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New Reliable Press is proud to announce that KC Green's first Horrible collection is now available for preorder! Horribleville Vol. 1 is available in the regular edition or, for an extra 5 bucks, you can get KC to sign and sketch in your book.

The official launch date for the book is February 16th (KC's birthday!). Order now and your copy will ship out as soon as it returns from the printer.

Unlike past New Reliable Press books, this title will not be available through Diamond Distributors. This will be available through our online store. A list of distributors will be added to the site soon, so local comic shops will still have outlets available to them to stock the book.

So, head on over to the New Reliable Press shop and pre-order your copy today!

Page 2 up, after two weeks. Plowing through the third page in an attempt to be somewhat weekly.

Updated Things Are Ok.

I'm not normally a dude for drawing anthropomorphic characters, but the other night when I was finishing this strip up in my usual style (you can see the original under the cut), I thought I'd toss it on a lightbox and trace it out, trying to lose some of the "extra" details I'd added in. I also tried to keep the line weight consistent throughout.

I'm still not sure why I started to add animal heads, but I like the end result better than my original, so decided to stick with it through this story. I'm not going to be jumping on the anthropomorphic bandwagon, just kind of taking this for a test spin.

( Version 1 under the cut. )

For those interested, I've started posting comics and drawings to my new site ihatecomics.com.

Going to do my best to update it a couple times a week but, if my own history has taught me anything, I will likely fail at this.

Thanks everyone for the great feedback on the last couple strips. I got all self-conscious this time out and swapped up the lettering.

For a dude who makes most of his comic money by lettering comic books for others, I've got some down right sloppy penmanship.

I haven't really drawn much in a long time. I tried to do a 24 hour comic this past weekend, but just couldn't muster up the gusto to push myself past a page.

I noticed a lot of others were doing hourly comics and although I couldn't possibly do something on that scale, I have decided to make an attempt to get some moments down on paper. One or two every day or so, just to get myself back in the habit of drawing something -- even if it is just simple chicken scratch 2 panel comics about nothing in particular. Not even sure if I should be devoting the time to colour these, or just leave them in black and white.

Back from SPX, which was a great time. Loved meeting up with old friends and meeting new people.

Below is my haul from the convention:



Top row:

•Gangsta Rap Posse, Night Business 1 and Night Business 2 all by Benjamin Marra.
•Imaginary Monsters and Adventure Underfoot by Peter J. Lazarski
•Press Start and Fight by JP Coovert

Row 2:

•Motro Vol. 1 and 2 Motro minis by Ulises Farinas
•Radical Boy Portable GT by Tom McHenry
•Papercutter #11 featuring Amy Adoyzie, Jon Sukarangsan, Dustin Harbin, and Lisa Rosalie Eisenberg. Published by Tugboat Press.
•Real Cane Sugar by P. Cleland

Row 3:

•Secret Science Alliance by Eleanor Davis
•Lucy Legacy by Brian Evinou
•Unsettled by James Hindle
•Little Garden #4 and Nervousystematic Comics by Ayo
•Shithole and Recent Work by Corinne Mucha
•Eat World by Peter J. Lazarski

Bottom Row:

•At Least It's Company by David Huyck
•Comic Diorama by Grant Reynolds
•These Yams are Delicious by Sam Sharpe
•Pictures for Sad Children by John Campbell
•Monsters by Ken Dahl

I had picked up several other minis from JP Coovert, James Hindle and one from Jon Chad, but they all went missing somewhere between the hotel and me getting home. I'm hoping that they'll still turn up eventually.

New Reliable Press will be making our annual pilgrimage to SPX on September 26th & 27th.






Come by and visit us at table E2. We have all the usual New Reliable titles, plus Jason Turner, Steve Wolfhard and copies of The Complete Nick O'Teen, which are not yet available through the New Reliable online store.

ALSO:



On Sunday, September 27th we'll also be at Word On The Street in Vancouver. Manien Bothma, co-author of True Loves, will be there selling and signing books. Swing by and say hi!

New Reliable Press will be set up in the Word Under the Street portion of the show, along with a slew of other Vancouver based creators.

What are you doing on August 23rd? Nothing? Well, hell. Swing by Comix & Stories and visit with the fine folks from New Reliable Press as well as all the crazy talented locals and imports.

Jason Turner and Simon Roy will both be there signing, doing sketches and whatever else will make you more likely to buy their books.

Please speak softly though, as we'll likely be nursing hang-overs from the Comic Jam the night before.



More info here.

So, after months of fiddling around with various programs, I've set up a shop for New Reliable Press which is more user friendly than the previous store. Better shopping cart system with more flexible shipping options for multiple items.

In addition, I've recently set up US based fulfillment of online orders. What does this mean? Well, if you live anywhere other than Canada, your books will be shipped from the US. That means that you'll get them in about half the time that you would have in the past, since they no longer have to go through customs (for US orders) and because USPS has better international shipping options (for international orders). If you live in Canada, your books will still ship from New Reliable Press central here in Vancouver.

Check out the new store here.

New Reliable Press will be making our first ever trip out to New York City for the MoCCA Art Festival. Jason Turner will be sitting in with me at our table, selling and signing copies of True Loves. See you at booth 314!



Need a map to our booth?

Since coming back from TCAF a few weeks back, I've been thinking a lot about Ontario. If I'm being honest, I've been thinking about Ontario for a while, TCAF just got me thinking about it more.

( Only click if you want to read me go on at some length, rationalizing a move to Ontario. )

Thanks for everyone who came out to the True Loves 2/Jan's Atomic Heart launch party on Saturday night. It was a great success, far busier that we were anticipating.

Thanks to Gabe at Lucky's for hosting the launch and to the folks over at Cloudscape Comics for being there to launch their book too.

As usual, I brought my camera but didn't end up taking a single photo. So, below is one stolen from mr_esty and another of the beer, pre-launch.



Husband/Wife team Jason Turner and Manien Bothma enjoying a Brew Loves. You can see the back of my head and Simon Roy's arm behind them.



The beer served at the launch. 60 gone in less than two hours. Next time: more beer!

I know that Jason and Manien took a couple pics, which I will steal and post once they're up.

The fine folks at Lucky’s Comics are hosting a comic launch extravaganza!

Three books will be making their Vancouver debut: Jan’s Atomic Heart and True Loves 2 from New Reliable Press and Funday Sunnies from Cloudscape Comics.

Creators will be on hand to sign books! Original artwork from all three books will be on display!

Lucky's Comics
3972 Main Street
Vancouver, BC

Saturday, May 23rd
8pm-11pm

You can find the facebook event here.

Need another reason to come? ( click here )

True Loves 2 and Jan's Atomic Heart are now in hand and ready for the ordering. We've also added a combo deal for True Loves and True Loves 2.

We start shipping books out on May 13th.

It's Teagan's 3rd birthday today. We're keeping it low-key tonight, but she plans on rocking out this Saturday with friends.

Packing up my bags and getting ready to head out to Toronto for TCAF 2009. This will be our first time attending the show and I'm probably more excited about this show than any other this year.

Swing by the New Reliable Press table for the debut of both True Loves 2 and Jan's Atomic Heart. Both Jason Turner and Simon Roy will be on hand to meet folks and sign books.

Hey folks!

One last push before the Diamond ordering deadline. If you haven't already, please ask your local comic shop to order in copies of Jan's Atomic Heart and True Loves Vol. 2. The deadline for orders is tomorrow. It's do or die time!

Previews of the two books are available by clicking on the links below.



Jan's Atomic Heart 22 page preview.



True Loves Vol. 2 25 page preview

Please print out this flyer and bring it into your favourite comic shop(s) and ask them to stock up. Be sure to point out to your retailer that Jan's Atomic Heart was a staff pick in Previews and that we have a special promo going on through Diamond where retailers receive a FREE COPY of True Loves 1 with every copy of True Loves 2 that they order.

I know that everyone will love these books. If you buy either book (or both) from your local comic shop and are not satisfied, send them to me and I'll give you a 100% refund. No questions asked.

Both books hit store shelves on June 3rd, 2009.

Thanks for all your support!

Heading down to Portland for The Stumptown Comics Fest on April 18th & 19th.

Stop by booth #8 and give us a visit, won't you?