Last week, I received the “printer proofs” from Dark Horse Comics! These are early test-run bindings from the printer… and SUCH A THRILL TO HOLD. The book printed beautifully and I can’t wait for you all to be able to hold it, too!!!
The publication date has shifted to June 28th for bookstores and June 29th for comic shops… so that just means there is more time to pre-order it if you haven’t yet!
I know I am a broken record at this point, but pre-sales are massively important to 1st-time authors, creator-owned books, and graphic novels/comic books... and our book is ALL THREE of these things!
The link below connects directly to different book retailers including bookshop.org which will match you with local independent bookstores… as well as Barnes & Noble, Target, Books a Million, etc. Any pre-sale helps… don’t worry about which retailer you choose!
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706538/liebestrasse-by-written-by-greg-lockard-art-by-tim-fish-colored-by-hector-barros/
You can also take the Diamond code below to your favorite comic book shop and say “that Greg Lockard owes me YET ANOTHER favor at this point…” and I thank you very sincerely!!!
The bit of exciting news this week was that DC Comics released the complete table of contents for DC PRIDE 2022 as well as a snippet of artwork from Giulio Macaione’s gorgeous work on our story!!!
I can’t wait for you all to see the rest of Giulio Macaione's beautiful art for this story and the brilliant lettering by Aditya Bidikar that elevated this script into something very lovely and magical!!! It was a dream from start to finish and I’m so grateful to editor Andrea Shea for uniting us on this project.
I’ll do a longer post when the book comes out about The Ray as a superhero and what he means to me as a comic book reader!
I can you can pick it up on May 31st! There are still a couple of weeks to pre-order it at your local comic book store if you want to support!
The full press release and a rundown of all the DC PRIDE anthology stories and series launches can be found here: https://www.dccomics.com/blog/2022/04/13/pride-preview-dc-pride-2022-arrives-on-may-31
Hope you have a good Friday and a great weekend!
All my love & gratitude,
Greg