Here is the new Flight 3 cover:

This weekend is the Stumptown Comics Fest in Portland, Oregon. Amy and I will be in attendance, along with a number of Flight artists, including the Pants Press Gang, Ovi Nedelcu, Michel Gagne, and Derek Kirk Kim.

Tonight at Nucleus, Paul Hwang and Ben Lee will be exhibiting their Nanospore project. I walked through the gallery yesterday and they had some really neat stuff up, including giant plush tentacles coming out of the wall and a huge balloon Nanospore. The event begins at 8pm and goes till midnight.

I will be heading down to Bethesda, MD in an official capacity for Flight this Friday and Saturday for this year’s Small Press Expo. Flight alumni Hope Larson will also be there promoting her new book, and several other Flight artists will hopefully be in attendance for some portion of the weekend, so you never know who you might bump into while you’re there!

If you’re coming to the Expo, we will be sharing space with Ryan North at table V-6 (a map of the exhibitor tables can be found here). Keep an eye out for the poster of the new Flight Volume 3 cover. We won’t be too far.

Randy Lander at Fourth Rail has done a new round of mini comics reviews. Included are four Flight artists: Richard Pose (Hector Spector), Johane Matte (Horus Vol.1), Jake Parker (Agent 44) and Enrico Casarosa (Sketchcrawling Vol.1)

This Friday 09/16 from 7:00pm-10:00 is the closing reception to an all girls’ group show at Ghettogloss. I have a few paintings in that show along with Yoko Tanaka and other talented female artists. Hope to see you there!

Telltale Games has released the Bone video game online. It’s adapted from the first book, Out From Boneville. Go check it out! They’ll also be producing a new Sam and Max game. Pretty sweet.

Hope Larson’s beautiful debut graphic novel, Salamander Dream ( ISBN 0-9721794-9-6), is now available at your local comic retailer. Be sure to pick one up! Also check out more great titles from AdHouse Books.

From the press release:

On September 15, 2005, AT 6:30 P.M., Chipp Kidd will host a panel discussion for those interested in the graphic novel. Kidd is a novelist, a world famous book designer, and an editor of Pantheon Graphic Novels. Panelists include Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer-Prize winning creator of Maus, Kim Deitch, creator of The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Jessica Abel, creator of Artbabe and La Perdida comics series, and PJ Mark, agent at Collins McCormick Literary Agency.

The event will be held at 826 NYC, 372 Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Tickets are $50, reservations can be made by calling 718.499.9884.

826NYC is a nonprofit tutoring center dedicated to helping students, ages 6-18, develop their writing skills in the realm of creative writing, expository writing and English as a Second Language. The 826NYC writing center provides free, daily, one-on-one tutoring sessions for students in need of after-school help. It also offers a free publishing resource to students, where volunteers are available to assist them in creating their own story collections, zines and other extracurricular student publications. The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company, a superhero-themed storefront at 826NYC, raises money for the writing center while also providing a friendly and imaginative place that encourages kids to think creatively. Information about 826NYC is available online at www.826nyc.org.

826NYC Events Contact: Ted Thompson (718) 499-9884

Michel Gagne‘s classic animated short film, Prelude to Eden, is now available for viewing online.

Looks like the Flight Forums are down due to the power outage in Los Angeles. I think that might also be why Bolt City is down, although the index page seems to be the only one not working. Other pages work fine. Weird. Edit: Ah, it’s a problem with the database being down.

You Ain’t No Dancer #1, the first book from the newly-founded New Reliable Press, is an anthology containing several comics by Flight artists, including Neil Babra, Bannister, Hope Larson, Jen Wang and myself, amongst other such comics luminaries as Jeffrey Brown, Jim Mahfood, Bryan Lee O’Malley, Drew Weing, and many more.

Word on the street is that the book is back from the printer’s and is ready to make its debut at the forthcoming Small Press Expo. Check out previews of the book, or preorder your copy online.

I will be contributing artwork and be in attendance at this year’s 4th annual Red Cross event organized by Hotsauce records at the El Rey on November 10th, 100% of all ticket sales and proceeds will go to the Red Cross. For tickets to the event please contact:Kershona@hotsaucerecords.com

Hope Larson has a gorgeous piece of original art on eBay for auction, where the proceeds will go to the American Red Cross for their hurricane relief efforts. There are a few legalities that she’s going to have to skirt around, what with eBay policies and her being outside the United States (making the auction non-tax deductible), but it will certainly go towards a good cause.

A new Copper comic is up, and so is an art auction by Amy Kim Ganter. All proceeds will go to the Red Cross for the Hurricane Relief effort.

And hey, other Flight people, go ahead and post stuff on here! Heheh. Don’t be shy.

Be sure to check out Flight Week, a full week’s feature of interviews with Flight artists over at Silver Bullet Comics. Thanks to Jonathan Encarnacion for this impressive feature effort!