Leland will be teaching a class at MoCCA for teenagers, starting Oct. 13. Please put the word out to any teens who are interested in learning how to make their own comics. The class is going to be good.

Comics And The Craft of Page-Making
A grand tour through the fundamental mechanics, tools and working
methods of telling stories with pictures. Learn what makes a comics
page work, how to do it yourself, and multiple approaches to putting
them together in the most effective ways to tell a story that hits
home. Learn professional techniques and trade secrets!
Weekly class starting October 13!

Instructor Leland Purvis is an Eisner-nominated and Xeric winning
comics artist and writer. Through work on diverse projects such as
his creator-owned series PUBO (Dark Horse), his critically acclaimed
self-published anthologies VOX, and SUSPENDED IN LANGUAGE (GT Labs),
he has cultivated an extensive knowledge of all aspects of comics
creation. Self-taught as a writer and artist, he brings a unique
perspective and enthusiasm to comics, teaching and creative theory.

That’d be us. As in, all copies of WEIRD SISTER that we brought to SPX were gone by the end of Sunday. Actually, they were half-gone on Friday night. Which had me a little worried, I might add. But it all worked out.

SPX was a blast. Next up, it’s that show you keep hearing about, the brand-spankin’ new New York Comic-Con. We’ve got a table reserved and I have a second anthology up my sleeve, a little number I like to call GHOST TOWN. Because, you know, New York City is just that.

Now all I have to do is write the stories… heh.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our table this weekend, whether you bought the book or not. ‘Twas lovely to see everyone.

Our books are packed and we’re off to the show!. Stop by table 68 in Versailles if you’re going. Hope to see you there!

Just posted a sample on the PORTRAITS OF TWENTY-TWO KEYS page.

I hold in my hands copies of WEIRD SISTER and PORTRAITS OF TWENTY-TWO KEYS, hot off the presses. Leland deserves a serious medal for getting these books together the way he did. Or at least lots of cuddles. Check out the WEIRD SISTER cover:

Gorgeous.

Wish I had a dog like that.

That does it. Wordpress theme, you have officially beaten me. No rollovers on the sidebar. Life is just too damn short to waste on decipering style sheet obscura.

I did get an ordering page up, though.

Preview art for WEIRD SISTER is up. Here’s one from Jeff:

Check out the rest!

More content; huzzah. I have a couple of additional pages to make and edit, and will have to get some Paypal buttons on. Simple, but functional. Then there will be some aesthetic fixes. I still haven’t figured out how to make all of the links turn red on rollovers, and all of the visited links should be underlined.

Okay, enough with the details that nobody cares about but me.

In other non-news, I fricking love our logo.

Looks like I got a basic install of Wordpress up and running, and knobs sufficiently twiddled on the themes tip that the presentation doesn’t make me want to gag.

Can you believe that the theme originally looked like this? Cute (I am the biggest Courier fan in the world, a fact that drives Leland bananas), but that typewriter is a little out of control.

Anyway. Dig on our logo?