I’ve made a Facebook page I can finally use properly. This is the best place for us to talk to each other because it’s fast and easy. Like a 21st Century Letter Column. Check it out: www.facebook.com/terrymoorebooks
And now you know what’s in my menu bar, too. You can see I’m also on Twitter, Tumblr, Deviant Art, SoundCloud and ComiXology. I’ll post more about each page later and tell you how I use them to get my art out to the world.
Rachel Rising #8 is truckin’ to ya. Global release date for print and same-day digital is May 23.
When Charles Schulz was sick with cancer, all the cartoonists in the Nat’l Cartoonists Society sent him a card. This was the sketch I drew for him.
Frick Weber’s homemade series on comics is very interesting because he bravely goes up to people you want to hear and asks them to explain things, like how to make comics that people will actually like. Don’t let the handheld cam fool you… Frick’s actually an experienced video pro making this labor of love on the side. In his latest installment, I share time with two of my favorite artists, Jeff Scott Campbell and Humbertos Ramos.
The Torino comic show I attended was covered by some funny guys with an on-site radio broadcast. Here’s my 5 minutes on the program. It was all in good fun.
So Robyn and I went to Italy for a week, came back to Houston for a few days to do our laundry, then went back to europe for a week in Paris and an overnight trip to Arras. Now we’re home for two days before leaving for Indianapolis to attend a wedding this weekend. While Robyn is coming home Sunday, I will stay through Monday to watch the cars practice for the Indy 500, then come home that night. In the midst of this, I have to start Rachel Rising 9, which is due in 4 1/2 weeks. I haven’t even drawn page one yet. Plus I have to write a screenplay and deliver a ton of SiP files to Comixology. (That’s the problem with SiP—everything you do with it involves a ton of files. If you want to format the pages, you format 2300 pages.) Oh, and somebody asked for a sketch.
So, that’s my excuse for not posting some pictures and a report of the two trips, even though I have a lot of pictures and I had a great time. I made new friends, saw some old ones again, and was happy to find that my books are healthy and alive across the pond.
The Tell-Me-Everything-In-10-Seconds version is:
We met and signed with our new Italian publisher, BAO.
I met a writer named Barbara that you should know about and follow as she cleverly navigates her way through the obstacles between her and a lucrative writing career. Barbara is a writer’s writer… meaning this is her life. Watch and learn from her.
I learned it is a big mistake to travel to leave the country without getting your phone set up to work out of the country. I only needed it about every other second.
I mistakenly did not buy the beautifully accurate 120 euro Venus de Milo statuette at the Louvre gift shop. Regretted it the minute we walked outside. So now I have to go back someday and get it.
I learned not to visit Paris museums with a pocket knife in your pants.
I ate enough jambon and fromage to last me a lifetime, thank you very much. I think I’ll go veggie from now on.
Seats A&B on aisle 17 of a 767-200 are right next to the bathroom, with the door swinging open your way like a fan… delivering a constant gentle breeze of refused airplane food. Never sit in seats A&B on aisle 17 of a 767-200.
I’ll be back with more details of my ridiculous life when I get caught up a bit on work.
In case you missed it, like me, Lauren of Ink Hero picked Rachel Rising 6 for her Pick Of The Week, starting at 5:05. This is a very good review team, by the way. I like the dynamic between Lauren (who has a very Katchoo-like quality to her personality) and David. Their video reviews are called Ink Hero, located at ThinkHero.com, just to make that clear.
She’s back! Run to your store. If you fall and break your legs, call them, ask if they deliver, or go to comiXology.com and read it NOW!
Funny review by Lizzie Boyle about the women of Rachel Rising… oh, and the men.
Geekadelphia.com is giving away a signed copy of Rachel Rising: Shadow Of Death TPB this week. Just leave a comment at the end of their review and you’re in the drawing!
