SDCC ahoy!

We're packing furiously for San Diego here in casa de Genco Purvis. Do I pack the extra pair of dress shoes for the Eisners or just rock the shiny new black Sketchers, a.k.a. the most comfortable shoes on the planet? Decisions, decisions...

Here's my signing schedule for COMIC BOOK TATTOO. I'll be handing out BLUE bookmarks while signing. All signings will be at the Image booth, #2729:

Wed 7pm w/James Owen
Thurs 2pm w/G. Willow Wilson + David Mack
Fri 1pm w/Lea Hernandez + Neil Kleid
Sat 4pm w/David Mack & Dame Darcy
Sun 12pm w/Jason Levesque + Ivan Brandon

There will be a rotation of CBT folks at the table from Wednesday night on. (I might try to sneak in to a few of the empty slots on the schedule, as there's no better place to be than behind a table at a crowded show!)

The CBT panel with Tori, Rantz, David Mack, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Ted McKeever and yours truly will be in room 6B at 11:30 on Saturday.

Leland and I will also be checking in at Fresh Start Friday:

9:00-10:00 ComicsPRO "Fresh Start Friday"— ComicsPRO board members Joe Field (Flying Colors Comics, Concord, CA), Chris Powell (Lone Star Comics, Dallas, TX), Amanda Fisher (Muse Comics, Missoula, MT), and Carr D'Angelo (Earth-2, Sherman Oaks, CA) and other ComicsPRO members welcome retailers, publishers, creators, and fans to this event, which will include a buffet of pastries, fresh fruit, juices and coffee, as well as gifts from ComicsPRO. Note: The cost for "Fresh Start Friday" is $5 per person, payable in cash at the door, and requires advance reservations. Room 21

Hope to see you at the show!

A few BLUE bits

BLUE has been out for a week, and so far, so good! I stopped by the excellent Forbidden Planet here in NYC a couple of days ago and said hello to the manager, Jeff. Looks like they were selling a healthy number of copies, which Jeff confirmed ("everyone loves your book").

(Can I just say how gorgeous Forbidden Planet looks these days? I haven't been in in a while and I love what they've got going on there now.)

James Sime of Isotope also wrote to report that "everyone was picking it up" and that it sold out on release day. Yay!! It's been a long time since I've seen the Isotope crew; it'll be great to see them in SDCC this week!

Many thanks to our good friend Mr. Wood, too, who had some wonderful words for BLUE on his blog this week:

"This is a good book, a seriously ambitious re-working of the classic and very bloody fairytale Bluebeard, but I didn't realize that when I first read it, and so I had a couple interesting experiences reading and re-reading the book. I could relate to a lot of it; reminded me in some ways of parts of Demo and Local, so I felt a kinship to what these creators were doing. It was something I was drawn to right away."

While I wasn't going for DEMO or LOCAL per se in BLUE, Brian's writing and sensibilities are a big inspiration to me, so this was nice to hear.

Lastly, BLUE was featured in Newsarama's "Best Shots" column this week.

Today's the day...

BLUE hits your local comics shop today. So when you head on in for your Wednesday fix, be sure to ask for it.

Thanks so much to everyone who has emailed or stopped me in a shop or at a party or wherever to tell me lovely things. I'm very proud of BLUE and hope you enjoy it.

The eagle has landed!

And it looks totally gorgeous...





Seriously, the production value on this thing is CRAZY good. Blue's hair came out perfectly. The cover is so shiny! And I actually sound like I have my act together in the back matter! :P

If you haven't asked your friendly retailer for the book yet, it's not too late! Order code is MAY083778.

(Pix by Sami and nipped from his blog.)