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December 30, 2011
Retail Update: Librarie Berkana – Spain
If you are in Spain and want to pick up SHIRTLIFTER, Librarie Berkana in Madrid’s fabulous Chueca district now has copies of SHIRTLIFTER #4 in addition to their existing stock on #1 – 3. Any Spanish LGBT and comics bookseller (or any European bookseller, for that matter) should also be able to pick up copies through the stores’ distribution arm, Triangulo Distribution. So if you are in Europe and have been wanting to pick up a copy of #4, this should now be a lot easier to do.
Retail Update: Librarie Berkana - Spain
If you are in Spain and want to pick up SHIRTLIFTER, Librarie Berkana in Madrid's fabulous Chueca district now has copies of SHIRTLIFTER #4 in addition to their existing stock on #1 - 3. Any Spanish LGBT and comics bookseller (or any European bookseller, for that matter) should also be able to pick up copies through the stores' distribution arm, Triangulo Distribution. So if you are in Europe and have been wanting to pick up a copy of #4, this should now be a lot easier to do.
Retail Update: Gosh Comics London
Just to let London customers know that Gosh comics has SHIRTLIFTER #1 - 4 in stock and is the only place to get SHIRTLIFTER in the UK at the moment. They have my contact info in case they sell out, and if they do that is an inducement to sell more. So if you're a UK resident and have wanted to check out my comics, go by the next time you are in London.
Info on Gosh Comics available on their website.
September 27, 2011
Reading @ Little Sisters in Vancouver October 21st
I will be in Vancouver as part of a new bear event being run by my friend Todd - Vancouver's Wild Weekend. My reading will be at Little Sisters at 7:00 PM on Friday, October 21st (coincidentally, my 42nd birthday). I'll do another reminder when the facebook event listing gets put up, hopefully in the next week or so.
June 27, 2011
SD ComicCon/Prism Booth/Kickstarter
I will be at SD ComicCon again this year, and bringing lots of copies of SHIRTLIFTER #4. I will be there on Friday - Sunday, one day more than I have been in previous years. At this point pretty much everyone knows if they are going to ComicCon or not (it's been sold out for months) so if you are going, I hope to see you there.
I will once again be one of the booth partners with Prism Comics, along with Brad Rader, Brian Andersen, Dave Davenport, Ed Luce, Fanboys of the Universe, J.D. Glass, Jeff Krell, Northwest Press, Paige Braddock, Poseur, Ink and Sean-Z.
Exhibiting with so many cartoonists means an expanded footprint, so Prism Comics has started a Kickstarter project to help subsidize the cost so that it is affordable for indie cartoonists and self-publishers like myself. As with all Kickstarter projects, there is a tiered reward system, with different incentives available for different pledge levels (including a couple of options from me).
For more information, go over to the Prism Comics Kickstarter Campaign homepage.
June 6, 2011
Temporary Site Outage
I updated the site yesterday and my index.html file was corrupted, which caused the site to be offline today. Everything is back to normal now, sorry about the confusion.
June 5, 2011
Online Store Revamp
I've started the first step in an eventual site overhaul by centralizing the comics and online store . I think it's less confusing this way. Note the addition of a couple of specials, one for US domestic customers and one for international customers. The "Add to cart" buttons have been modified you to calculate postage costs on checkout, which will be particularly helpful for international customers.
I'll be updating the "prints/cards" and "retailers" sections in the coming weeks, and eventually will design a new interface.
May 22, 2011
Recent Press
There's been a mini-flurry of press activity recently due to the release of SHIRTLIFTER #4.
I was the subject of this week's Artist Profile at Advocate.com.
The Coast magazine wrote a piece in conjunction with my recent reading in Halifax.
The Gay and Lesbian Roundtable of the American Library Association ran a positive review of SHIRTLIFTER #1 - 3.
There'll be some more reviews and articles coming up in the next few weeks, I'll post them as they come available.
May 19, 2011
This Weekend: Seattle Erotic Art Festival
This year's Seattle Erotic Art Festival is taking place this weekend (May 20 - 22). I will not be exhibiting this year, but I do have merchandise available in the festival store, including prints and copies of SHIRTLIFTER, including copies of the hot off the presses SHIRTLIFTER #4. The show is always worth checking out, drop in if you are in the Seattle area.
May 6, 2011
SHIRTLIFTER #4 - RELEASE COUNTDOWN
So SHIRTLIFTER #4 has been printed and most copies are on their way down to Long Beach. However, two boxes are sitting in Toronto waiting for me at my TCAF table. I haven't seen the final results yet, I'm always nervous when I print a new book that I will open it up and I will have put all the pages in the wrong order or something. But I think that if the final product turns out as well as the proofs, it's going to be the best looking issue yet. Please come by my table at TCAF to pick up a copy if you are in the Toronto area.
There is a 12 page preview online at Modern Tales. Those of you who followed the strip when it was serialized can see that while both scenes in the preview may look familiar, the dialogue is completely different and reads substantially differently than previously. That's typical of the entire book, so its worth checking out even for those of you that may be already familiar with the story
For those of you who pre-ordered, the books will go out after they arrive in Long Beach, sometime around the 15th. For those of you who did not, it will be available for purchase through Amazon and through my usual retail outlets.
It is also of course available here on this website, and I am running the following specials up until June 10th. Just click on one of the options below and your choice will be shipped to you when I get back to the States in mid-May. (NOTE: If you are viewing this via an RSS feed or Facebook the "Add to Cart" buttons may not show up - please go to http://www.stevemacisaac.com/blog if that happens)
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Special #1: Free Shipping for SHIRTLIFTER #4.
Purchase the new issue at cover price ($12.95) and a signed copy will make its way to you with free shipping.
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Special #2: Signed SHIRTLIFTER #4 + 8.5 x 11 Print = $25.00 (Shipping Included) ($10 savings)
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Special #3: Signed run of SHIRTLIFTER #1 - 4 + $30.00 (Shipping included) (>$10 savings)
