New Interview - and Some Reviews

First, I have an interview with ACME COMICS, a store in North Carolina at which I'm doing a signing in March. Give it a read! Secondly, the reviews of Crogan's March have been popping up.  Give them a read, too! School Library Journal Kleefeld on Comics Newsarama Graphic Novel Reporter Innocent Bystander Geek Girl on the Street Also, here's a drawing, so that this isn't too boring a post! 

 (click on the picture for a bigger version of the same picture) One of the Crogan Adventure Society agents requested a drawing of Matthew Crogan, a character whom I haven't done much sketching with.  After finishing his, I was warmed up, and decided to do a drawing of him standing next to Sir Harry Flashman, the main character in George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman Papers series, the reason I'm doing historical fiction in the first place.  Since both characters are in India at the same time, I figured, aw, heck, why not draw 'em enjoying a drink together?

I'm big in England

Here's a weird little doohickie: a picture of me in a Halloween costume from a few years ago was in the London Daily Mail last September(?!!!). I found it by pure luck, doing an image search for "flashman" because I was trying to find out who painted the novel covers. I have no idea how this picture got there, or where they found it - I have a very cropped version in my myspace pictures, but as far as I knew there wasn't a full one on the web. Huh. Anyway, here's me:



In terms of drawings, I liked how this line turned out. I don't have a whole lot of moment-to-moment transitions in the book - most of it is dialogue-driven - so this jumped out at me. The villain gets mad, then has a dastardly idea. Bwahahaha!



I sketched these two little Napoleonic fellas in class on Thursday. Thought I'd share.



Lastly, we finished our taxes! Heck, we may have already gotten our return - Liz keeps up with that stuff. Since she's a stickler for the rules, and since I sometimes use the computer (rarely) for non cartoonin' stuff, I only get to write-off my "studio," which is nestled in twixt the TV and the coat closet ... so here's the eight square feet that we wrote off of our apartment (I think that this comes out to being .00076% of our place? That can't be right. I'm terrible at math). Studio!