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Bold Riley Preview: iBook or PDF

// March 21st, 2012 // // Bold Riley

The preview of The Legend of Bold Riley that we released a few weeks ago has gotten even better, and now has a version that’s designed specifically for the iPad, to be read in Apple’s iBooks app. If you haven’t tried Northwest Press books on your iPad yet, find out what you’ve been missing! Just download this preview, add it to your iTunes library, sync it to your iPad and enjoy!

Of course, you can also still grab the PDF version that can be read on your desktop computer, on other tablets, or even on your smartphone (though it’ll be pretty tiny. ;-)

We’re super-psyched about this book and we know you will be, too. Please spread the word to your friends and ask your local comic shop to check in out in Diamond’s PREVIEWS catalog in May. (I’ve even included a link to the ever-handy ComicShopLocator.com right in the preview so you can find your nearest shop!)

The Perfect Day to Introduce You to…

// March 8th, 2012 // // Bold Riley

Today just happens to be International Women’s Day, and it’s the perfect time to unveil the next Northwest Press book, The Legend of Bold Riley, which will be on shelves this summer! This sword-and-sorcery epic springs from the mind of Leia Weathington, and is illustrated by Leia and a host of talented artists. I couldn’t be happier that it’s a Bold Riley book that is NWP’s first book with a lesbian lead; I’ve been picking up the Bold Riley minicomics at conventions for years and always told people how awesome they were. Now I get to help bring a deluxe, full-color Bold Riley book into the world!

The book will be 232 pages, lush full color, and feature a gorgeous cover by Brinson Thieme with a metallic logo and ornaments. This thing is going to sparkle.

“Who is Bold Riley?” you might ask. She has hunted the wildest game and dallied with countless beautiful girls, but still longs to know the world beyond the city walls. Princess Rilavashana SanParite, called Bold Riley, leaves behind her station and sets out to travel through distant lands and find forgotten ruins, fearsome enemies, inscrutable gods and tragic love.

She’s as capable with a sword as she is with her wits—man, does she carve things up when the need arises—and is a strong, beautiful, confident woman who doesn’t wear a bikini into battle. And she always gets the girl!

We’re putting the finishing touches on the book, but there’s enough finished that I can share a pretty extensive preview in PDF form. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the book will be available to order from the May installment of Diamond’s PREVIEWS catalog. Check out the preview of The Legend of Bold Riley and ask your local store to reserve you a copy!

Read a preview of “The Power Within”!

// July 10th, 2011 // // Misc, The Power Within

Check out this 10-page preview of Charles “Zan” Christensen and Mark Brill’s The Power Within right here on Northwestpress.com, thanks to an embedded Google Docs viewer. The book is available to order through Diamond Comic Distributors using item #JUL111189. Ask for it at your local comics shop!
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Read a Preview of David Kelly’s “Rainy Day Recess”!

// January 22nd, 2011 // // Rainy Day Recess

Northwest Press is proud to be publishing a collection of David Kelly’s Xeric-Award-winning series “Steven’s Comics”, with a foreword by It Gets Better Project founder Dan Savage. Continue reading to take a look at the preview, and after you’ve fallen in love with this beautiful, bittersweet series, ask your local bookstore or comics shop to pre-order it! (Or order it directly from us in March!)
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Read a 30-page Preview of Glamazonia: The Uncanny Super-Tranny Here

// December 17th, 2010 // // Glamazonia

Check out this 30-page preview of Justin Hall’s Glamazonia: The Uncanny Super-Tranny right here on Northwestpress.com, thanks to an embedded Google Docs viewer.
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Preview GLAMAZONIA: THE UNCANNY SUPER-TRANNY!

// October 27th, 2010 // // Glamazonia

The wait is over! You can now download a 30-page preview of Justin Hall’s forthcoming Northwest Press book, Glamazonia: The Uncanny Super-Tranny!

The preview includes a look at the secret origin of Glamazonia; her romances with J.F.K., Fidel Castro and Che Guevara; Glamazonia Public Service Announcements with special guests Robert Kirby, Dave Davenport, MariNaomi, Paige Braddock and Steve MacIsaac; and a peek at the epic Glamazonia/Rent Boy adventure drawn by Diego Gómez!

(And this is just a taste of what you get in the full, 120+ page book!)

Download the preview today! Tweet the heck out of it, make it your Facebook status, tattoo it onto your forehead! And most importantly, ask your local comics shop to reserve you a copy! If you want to find a shop near you, try the excellent Comic Shop Locator.

Northwest Press is real y’alls.

// June 17th, 2010 // // 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!

Mark Brill is an amazing artist!

// March 28th, 2010 // // The Mark of Aeacus

Just finished inking page 20 of 24 (the finish line is in sight!) and wanted to post a little note to talk about how great Mark’s pencil work is. Regardless of my fluency in Photoshop, the fact that the writer of the book with no comic book art credits is able to take his pencils and clean them up to look like inkwork is pretty astounding.

Yes, I am a tracer. A good tracer, but still.

And just when I start to get cocky and think I’m some inking wunderkind, I come across a background that he didn’t flesh out completely and realize that it’s not me that can draw, it’s him.

Mark of Aeacus mo…men…tummm…

// March 21st, 2009 // // The Mark of Aeacus

Pencils from Mark of Aeacus #2!

Mark has set a deadline of early April to finish all the pencil work, which will be inked by Max Banks, who’s previously inked The Tick. We settled on this panel to share as a special preview.

If you want to see more of Mark of Aeacus #2, you can stop by and visit us at the Emerald City ComiCon on April 4th and 5th, where I’ll not only be promoting Mark of Aeacus, but also helping out LGBT comics organization Prism Comics!

OMG! Eric Shanower meets Aeacus!

// February 24th, 2009 // // The Mark of Aeacus

A while back, I had chatted with Eric Shanower, illustrator of The Age of Bronze, friend, and all-around-groovy-guy about collaborating on a mythology storybook. It would take these ancient tales and retell them in a modern voice, recounting all the fucking and betrayal and bad behavior just like you might do in a Facebook blog post.

The idea was to do a 16-page storybook—with an art panel for each—that followed the life (and death) of judger-of-the-dead King Aeacus, who got the ball rolling long ago when he crafted The Mark of Aeacus and sent it up from Hades.

Of course, I knew Eric—being as busy as he is with being an actual comics artist with real paying work—would have to fit this project in around the edges, as it were. It’s been gestating.

But I was happily surprised to get some pencil artwork in my email box yesterday morning! I’ll share some of the work as soon as it’s clean and approved for preview; it’s comic, lively, and brings this dusty tale to life with the fun and bite I was hoping for.