Boston's Mayor Marty Walsh: "I'm pleased to announce the #BOSMeltNow [?-link] challenge has come to a close, as the pile officially melted today, July 14."
Corrupted
Let's Look at Dating
Leon in the Shop
Leon Beyond Book Signing
New Book: Amazing Facts
Amazing Facts Cover
Simarcade / Arcadecraft
Bad IQ
New Book
News Etc.
ALLA PRIMA UPDATE
I finished
many months ago, but as of today, I know of only 10 copies in the English-speaking lands. I had 9 books at SPX which went quickly (Mom got the other one, hi Mom). We’re still trying to figure out how to get more books out of Italy. Shipping costs and large email lag times are among the issues.
LEON BEYOND
The last few installments of “
” will be up at WTD soon, and then that’s THE END (seriously!) of the strip in the RFT. Mixed feelings, etc. etc., but it was time to move energy into other things. More news in the coming weeks about the complete collection.
COMICS SKETCHBOOKS
Some of my sketchbook pages are in
, which is 350 pages and is fun to look through. The cover design could be better. The pages I sent are from 2009, I think? It’s a good idea to put dates on sketchbook pages. On the other hand you see how quickly time flies, and how so many ideas that once seemed so exciting have been neglected. Why?
SOCIAL NETWORKING
I have had a Tumblr for a little while now, it is
. It makes me feel less lonely and inconsequential when people like and re-blog my posts. I'll take what I can get. For their own reasons, Ted May and Dan Zettwoch have also created Tumblrs -- see
and
. (Ted also has a
.)
F/R, NEWCON
Some new posts over at the
and
.
READING
Been reading Shazam! (
). I started out wanting to look at CC Beck and ended up really enjoying the stories. Otto Binder himself appears in the first panel of issue #1. (Is there a good career retrospective or writing about Binder's work? A list of his best runs?) Today I'm reading "
" and it's great.
Recent Amazing Facts
...and remember, there's still a SALE going on if you'd like to pick up some of the collections.
BIG LEON SALE
Over at the Catastrophe Shop, all AMAZING FACTS AND BEYOND Collections have been marked down from $5 to $3 each! That's all 5 for just $15! For a Limited Time!* ACT NOW. We're into our 5th year now on this strip, and all of them have been uploaded FREE to the Leon Beyond Blog. The collections contain extras like behind the scenes Introductions and useful "Beyondexes" for cross-referencing. The first and fourth collections have screen-printed covers.
*but probably for a while
Recent Amazing Facts
Recent Amazing Facts
New Leon Books
Recent Amazing Facts
Recent Amazing Facts
Recent Amazing Facts
Recent Amazing Facts Strips
Pinnochio
In a Ken Burns Doc
Statue of Liberty Replicas
...and there's other (better) ones by Dan Zettwoch too...