March Madness Has Spread To My Kidneys!!!!

Long night. Very tiresome, trying to whip together a pitch for what could be my biggest project to date. My first epic. Unfortunately, that's about all I can say for now, but stay tuned.

Anyway, if you're reading this and live in or around the Greensboro North Carolina area, I urge you to stop in at ACME Comics for their March Madness event, where myself and other comic creators Sean McKeever (The Waiting Place, Teen Titans, and a shitload of other stuff for Marvel) and Chris Scweizer (Crogan's Vengence and Crogan's March from Oni Press) will be signing comics all day Saturday from opening til close.

I'm excited. It's my first real book signing and I'm doing it with one of my all-time favorite comic creators. I've gushed about McKeever a lot in the past, because of how his book influenced my writing Love Buzz for the comic format, so sitting down next to him and trying to act like I'm not completely nerding out is going to be difficult. Also can't wait to pick up and read Schwizer's books. I've heard amazing things about them.

A couple months back when we were scheduling this signing, Matt Fair, an ACME employee who has single handedly sold 25 copies of Love Buzz so far asked me to do an interview to promote the event. I've gotta say, it's one of the most in depth ones I've ever done. He asked all the right questions. Click here to read it!

Anyway, if you're in or close by the area on Saturday, stop in and say 'hi'! I'll report back by Monday with a rundown of how the signing goes, but I'm going to go ahead and predict it's going to go like gangbusters. If you can't make it out there, I feel sorry for you. It's gonna be a blast!

Now though... On to beauty sleep!

New Year, Same Ol' Lovin'!

HA!

Look what I found in the back of the latest issue of Greg Rucka's latest issue of "Stumptown"...



I love you, Oni... So, so much! XD

In other Love Buzz related news, our friends at Graphic Policy have named the book their pick for "Graphic Novel Of The Year" for 2009, where they said (among other things)...


"This was a graphic novel I could relate to. It had me reflect on loves that have come and gone, it made me think at an emotional level. How many comic books made you do that this year?

This graphic novel was not just the surprise of the year, but also think it’s the sleeper comic of the year. It also helps we gave the graphic novel our first perfect 10 ever."



Also, after exchanging many, many emails with an enthusiastic new fan who's sold nearly 20 copies of the book off his own personal recommendations at ACME Comics, I wanted to help out the shop and do something special for them. His name is Matt Fair and because of his love for the book, we're proud to announce that I'm going to be part of ACME's annual "March Madness" event on the 13th of the month for a big, fat signing! I'm going to be sitting next to the likes of Chris Schweizer (Crogan's Vengeance), Ben Towle (Midnight Sun), and one of my heroes, Sean McKeever. (The Waiting Place)

To prepare for the signing, Matt prepared a bunch of questions for me to answer over the holidays. I gotta say, this kid just seemed to ask all the right questions to keep me rambling on until my fingers felt like falling off.

Read the entire, extensive interview here!

Man, it's just gotten kinda amazing to watch how everything is taking off from the sidelines like this.