In 1997, we aimed a rocket towards Saturn and sent a 13-foot-wide satellite off on a mission to explore the strange worlds in our own (relative) backyard.
This month, NASA announced plans to extend the Cassini space probe’s Saturn sojourn until 2017—nine years longer than its original end date of 2008. Read all about it at the special report at Boing Boing.
Thanks to friend-of-the-blog TheGothBunny for the link!
Here are the buttons I’ll be taking to the SPACE con in April… The four on the left are 1″, and the one on the right is 1.5″
The International Space Station gets a room with a view! The London Telegraph has a lovely gallery of images of the installation of – and first view from – the new windowed observation module. I’m sure the astronauts will appreciate being able to look at something aside from the drab industrial interior of that space station!
Croaker’s Gorge #2 is online, and the guys are feeling stuck in a rut!
I am going to have to temporarily bow to reality and reduce Moon Town’s release schedule to 2 times a week for the next few weeks while I handle a few other things. I suppose I am blessed to have quite a bit going, and I need to balance it all out.
Thank you for your patience.
Moon for Sale is a fantastic documentary by the BBC about the moon and why we’ll go back. There’s fuel in them thar hills.
Those are my two proofs. Note that the white borders will be cut off in the final book, so the full page colors and black gutters will go all the way to the edge of the page. You may notice that the one on the left is brighter than the one on the right. Read on, dear curious reader…
They say the third time is the charm, and I hope that They are correct. I submitted files to my printer right before the Snowpocalypse in late January and got proofs back. They were gorgeously printed, but too, too dark. Some panels, you couldn’t see what was going on.
So I brightened my files and resubmitted them. But that’s when Snowpocalypse II: The Dumpening occurred. We had 65 inches of snow in 5 days, and unfortunately here at the Mason-Dixon line, we are not equipped to handle that. So it was a while before the major roads, let alone the roads in my neighborhood, were passable.
Eventually, the proofs got to me. They were bright enough this time, but unfortunately now I noticed how purple they were. So I de-purpled the files and will be resubmitting them. The book was on target for a FEB 25 delivery. With the snow delays and my file resubmissions, there may be a slight delay, but I don’t expect it to be too much.
I’m pleased to announce that the first mini-comic from WishTales Publishing Studio is Rag the Viking, co-created by my business partner Tom Dell’Aringa and me.
The cost, including shipping is $2.50 to the US, $2.75 to Canada and $3 anywhere else.
