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Some more reviews plus SPX 2009!
A couple new Secret Science Alliance news-type items: Here's a new profile/interview with Eleanor that's pretty cute, they even made a little "baseball card" with her "statistics." Here's a new review that tickled us with flattering comparisons: "Some of my favorite books are what I call small town adventures. They're set in an older, more innocent time when kids could sneak out at night for adventures and build marvelous inventions in their backyards. Some of the best are the Mad Scientists' Club by Bertrand Brinley, Secret Agents Four by Donald Sobol, and the White Rose Rescue by Astrid Lindgren. Although some have tried to recapture this genre, it never quite works. Until now. (Read the rest here.) And yup, Eleanor and I will both be at this year's SPX (Sept 26 & 27, Bethesda MD), and Elo will have copies of The Secret Science Alliance! Our table will be in the back left corner of the room as you come in. Just look to the left of the giant floating supernatural Helvetica A.  Little House Update
First of all, thanks for the positive responses to the release of the Secret Science Alliance. Eleanor really put her heart and soul into this book, and she's been pretty anxious to see how it'll be received. She just had an interview in the local daily paper here in Athens, the Banner-Herald, here's a snippet: "When you're a kid, you genuinely believe you are capable of doing anything if you could only get around to it," she adds. "You live in a very pleasurable, delusional world." So she wanted to write a book for a child "who would feel that achieving all the stuff was totally possible." (Read the rest here.) We're still waiting to hear what people actually make of the book. A few early reviews have rolled in, including a very flattering one here from the School Library Journal blog: "It really wasn't until my boss handed it to me to read that I decided to give it a go and see whether it was worth checking out. I'm so glad he did too since this is one of the most eye-popping, ambitious, intelligent graphic novels for kids I've seen in a long time. And I can guarantee you that it's like nothing your children have ever seen before." (Read the rest here.) So that's very encouraging! If you're interested in ordering a copy, we always encourage people to patronize their local comics shop or bookstore. But if you're going to be ordering online, here's a handy link to the Amazon page. In other news, Eleanor and I are going to the Decatur Book Fest just outside of Atlanta this weekend. Eleanor's scheduled to appear on three panels there (and I'll be on one as well): Minicomics Masterpieces And one last snippet, we've sold out of all our copies of Beast Mother we have on hand. We'll get some more assembled, but not until we polish off a few deadlines - I'd guess a month from now, at least, until they're back online. Thanks to everybody who's ordered! September 1st = SSA
 Yep, the book that we spent the good part of the last couple years working on, is finally hitting store shelves! I got to watch from its earliest versions as Eleanor refined it from a fun, but straightforward, YA mystery/adventure book, to a tour de force of comics storytelling techniques. And then I got to ink it! If you like: a.) Kids DIYing it without proper parental supervision b.) Secret underground hideouts crammed with mysterious equipment c.) Elaborately thought-out practical jokes d.) Turn-of-the-century inventors (Edison, Tesla, Marconi) then you will like this book. It's really something special. Anyway, check out the website at www.secretsciencealliance.com. There are lots of preview pages, so you can see exactly why it took so long to finish. May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 September 2005 April 2006 October 2006 April 2007 June 2007 March 2008 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009
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