Bloomington people! I’ll be doing a talk/Q&A/signing for the release of my new graphic novel Fall Through on Friday, Feb. 9th at 6:30pm at Morgenstern’s Books (849 S. Auto Mall Rd.)— please spread the word. See you there!
'FALL THROUGH' interview at Off Panel podcast
My first full interview about Fall Through (out Feb. 6th— order here!) is up at SKTCHD’s “Off Panel” podcast— our conversation was really enjoyable, with thoughtful questions and quieter details. Enjoy!
Also of note: I’ve assembled a for-fun soundtrack accompaniment to Fall Through here as a YouTube playlist— it’s missing the Fat Shadow song “Haven” (which doesn’t have a YT entry— please download their stellar album on Bandcamp at the link), but there it is for context and a further glimpse into the world between these pages.
February events for FALL THROUGH
Fall Through will be released everywhere on February 6th, and here’s my first round of kickoff events in the midwest & mid-South:
Feb. 9: Bloomington IN— talk & signing @ Morgenstern’s Books, 6:30pm
Feb. 17: Indianapolis IN— tabling at Chapstick Zine Fest, 11am-5pm
Feb. 18: Bloomington IN— discussion & signing w/ “Coffee With Friends” @ Monroe County Public Library, Rooms 1B-1C, 2pm
Feb. 22: St. Louis MO— talk & signing @ Left Bank Books, 6:30pm
Feb. 23: Little Rock AR— talk & signing @ Wordsworth Books, 6:30pm
Feb. 24: Fayetteville AR— talk & signing @ Fayetteville Public Library Community Room, 2pm
Feb. 25: Evansville IN— talk & signing @ Your Brother’s Bookstore, 6:30pm
You can also order signed/sketched copies of Fall Through (and all my books) directly from me here— and you’ll get your copies of Fall Through before its release date. I also suggest ordering a copy of Come Again if you haven’t read it yet— it’s interconnected with my new book and features the debut of our protagonists!
More dates as they roll in. Thanks for your support!
'LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME' & 'FALL THROUGH' direct signed preorders up now.
Hi there! I now have both Lies My Teacher Told Me (out April 16th) and Fall Through (out February 6th) available for signed/sketched preorders directly from me here.
I’ll begin sending out Fall Through orders in early/mid January, as soon as my shipment arrives, and will send out copies of Lies in March once those books arrive.
Thanks for your patience— the wait is almost over, and yesterday I shipped out about ten early copies of Fall Through!
Excerpt of 'FALL THROUGH' up at The Beat + Multiversity's 'Best of February'
I’m happy to reveal the first exclusive excerpt from Fall Through, published today by The Beat— read here! Fall Through will be released everywhere on February 6th.
It’s also ranked at #3 on Multiversity’s Best 10 Non-Superdude Comics of February.
You have until Dec. 15th to preorder signed & sketched copies of Fall Through, which will be shipped out by my local shop Vintage Phoenix a couple of weeks ahead of publication date.
Aaaand it looks like Abrams is having a direct preorder deal on Fall Through right now— it’s 50% off with the code SKIPTHELINE, and free shipping on orders $49.95 and above.
Thanks so much for your support, everyone— please spread the word! I’m about 160 pages into pencils for Fall Through’s follow-up prequel.
This Saturday: BAMF in Bloomington!
I’ll be slangin books and prints at Bloomington Alternative Media Festival this Saturday in Bloomington, Indiana— the admission donations will benefit the Bloomington Anarchist Black Cross.
BAMF will be from 11am-5pm at the Harmony School gym (909 E. 2nd St.)— see you there!
Original art sale to benefit Doctors Without Borders
I have a ton of new pages available for sale at Athenaeum Comic Art, and from now until Xmas I’ll be donating $100 from each piece sold to Doctors Without Borders, one of several medical and humanitarian organizations facing missile strikes and military assault during the siege in Gaza, in their ongoing efforts to provide crucial medical care and basic human services to the hundreds of thousands of civilians caught in the horror of this ongoing assault.
I join hundreds of millions of people across the globe in calling for an immediate cease-fire, and in strongest opposition to both Netanyahu’s government and Hamas.
Buy a page (or two), and for each I’m happy to email you the receipt of my donation. Simple and direct. Thank you!
MARCH-- 10 year anniversary poster free for shops, schools & libraries!
It’s my pleasure to reveal this brand-new poster to celebrate 10 years of March— our publisher Top Shelf is distributing it free to comics shops, bookstores, schools & libraries! (Please see Top Shelf’s linked announcement— if this is you, get in touch with your Penguin Random House rep, and the poster’s SKU is MKT1000061855.)
You can also grab the poster from Top Shelf/IDW at their table at shows, and I’ll have some that’ll also be free for anybody who gets a March trilogy boxed set from me at shows.
Thanks to everyone who’s been moved by this work over the past decade, and who’s doing their part to defend accurate history, comics in the classroom & libraries, magnifying marginalized voices, and fortifying our right to information and ideas.
FALL THROUGH-- signed/sketched preorders up now
Preorders are open for signed & sketched copies of my new graphic novel Fall Through— I’ve teamed up again with my excellent local comic shop, Vintage Phoenix.
Orders will be open through December 15th, and copies should arrive at your door a week or two before Fall Through’s February 6th release date. Vintage Phoenix and I both thank you for your support!
You can also order signed & numbered Fall Through prints directly from me— two designs limited to 70 copies each. Get em while you can.
FALL THROUGH-- signed & numbered prints available now.
Fall Through will be released on February 6th, but here’s an early set of treats:
Two different signed & numbered Fall Through prints are now available directly from me: one featuring Jody (and Diana’s shadow), and one featuring the entire band Diamond Mine.
Prints are 16” x 20”, full-color, signed & numbered, and limited to editions of 70 each— and the full images are exclusive to these prints.
Here’s Jody:
and here’s Diamond Mine:
Next week I’ll be launching signed & sketched Fall Through preorders via my local comics shop, Vintage Phoenix— stay tuned for that! And if you haven’t read Come Again, now’s the time— it features the first comics appearance of Diamond Mine, and both books will be fully interwoven in a few years with with the follow-up prequel I’m working on.
You can order Come Again from me here, signed & sketched. Thanks!
First copy of FALL THROUGH!
The only existing copy of Fall Through arrived at my doorstep, straight from the printer! It turned out exactly the way I imagined— it’ll be out February 6th from Abrams ComicArts.
In early November I’m launching signed preorders to be shipped out by my local comics shop Vintage Phoenix. You’ll likely get these a couple of weeks early— stay tuned!
Synch & Talon
Cleansing the ol’ palate after finishing two books back-to-back by doing some X-Men fanart. Synch & Talon / Laura Kinney / Wolverine / X23, because I’m a diehard romantic and a total sucker for cosmic/quantum-level relationships.
It's all done.
Here’s the past 3 years’ worth of unpublished work: about 500 individual pages making up Fall Through (out 2/6/24) and Lies My Teacher Told Me (out 4/16/24).
I’ve mostly been drawing 2 pages a day, 6 days a week with very few breaks— I do not recommend this— and now I’m done with everything for a while.
Taking a break to breathe, and then to experiment and play with my drawing and painting, hopefully giving it space for a long-awaited evolutionary step.
I’ll be traveling all over in 2024 for the release of both books— stay tuned for dates, and I’ll see you there.
20% off all original artwork until Halloween
If you’re interested in buying any of my original artwork, now’s a great time: everything available at Athenaeum Comic Art is 20% off until the end of October! This includes the pricier March pages as well as Sweet Tooth, Black Hammer, Two Dead, Come Again, Any Empire, The Silence of Our Friends, The Year of the Beasts, and Swallow Me Whole.
After that, we’ll be restocking with some new originals, including some art from Run and Save It For Later, some X-Men pieces, Nib illustrations, and more. Stay tuned!
LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME-- cover reveal & preorders up now!
Announcing my full-length comics adaptation of James Loewen’s influential Lies My Teacher Told Me, out April 16th, 2024 from The New Press!
I like to describe this book as a history book about history textbooks: it both illuminates and corrects many misconceptions and outright falsehoods commonly accepted in American history, while outlining how these errors, myths, and lies have found themselves embedded in our historical understanding and education—and a path to fixing what our miseducation has broken, developing critical thinking skills, empathy, and room for contradiction along the way. Loewen’s book has sold over two million copies since its initial release in 1995.
“Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book.” –Howard Zinn
Preorder here from Bookshop, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Powells.
(So there’s no confusion: I also recently announced my next fiction graphic novel, Fall Through, which is out February 6, 2024 from Abrams ComicArts— you can preorder that and get more info here.)
Lies My Teacher Told Me was an earthshaking reading experience for me in the early 2000s, and I had reread it several times when the late, great James Loewen contacted me in early 2020 about adapting his text into the comics medium. I said yes on the spot, and we worked out details and approach over the phone during his final year. Jim was a very kind, open person and it hurts knowing that we never got a chance to meet in person—and so it’s my deepest honor to bring his work across the finish line, hopefully doing justice to his ideas, knowledge, and humanity.
I also want to clarify that my role on this book is not merely as artist. This is a full comics adaptation for which I am the sole creator, comparing and synthesizing multiple editions of his book and updating and recontextualizing parts of the text to meet with both standards of knowledge and perspective after his 2017 edition was released, and after his passing in 2021. Mr. Loewen and I overwhelmingly see eye-to-eye in our worldviews, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we agree on everything, so in my role adapting his work I let him speak for himself and allow room for a more complex understanding of our joint perspectives on this history—which is the entire point of the book.
I look forward to new conversations and a deepened understanding of the world we share once this book hits shelves—please preorder and spread the word. Thank you for your support and faith, as always!
CXC-- and signed & numbered prints for FALL THROUGH
I’ll be an exhibitor at Cartoon Crossroads (CXC) in Columbus, Ohio on September 30th & October 1st! It’ll be at the Columbus Metropolitan Library (96 S. Grant), 11-5 Saturday and 1-5 Sunday.
On Saturday at 1:00 pm, I’ll be on the “Punk and Comics” panel in the auditorium, alongside Raeghan Buchanan, Shelly Bond, and Derf Backderf, moderated by Craig Fischer. See you there!
This will be my last show before two new books are released next year: Fall Through (out February 6 from Abrams ComicArts) and Lies My Teacher Told Me (out in June from The New Press). Swing by my table and you’re welcome to take a peek at my personal printed-out copies of those books!
The big items I’ll have are two new 16”x20” full-color artist prints for Fall Through— these are signed, numbered, and limited to editions of 70 each! (I’ll probably bring 20 of each to CXC.) $20 each or both for $35.
Here’s the art for those prints:
2024 events for new books.
Hi there! I’ll have two new books out next year (Fall Through in February from Abrams ComicArts & Lies My Teacher Told Me in the spring from The New Press), and I’d love to be a guest at your expo/con/show!
I’m happy to be on any panels/programming, and can can do some artwork for your show as well. Get in touch with me at seemybrotherdance@yahoo.com, and we’ll figure it out— thanks for your support!
Lucero tour poster
Here’s my first of two pieces for longtime friends Lucero, for their upcoming tour with Jason Boland & The Stragglers! We’ll be releasing some t-shirt artwork soon as well— thanks as always to Erin Tobey for her digital/color assistance on these pieces.
Happy 25th anniversary to Lucero, with incredibly fond memories of the new, slow, quietly crushing jams they brought to humid Belvedere shows in Little Rock back in 1998.
Remembering John Lewis, 3 years later.
Today marks 3 years since we lost the big boss, John Lewis— freedom fighter and friend, collaborator and hero. I’ve been thinking about the hundreds of times we parted ways with a hug, taking for granted that the team would reconvene the next weekend or whenever.
He was such a good sport with all the adventures March took us on— so generous, and such a true believer in what we and Andrew built together with these books, and their potential to incite an intergenerational awakening.
Let’s keep building the fire.
If you’re so inclined, here’s a piece Andrew Aydin and I wrote about the urgency of carrying on John Lewis’s legacy, published by CNN after his passing.
"Save It For Later" is NYPL's Book of the Day!
I woke up to the great news that my 2021 book Save It For Later is the New York Public Library’s “Book of the Day!”
Please request that your local library order a copy, ensuring that it’s accessible for free to all. Just go to the front desk and ask about putting in a book request. Thanks!
All right, back to work on some new books.