And here you thought it would be another 200 pages before you got more kissing! Happy Hanukkah.
Holidaytopia is upon us, so it is time for fancy deals. In the store, the Family Man Volume I book is $5 off until December 17th, with a free upgrade to Priority shipping in the US! And for the first time there is an option to have me add a sketch (something I only did for the pre-orders and convention books).
Last week I participated in another marathon roundtable discussion with Erika Moen, Bill Mudron, and (offscreen moderator) Katie Lane about the ups, down, how-tos, and oh-god-why-did-you-just-say-thats of being a freelance cartoonist. It’s in the Podcast page along with last year’s edition. You can also find the edited audio version on Katie’s blog Work Made For Hire.
See you next week, when there will be more exciting kissing! Or will there?
I always feel a little silly going “this random page’s particular number is divisible by ten! PARTAY!” but hey, 200 pages. That’s a lot!
In other milestones: my good friend Jenn Manley Lee has completed Book One of her epic online graphic novel series, Dicebox. If you haven’t had the pleasure to read it before, this is a great opportunity to become a fan just in time for the print edition next year.
Not an auspicious beginning to that morning-after conversation. You can look up the meaning of “fotze” for yourself, if you’re over 18.
Thank you to everybody who came by Webcomics Weekend! It was a lovely way to end this merciless year of conventions. Now that I’m home I can finally finish off those last eight pre-order watercolor paintings (!), wash all my socks, and hopefully hit a long string of uninterrupted updates.
Next week will be page 200! Holy mackerel.
Well! That’s quite enough intimate kissing by candlelight. Back to dudes carping at each other in a well-lit library. Oh, statuary, will I ever tire of using you to mark scene transitions? Survey says no.
Some things of note this week! First off, everybody should go buy Barry Deutsch’s wonderful book Hereville! Barry is a friend and a top-notch cartoonist, and Hereville is his lovely, witty, unusual, most-ages book about an 11 year-old Orthodox Jewish girl using her chutzpah to outwit some seriously cranky foes. (Bonus: I posed in reference photos for a lot of things Mirka does. It was super fun.) Pair it with Raina Telgemeier’s Smile as a holiday or bar/bat mitzah gift for that smart, funny kid you know and you’ll create a comics reader for life.
Secondly: I’ll be at New England Webcomics Weekend (#NEWW on Twitter) in Easthampton, MA. I’m really looking forward to this one – it promises a lot of quality time with readers and fellow creators, something that rarely happens at bigger commercial shows. If you’re in the area, please buy a ticket and come enjoy some of the internet’s finest.
Happy almost-Halloween! I thought about putting up a cute holiday-themed drawing, but I figured you would rather have more kissing. (Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.)
Coming up: on November 6 and 7 I’ll be off and running at New England Webcomics Weekend! My first time ever at the show. I am planning on taking it easy and having fun – they tell me this is possible. It’s quite a slog for me to get to the East Coast and next year I will have a sparser convention schedule, so if you’re anywhere within smacking distance of Northampton, consider dropping by!
Meanwhile, over at The Meek, Der-Shing is showing off another example of the best kind of lady: one who is armed and looking for literature.