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Leia Weathington, Marco Aidala, Vanessa Gillings, Kelly McLellan, Konstantin Pogorelov, Liz Conley, Jason Thompson, Brinson Thieme,
The Legend of Bold Riley
by: Leia Weathington, Marco Aidala, Vanessa Gillings, Kelly McLellan, Konstantin Pogorelov, Liz Conley, Jason Thompson, Brinson Thieme,Leia Weathington’s sword-and-sorcery epic The Legend of Bold Riley is illustrated by Leia and a host of talented artists. “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.
$9.99
Leia Weathington’s sword-and-sorcery epic The Legend of Bold Riley is illustrated by Leia and a host of talented artists.
“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!
Created by Leia Weathington, with art by Weathington, Marco Aidala, Vanessa Gillings, Kelly McClellan, Konstantin Pogorelov, Liz Conley, and Jason Thompson. Cover artwork by Brinson Thieme. 232 pages. 7″x10″. Full-color with metallic ink cover.
Retailers! Download a Bold Riley Promotional Display that highlights the foreword by fan-favorite writer Jane Espenson and helps encourage customers to check out the book.
PREVIEWS:
You can download a 67-page preview of the book in PDF or EPUB (iPad-only) format right here on the site. The preview includes excerpts from four of the stories in the book, bonus artwork and more.
Additionally, there’s a ZIP file of preview images available for use in reviews and articles. Download it here. (11MB ZIP file.)
INTERVIEWS:
Feature on Panel Patter by Rob McMonigal — “Ms. Weathington, working with a variety of other artists, has created a fantasy world ripe for exploration, with our guide being Bold Riley, a young woman with royal (but restless) blood. It’s great to see the ‘Uncharted Fantasy World’ idea given a new twist by having a protagonist that’s not only female, but queer as well.”
Feature on Portland Comic Books Examiner by Christian Lipski — “Author Leia Weathington is releasing Bold Riley, her first book, at the end of June, and spoke with the Portland Comic Books Examiner about her own journey.”
Interview on Portland Comics by Doug Dorr — “I worked with 5 other artists for Bold Riley and made the mistake at first of trying to really tightly control the visuals of the comic. That was something I learned to back off from pretty fast. If you are working with artists you probably decided to get into a collaboration with them for a reason. SO TRUST YOUR ARTIST! What I’ve started doing is making model sheets characters, objects and places that must look a certain way to maintain continuity in the story, after that I send photo references, script and descriptions of mood and setting and turn the artist loose to have fun with it.”
Interview on The Hathor Legacy by Maria Velazquez — “Like many creators I started writing the kind of story I always wanted to see. Like most women I was raised with fairy tales and the complex feelings that go with them. Sure they focus primarily on female leads, but those leads tend to be passive objects. The women are what things happen TO not people who make things happen themselves.”
Interview on Sequential Tart by Lee Atchison — “We like the anti-hero right now. And with reason. Things are shit, we’re all pretty jaded. How can you not be when at the click of a button you can see the latest string of atrocities played out before your eyes. I like the anti-hero, but somewhere amid all of the horror and the skepticism, I wanted to place a story about a hero who, while not beyond reproach, is good and wants to do good and tries her hardest.”
ISBN: 9780984594054
Publisher: Northwest Press
Publish Date: 2012
Page Count: 232
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Dash #3 $2.99 – $3.99
Zita Makara is out for blood and Dash is in her sights! Can he stop her before another life is lost? Is she really the monster she appears to be…or is someone else pulling the strings?
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A Waste of Time #1 $2.99 – $4.99
Rick the cartoonist rabbit is growing desperate for success, while his creations—including a coke-addicted teddy bear and a broken robot—have their own plans for his career. Things start to take a sinister turn, and Rick surprises even himself with the depths of pandering to which he’ll sink.
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Rainy Day Recess: The Complete Steven’s Comics $6.99 – $19.99
From 1995 to 1998, David Kelly’s “Steven’s Comics” ran in LGBT and alternative newspapers around the country. This comic strip explored the world of a sensitive boy coming of age in the seventies, with all its joys, quirks, and heartbreaks. Rainy Day Recess: The Complete Steven’s Comics collects the entire Xeric-Award-winning series in one volume suitable for young adult and adult readers, with additional material created specially for this collection.
The book also includes a foreword by advice columnist and It Gets Better Project founder Dan Savage; Northwest Press will be making a donation to the It Gets Better Project with every copy sold.
Includes a foreword by It Gets Better founder Dan Savage.
PREVIEWS:
You can read a preview of Rainy Day Recess: The Complete Steven’s Comics right here on the site.
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The Legend of Bold Riley #2 $2.99
Bold Riley, still reeling from a tragic loss, continues southward with no real destination or purpose. On the desolate Broken Head Moors, she’s rescued from a terrible storm by an aged weaver whose fantastic tapestries may foretell the shape of what’s to come.
Written by Leia Weathington with art by Zack Giallongo and Liz Conley, a pinup by Victoria Grace Elliott, and a cover by Terry Blas.
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Teleny and Camille $9.99 – $29.99
Jon Macy, longtime contributor to gay comics publications such as Gay Comics and Boy Trouble, has adapted a moving and erotic gay love story from the classic Teleny: Or the Reverse of the Medal. attributed to Oscar Wilde and his circle of writers and poets.
Camille, a wealthy young gentleman in Victorian London, falls in love with the handsome and mesmerizing pianist Teleny. While Teleny performs on stage, the two star-crossed lovers discover they share a psychic link in the form of an erotic vision. While Camille struggles to resist his homosexuality Teleny is being pursued by others. After telepathically witnessing the erotic encounters Teleny has with both sexes, Camille attempts suicide. Teleny rescues Camille physically and emotionally with his rapturous love forsaking all others. In this newfound happiness Camille tries to forget that Teleny owes much of his success to the generosity of the women who desire him.
Fans of gay comics and gay love stories will devour this sensual tome.
Winner of the 2010 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Erotica!PREVIEW:
Read the entire first chapter right now! (This preview has had a few images obscured in order to make it more acceptable for general audiences; the full graphic novel is sexually explicit and is intended for adult readers only.)INTERVIEWS:
Interview with Outlook Columbus — “The bottom line? This book is fun. It’s unique, academic and sexy. Teleny and Camille is far and away the most innovative gay novel of the past few years. I caught up with other Jon Macy to talk about his creation.” — Mackenzie Worrall
Northwest Press Interview on Comic Book Queers — Comic Book Queers’ EvilJeff takes over L.A. with the help of Zan Christensen of Northwest Press who brings his lackeys Justin Hall, creator of Glamazonia and Jon Macy, he of Teleny & Camille fame.
Interview on The Feast of Fun podcast — “Based on Teleny, the secret round-robin novel written by Oscar Wilde and his anonymous circle of friends, the classic work of erotica is now visually re-interpreted by Macy in all its lush, sexual excess. Join us as we take a look at the origins of modern gay culture in Victorian England, the origins of one guy one jar, the complicated man that was Oscar Wilde and how to cruise for sex in ye merrie olde England.”
Okazu –
“I was brought up on Robert E. Howard’s Conan stories. They were so stereotypical—fierce, strong, heavily muscular barbarian swordsman, confronting evil priests and bizarre monsters and bedding wenches of all kinds, that kind of thing. I loved ‘that kind of thing’. I have basically been waiting my entire adult life for someone to write ‘that kind of thing’ starring a lesbian Princess who leaves her home to find adventure, because she can’t stop herself, and who confronts gods, creatures, demons and the like. And, of course, beds wenches. Leia Weathington’s The Legend of Bold Riley, is, at last, that story.” Read Erica Friedman’s review on Okazu.
Fanboys of the Universe –
“What Weathington has done in creating postmodern folklore is no easy feat. Her narration and dialogue are impressively consistent, with just the right amount of floral language (and a hint of academic translation) to recreate and reinvent the familiar text of these kinds of tales. Weathington doesn’t waste a single word, which makes the text infinitely readable, especially out loud (which I recommend).” Read Chance Whitmire’s review on Fanboys of the Universe.
GayLeague.com –
“Bold Riley is what a Disney princess story could be if the company had the courage and interest (and subtlety) to push beyond the outer edges of the heteronormative envelope to create an adventure featuring a young, lesbian swashbuckling hero.” Read Joe Palmer’s review on GayLeague.com.
Portland Mercury –
“The Legend of Bold Riley is a goofy and enjoyable Arabian Nights-style collection that never makes a hullabaloo that its strong sword-brandishing hero and righter of wrongs is a woman (a woman who loves the ladies, no less), because, duh, why the fuck wouldn’t she be?” Read Courtney Ferguson’s review on Portland Mercury.
cxPulp –
“She’s the kind of heroine that comics doesn’t have enough of, and needs more of. Hell, it’s not only comics that need a heroine of this kind.” Read Andrea Speed’s review on cxPulp.
The Gay Comics List –
“Bold Riley is not a stereotyped character, to say the least. She’s also a character who still has a long journey in front of her, both physically and psychologically. Leia Weathington has already announced that she has plenty of Bold Riley’s stories to tell. I’ll gladly travel with her.” Read François Peneaud’s review on The Gay Comics List.
Gay People’s Chronicle –
“Weathington tells a great story, and her graphic novel, out on Northwest Press next month, will be loved by adults and teens alike.” Read Anthony Glassman’s review on Gay People’s Chronicle.
PopDose –
“What with all the talk lately about finding a strong female action hero to presumably interest that elusive female reader, here’s one of the best I’ve seen in years. Everything about her is intriguing—her bravery, her motivations, her sexuality, her fighting skill, as well as the milieu she is in, with its aura of high adventure, folklore and magic… and yet, Bold Riley flies under most of fandom’s radar, and that’s a pity. This series deserves more attention than it’s gotten, and hopefully it will find its audience.” Read Johnny Bacardi’s review on PopDose.
Megan Rosalarian Gedris –
“…I would fight a mecha-shark if it would get me a second volume by tomorrow.” Read what Megan has to say about The Legend of Bold Riley on her tumblr.
The Journal of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society –
“It’s a gorgeous full color book that would spruce up any library.” Read Ginger Mayerson’s review on The Journal of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society.
OutSmart –
“Fans of fantasy, manga, and adventure alike will enjoy the world of Bold Riley, as illustrated by seven different artists. However, the most likely reader to gain from these tales of courage, seduction, and morality are young adult readers, since Riley’s story is ultimately one of personal growth and the broadening of mind while the young heroine grows into a powerful and wise woman.” Read Chip Babbin’s review on OutSmart.
City Book Review –
“This is the kind of princess we need more of.” Read the review on City Book Review.
Witches & Pagans –
“I love the world Weathington has created.” Read Rebecca Buchanan’s review on Witches & Pagans.
6’7″ and Green –
“I loved The Legend of Bold Riley. Weathington creates a wonderful new mythology and an entire world. Not to mention the vast majority of the art is gorgeous. I’m a little in love with it, and I hope there are more issues coming out in the future.” Read Erica McGillivray’s review on 6’7″ and Green: A Comic Book Review Blog.
Complex –
“When we flip through the pages, brought to life with dark and leafy greens, splashes of gold and crimson, the colors allow us to settle within this ancient culture.” Read the review on OtakuElite.
Amy Dallen Talkin’ Comics –
“It is everything you want in an adventure story.” Watch the review on Amy Dallen Talkin’ Comics , about 5.5 minutes in).
Autostraddle –
“These genuinely seem like retellings of stories that have been passed down through the generations. Except that they star a queer woman of color, and because of that they’re the kind of tales that I would want to tell my children at night.” Read the review on Autostraddle.
CreativeFluff Magazine –
“Well, if the author set out to create a storybook legend, then Weathington has absolutely achieved that. Everything about the first issue of Bold Riley, from the style of narration to the warm, earth-toned colours used in the illustration lends to this.” Read Zola Paulse’s review on CreativeFluff Magazine.
Girls Like Comics –
“The world of the book is refreshing for two reasons: One, Weathington has envisioned a culture that is remarkably un-steeped in patriarchy. Bold Riley’s gender and sexuality are no big deal, just a normal part of being a swashbuckling noble warrior. She spends most of her time traveling around, slaying things that are troubling villages, and bedding village women whenever that happens to come up.” Read Anne Bean’s review on Girls Like Comics.
Experiments in Manga –
“The Legend of Bold Riley, while something new and refreshing, somehow also feels very familiar. It’s a collection of heroic tales, some ending in triumph and others ending in heartbreak. Because of its episodic nature there’s not a lot of character development, but Riley is such a great character to begin with that the work is still very satisfying. I thoroughly enjoyed The Legend of Bold Riley and look forward to reading more of Riley’s adventures in the future.” Read Ash Brown’s review on Experiments in Manga.
The Two Page Spread –
“Weathington’s writing is excellent and the variety of art in the book is beautiful. Every story has the feel of 1001 Nights, and is as immersive and interesting as a legend. This book is a perfect example of how to do representation, both for LGBT+ and POC.” Read the review on The Two Page Spread.
Unshelved –
“I agree with what Jane Espenson says in her forward: ‘Has there really been no Legend of Bold Riley before this? The story feels like a classic…’ Her adventures recall some of my favorite myths and legends as Riley uses her wits to defeat the monstrous (and seemingly mythical) Morishaksa trying to prey on the goats she’s defending, comes face-to-face with Prakkalore’s patron god, and calls out a creature that has made its nest in the guts of a good man, turning him wicked.” Read Gene Ambaum’s review on Unshelved.