Astonishing Excursions Cover
Shaenon: One more non-Skin Horse update… The Kickstarter campaign to reprint Narbonic: The Perfect Collection has ended and is officially the most successful Kickstarter I’ve run so far. Thank you so much to everyone who pledged and/or got the word out! And anyone who hasn’t read Narbonic, the comic strip I did before this one, can of course catch up here.
The Narbonic Kickstarter hit all three of its stretch goals, meaning that I’ll be publishing two books of bonus Narbonic comics and drawing another season of my X-Files recap comic, Monster of the Week. (MotW has been on hiatus since I had a baby and, to put it bluntly, ran out of time for comics that don’t make any money.) Above is my new cover illustration for The Astonishing Excursions of Helen Narbon &Co., a Victorian serial that people have been requesting in print for years and I’ve put off collecting because I have to go back and rescan all the artwork. Okay, back to scanning. Talk to you later!
Channing: A round of applause for all us Narbonic fans for helping to make all this wonderful stuff happen!
Follow the money.
And like Forrest Gump, our patchwork girl has appeared in the strangest places. I’ve just spotted her traveling back in time to inspire L. Frank Baum!
Yessssss! I’ve been craving a print copy of the Excursions for so long!
Looks great! This is going to be a really long six months waiting for the books!
And I love the look on the moon’s face, staring at Mell and her pickaxe!
Ooh! A pickaxe… yet another in a growing list of things that has me convinced that Unity possesses a healthy dose of Mell’s DNA!
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Great news! Now I have to decide what to do with my old, outdated, unsigned copies of the books 😉
And, to anyone who hasn’t read Narbonic, I cannot recommend enough to do so.
Indeed! If you haven’t read it, you have no idea what you’re missing!
I have just started reading it yet again — something I do with both Narbonic and Skin Horse every week or two. And every time, I discover something I hadn’t noticed before.
Today, for example, I discovered the pre-Narbonic strips from “North of Space” and “Ratio”. It would be awesome to see those in their entirety someday!
Bookcross them? Second-hand bookshop? Convert others to the cult of Narbon!
Great to hear about the Narbonic kickstarter, but on a completely unrelated note, one that came to me when watching a nature documentary, has Tigerlily heard of Funk Island? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funk_Island) As I think an island named Funk would be at least a note of interest to her.
It probably is part of her master plan, yes!
Great news!
Still think it’s weird how Victorian Dave has a pipe, when regular Dave never smoked.
Ah, but Dave did smoke, but now he never has.
And besides, Victorian Dave was born 100 years earlier.
Love the cover!