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TEN DEAD COMEDIANS: Now in Paperback!

Happy #BookBirthday to my first novel, the stand up murder mystery TEN DEAD COMEDIANS, which is out in paperback -- with a rad new cover -- today!

If you read ONE novel this year about ten stand-up comedians trapped on a remote island trying to figure out which is trying to knock them all off, remember, let it be TEN DEAD COMEDIANS.

FVL at BEA/BookCon in NYC

Hey gang we are just over a month out from the debut of my geek noir murder mystery THE CON ARTIST so expect the promotions to step up at a fast and furious pace.

I will be signing special advance copies at the Quirk Books booth at this weekend's Book Con and Book Expo on both Thursday morning (10am) and Saturday afternoon (3:30pm). C'mon by and snag a copy!

The DEFINITIVE 100 Most Influential Comics Pages

I was very happy to be one of the artists, critics and scholars selected to take part in choosing Vulture's 100 Most Influential Pages That Shaped Comics .

The list spans one hundred works from 1929 to 2014, but you know what the best part is? It's a list that will please absolutely everybody, from all walks of life, everywhere on the Internet, and, because its entries were selected Totally Scientifically™ it is 100% true and accurate and not a single page can be disputed by anyone anywhere for any reason.

You hear me?

By nobody.

N-O-B-O-D-Y.

I dare you to find a fault with it.

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Goodreads Free Giveaway Alert: ABRAHAM LINCOLN!

Happy Presidents Day! If you are a US-based Goodreads member, you can enter to win a free copy of ACTION PRESIDENTS VOL 2: ABRAHAM LINCOLN!

Click here and go for it!

You can enter until March 8. Good luck!

Goodreads Free Giveaway Alert: GEORGE WASHINGTON!

Dooooooo it, do it nooooooow

Click on cover! Or above! Good 'til March 6! Good luck!

Preview ACTION PRESIDENTS: ABRAHAM LINCOLN on THR!

Graeme McMillan at Hollywood Reporter has an exclusive preview of the second volume of Action Presidents, featuring Abe Lincoln, along with an interview with me and co-creator/artist Ryan Dunlavey.

Volumes One (George Washington) AND Volume Two of our now irreverent-but-accurate graphic novel series are available right now wherever books are sold -- and they came out in comics stores today too. Who says we don't love you?

Click below for the preview:

My next mystery will be... THE CON ARTIST!

Very thrilled that it's been announced my next prose novel from Quirk Books will be THE CON ARTIST.

Famed comics artist Mike M has been accused of a murder he didn't commit -- of his former editor, one of the most despised people in the entire comics industry -- on the first day of a certain comic con in San Diego, and he has until the end of the show to find out who really did it or his own time will have run out.

THE CON ARTIST has lovely illustrations by my friend and industry veteran Tom Fowler that don't just illuminate text -- they provide vital clues to the mystery itself!

THE CON ARTIST is out from Quirk Books wherever books are sold this July.

Enter the ACTION PRESIDENTS Goodreads ARC Giveaway!

We're back with another awesome Goodreads giveaway, this time for the upcoming Vol .1 of me and Ryan Dunlavey's ACTION PRESIDENTS series: GEORGE WASHINGTON!

Click here, fill out the form, and good luck!

The offer is good through January 26, 2018.

Preview ACTION PRESIDENTS Vol 1 for free!

In conjunction with the 13th or 14th (yeesh I'm old) Fred Van Lente Day over at Comic Book Resources, HarperCollins Kids has shared the first 13 pages of ACTION PRESIDENTS VOL. 1: GEORGE WASHINGTON! Read it here -- and you can pre-order the book here before it arrives in stores with VOL. 2: ABRAHAM LINCOLN on February 6!

Listen to me on Sante Fe NPR

I had a fun time appearing on The Last Word, Sante Fe NM public radio's interviewing-authors show. Host Abigail Adler and I had a fun time talking about what it's like to write comics and novels, how I got into the biz, what's next for me and more.

You can give it a listen here.