You can all relax now. My long wait is over: the first copies of Wild Ride arrived at my door yesterday and . . . they look fantastic.
It’s great to see Mike Deas’ beautiful art in its final glossy-paged form and so nice to be able to flip through the pages (as opposed to looking at a pdf file on my dying monitor.)
Unfortunately, you’ll have to wait until October before you can hold a copy of Wild Ride in your hands.
Fortunately, you won’t have to wait to get a sneak peak at the opening pages of Wild Ride. They’re available, including some of Mike’s rough pencil sketches, at the new website for the book series: graphicguideadventures.com.
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The big day is getting close! Wild Ride will be in bookstores very soon.
The first printings have arrived at the Orca offices in beautiful Victoria, BC. And illustrator Mike Deas, lucky west coaster that he is, has the photo evidence to prove it.
Mike lives in Victoria, so all he had to do was walk around the block to grab his copies. Me? Well, I have to check the mailbox compulsively for the next week, while my copies make the 3000 km journey across Canada. Lucky books. That cross-country journey is a beautiful one.
It’s always exciting to see your new creations finally printed and bound for the first time. So, I feel a bit like a kid before his birthday, eagerly counting down the days and waiting as patiently as I can. But I really hate waiting.
Maybe I’ll go check the mail just one more time.
As usual, I’m a bit late with my post about last week’s Brantford & Burlington Book Camps, but you can stop fretting: the wait it over!
It was an early start to get the train to Brantford from Toronto, but I arrived just in time to find all the campers posing for their group photo. Myself and one of the powerhouses behind the conference, Marsha Skrypuch, joined in for a few photos and then we were ready to get down to the nitty gritty of comic making.
Read the rest of this post at my blog, feeding change.
It’s been a long time coming, but I’ve finally switched my site completely over to Wordpress with a spanking cool new look to boot!
The old baby blue served me well. Hand coded html done in 2000 with some horrific workarounds and coding hacks to make everything stay in place. There’s no new content here, just a lot of fancy new headers and a clean, simple look I’ve been pining after for quite a while now.
The change will make its way over to feeding change, but I’ve had enough css hacking and ftping for one day. I’m a writer not a coder!
Now, it’s time for a cool drink and disc 1 of season 2 of Rome. It’s gonna be a good night.
In the meantime, leave me a shout and let me know what you think of the new look and tell me if anything’s broken (there’s bound to be something!)
Oh yeah, if you’re looking at this through Internet Explorer, those links up top are probably all jumbled together. Still working on why that is. But I mean, really, shouldn’t you be using Firefox anyway? All the cool kids are. And you want to be cool. Don’t you?
Another week passes and I’ve been busy working on a top secret WIP and the latest book in the Graphic Guide Adventures series for Orca.
Wild Ride (book one in the series) is off to the printer and I’m totally chomping at the bit to get my grubby paws on a copy.
I’m also getting pumped to spend a day talking comics at the Brantford and Burlingon Book Camps. It’s all happening on Thursday August 16th in Brantford in the morning and Burlington in the afternoon.
I’ll be working with four groups of 50 young writers to show them how comics are written and produced. Once I’m done blabbering, the kids are going to have a chance to put their mad creative skillz into action to write their own comic pages.
Looking forward to it!
