Remember how I've been talking about putting up a cool new revamped shop page for a while?
Well, today is the official launch of Little House Comics!
Little House Comics is a joint venture by Eleanor and myself, where you can buy our books, minicomics, posters, and original art! It's technically located on my site, but it's got its own domain name: littlehousecomics.com. Please check it out, as we spent a long time making it awesome.
Unless something goes wrong... all of the standing orders of Journal Comics are in the mail! So if you ordered one, you should be receiving it in a week or two, hopefully. The estimated time for delivery of media mail is 7 to 21 days, so let's just say: if you haven't received your book by 6/15/05, drop me an email. International orders may take longer.
Now that I've finally taken care of the books, I'm looking forward to launching a new shop page very, very soon. It will be pretty cool, I promise you.
I hung out a bit with some cartoonist/artist type friends last night, and certain of them were giving me grief about never linking to their sites. So you should probably go visit my friends Joey and David's sites. Because they guilted me, but also because they are both doing some seriously funny, interesting comics right now. I have at least one other friend to whom I will link, when he finally gets a proper website up.
Ah, a night of Spicy Curry Chicken, Old Milwaukee, and talking comics. These are the golden years.
I don't know about these blog survey things, but I'll be a good sport for Robert.
1 ) Total number of books owned?
Somewhere between 800 and 1200, I'm too lazy to do an actual count. That's counting the reference books, kid's books, and graphic novels too, though.
2) The last book I bought?
I bought a whole bunch of books at a library book sale a month or two ago, and I'm still working though them all. I can't remember 'em all, but some of the ones sitting on the "to be read" shelf are Nabokov's Lolita, Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman, Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera and a book of Oscar Wilde short stories. It's not that I'm incredibly intellectual, I just read all of the quick and easy ones already.
3) The last book I read?
I think the last book I read through was the big Bone "One Volume Edition" I've had since Christmas. I had a good three quarters of the individual issues, but I wanted the whole thing in one place. I have to admit that it didn't turn out as a whole story as well as I had hoped. Smith kept introducing new plot elements up until the end, and didn't tie up half of the threads from the beginning in very satisfying ways. Maybe I would have liked it better if I had kept up with the individual issues.
4) Five books that mean a lot to me:
Hmm... if I were going to answer this question honestly, the books that I was most deeply affected by were all lousy Young Adult Fantasy/Sci Fi Novels that I was addicted to in my impressionable youth. So to spare myself the shame, I'll skip this one. Maybe I'll think up some self-flattering titles later on.
5) Tag 5 people and have them put this in their journal:
I'm pretty sure that people who perpetuate blog memes get condemned to hell.
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In other news, how retarded is it that I'm actually excited about the new Star Wars movie? I thought I was over all that.
Also, I have hell of a big ingrown toenail. Maybe I should see a podiatrist.
Holy crap, they're making a sequel to The Dark Crystal. I was obsessed with this movie for a good part of my adolescence, for reals. I managed to get just about every piece of merchandise associated with it.
For me, hearing they're making a sequel is probably kinda like a christian hearing somebody just found an Even Newer Testament. Mixed feelings of horror, wonder, and a bemused sort of anticipation.
About a quarter of the book orders went out today. I should be dropping another 1/4 or so in the mail tomorrow. I'm trying not to give the post office ladies a conniption, as well as waiting for any last minute address changes. Get 'em in now, folks!
Besides putting together packages, I've spent the last couple days getting over a cold. Eleanor's got it now, ha ha.
Today I also went and talked a little about doing webcomics to the kids in Linda Medley's "Self Publishing" class, over at SCAD. I don't know how coherent I was, but hopefully somebody got something out of it.
Speaking of teh webcomics, I guess I really ought to do some of those soon, huh?
I'm in the midst of getting books ready to send off (and finishing up a little something extra to include in the really late ones,) so if there's anybody out there who's changed addresses, and hasn't already emailed me, please do. If you're one of these people, I've got your updated address:
Randy Carboni Jon McElroy Rick Boven Steve (in Toronto) Jason McPheron Jeffrey Barker
I'll be spending the rest of today packing up orders. The last 24 hours have been pretty good. We got our power fixed (it's been mostly out for the last three days,) I got my computer working again (I thought it might have been fried in the power out,) and the books came in.
After a couple of emails, I finally got an ETA on the new shipment of Journal Comic collections. The guts have all been printed, and the book is hopefully going to binding tomorrow, and shipping on Wednesday.
