11/15: To Thought Bubble & Beyond!
New banners and features!
Lush new banners created by letterer and designer Amal Desai! You can find more of Amal’s work here and here!
I am a featured guest this weekend at the Thought Bubble Festival in Harrogate, England!
I’ll be tabling in the DSTLRY Hall at C-33 with Tim Fish! We’ll have plenty of LIEBESTRASSE to sell and sign! And I’ve also brought copies of TRICK PONY and DC PRIDE to sell to you!
Here’s a map of the DSTLRY Hall with our table highlighted for easy reference!
On both Saturday 11/16 and Sunday 11/17, I’ll be signing TRICK PONY prints at the signing area in the Bubbleboy Hall with Tula Lotay, Helen Mullane, and Michael Conrad! 14:00-15:30 on Saturday and 12:30-14:00 on Sunday!
On Saturday, I’ll also review portfolios at the Tiny Onion table (D-21 in the Travelling Man Hall) from 13:00-14:00pm! Please come find me so we can chat about your work and career aspirations!
It’s going to be a fabulous weekend! Thought Bubble always is!!!
(This is a new feature debuting in this newsletter! I’m currently in beta-testing but I have an idea of what I want this to become! Please bear with me…)
I am writing from the redeye flight to London, on a surprisingly empty plane that was low-key in energy and gave me a chance to sleep a bit!
I am thrilled to be headed to Thought Bubble! My first since Comixology Originals brought us in 2019 for the debut of LIEBESTRASSE. Tim Fish and I debuted LIEBESTRASSE in 2018 at the show as a 12-page full-COLOUR zine (provided the brilliant Héctor Barros’s brushes and painting expertise!) Through our future editor, Will Dennis, we met Chip Mosher and the rest is… history!
Fortunately and unfortunately, history loops. Donald Trump was just elected for a second term. He was first elected when we started working on our story in 2016. The despair is the same… and worse. Our story is still relevant… and heartbreaking. Hate feels like it’s growing.
But we’re here to talk about love. Our love for each other. And our love is expressed through the things we tell each other: stories. Books and comics and graphic novels and cartoons and films and TV.
I’ve got a suitcase full of books for this festival. That I wrote! Paired with Tim and Héctor and Lucas and Anna and Giulio and Aditya and so many many others!!! And if you’re reading this you’re probably involved somehow too! You’ve supported my books or me or my friends in the comic industry.
While I haven’t figured out the exact thesis that’s the core of my new feature for this newsletter: “PROCESS PIECE.” I’m hoping to cover the behind-the-scenes stuff that isn’t always technical. The parts that separate us from AI… the parts that separate us from the bad guys… the human parts and the sparks and the abysses and the infinite possibilities.
I’m hoping to loop some friends and colleagues into the mix to get their perspectives as well… I think I fun way to think about work and craft is to hear other people’s process. And I’ve got two new writing projects front-of-mind that I want to document the pitching and ideation parts in a (hopefully) useful way for everyone reading this newsletter.
Let me know what you think in comments and emails! I would love to start a dialogue!
TRICK PONY - direct from me and signed/personalized
LIEBESTRASSE - direct from me and signed/personalized
DC PRIDE - affiliate link to purchase on Bookshop.org (helping independent bookstores and sending a % directly back to me as well!)
TRICK PONY T-SHIRTS - threadless shop link!
Thank you for reading and your continued support! Back very shortly with holiday sale updates!!!
-Greg
Love this idea and YOU SO MUCH
Thank you so much for the shout out!
Sharing in the despair you mentioned, but have found solace in the fact that most of the comic community appears to feel the same. So thank you for mentioning that, and I agree that stories are more important now than ever.