News

Can you believe it? The Tarts put me on the cover! Head
over to Sequential Tart … mine is one
of two rotating images on the intro page. If you don’t see mine, hit refresh. This is sooo
cool.

And Barb Lein-Cooper wrote a stupefyingly nice intro to my interview. Barb, you rule,
baby!

Carla Speed McNeil just sent me a character sketch. It’s really, really beautiful.

Tim O’Shea has done a very sweet interview for
Vögelein on his website, OrcaFresh. Dunno exactly why it’s called OrcaFresh, but anytime I
get me an Orca, I want it to be fresh — so I guess I’m gettin’ my Orcas from Tim from now on…
check it out.

The nice folks down at Sequential Tart are doing an interview with
me in their March Issue. They’ve been doing a tremendous lot to boost my ego and my sales, so go
check ’em out. Their website is really, really cool and funny — their column, “Bizarre Breasts”
is not to be missed, and is quite worth digging through their archives to read past
isses.

I took an entire day today and prepped my taxes. I am so proud
of myself. And staggered that it takes a whole day to just get all my receipts in order to give
to the folks at my accounting firm. Imagine if I actually had to file the taxes. Yeesh.
I get any more personal and this’ll turn into a blog. While you’re at it, go visit my favorite
blog ever, Mighty Girl. She’s so much cooler
than me.

Library Appearances!

Hooray! The article a few weeks ago in the Ann Arbor News has done much for my public
appearance schedule. I’ll be speaking at various libraries across SE Michigan through the spring
and summer, and will post them as soon as I have dates and times finalized. (I’ll be speaking at
some schools, as well, but those aren’t really public appearances…) If you’d like me to come
speak at your school or Library, please shoot me an email.

I was really industrious today and set up direct
purchasing links on the Vögelein Online Store today. Now it’s
easier than ever to purchase Vögelein on line, direct from me!

Dude. My buddy Steve just got back from NYC and says
he spotted Vögelein. at a comic shop while he was there. Guess this means I’ve
finally hit the big city!

Work is kicking my butt, and none of it has to do with
Vögelein. That’s why there haven’t been updates in over a month. As such,
there’s lots to be said!

1. The Diamond and ColdCut orders have both shipped. Vögelein will be
available nationwide beginning in early March. Ask for it by name!

2. I’m currently working as a freelance illustrator. (See “Yargh. “, above.) There will be
some books published (eventually) that have my little drawrings in them. More on this
later.

3. The cool new Vögelein project outlined below has been indefinitely
postponed. It’s a real bummer, but something to get back to when I’m unemployed again. It’s a
ton of work, to be sure, so I don’t want to shortchange the final product by rushing. More details
as they become available.

4. I’m going to the Motor City Comic
Con in May. See you there!

5. Vögelein got some long-awaited press coverage in the Ann Arbor News last week, along with stellar
comic guy Jim Ottaviani. However, because I was
so completely snowed under with other work, I didn’t get to do the marketing barrage I wanted to
do. Forgive me and read the content of the story here.