Kids Read Comics and my trip to America

Hey all!  I'm back from my trip to America.  Kids Read Comics was an absolute blast!  I had a great time conducting some animation workshops and tabling with my comic The Elements of Destiny.

Jerzy Drozd, co-founder of Kids Read Comics, interviewed me to ask about my experience tabling for the first time.  You can listen to the interview in Jerzy's Thunder Punch Podcast: http://comicsaregreat.com/tpds03

I had never gone overseas before, so it was great to see the other side of the world!  I spent about 10 days in Ann Arbor, Michigan, before heading over to New York for 6 nights and a day in Washington DC.

Where will I be on the 7th and 8th of July? At Kids Read Comics in Ann Arbor, Michigan! http://mlatcomics.com/krc/

I'll be running some 2D animation workshops. More details to come soon!

Where's the review?

Unfortunately the review for Lousing About was not in today's paper. I don't know the reason for it not being there but some of us associated with the book were misinformed. Sorry to all those who bought the paper to find it wasn't there.

I'll be checking the paper next weekend so I'll let you all know if it is there.

I was at the Derwent Entertainment Centre today and discovered that the Powderfinger & Silverchair concert will be held there on September 29th, so I bought tickets to see it, yay!



I'm looking forward to that one!

The 'Lousing About' Launch

The book launch for Lousing About went really well! There was a massive turn out of people and we sold heaps of copies. I spent the majority of the launch signing books:



Unfortunately I didn't get many snaps of the event, and the shots I have don't really show how many people were there (all the pics I have are of me signing books, ha ha) but it was heaps of fun even though I was greatly overwhelmed by the whole experience.

It was pretty full on, well, I felt that way and so did Shirley (the author). We were both pretty nervous and amazed at the amount of people there. The penny dropped for me when I saw the book store full of the books and people buying them. I've never had so many people wanting my signature at once! The best part was signing books for the kids who were there. Pretty awesome stuff!

Even though I had a red face and shaking hands (both when greeting people and when writing!) I would love to do something like a book launch again. It was heaps of fun and I really felt I was achieving what I wanted to achieve when I was 10 years old. I would like to thank Maygog Publishing and Shirley Calvert for allowing me the opportunity to illustrate 'Lousing About'. The book is a great concept and covers a very relevant topic for kids and adults: how to get rid of head lice (which is taught in a fun way).

Oh and I'd like to thank Co-op Bookshop for holding the event and for all their help selling the books!

Lousing About Book Launch Invite

Lousing About (a children's book I recently illustrated) will be in stock at The Co-op Bookshop at the University of Tasmania Sandy Bay Campus. The book launch will be on at The Co-op Bookshop at 4:00pm on Tues 19th June, 2007.

The launch details can be found on the Co-op's event's page. There's an email link to their store for RSVPs, so if you want to go it looks as if you will need to contact them. But the launch is on before the store closes so I don't know how they'll keep up with invited guests :).

So yeah if anyone would like to come away from their day jobs to see Shirley Calvert (the author) and myself then we would both greatly appreciate it!