I'm headed out to the Baltimore Books Festival today! Come and say hi, it's a free festival--I'll be drawing and signing books all day Saturday and speaking at 3:30 on the kid's main stage. I didn't have time for fresh content, I had to dig something out of my work file.
Here it is: an elephant all kitted out like a ninja, sneaking through what must be a massive house.
There's some top secret Hazardous Tales behind-the-scenes info in there. Check it out. Drop some comments on those interviews. And don't forget to post your reviews of ONE DEAD SPY and BIG BAD IRONCLAD to your favorite online review locations!
Thank you to the folks at GCFK for the fantastic Hazardous Tales coverage.
So this is exciting; these are banner ads for Frankenstein! I've never had a book with advertising before! You may see these pop up during your perusal of various children's book-centrique sites. Here's the big one:
Pretty cool, huh? I like how they fit the branches of the trees on the cover to the illustration in the background.
Frankenstein is prepped and ready for world domination in October!
I'm prying myself out of the studio at last! I've got a few in-store author signings appearing in the near future.
At the Orem, Utah Barnes and Noble this Saturday (the 22nd) from 4-8, I'll be signing at the AUTHORPALOOZA!
And the week after that, on the 29th, I'll be at the Baltimore Book Festival! I'm giving a presentation at 3:30 on the kid's main stage. Otherwise, I'll be out drawing free drawings--just look for the guy with the giant General Washington hat with a Hazardous Tales pin in it.
I'm killing two birds with today's post. My Hazardous Tales publisher, Amulet, an Abrams imprint, is putting together a collection of found A's. I don't go out enough to find A's, so I made one up. You can see the Abrams A's here.
So there's a big Abraham Lincoln movie coming out this November (no, it's not the one where he fights vampires) it's called "LINCOLN" and it's from a guy named Steven Spielberg. Here's the trailer. Watch closely and see if you can see anyone from BIG BAD IRONCLAD (besides Lincoln himself.)
Pretty epic, huh? Looks like it could be pretty good, right? Here's what I think I spotted:
0:30--Could that be the burning of the Norfolk shipyard? I see big buildings, near water, on fire. Could the Merrimack be burning in there? See pages 22-23
1:17--Dead center, full screen, if that isn't our hero, Gideon Welles a.k.a. Father Neptune, I'll eat my hat. I actually went to imdb, and sure enough, Gideon Welles is listed in the cast of characters.
1:37--Now this is a long, long shot, but could this young soldier be Will Cushing? Probably not (I didn't see Cushing on the imdb cast list) but there ARE some cast members who's roles are blank--and some who are listed as "Union Soldier." Maybe, just maybe it's Cushing.
I didn't see any naval action scenes, but wow, did those battle scenes look intense!
How cool would it be if they showed the Monitor vs. Merrimack battle? If I see either ironclad in the movie I'll jump up a cheer like a maniac.
YEAH! IRONCLADS!! WHOO!
I invite you to shout as well.
And if you have no idea what I'm talking about, you need to get a copy of Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: BIG BAD IRONCLAD. If you don't have it you are totally missing out!
So, it looks like Mondays are going to be HAZARDOUS TALES days here on the Space Station. That still leaves Tuesday through Friday for general nonsense and fun (this week, more weird landscapes.) But on Mondays, sorry, you'll have to learn some U.S. history.
This one will be a multi-parter. Probably 4 pages. Here we go:
Hey everyone, welcome to the second week of full-time posting! I'm feeling pretty good. Back in the saddle and all.
I don't usually link to things here on the blog, I like to provide my own original content. But I couldn't pass this up. This is some gorgeous short animation from France. I think it fits very well with these landscape drawings. Click it up to full screen and enjoy!
Here's a new feature from the Hazardous Tales blog: Hale's Hazardous Holidays, where we will take a look at the origin stories of various American Holidays. Labor Day isn't exclusively American--it's also celebrated in Canada.
Oh, and as a side note, if you draw comics for a living, you still work twelve hours a day, six days a week. Okay, I'm kidding, it's seven days a week.
