Flowering bush, flowering bush, and then… A SUDDEN MYSTERIOUS VOICE! Today in Freewheel!
So if you haven’t been checking on your own, Freewheel has been updating while I’ve been away, even though I haven’t always been able to remind you. So if you haven’t checked in for a while, you can get caught up! We are coming towards the end of Chapter Three, which is very exciting! We’re about to meet the Tony’s Twins! How exciting.
I just got back from the Punchbuggy Tour last week and all in all, I’d say it went quite well. The cold and rain seemed to follow us everywhere we went, but we managed to have a good time and put on some decent shows anyway. Eventually I might get around to a better update on the tour than that, but for now that’s about all I can muster. Tour is exhausting, in a way that goes right down into your bones.
Anyway, this coming weekend is the MoCCA Art Festival in NYC and I’ll be there with the newly-arrived copies of Freewheel: Volume One! Anyone who preordered a copy via the Freewheel Campout should get their copy in the mail in a day or two (except outside the U.S., it will probably take longer) as I just mailed out every last one of them this morning! Unless you told me you’d pick yours up at MoCCA, in which case I’ll be bringing yours to the show.
Those among you who purchased a funder level that included a print will have to wait on that, those will be mailed separately as I’m having some difficulty getting decent prints made. Those of you who ordered commissions will either be able to pick them up at MoCCA with your book or will get them in the mail later this week or early next week. Just so you know!
OH! And also, I’m going to be on a panel at MoCCA! Here’s the deets:
Sunday April 11th
12:45 PM
New Genres, New Readers, New Technologies: The World of Comics To Come
Moderated by Calvin Reid (Publishers Weekly); Panelists: Leigh Walton (Top Shelf Comix), Liz Baillie (My Brain Hurts), Craig Yoe (Arf, Secret Identity), Charles Kochman (Abrams ComicArts), and David Steinberger (Comixology). Like the rest of publishing, the landscape of the comics medium is changing in dramatic and not so dramatic ways. Whether it’s the impact of Hollywood and new corporate structures at Marvel and DC; or self-published comics on the web, manga and a new generation of retailers, the medium has never seemed so strong; the variety of works so diverse nor the business and distribution possibilities so intriguing. This panel will highlight the state of the medium from the artful resilience of small press and indie comics publishing to the steady growth of graphic novels in the book industry and the proliferation of new genres and new readers for them.