Hey kids! My birthday is tomorrow! To celebrate, I put the first three issues of my comics anthology Burst Reach on Gumroad for free! Go get them! Spread the word, tell your friends! They’re free for this week only!
Also, one of the stories from Burst Reach 3, Stranger Rains, can now be read here on the website for free, so check that out too!
All I want for my birthday is for people to read my comics, so while we're at it, don't forget the OTHER short comics on here. And Other Sleep can still be read in its entirety over here. Oh, and then there's Shouting at the Void, of course, which I plan on doing a small print run of soon.
On top of that? BURST REACH 4 LIVES. I couldn’t decide between yellow or orange for the cover, so I just had it printed in both. Let the customer decide from there. I’ll be at Mountain Empire Comics here in Bristol this Saturday for Free Comic Book Day, selling my books and doing sketches. And hey, I got a sneak peak at some of the free comics that’ll be given away, and it’s pretty impressive stuff. The Transformers Vs G.I. Joe book by Tom Scioli is gorgeous and insane, and 2000 AD’s offering is jam-packed with thrillpower. Don’t miss out!
Oh, and Thursday night is the opening reception for the Out of Step show at the William King Museum in Abingdon, the same place where my show for Other Sleep was exhibited back in February! You’ll get to see some badass original art by some favorite artists of mine who belong to the Out of Step Arts collective, including Paul Maybury, Toby Cypress, Liz Suburbia, and Nathan Fox! The show will be up all month and admission is free, so go check it out!
And finally, I'd like to point you in the direction of the We Are Comics project, which was set up to show just how diverse the comics industry and fandom can be. There's been a lot of ugly, gatekeeping, sexist, racist crap going around lately and this is an effort to step away from that and make the comics community a better place. I've taken my own picture today, but I'm still figuring out what to write before I submit to it...
Expect an announcement on my new webcomic at the end of this week. I’ve been chugging along with it and it’s just about ready to be revealed…
That's it. Gotta go celebrate my birthday with my girlfriend, yep. Everyone have an awesome week, yeah?