramas between a group of queer punk kids in NYC, kind of like a punk rock Degrassi, if you will. Anyway, I put volumes one and two up for sale in the store, which collects all ten issues of the series between them, and there should be links to some interior art for each as well. Plus, you get a free sketch inside each one you buy from me! So if you’re interested in seeing what I did before Freewheel, that’s be the ideal place to start!
Anyway, thanks for reading and I’ll see you on Tuesday with another new page!
Hey everybody! Welcome to Tuesday’s page! I don’t have much to say except that I updated both my website and the Freewheel site over the weekend, so feel free to let me know what works/doesn’t work. I’m pretty happy with lizbaillie.com but I think the Freewheel site could still use a little tweaking. I feel like it’s missing something but I can’t put my finger on it, so feel free to shout out anything that comes to mind. I tried unifying the two sites by giving them similar backgrounds but I’m not so sure the argyle works for Freewheel. On the other hand, I’m not really sure what would.
Anyway, I’ve been working on a special 6-page Freewheel prequel (tentatively titled Pre-wheel, har har har) which I’m planning to put online as a .pdf available automatically to anyone who donates any amount to me. It’ll probably be a week or two until it’s up, so stay tuned! It’s a cute, lighthearted short story about the brother/sister relationship between Jack and Jamie.
If you’re in the U.S., you’re probably getting ready for Thanksgiving, so if you don’t check in for the new page on Thursday, happy early Thanksgiving to you! I’ll be eating at least two kinds of pie at my mom’s house, but the new page should go up automatically even if my only internet access is her slow-as-molasses dialup!
Hey everybody! Happy Stuffing Your Face Day (aka “Thanksgiving”) if you’re in the U.S., or just happy Thursday if you live somewhere else!
You know what I’m thankful for on this Thanksiving Day? COMICS! So here, have one, why don’t you?
Hey everybody! Hope you had a happy Thanksgiving if you’re in the U.S. and ate a lot of food! I stuffed myself with at least three types of root vegetables and of course, at least three different types of pie (four if you count cheesecake).
This weekend is that Desert Island Comics thing in Brooklyn (the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival) and a lot of people have asked me if I’m going. I don’t have a table because I am kind of conned-out from this year already but I will probably be there as an attendee – my first time attending a convention as an attendee since I think 2005! Crazy.
It’s December now! Which is crazy because it means it’s the end of 2009 already! I am working on my New Year’s Eve plans, meaning I am working on figuring out which movies to get from Netflix and which sort of cookies should I eat while I sit on the couch. Salud!
So hey, the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival is this weekend! This Saturday, to be precise! I don’t have a table, but I’ll be there walking around and hanging out as an attendee – my first time at a convention as a pure attendee since MoCCA 2005! I’m excited to be mobile and not standing behind a table as I always get stuck behind my table most of the time at conventions.
If you see me, say hi! I will be the one dressed as suit-and-tie David Bowie with slicked-back pomade hair (maybe), perhaps even with makeup (unlikely but possible).
Ithaca! But what does it meeeean?
So I went to that Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival thing last weekend and it was pretty rad! Maybe I will try to get a table next year, if I am not too burnt out (as I was this year).
Speaking of burnt out! Did you know I am in the process of booking two more legs of the Punchbuggy Tour for spring 2010? Well I am! If you have not heard of the Punchbuggy Tour, it started as a two-week east coast/midwest/south excursion this past October wherein MK Reed, Gabby Schulz and myself traveled around in a van doing comics readings and performing songs live on ukulele and banjo in various stores, coffee shops, and colleges.
We are planning on doing two more legs of the tour in spring 2010 so you should check out our new and improved Punchbuggy site to see how you can help! We need all the help we can get and we are not shy about staying with strangers we met on the internet (so far it has worked out just fine).
Also! I just posted two songs we recorded over this past weekend on the Punchbuggy site so you can go hear some samples of the kind of thing you’d hear us perform at a reading in your town!