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Have I got a POS for you…

// September 1st, 2010 // No Comments » // Teleny and Camille

And no, I don’t mean what you think I mean. I mean “point-of-sale”, as in “point-of-sale display”.

Since Teleny and Camille is now carried by a bunch of distributors, I thought I’d make some snazzy displays that retailers can use to help promote the book to their customers. They turned out so well that I just had to share them with you!

Teleny and Camille Point-of-Sale Displays

If you’re not a retailer, you can still put your copy of Teleny and Camille on the shelf and put one of these fancy displays under it and pretend. Fun for the whole family!

Read the First Chapter of Teleny and Camille Here

// August 20th, 2010 // No Comments » // Teleny and Camille

Read the first chapter of Jon Macy’s Teleny and Camille right here on Northwestpress.com with no ads, thanks to an embedded Google Docs viewer. (They’re slowly taking control of the world, but at least they’re helpful while they do it.) Embedded viewer after the jump!
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Teleny and Camille Now available from Diamond!

// August 13th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Teleny and Camille

Teleny and Camille is a featured item in the new PREVIEWS Adult catalog from Diamond Distributors as item #SEP101088!

Ask your local comic shop to order a copy! Spread the word!

Download a copy of the catalog here: PREVIEWS Adult — September 2010

If You’re in San Francisco…

// August 5th, 2010 // No Comments » // Glamazonia, Teleny and Camille

…you can head to Isotope and pick up a copy of Teleny and Camille or Glamazonia: JFKiller. JFKiller and the brand new issue of Mark of Aeacus are also available at Whatever in the Castro.

Video Preview of Teleny and Camille

// August 3rd, 2010 // No Comments » // Teleny and Camille

Here’s a video that Jon posted a while back with preview art from Teleny and Camille. Stunning!

Massive Comic-Con Wrap-Up!

// July 27th, 2010 // 2 Comments » // Glamazonia, Teleny and Camille, The Mark of Aeacus

What a weekend! More like a week, actually…

I’d been tending to a lot of things over the last few weeks, trying to complete a lot of projects in time for Comic-Con in San Diego. I didn’t finish and bring everything I’d been working on, but it was still an amazing lineup of neat stuff.

I saw the Teleny and Camille books in person for the first time on Thursday, and they look stunning. I was hoping that the cover would turn out as lustworthy as Jon’s graphic novel, and I wasn’t disappointed. Visitors to the Prism Comics booth snapped them up, and I got complimentary copies into the hands of a lot of people whose work I admire. The book is available right now through Last Gasp and soon through some other distributors, and will be in Diamond’s September Previews catalog. Ask for it at your local shop!

In addition to pushing Teleny at the Prism booth, I was able to promote the book on an all-star panel on the 23rd annual Gays in Comics panel, moderated by Andy Mangels. It was also during that panel that Geoff Johns asked me if he could keep my sample copy of The Mark of Aeacus #2. (What was I going to say? “No”?)

Yes, the second big project was the long-awaited second installment of the erotic vigilante book that Mark Brill and I co-create. There were a few hundred copies of MoA #2 waiting for me at the hotel when I checked in, and they looked gorgeous. In addition to the first and second book and the t-shirts, I also ordered up some temporary tattoos with the Mark on them, and was branding people right and left with them all weekend. (I’m not quite ready for a permanent Mark on my neck…)

I also brought a companion volume, The Myth of Aeacus, which is an illustrated storybook recounting the Greek mythology that the modern story is rooted in. The book is drawn by none other than multiple Eisner Award winner Eric Shanower, and it’s beautiful.

Both books will be available shortly on the Prism Comics website and also here. (If you buy them from me, I’ll toss some tattoos into each order. Mythic powers await!)

The next big project was a brand new t-shirt for Glamazonia, the Uncanny Super-Tranny, Justin Hall’s superpowered heroine. The bold orange shirts were a big hit, as was the new minicomic, Glamazonia: JFKiller, which we printed up especially for the show. The mini features a story from the forthcoming Glamazonia collection from Northwest!

While I was hawking Glamazonia products, the Prism booth was visited by none other than Kids in the Hall‘s Scott Thompson, who was promoting his forthcoming Danny Husk graphic novel project. We’re best friends now.

There was a lot more going on at the show, including demos of a new app for the iPad, but I have to keep a few mysteries to keep things spicy. More news very soon!

Convention Wrap-up Soon…

// July 26th, 2010 // No Comments » // Misc

In the meantime, here’s something to enjoy that reminds me of my time nerding it up here in San Diego…

New Mark of Aeacus for Comic-Con!

// June 25th, 2010 // 2 Comments » // The Mark of Aeacus

To those long-suffering Mark of Aeacus fans who have been patiently waiting for a new issue, I am pleased to tell you that your wait is almost over.

Class Comics and Northwest Press are co-publishing the second installment of The Mark of Aeacus, which will be debuting at Comic-Con International in San Diego next month. This issue reveals the secret origin of the strange powers that Jack has been given, and introduces a mysterious foe determined to put an stop to the Bearer’s brutal brand of justice.

The cover’s just been finalized, and I’m letting you lucky folks take a peek…

Teleny and Camille On the Way

// June 25th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Teleny and Camille

The proofs of Teleny and Camille have been approved, and the book is currently being printed by the fine folks at Bookmasters in Ashland, Ohio, which means it will be done in time to make its big debut at Comic-Con in San Diego next month!

I’ve also been on the line with a number of distributors (including one that serves the Australian market!) and they are all eager to include Teleny in their catalogs. Hopefully, you’ll soon see Teleny available everywhere; could it become the holiday season’s most naughty literary gift? Let’s make it happen.

Here’s another image; this is the full wraparound cover spread for the book. The proofs I’ve seen so far haven’t included the gold ink, and I’m excited to see the final product in a few weeks.

Northwest Press is real y’alls.

// June 17th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Teleny and Camille

I’ve been maintaining this site for quite a while as a place to post all my comics stuff and to talk about The Mark of Aeacus, that I write for Class Comics, but the idea that Northwest Comics was a real publisher was kind of a fantasy.

But “Northwest Press” will be publishing its first official project next month: the graphic novel masterpiece Teleny and Camille by Jon Macy. This is an adaptation of the anonymous gay erotic novel Teleny, which is attributed to Oscar Wilde and his circle of writers and poets. Jon shared it with me over a year ago, when it was nearly finished, and he produced a small print-on-demand run for WonderCon earlier this year. It’s a gorgeous book, and it really deserves a deluxe presentation and a wide audience.

I’m sure I’ll be talking more about it in the coming weeks and sharing previews and such—especially since both Jon and I will be at Comic-Con next month!—but I’m nearly ready to send the cover off to the printer’s and I wanted to share it with the world.

Enjoy!