The signing at Comics 2 Games yesterday was a blast. I got to hang out with some good friends all day, meet some of you readers, and hopefully made a few new readers. If I saw you there, hello!
Bob had ordered stacks of the Graphic Novel. Look how pretty!!
His niece… baked me a Dreamer Cake! And it was so stinking delicious. I’m not a cook but there was talk about orange juice something or other, and strawberry glaze this or that… I dunno, it all measured up to moist and delicious.
Bob made me cerimoniously cut the first slice. And then… I promptly pawned off the responsibility to someone else. It always seems to me if you cut wedges, then you were supposed to have cut squares, and if you cut squares, then they’re either too big or too small. Too much to worry about! So I made someone else do it. ;)
Poor Mike had to wait until I was back in Ohio to see the book. He worked all day. So long after the sun went down, he got his first glimpse. The proud parents:
(We’ve worked so insanely hard to put that book together, and make it look awesome. Lots of late nights, headaches and… some tears here or there.)
I wasn’t at all happy with it. Nope. Not a bit. ;)
As for the Fan Art Contest… it is officially closed! I got a ton of late night submissions in my inbox, and also in my DeviantART account. Right now, because of the signing and for other reasons, I’m crazy far behind on my work. And I think you all would rather have some new pages tomorrow than Fan Art Entries…? (Well, except perhaps for those of you who entered last night, lol!) So I’m going to finish my pages first. I’ll still announce the winner tomorrow, and then I’ll post the rest of the entries over several blogs next week. (There are a lot.)
See you tomorrow!
Hey, is there a reason that IDW’s website and Amazon.com show the graphic novel cover as being the cover of issue #1 rather than the one you did especially for it?…
Yup. Because when they prelisted it, the new cover didn’t exist. :)
Well, they need to get on it then! :) I just checked IDW, and they’ve updated it. But Amazon is still the issue #1 cover.
BN said that it won’t ship until Aug. 14th. Waah!!!
‘Grats
The cake looks scrumptious and the graphic novel’s beautiful.
I can’t wait till my bookstores have ‘em.
Yyyyeahhh….I ended up having too much wedding stuff to do to get my entry done :( But I’ll still be sending it to you as fanart!
Congrats on the graphic novel, looks absolutely gorgeous!!
Yay! I’m so happy it’s out! Congrats on a succesful day on it! (like I said, we don’t get it down here in Texas until two weeks from yesterday… very sad). Also, do you sell the buttons that were in your first picture? I collect buttons of all sorts and I’d love to get some!! :D
Ooh~ Congrats on the release! (that cake looks yummy o.o ) The graphic novel looks beautiful!! I haven’t gotten mine yet, unfortunately… Hopefully I’ll be able to pick it up this weekend ;)
WOOT! I will camp at my B&N untill i own that book!!!!!! Im SOOOO excited! Grats on a wicked awesome release of the novel!!!
Awww I’m so happy for you! Here’s to the *next* graphic novel. Hopefully minus the tears …
Lora I’m so happy for you, I hope I can be where you are, lor even close to that point when I’m you’re age
:)
Congratulations!
Oh, and by the way. I’ve been working weddings for five summers now, it’s one thing to cut your own awesome graphic-novel-day-celebration cake into funny sized peices. But when it’s someone elses $1000 cake for THEIR day, then you know what it’s like to worry about cake cutting :)
OMG, YAAY!!
i can nooott wait to get my hands on one(!), but my bookstore doesn’t have them yet :(
Congrats :)
I bet this is a dream come true! (No pun intended)
Congratulations!
The graphic novels look stunning.
I can’t wait to get my claws on it! :D
Congrats!! :-D! Super excited for you!
*Glee* I’ve been admiring mine since I got it on Wednesday :) I was very proud to see a stack of them on the shelf at my local comic book retailer.
Kudos on a job well done.
Oh my gosh they look great! I so want to buy some and the short stories soon!
I FINALLY got mine from Amazon today! I’d forgotten how great that new comic book smell is!
Finally got my copy of the Graphic Novel! But, I will say that I am antsy to know why Bea is crying at the end of this issue. My guess is that she’s confused.