Hi all – just a quick update.
Through personal brilliance I managed to wear a nasty little wound into the palm of my drawing hand this weekend! (Excellent timing, right?)
Typing is okay, but drawing is painful (and more than a little icky in the aftermath). It should calm down in a day or two if I behave, and with luck the page will be up on Friday. I’m disappointed to punt, but I figure acquiring stigmata is probably a sign from the universe.
But, on the upshot, it seems that the first load of books has arrived! Just a few hundred, mostly reserved for mailing to the San Diego Comic-con, but enough that once my hand chills out I will be able to start sending out some of the earliest book-only pre-orders. Woo!
So! I have my advance copy of the Family Man book!
(You can see this video at its home on Flickr here.)
Very exciting! It would be even more so, if I weren’t so tired that I can barely keep my head up. As I warned might happen, I have passed the “not healthy to try to post this week’s page on time” line. It’ll be up sometime this weekend, and look all the better for it.
Ugh, seriously, LJ readers: I am completely on fumes, here. I worried so hard about this book that I think I may have popped a kidney. It looks great, and all the other cool stuff packaged along with the limited edition pre-orders is going to look great, too. If keeping on top of all (and planning for the San Diego Comic-Con) that were all I were doing right now, I’d still be pooped – but the last two weekends on the road for family stuff, and the several freelance engagements I’m holding down on top of it all, have wiped me out.
So what I’m saying here is that cloning technology is starting to look pretty good.
Erika refers to the poses in the bottom panel as “Disco Inferno”. She has a point. Although at this period in history it would probably be a Waltz Inferno.
The word from my printer is that the book has come off the presses and looks great – it’s in line at the binding machine today and should be shipping to me early next week. That means we have arrived at your last chance to get a free sketch in your copy! Once the book stops being a preorder and starts being a, well, order, I’ll only be drawing in books at conventions or as part of a fancier package. Thank you again to all of you who made the book possible. I’ll be dreaming up promotional ideas all this month.
Happy Solstice, all!
I know that you all just read the comic for the bird cameos. So this is a little fanservice for you all. What, you were expecting kissing? Please.
But that is the end of this scene! Phew.
The book is in its final rounds of pre-press adjustment before it goes to print. Wish me luck getting it all wrapped up, and have a lovely holiday weekend, Americans!
Behold, a page! Thank you for your patience as I put it up late. I’m still working on book files and that’s been a consuming task – so consuming, oh lord. Hopefully I will put it to bed this weekend, but if not I’ll take next week off to guarantee timely delivery of the print files and to catch up on store orders.
Arrrrrrrrr so ready to get this book off to the printer! So…ready…