Just another note about APE. I will in fact be selling 5″ x 15″ prints of the thunderbird poster seen in the gallery. I will also be selling my last 25 copies of the print-exclusive Kitty Hawk mini comic, “The Sting of Defeat”. Check it out if you want a preview of the kind of adventures in store for Kitty, or if you happen to like giant bees. Furthermore, I will be doing commissioned sketches for tasty convention prices.

See you in San Francisco!

Heads up, guys-due to the timing and travel requirements of the aforementioned Alternative Press Expo, we’re putting up a split issue this week.  Page one is up there now, and page two will be up early next week.  Perhaps if you track Braden down in San Francisco, he’ll give you a little preview!

In the mean time, check out this awesome shrimp! (via Pink Tentacle)  As some of you may know, I am a sucker for 1) crustaceans and 2) things that glow in the dark, so:

(edit: also, I turned on blog comments!  -V.)

Well, in all my rushing, I forgot to even mention the holiday!  I apologize for the oversight:  Happy Keats’s Birthday everyone.

When through the old oak forest I am gone,
Let me not wander in a barren dream,
But when I am consumed in the fire,
Give me new Phoenix wings to fly at my desire.

(from “On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again”.  Thanks to Kyrie for the reminder.)

I’ve got no special affiliation with MSNBC, but they made it so easy to put up a widget I couldn’t pass.  Have you voted yet?

-V.

Now THAT is how you elect a president.

Hi, guys!  How’s you’re week going?  Momentous?  Us, too.  I think that we, as a nation, could use a nap.  Maybe some hot chocolate.  Wind down a bit.  Anyway.

In light of the substantial events of the past several days, we’ve decided to go ahead and post page two of “Engine Block” on Friday and have a nice, fresh, regular and whole issue next week.  There’s just three (and a half) issues left in chapter one, and we’re going to see some hints of mystery cropping up quite soon, so stay tuned!

I am a compulsive collector.  I feel a certain sense of dread whenever I encounter a new collectible card game, or a new set of those little mystery box trading figures–I know there is a danger that I will be drawn in to a massive expenditure of much needed cash.  Social networking is the same way:  I sign on, and start collecting friends past and present like they’re Hummel figurines (no, I do not collect Hummel figurines).  It’s the sweet and wonderful intersection of platonic love and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

That said, I often find Facebook entirely baffling.  Maybe it’s because I’m nearly thirty (please don’t tell anyone), but America’s favorite networking site is so full of plug-ins and widgets that I often end up banging on the keyboard, trying to figure out how to post my simple, old-fashioned cat pictures.  Then I turn around and suddenly ten people want me to be a vampire, sixteen people are throwing zombies at me, a Certain Lady has sent me a puppy dog, and my werewolf has been bitten by a ninja!  It is overwhelming.

HOWEVER!

The point of all this is:  I set up a Facebook group for anyone who’d like to join, so you can keep tabs on things, meet other fans, trade your favorite pulp adventure links and resources, write on various “walls”, play “Scrabble”, poke your neighbors,or do whatever else it is you kids do on “the Facebook”.  Here it is:  Friends of Kitty Hawk!  Sign up, enjoy, and get the hell off my lawn!

-V.

P.S.  I’m just kidding–you are all perfectly welcome on my lawn.

P.P.S.  Man, this was just gonna be a little brief note, but I got all tangented, and now it’s two AM.  Oh, oh, time management!

Just a quick welcome to everybody who’s stopping by from The Whiteboard!  Hope you’re all having a good time!  Thanks for the kind words, Doc!

-V.

Hey, guys.  Got a little bit rear-ended at a stop light on the way home tonight.  Everybody’s fine, car’s fine, but I’m a bit shakey and physically and mentally spent.  I managed to get through half the lettering for this week’s issue, but the brain is shutting down, so I’m going to post the first page and then put the second up tomorrow night.  Sorry for the delay–I’ll try to avoid automotive collisions in the future.

-V.

Whoo, okay.  Page 2 is up, just click “next” as usual.  Some of you who happen to be especially eagle-eyed or anal may have noticed that we tested out a slightly larger font size for a little while there.  Lettering this issue, it became clear that we definitely need to stick with the slightly smaller one (I use too many words).  I’ll go back and tidy it up when I get some time.

-V.