Flight 5 has been nominated for a Harvey Award! Congrats to all the artists who contributed to the project. Our good friends Becky Cloonan, Vasilis Lolos, Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon have a book nominated in the same category with Pixu. It’s a great book! I wish we didn’t have to compete! To vote for Flight 5, please visit this link.

Here’s a photo of the new Flight 6 banner for Comic-Con. We’ll be located at a new spot this year: Booth #2329, right in the middle of the bigger comics publishers. Little old us, hangin’ with the big boys, and all we have is a single book series! This should be interesting. I’ll also have plenty of copies of Amulet on hand, as well as previews for Amulet 2. I hope to see you there!

Hey everyone!  Just wanted to let you know about my recent project, Terrible Yellow Eyes .

Terrible Yellow Eyes is a collection of works inspired by the beloved classic, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.

Over the past few weeks and months I’ve been displaying a growing collection of works created by invited contributing artists and myself.

We share a love and admiration for Sendak’s work and the pieces we present are done as a tribute to his life and legacy.

Read more about the project here.

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A couple of Flight names you may recognize; Ben Hatke, and Israel Sanchez have both contributed to the collection!

(And I’ll see you in Flight 6 with my first story, Walters.)

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Thanks for taking a look!

Just spreading the word that I’ve started a little online store featuring specialty Grickle prints and original art. Making their internet debut is “The Children of the Night and their Dad” print set. Enjoy!

A quick post to let you know that this year’s MoCCA art festival is being held in New York City this weekend, from June 6-7. This year, the festival is moving to a new location, the 69th Regiment Armory at Lexington Avenue and 25th Street. Some of the Flight alumni that will be there include (I’m sure I’ve missed a couple of people!):

Graham Annable
Scott C
Becky Cloonan
Hope Larson
Dylan Meconis
Ryan North
Lark Pien
Dave Roman
Kean Soo
Raina Telgemeier

Hope to see you there!

I’d like to invite those who live in or around the Dallas area, to come and check out the Industry Giants symposium on June 5th and 6th. On June 6th at 3:30pm, I will give a presentation on the making of our work-in-progress video game, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet. I promise to show lots of gameplay footage.

I will also be signing books and comics on June 5th in the artist alley section. For more info, check out the official website.

Inspired by folks like Flight’s own Kazu Kibuishi, I’ve put together a step-by-step guide to how I make a page of Cavemen in Space! This covers a lot of ground that has been brought up from time to time around the Flight Forums and elsewhere, so I thought somebody might find it interesting. Take a look!

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is about to get underway this weekend, from May 9-10! It will be held at the Toronto Reference Library (as seen in Scott Pilgrim 2!), and the best part? It’s FREE for the public! So really, there’s no excuse not to drop by and check it out!

This year’s honoured guests include Emmanuel Guibert, Scott McCloud, Bryan Lee O’Malley, Paul Pope, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, and many, many more. Past and present Flight contributors that will be at the show include:

Graham Annable
Scott C
Svetlana Chmakova
Becky Cloonan
Matt Forsythe
Derek Kirk Kim
John Martz
Erika Moen
Ryan North
Paul Rivoche
Kean Soo

TCAF-related events have already started happening around the city tonight! Full details of the events running in conjunction with the festival itself are available at the TCAF website. Hope to see you there!

Tomorrow (Saturday, May 2) is Free Comic Book Day! What this means, if you’re in North America, is that your local participating comic book store will be giving away FREE comics! Who doesn’t like free comics?

Some of your local comic book stores will also be hosting some cartoonists, including Flight contributors like Joey Weiser and myself (and even if you’re not in the area, try asking your local comic book store for COMICS FESTIVAL, which contains all-new stories by the likes of Matt Forsythe, Ryan North, John Martz, and me!), who will be available for signings, sketches, and general chit-chat! So stop on by and make sure to grab some free comics!

Jellaby: Monster in the City has been released today! The second book in the Jellaby series, it will be available in most major bookstores, and will hit comic book stores tomorrow. Monster in the City is already available from online retailers like Amazon.com.

The story that began in book one concludes in this second volume. A seven-page preview from the book is now online, and for more information about Monster in the City’s release, visit the Secret Friend Society.

Hello folks, Michel Gagne here. I just wanted to let everyone know about my new blog about the on-going making of one of my big animated project.

Many months ago, a decision was reached by concensus by my partners at Fuelcell and I, that we would keep quiet about our videogame, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, until we get closer to our release date. Although, I was itching to release new footage and images, I held myself back and agreed to keep everything under wrap.

I’m happy to announce that we’ve decided to break our vow of silence and start sharing some of our work on-line to get people excited. As production progresses, I will share our triumphs and hardships, I will update with insights, videos and images at least a couple of times a month (hopefully more as time permits). I hope you’ll enjoy the ride. Read the blog at www.InsanelyTwistedShadowPlanet.com.

Hey folks! Joey Weiser here again!

I am pleased and proud to announce that during the month of April, I will be the Partyka guest artist! For those that don’t know, Partyka is a collective of excellent artists including Shawn Cheng, Matt Wiegle, and John Mejias! I highly recommend you check out there stuff, and consider buying some of their top notch mini-comics (The Monkey & The Crab and The Four Husbands are particular favorites of mine) and other products!

Anyway, they do daily drawings on their front page, and each month they feature a different guest artists. Past guests includes great folks like Eleanor Davis, Chris Wright, and Dustin Harbin! The series of illustrations I did for the site is called “Kaiju Life” and the entire set can be viewed at my guest page. I had a lot of fun with these drawings, and tried to tackle some slightly (and sometimes not-so-slightly) different coloring techniques with each one. Every four days you can check back to see one of mine featured. However, if I were you I’d check back on a regular basis to see what Shawn, Matt, and John are up to as well! Enjoy!

And, hey, while I’m here, I’d like to mention that the FLUKE mini-comics show (for which I did the poster for this year) will be this weekend, April 4th, in Athens, Georgia. There I will be debuting my new mini-comic, The Late-Night Gang! If you are unable to attend the show, it is also available for purchase online.

This May, Indie Spinner Rack is publishing their second anthology, Awesome 2: Awesomer! It will be a 200+ page book (with a bonus mini-comic) featuring work from over 50 cartoonists, including Flight artists Steve Hamaker, Dave Roman, Raina Telgemeier, Joey Weiser, and a cover by legendary artist and friend of Flight, Jeff Smith!

As well as being a lovely book with an amazing collection of artists (see full list here), half of the proceeds from Awesome 2 will, as they did with the first volume, go to a scholarship for a student of the Center for Cartoon Studies. So go out to your local comic shop and pre-order your book today!

I just got back from viewing what I feel is my favorite show amongst the many that Nucleus has had over the years. If you’re in the Los Angeles area, I highly recommend you check out Scott Campbell’s amazing work on display at Gallery Nucleus. The opening reception is tonight, and Scott will there, so be sure to drop by and say hello. He is one of the best dudes. I’ll be hanging out at the gallery for a short while as well.

Here’s the cover image for Flight 6, slightly altered to better fit this desktop image version. We are getting near completion on the book, and I should be finished with my Daisy Kutter story at the beginning of next week. Here’s a two-page preview of the Daisy comic.

It’s now official, the first three books of the Elsewhere Chronicles series, in english language are on sale almost everywhere and online. Hardcovers (27$) and softcovers (7$) available.