When I was at Chicago Comic Convention back in August, I did a brief interview with the guys from RadioactiveNerd.com. It was pretty cool to have the opportunity to share my book with more folks and I was eagerly anticipating when they would get the interview posted on their site. I wound up moving right after the Chicago show and in the hustle and bustle of everything, I almost forgot about it.
As I am now settling back into my routine, I’ve been going through my convention-stack of business cards and knick-knacks and it reminded me to check their site again and there it was!
I’d like to extend a belated thanks to the guys at RadioactiveNerd.com and hopefully we’ll run into each-other again at another show!
You may have noticed that I haven’t updated my site recently. In fact I haven’t updated my site since the Chicago Comic Convention. There is a reason for that (and a long story), most of which I will skip.
In a bizarre turn of events, an unauthorized third party made some allegations about my work to the creator of (what turns out to be) the original Drafted, Mark Powers. The result was that my first contact with Mark was in regard to intellectual property infringement.
This was really a shame, and under different circumstances, I’d like to think things might have turned out differently. Nevertheless, given the manner of our introduction, there really wasn’t much that could be done for either of us other than for me to change the title of my book. Mark has been great about the whole thing, and once we got past the initial awkwardness of the situation, we were able to conduct the whole affair pretty amiably. I wish Mark, and Drafted, the best of success and I look forward to our moving ahead with our respective books with all this behind us.
For my book, I’ve settled on the new title: LAST TOUR. I feel it captures that military grit that is essential to the ethic of the story while emphasizing the finality of the events contained therein.
As you look around the site, you will notice (or may have already noticed) that the name change is in full-swing. The one exception to this is the store, because I have not yet had a chance to re-cover my issues of stock, although this is in the cards very soon. For those of you who are collectors, this is an opportunity to pick up a copy of what is sure to be a rare and valuable “misprint” before the chance is gone forever!
Till next time,
- e. w. lynch
(”Starship Troopers” was a close runner up for the new title. That would have been a great one too.)
As promised (now that I am regrouping from Chicago) I have got my files together and issue three is available on the site! With that, I feel it only makes sense to share the full pinups from the issue as well and I couldn’t be more pleased to do so.
As I said before, I love Dave’s work and it was great to get to see someone else draw my characters. I haven’t really had the pleasure before so it was cool to see the attention that was paid to all the little details. Each little thing was like, “Hey, he noticed that! Awesome.”
Nate’s piece also floored me for some of the same reasons but with different elements. Each piece of the composition is familiar to me but new when presented as a pulp-style poster, with scenes from issue one arranged throughout.
I’d also like to extend warm greetings to anyone checking out the site this week that did me the kindness of stopping by my table over the weekend. If you’re new to the site, or unfamiliar with my work, I highly recommend checking out the gallery and the first three issues of DRAFTED. These are the areas where I have cleverly hidden the content of the site.
Seriously though, Chicago Comic Con was great and I am currently working on a sort of show-summary-highlights-post, but I’d like to collect a few links first and that is taking some time.
