Joey Weiser’s first graphic novel, The Ride Home, has been solicited in the June issue of Previews:

The Ride Home
by Joey Weiser. Published by AdHouse Books

Follow the adventures of Nodo The Van-Gnome as he tries to find his lost home on wheels. During his quest he’ll meet sewer dragons, junkyard trolls, and a cow or two. A fun, all-ages romp of a story created by new-comer Joey Weiser.

The 168-page book is priced at $8.95 US and ships in August. The Diamond order code is JUN073174, or alternatively, you can preorder the book on Amazon.com. Don’t forget, The Ride Home can still be sampled online, so give it a try before you buy!

Joey also has a new “Unremarkable Tree Frog” story in the upcoming Superior Showcase #2, which will be out in June, also from AdHouse Books.

Nucleus has uploaded the Power in Numbers 2 exhibition to their website, and you can now purchase these pieces through their online store. There are still quite a few gems to be had for only $100 (and 20% of the sales will still be donated to charity), so pop on over and check it out!

Hope Larson has written up a great tutorial for working with spot colours. Definitely worth the read.

Enrico has posted the results of the Sketchcrawl/Maverix fundraiser from two weekends ago, and it was a resounding success: the amount raised for Emergency was a total of $13,000!

Don’t forget to check out the drawings from around the world from Sketchcrawl 14, and the photos from the auction night, where it looks like much fun was had also.

In case you haven’t been following The Ryan Estrada Expeditions lately, now might be a good time to catch up — one of his missions, “Ryan and the Shoeshine Boy” has become one of the featured videos on YouTube!

Indie Comics News has posted a podcast interview with twins Fabio Moon and Gabriel Bá. It’s a great overview of their Brazilian and North American work, and Fabio’s story for the upcoming Flight 4 is also briefly mentioned!

The ICN post also has a link to Newsarama’s full preview of the first issue of Casanova by Matt Fraction and Gabriel Bá, which is definitely worth checking out.

Jim Ottaviani has written two new books that are debuting in July: Levitation, illustrated by Janine Johnston; and Wire Mothers, illustrated by Dylan Meconis (Flight 1)! Wire Mothers sounds particularly interesting — from the G.T. Labs website:

Psychologists know best, of course, and in the 1950s they warned parents about the dangers of too much love. Besides, what was ‘love’ anyway? Just a convenient name for children seeking food and adults seeking sex. It took an outsider scientist to challenge this. When Harry Harlow began his experiments on mother love he was more than just outside the mainstream, though. He was a deeply unhappy man who knew in his gut the truth about what love — and its absence — meant, and set about to prove it. His experiments and results shocked the world.

The science of love indeed! You can find out more about these books (and read an excerpt) over at the G.T. Labs website: Wire Mothers and Levitation.

Newsarama also has an interview with Ottaviani, which includes preview pages from both books. You can pre-order both books together over at Amazon.com, or separately, here and here.

Becky Cloonan has updated her website with all her forthcoming convention appearances this summer.

Becky will also be debuting her self-published collection of short stories from 2000-2002 entitled Minis (pictured left) at this year’s MoCCA Festival in New York, so don’t miss out!

One of Dave Roman‘s old projects, Alien Circus has recently surfaced on the web! Dave’s Livejournal fills in some of the details about his involvement with this comic:

So a while back I wrote a 3-part graphic novel series called “Alien Circus” for Platinum Studios that was beautifully illustrated by Luke Weber. It was a big space aventure series that mixed Hamlet with Marsupilami and was a lot of fun to work on. I ended up developing a whole universe complete with tons of creatures, planets, history and plots for potential spinoffs.

At some point Platinum decided to change the name to The Adventures of Tymm and register a domain name for it. But as far as I know they have no plans to actually release it in print.

The name of the comic has since been changed back to Alien Circus and is now being serialized on the web. Written by Dave and illustrated by L. Frank Weber, there has been some Internet controversy over the credits and history of the project, but Alien Circus is still a gorgeous looking comic that’s definitely worth spending some time with.

Start reading Alien Circus here.

There are a couple of new interviews with Steve Hamaker up on the web!

An interview with Steve from the March 2007 issue of the Comicshopper and one with The Pulse that covers a broader range of subjects — everything from Fish N Chips to Moby Dick.

Enrico Casarosa and Ronnie del Carmen, the brains behind Sketchcrawl, have organized a huge fundraiser and art auction for this weekend’s upcoming Worldwide Sketchcrawl on May 19 & 20! From Enrico’s blog:

Saturday May 19th it’s the 14th World Wide SketchCrawl and as you might have heard we are making it a world wide fundraiser.

Sunday May 20th we are organizing with our Maverix Studios friends a benefit Art Auction here in San Francisco.

All the funds we raise will benefit the humanitarian Organization Emergency – life support for civilian war victims.

Emergency builds quality care and hospitals to treat civilians in war-torn countries. It’s a wonderful wonderful organization that has been doing amazing humanitarian projects in places such as Afghanistan, Cambodia, Sudan, Sierra Leone and Iraq. The more I hear of what they’ve been doing the more I am excited about helping them.

How can you participate? Simple! If you’re planning on participating in this weekend’s Sketchcrawl on the 19th, just download this sponsor form and hand it to anyone that might be interested in sponsoring your day of drawing. Ask your friends and neighbors to donate how ever much they can, your goal being that you want to raise $100 in total for that day.

And on the 20th in San Francisco, stop by at Maverix Studios for the art auction (featuring a very impressive lineup of artists):

where: Maverix Studios (1717 17th Street, SF)
when: 5pm to 9pm
how: silent bidding, Final bids at 7:30pm.
We will also have a benefit raffle with special prices.

For more information on these events, head over and read Enrico and Ronnie‘s blog posts about it. For more information about Emergency, you can watch this video or visit their website.

(Man Arenas‘ donated piece for the art auction)

It’s that time of year again — Nucleus is holding their second annual Power in Numbers gallery show, and like before, you won’t want to miss this! From the Nucleus website:

May 19 – May 28, 2007
Celebrating the talents of over 150 artists, Gallery Nucleus will be hosting the second annual Power In Numbers show. All work will be priced at $50 or $100. We will again be donating 20% of the profits to charity. The charity affiliated with this years Power In Numbers will be Susan G. Komen for the Cure, an organization to help with the fight against breast cancer.

Flight artists that will be participating in the show (the following links will take you to previews of their Power in Numbers pieces) includes: Alex Fuentes, Amy Kim Ganter, Andrea Offermann, Chris Appelhans, Clio Chiang, Doug Holgate, Israel Sanchez, Jen Wang, Justin Ridge, Kazu Kibuishi, Lark Pien, Neil Babra, Richard Pose, Scott Campbell, and Vera Brosgol.

The opening reception will be on Saturday, May 19th at 7pm. If you plan to purchase some of the art at this show, you’ll definitely want to come a little earlier!

Readers of Chuck Palahniuk’s latest novel, Rant, might recognize the cover illustration — the art was provided by Jacob Magraw-Mickelson!

“Untitled (a),” Jacob’s original piece that was used for the Rant cover, can be viewed over at the motel gallery website.

Matt Forsythe has posted some photos and jam comics of the Hickee crew from their trip up north to Montreal last weekend. Looks like a good time was had by all!

Check out Matt’s Flickr set here (note that some of the comics contain fairly strong language).

The Shazam! production videos keep on coming! This time, Jeff Smith inks a panel of Billy Batson:

Don’t forget, the latest issue of Shazam! Monster Society of Evil (#3) is now in comic book stores today!