With the recent drop in the American dollar, this means only good things for us Canadians: over at Amazon.ca, all the volumes of Flight are currently discounted at a whopping 42% off, cheaper than regular U.S. retail! Check it out:

Flight Volume One
Flight Volume Two
Flight Volume Three
Flight Volume Four

Now might be a good time to pick up a copy (or a nice gift for that special someone, hint hint) if you haven’t already!

Last month, Enrico Casarosa sat down with Jérémie Noyer to talk about storyboarding and his work on Pixar’s Ratatouille. You can now read the interview in English at Animated Views, or in French at Media Magic.

Congratulations to Scott Campbell, who was just nominated for an Ignatz Award in the “Promising New Talent” category!

The Ignatz Awards are held every year at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, MD where voting is open to the general public, exhibitors and attendees of the show alike. So if you’re planning on going to SPX this year, remember to track down a ballot and place your vote! This year’s SPX runs from October 12-13.

(PS. Scott now has prints of “Ninjas All Over the Place” available through the Nucleus website. Everyone should have one in their homes.)

Comic Book Resources has an in-depth interview with Amy Kim Ganter about her work on Sorcerers and Secretaries, her various anthology work, and the shift to working in prose for her Reman Mythology series.

For fans of Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender, you’ll be happy to know that the latest Avatar Magazine has hit newsstands, and features comics by several Flight artists, including Reagan Lodge, Amy Kim Ganter and Johane Matte! Edited by Andrew Brisman and Dave Roman, most of the stories have been written by the actual Avatar writing staff as a bridge between seasons 2 and 3 of the TV show.

The Nickmag Comics blog has a full rundown of the magazine’s features, and Dave Roman has additional preview art and links as a supplement to the magazine, so be sure to check it out!

So. Yesterday was Ryan Estrada Day! To celebrate the launch of the Cartoon Commune website (Ryan and John Campbell’s Mexico-based, full-time comics venture), Ryan decided to draw guest strips for over 30 different webcomics. The man is crazy. And prolific. A not-so-small sampling of some of Ryan’s guest comics are here:

Ugly Hill
Goats
Starslip Crisis
Little Gamers
Overcompensating
Questionable Content
Scary Go Round
Octopus Pie
Yirmumah
Hero By Night
Dr. McNinja
Hatesong
Multiplex
Patches
Sam and Fuzzy
White Ninja
Dinosaur Comics
Wigu
Dueling Analogs
Butternut Squash
Instant Classic
Genrezvous Point
Cosmobear
Rob and Elliot
Butterfly
Scene Language
Joe and Monkey
Cow and Buffalo (pictured above)
Nothing Nice To Say
Joe Loves Crappy Movies
Theater Hopper
Astronaut Elementary
Life Meter

Whew. And I’m almost positive that I missed some strips. A big thanks to Gary over at Fleen, who had done most of the legwork (along with his readers) in culling these links. And don’t forget to check back with RyanEstrada.com, where Ryan will be slowly posting all his guest comics (with commentary) over the course of the next few weeks!

Michel Gagné never ceases to amaze and astound. His latest project is a live shadow puppet/theatrical presentation of Dvorak’s The Spectre’s Bride. From Michel’s website:

This is going to be an amazing show folks! 80+ singers, a 65-piece orchestra and a spectacular shadow puppet show designed by yours truly and perfomed under the supervision of award-winning puppeteer Tim Gosley from Jim Henson’s fame.

This incredible event will take place on October 30th and 31st at the University of Victoria’s Farquhar theater in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Mark [your] calendars.

Michel has more information on The Spectre’s Bride at his website: the official press release and some of his production design samples. For tickets and additional information, visit the official website of The Spectre’s Bride.

Comic Book Resources has posted a wonderful interview with Andrea Offermann about her work, with an emphasis on her story in Flight 4, “Twenty-Four Hours.”

As reported by The Beat, Flight Volume 3 was presented with the Harvey Award for “Best Anthology” over the weekend at this year’s Baltimore Comic-Con. Congratulations to all the contributors of Flight 3 and a big thank-you to everyone that voted for us!

Congratulations also to Lark Pien for her recognition as Best Colorist for her work on American Born Chinese, as well as all the other winners and nominees!

If you’re looking to get your (more or less) daily fix of comics by Scott Campbell, you would do well to hop on over to the website of Double Fine Productions (makers of totally awesome games like Psychonauts and Epic Saga – Extreme Fighter), as they have completely overhauled their website and comics page, which currently boasts over 480 strips by Scott C., as well as a ton of strips by Raz, Nathan Stapley and Mark Hamer, so you best get caught up already!

Go forth and read yourselves some Double Fine Action Comics.

Graham Annable has teamed up with Rich Stevens to bring us Space Wolf T-shirts! If you don’t know what all the fuss is about, go watch the cartoon that started it all, and then get yourself a shirt here.

Also in Grickle-related news, there is a new interview with Graham up at Jazma Online.

A couple of quick links for those of you that missed out on some of the Flight artists’ individual comics and sketchbooks that were available at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con — now you can buy some of them online!

Tony Cliff’s comic, Delilah Dirk and the Treasure of Constantinople.

Reagan Lodge’s 2007 Sketchbook.

Clio Chiang’s sketchbook, No, baby, not my Pradas!!

Becky Cloonan, Vasilis Lolos, Rafael Grampá, Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá’s comic anthology, 5, is available through Khepri, although they appear to be out of stock at the moment (as is Becky’s self-published anthology, Minis). Best to get on those waiting lists!

And somewhat related, Gallery Nucleus has added two new T-shirts designed by Kazu Kibuishi, which you can view individually here and here, or visit Kazu’s Nucleus gallery page here.

A note to our French reading audience: Bannister and Nykko’s second book of their award- winning Enfants d’ailleurs series hits stores today in France! If your local book or comic store imports French BDs, now would be a good time to ask them to order in a couple of copies, or you can order a copy directly from Amazon.fr.

Tony discusses his comics and animation work with Rebecca Buchanan here.