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This Saturday I have
to find a way to squeese in my writing projects so I can celebrate
Free Comic Book Day. So if you’re shocked to see this post out
earlier than usual, that’s why.
Taking Time Out for Free Comic Book Day
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Is an author being
undisciplined by taking out valuable writing time to hit the comic
book shops to celebrate a relatively new holiday like Free Comic Book
Day (which debuted in 2002)? Not if comics influenced his/her
writing. After all, comic books are a form of literature and while
they are not a substitute for prose, they are still a form of
story-telling paired with art making it one of the most distinctive
forms of pop art of the 20th century and beyond. This is a
fact that is being accepted more each year since many of the most
renowned science fiction and fantasy authors have written comic books
along side their prose fiction. Some of these authors are ones such
as Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, and Harlan Ellison.
If
you’ve never been to a Free
Comic
Book
Day event then check out
the list of links below
that serve as guides.
These include Free Comic
Book Day’s official page and
locator tool
that will help you find
comic stores in your area that are celebrating the day.
Another link is to national news radio NPR which also puts out a
guide for the holiday. NPR covers many significantly world-impacting
issues from presidential elections and foreign affairs to sciences
and the arts. So there’s another example of how the comic book
medium is being taken more seriously!
Free Comic Book Day
Resources
And if
you’re in the Sacramento area, then check out two of Sacramento’s
best comic shops: Empire comics Vault, and Comics and Collectibles
(those are only two of the best!). They’re both
celebrating the holiday by featuring live appearances of some of the
finest comic book writers and artists in the area such as Chris
Wisnia, Kepi Ghoulie (former musician of the now broken up Groovy
Ghoulies punk band), Kyrun Silva and even nationwide artist Eric
Nguyen of Marvel’s Old Man Logan!
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‘Circa’ Print Edition Update
I have
my pages set up for ads in the print edition of “Circa Sixty YearsDead”. I also put in the header information (author’s name and
book title) on each page of the body text. Now I just need to insert
the ads themselves, including their illustrations, and see about
converting the manuscript to HTML so it will upload easily to Amazon.
I’m hoping I can get that done by next week. So be sure to tune in
here next time for more news on that.
Until
then . . .
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