Reactionary Tales #1

I still have some copies of Reactionary Tales #1, my first comic that takes place in the Signifiers Universe. Features an intro written and drawn by Paul Pope! Also features the debut of Larvae Boy and This Eternal Flaw, both being continued in The Signifiers #3. http://www.nenoworld.com/ReactionaryTalesDigIt.html

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New Signifiers Letterhead for 2013!

Get three free copies of the new Signifiers Universe letterhead for 2013 with any order of The Signifiers #1 or 2, Reactionary Tales #1, The Quacky Pig and Friends Coloring Book or The Lovey Dovey Puzzle Book Summer Special! Be sure to mention the letterhead when ordering: www.nenoworld.com

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The Signifiers Now at Wholly Craft!

Columbus' premiere shop for hip, handmade goods from over 100 crafters and artists is now carrying The Signifiers #1 and 2. Wholly Craft! also carries other locally printed comix, including Nix Comics Quarterly, so if you're in the C-Bus area, check out their growing comix selection. In fact, check out their shop, period, for unique jewelry, clothing, greeting cards, toys, home decor, and more: http://www.whollycraft.com/

The Signifiers #2 is also now available at the following fine shops:

World's Greatest Comics: http://www.wgcomics.com/

The Laughing Ogre: http://www.laughingogrecomics.com/wordpress/

Lost Weekend Records: http://www.lostweekendrecords.com/

Spoonful Records: http://www.facebook.com/spoonfulrecords

Retailers, if you'd like to carry The Signifiers or the Signifiers Universe-related Reactionary Tales, please contact me for retail rates.

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Independents' Day Festival Less Than 24 Hours Away!

36 bands, Artists. Films. Writers. Cartoonists. Free!

Do come to the corner of Gay and Pearl Alley tomorrow and check out this increasingly amazing annual festival.

A list of the scheduled bands: http://www.columbusalive.com/content/blogs/sensory-overload/2012/08/independents-day-lineup.html

In addition to a Nix Comics booth in the Craft Alley on Gay Street, the following artists'll be set up at the Indie Comics table:

11:00-12:00: Me!

12:00-1:00: Victor Dandridge; The driving force behind Columbus' innovative Vantage Inhouse Productions.

1:00-2:00: Brenda Kirk; Mini Comics creator, painter, t-Shirt Designer. blogger... Basically awesome DIY everything!

2:00-3:00: Jeff Smith; The Big Babboo of self publishing in Columbus! Creator of the terrific Bone and RASL comics!

3:00-4:00: Tony Goins; Writer for the Lovecraftian detective series Downs, and contributor to the local Panel Comix collaborative anthologies.

4:00-5:00: Max Ink; artist, writer and creator for the Columbus-centric Blink series of minis and graphic novels.

5:00-6:00: Will Tooker; Terror-ific writer of such ghastly tales as Spirits In the Well and Grandfather Bones for Creephouse Comics.

I'll be signing copies of The Signifiers, Reactionary Tales, Deathwalker and more, plus have on hand buttons and my new line of Underwater Cats greeting cards. Check it out!

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Signifiers Work Area Getting Out of Control

What it says above.

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Reactionary Tales #1: Your Introduction to the Signifiers Universe

We do still have some new, mint condition copies of Reactionary Tales #1 for sale, but when they're gone, they're gone!

Featuring the first appearance of Larvae Boy and This Eternal Flaw, Reactionary Tales was my first work which takes place in the Signifiers Universe, features a drawn introduction by Paul Pope and was funded by a grant from the Xeric Foundation.

Order your copy here: http://www.nenoworld.com/ReactionaryTalesDigIt.html

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Toy Soldier

From Reactionary Tales #1, your gateway to the Signifiers Universe. Funded by a Xeric Grant, with a drawn introduction by Paul Pope.

I still have some copies left: http://www.nenoworld.com/ReactionaryTalesDigIt.html

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Larvae Boy, Lonely and Sad

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The Xeric Grant Says Adieu

Nix Comics Quarterly publisher Ken Eppstein surprised me with the news this week that the Xeric Foundation is ending its decades-long practice of awarding grants to self-publishing cartoonists.

My comic book Reactionary Tales #1, published in 2001, was funded by a grant from the Xeric Foundation (the book is the introduction of the Signifiers Universe).

On the Xeric Grant website, cartoonist and Xeric founder Peter Laird recently wrote: "The advent of essentially free web publishing has forever altered the way aspiring comic book creators can get their work out into the public eye. With this in mind, I have decided that it makes sense that the Xeric Foundation will no longer provide grants to self-publishing comic book creators, and instead devote all of its available grants funds to charitable organizations."

Though I'm disappointed that the Xeric Foundation is no longer supporting and encouraging the publication of artwork on paper (one could argue that web publishing isn't really publishing at all but merely posting/uploading - and the fact that essentially free web publishing was also available during most years of the Foundation's existence (I had a website for my comics work in '96), the Foundation has generously provided more than $2,500,000 to creators and charities over the course of its existence - an amazingly loving accomplishment.

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