September 1st = SSA

on September 1, 2009
I’ve gotten behind on posting up Set to Sea, but I have a good excuse:

Yep, the book that we spent the good part of the last couple years working on, is finally hitting store shelves! I got to watch from its earliest versions as Eleanor refined it from a fun, but straightforward, YA mystery/adventure book, to a tour de force of comics storytelling techniques. And then I got to ink it! If you like:

a.) Kids DIYing it without proper parental supervision
b.) Secret underground hideouts crammed with mysterious equipment
c.) Elaborately thought-out practical jokes
d.) Turn-of-the-century inventors (Edison, Tesla, Marconi)

then you will like this book. It’s really something special. Anyway, check out the website at www.secretsciencealliance.com. There are lots of preview pages, so you can see exactly why it took so long to finish.

(p.s. I’m going to cross-post this to the Little House Comics news, so apologies if you get it twice – it should be the only time. If you’re interested in SSA updates, reviews and interviews, Little House will be the the place to go (it’s Eleanor’s and my joint site, and you can even add us on Facebook, Livejournal, or RSS.)

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Set to Sea p. 20

on August 24, 2009

Forgot to post last Friday, so I’ll be putting up another panel later this afternoon!

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Set to Sea p. 19

on August 17, 2009

It turned out that we didn’t have the necessary lemons for the tomato sorbet, so we made olive oil sorbet with pickled olives instead. Sounds gross right? Well, it was. Strike one, fancy ice cream recipe book.

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Set to Sea p. 18

on August 14, 2009

I just posted an update on recent projects by Eleanor and myself on the Little House news site, so click on over if you’re interested.

I just finished reading The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman the other evening; every night for months and months I’ve been reading a couple chapters to Eleanor when she goes to bed. So we’re in the weird situation where I’ve read the entire book and she’s read half of every 3rd or 4th chapter or so. Anyway, that’s a very funny and charming book once you’ve gotten down with the 18th century vocabulary. The first chapter threw us off so bad I think it took a couple weeks to come back to it. We got the Penguin edition with the Reynolds painting on the cover, it’s got plentiful endnotes.

Tonight we’re going to make tomato sherbet, wish us luck.

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