Set to Sea pg. 129 (of 134)

on August 23, 2010


(The Set to Sea book is out now!)

• Last week was the week of potlucks, I went to three in a row. Good thing my friends know how to cook! I’m feeling really positive about the medium of the potluck right now.
• What? Miyazaki might be making a sequel to Porco Rosso? That was a gorgeous movie, but I don’t really know if it needs a sequel. Also, if the new Studio Ghibli “Borrowers” adaptation doesn’t do well, Miyazaki threatens to press the Ghibli self-destruct button.
• Cartoonist Laura Park lost her cat, Lewis, recently. She’s been working through her grief in some really beautiful, sad comics. Best wishes to her.

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Set to Sea pg. 128 (of 134)

on August 20, 2010


(The Set to Sea book is out now!)

• Damn, Set to Sea has been getting some flattering reviews recently. This from a roundtable discussion at Time Magazine’s Techland blog: “Set to Sea is just beautiful, emotional in all the right ways, and mixed with unexpected moments to pull it away from sugary sentiment and tweeness – Dude gets shot in the eye! Man!”
• Have you seen Joey Weiser’s fun new fishboy-out-of-water series Mermin? I’ll be sharing a table with Joey at SPX, where he’ll be debuting issue 3, so I urge you to come by and check out all the Toriyama-esque shenanigans!

• I just heard the actual recording from that Dr. Laura “n-word” episode. Man, that lady just loved saying “the n-word.” She was practically rolling it around on her tongue. What a horrible person.
• Also just heard a recording of an anti-“ground zero mosque” radio ad that seriously said: “On September 11th, they declared war against us. And to celebrate that murder of 3,000 Americans, they want to build a monstrous 13-story mosque at Ground Zero. This ground is sacred.” Ugh, ugh, ugh.

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Set to Sea pg. 127 (of 134)

on August 19, 2010


(The Set to Sea book is out now!)

• I’m going to be going to this year’s Small Press Expo! It’s September 11-12, in Bethesda MD.
• Speaking of SPX, this year’s nominees for the Ignatz awards have just been announced! One nominee I was pleased to see was Matt Wiegle’s story in Papercutter #13, The Orphan Baiter – a very funny short comic that takes the piss out of both steampunk and Victorian rags-to-riches stories.

• I didn’t realize that Patrick Dean’s amazing cover for the Flagpole (Athens local weekly) last week, was only the first of a 2-part set! Until I saw the second one on the stands yesterday, that is. On the occasion of the university students rolling back into town.

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Set to Sea pg. 126 (of 134)

on August 18, 2010


(The Set to Sea book is out now!)

• NPR’s pop culture blog had a very nice review of Set to Sea! NPR! The very same NPR that I listen to every day! Maybe I’m one step closer to my dream of “doing the numbers” with Marketplace host, Kai Ryssdal.
• Another positive review from UK comics blog, Now Read This!
• The amazingly talented Aaron Renier has a nautical graphic novel of his own coming out today, The Unsinkable Walker Bean. I think he’s been working on it almost as long as I worked on mine. I saw some pages from it a few years back, it looked crazy great. And I do mean crazy – the sea witches, for instance? You’ll see.

• Of course, this means our nautical novels are hitting stores more or less simultaneously. You know what that means… flintlocks at ten paces, Renier?

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Set to Sea pg. 125 (of 134)

on August 17, 2010


(The Set to Sea book is out now!)

A little patch of our bedroom ceiling fell in last night! There was a leak there for months – every time we called the landlord about it, he’d say he’d send a guy out to work on the roof. And then it would rain again. So finally a guy showed up yesterday and pounded on the roof for a while. Well, whatever he did made it worse. Ancient plaster rubble all over the floor.

Anyway, enough about that. Apparently, the Set to Sea book is just showing up in some comic book stores tomorrow? But I think it’s already arrived in some stores? Hmm. Have you seen copies at your local shop?

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