This Saturday, Nucleus will be presenting The Girl Show, featuring the work of over 40 female artists. The line-up also includes Flight contributors Hope Larson, Vera Brosgol, and Catia Chien, along with future Flight contributors Debbie Huey and Yoko Tanaka. Be sure to drop by on Saturday, sometime between between 7 to 11 pm, and join in on the live music, free drinks, and great art.

Kirkus Reviews has done a spotlight on graphic novels. The article features FLIGHT on page 6.

Kean has been posting a lot of great fan art featuring his characters from Jellaby. Be sure to check out this thread in the Flight Forums. And also be sure to check out more of Jellaby’s adventures along with Hope Larson’s Salamander Dream at the Secret Friend Society website…

Nucleus is going to have a couple of live bands this Friday. Kite Operations will be playing along with Moscow Coup Attempt from 8pm to 9pm. Chris Appelhans has also created artwork for the event. The prints “Angel” and “Kite Operations” can be purchased at the event or via the online store. Be sure to check out other artwork, shirts and prints by the Flight artists being sold exclusively at Nucleus.

Also, be sure to come visit Johane and Azad at the Toronto Comic Book Expo this weekend. They will have copies of Flight, as well as Horus and Sammy books. Stop by and say hello!

Enrico Casarosa has announced that the next Sketchcrawl will be held this Saturday, August 27th, in memory of Pixar members Dan Lee and Joe Ranft. Be sure to get your pencils ready! More info can be found at the Sketchcrawl website.

Today, I’ll be teaching my last workshop for the summer at 826LA in Venice, CA from 1 to 3 pm. This is primarily for high schoolers. I’ll also be teaching some more workshops at Nucleus very soon. Check in with them for more details…

For those of you in the area, Flight 2 artist Johane Matte and future Flight contributor Azad will be at the Toronto Comic Book Expo this weekend (August 26-28) in artist alley, at table A141. They’ll have copies of Flight with them, as well as their own books (Johane’s Horus and Azad’s A Very Sammy Day should not be missed), so if you’re in the area, swing by and say hello!

And I’ll probably be sticking my head in here from time to time, just to make sure that Kazu doesn’t, you know, completely monopolize the Flight blog…

With Flight 3 near completion and Flight 4 looking to be finished by the end of the year, I’m preparing to begin my next adventure with Amulet, my new graphic novel series from Scholastic. Before beginning work on the project, I’ve been developing the story through sketches and research, and I am also setting up my new work environment. It’s been a long time coming, but I finally made the purchase that I’ve been wanting to make for a long time… I bought an Apple Powerbook G4. It’s like having a really cool sword. I’ve had my eye on it for the past three years, but I was hesitant on making the move to Apple. Now it’s done. Feels good.

It came as a shock to hear about the death of Joe Ranft this week. I assume most people wouldn’t know the name, but they all certainly know his work. Joe Ranft was the first head of story at Pixar Animation Studios and is a large part of why their films have been so good. Along with the death of Will Eisner, we have lost two great storytellers in the past year. Ronnie Del Carmen has some nice posts in his blog about Mr. Ranft…

This is where we’ll be posting related news from now on. Welcome!