The first, "Make Me a Bat," has already been the subject of a few posts while it was in progress. Here are a few photos of the finished product, which will also give you a hint or two about the plot of the little comic:
Of course, this simple desire on the part of the little boy is thwarted through a variety of misunderstandings (possibly deliberate misprisions) about what he wants. Eventually, the wrong costumes get both ridiculous and frustrating.
... But the book does have a happy (and cute) ending.
This isn't actually the last panel; there's also an appropriate denouement, not pictured here.
And "Make Me a Bat" isn't the only new little book that we've got this autumn. My colleague Allegra Bishop also worked up a little book—as much an illustrated poem as a comic—about the peculiar headwear of the actress Sarah Bernhardt.
You can click these images to enlarge them and get a sense of both the cartooning and the doggerel in "A Hat, a Bat, Manhattan."
And here's the back cover, featuring the Divine Ms. Bernhardt in all her chiroptero-sartorial glory.
I'm still folding and stapling to fill Halloween bulk pre-orders, so I can't promise to get large orders to anyone else in time for Halloween. But if you just want one copy of each book, I can pop them in the mail (first-class) on the same day you order, so you might still be able to read both micro-minicomics on All Hallow's Eve (or on Dia de Los Muertos, at least).
$1.50 will cover my publishing costs, the postage, and Paypal's fees. Here's a button to make the transaction easy:
Of course, you could also get these books by ordering a three-for-five bargain deal. They'd count together as a single book, for those purposes.
I'd forgotten about the 3-for-$5 deal. That's a bargain, all right!
ReplyDeleteI like the curtain backdrop to those photos; they add a nice textural quality as well as an appropriately stage-y flair for that Sarah Bernhardt book. (And the photo of her in her bat-hat...that's a kind of celebrity outré couture I dig, much more so than a meat dress, for sure, if equally PETA-unfriendly.)
Those are some quality Halloween comics there!
ReplyDeleteThose curtains, Mike, are in the conference hotel in Columbus. (I've been meaning to put them up online since I was at that comics festival at OSU.)
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