Season’s greetings, Grickle style.

An exciting announcement from Del Rey and Marvel Comics: Raina Telgemeier and Dave Roman are going to be writing an X-Men shojo (girl) manga, with art by Anzu! This is great news indeed — I can’t think of a team better suited for this job. The first of the two volumes that they’ll be working on will be released in Spring of 2009.

The Beat has images and the full press release, and you can also read about Raina and Dave’s initial thoughts on the announcement at their respective Livejournals, here and here.

Discover what price a man must pay to be the world’s greatest art thief!

Jeff Smith’s new series, RASL, is in this month’s Previews! The first issue is set to be released in February of next year, so make sure your local comic book retailer puts in their orders for RASL now.

RASL appears on pg. 238 of the Previews catalog, and the order code is DEC073519 E RASL #1. Find out more about RASL (including the variant cover of issue #1) on Jeff’s blog.

Wow! Scott Campbell’s Flight 4 story, “Igloo Head and Tree Head” was awarded a silver medal from the Society of Illustrators in the Sequential Art category! Scott’s “Cliff Ogres” illustration was also accepted into the book illustration category.

Congratulations, Scott! You can read all about it on his blog.

We’re a little late posting about this, but the release of the Fablewood Anthology is coming up right around the corner in the new year and should still be available for preorder (Diamond order code: FABLEWOOD GN VOL 01, NOV07 3306) — this new fantasy anthology features stories by Flight 4 contributors JP Ahonen and Sarah Mensinga, along with other artists such as Ryan Ottley and Manny Trembley.

The Fablewood website has a neat little teaser and preview pages from the anthology, so give it a look.

We’re getting reports that copies of Kazu Kibuishi’s latest graphic novel, Amulet, are starting to appear in book stores, a month earlier than expected! Amazon.com is also reporting that they have copies in stock, so this will surely be a great holiday gift for all you comic-lovers out there.

Tiny Showcase has a winter print collection with
me, Jen Corace, Ryan Jacob Smith and Evan B. Harris. The prints are slightly bigger 8″ x 11″ and $30 each.
10% from each sale of each print will be donated to the United Nations Children’s Fund