Newsletter #213: Hooray for ALA!

Hey guys, it's Scott.

It is Monday, June 30th, and I am back from Philly with my family. We had a great time down there, but before we start, just one bit of housekeeping. We are going to be doing a class this week! It's a little bit of short notice, but I'm really excited about the subject. It's about building arcs, building story arcs in your comic. Six issue arcs, 12 issue arcs, 18 issue arcs, three issue arcs. So it's a really key class. We're going to do it for free because it's sort of short notice. So anybody signed up to this newsletter, you'll get a link so you can go check it out. It'll be Wednesday night at 9:30pm EST live. You can chat with us, you can ask questions, you can join in, you can follow along. Or if you can't make it at that time, if you're a paid member, you'll be able to get the class in our archive of 30+ classes that we've done.

But if you want to just check out what Comic Writing 101 is, I would say come by and take a look. We have a lot of fun and I'm really excited about this one. So 9:30pm EST on Wednesday night, July 2nd!

But Philly was awesome. I was there for ALA, the American Library Association's big festival. All the big publishers were there, from graphic novel publishers to novel, nonfiction, sci-fi, horror, everything. It's like Book Expo, which I used to go to in New York. It's at a different city every year, and this year it was in Philly. I brought my whole family, the three kids and Jeanie, and it was a lot of fun. We saw the Please Touch Museum, which was a big kids museum where you run around and you get to mess around with all kinds of interesting machines and gear and stuff. There's mazes and all kinds of fun tactile stuff for little kids.

And we went to the Mütter Museum, which is fascinating and completely stunning and morbid, but also inspiring. It's a museum that was founded in the 1800s. It was actually like, a physician's museum founded by a doctor in Philly with different medical specimens. And it was originally just for doctors and now it's open to the public. But they've got everything from like skull collections to strange abnormalities to really interesting exhibits, like one on Einstein's brain and the difference between it and a more conventional brain. So it was unbelievably cool.

We saw the Liberty Bell. We ate Philly cheesesteaks. We went to the Philly team store, which was fun. But yeah, ALA was great. I got to see a lot of friends from the book world, but DC was wonderful. The lines were incredible for the first trade, volume one of Absolute Batman. I was there to promote that for DC. It comes out in August and we had early galleys of it there along with the early galley volume one of Absolute Wonder Woman and Absolute Superman.

They look fantastic, they’ll be coming out in hardcover and softcover simultaneously, so you can take your pick. But they look great and they’ve got extras in them, some of the designs and all that kind of stuff. Really excited about that.

And then I did a signing on Sunday at Brave New Worlds Comics, a fantastic local shop. They're on all kinds of social media. I would highly recommend you guys follow them. It was a terrific signing.

I'm sorry we had to cap the line. I had to run out of there just to make it back to New York for Quinn's bedtime. But it was a great, great trip down there. So I really, really appreciate it.

Yeah, so class on Wednesday. I really hope you'll come by. And thank you guys again for all the support on everything. We're really excited. We have some huge announcements coming between now and San Diego, and then at San Diego we're going to have a ton of stuff. And I'm also at Denver this coming weekend. That's the other thing. I'm at Denver Comic Con with brother Greg Capullo.

I'm just there Saturday and Sunday. I'm flying in Saturday morning, out Sunday night. So it's a really quick trip. If you want to come get something signed by me, just line up really early. I'm going to just do open line. But the last couple of cons, they've had to cap these things pretty early. But I hope to see you there! I’m coming out there, me and Greg, we’ll have a blast. And yeah, thank you guys again!

S