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France Trip & Kneesvember Cover Preview
🕑 Added 2024-02-12 21:56:12 +0000 UTC(image above: crow on statue in Paris)
In January, to promote a french translation of my comics, I travelled to France for a little book tour and my first international business trip (apart from the one-day comic fair I attended in Rochester, NY last year). I had three signing events at different bookstores in Paris where I met many friendly people who were patient enough to wait in line for a doodle of a bird (or earthworm!) in their books.
I then set off to Angoulême where they hold one of the largest comics festivals in the world every year. It's a small town, built on a hill, that has a lot of comic art on its walls, statues of cartoonists, and street names written in word balloons!
It looks peaceful in this photo, but it was full of tens of thousands of comic readers and artists! It was a rewarding but overwhelming experience.
This was a comic I made while answering questions for a 30 minute live drawing event in the Canada Pavilion. I realized pretty quickly that using watercolour on fresh ink was a risky decision to have made.
If any of you happened to see me while I was in France, thank you so much for coming out and supporting my adventure!
Finally, I wanted to share one thing that I've been working on recently: finishing Kneesvember! I chose a name and drew the cover, so here it is:
We've been told that things are slow at the book printers. But I will update you all when I find out when Woven will be ready to order.
- Joshua
Comments
Joe Wright
Looking forward to Woven. Thanks for the update. Hope all goes smoothly.
Michelle Grenell
Yessss!!! I cannot wait for woven! :)
Steve
Angoulême comics festival is great. I used to live not too far away when I was a teenager and my mum took us one year. I got to see the premier of Flash Gordon. It was amazing. Glad you had a good time.
Irene Roga
Congratulations for your signings events and your beautiful experience! I hope you wish to repeat some day (if you're not very tired of course, that route can be really overhelming! 😄) Also, I love the cover of Woven ♥
Elizabeth T
Happy to see Kneesvember coming closer to being a physical item!
Deb with the purple bike
Now I really want to visit Angoulême! (But not during that festival.) The Woven cover looks gorgeous and I cannot wait to gift this Superb Owl (#amuricajoke) to many comics-loving friends.
Emma Cann
Ah, I love it!!
Lori Stokes
Congratulations on a successful tour!
Magpie
So pretty! Both the name and the cover! I can't wait to add it to our little kneesbrary!
Errol Lobo
Cannot wait for Woven. Such a wonderful story.
Sandy Kavanaugh, of Hens' Haven.
What a perfect cover for Kneesvember! I look forward to buying a copy. So exciting!
Karen Davis
I love the cover and the watercolor both!
