It’s another newsletter, yay! How is it almost March already?! Sheesh...

January was fairly productive for me, art-wise – I started a personal self-indulgent art project called “Drawing Stuff That Could Be Album Covers.” Here’s a few of those. I never fully gave up on my dream of illustrating album covers, even though 1) I do not personally know anyone in a band, 2) even if I did, there’s very little money in it.

Anyway, all that is to say, “Please hire me to draw your album cover, I would be so good at it.”

Here’s a photo of Last Band On Earth on the shelf at Indigo. I think this might be the first time one of my books has officially made it there?

If I could be so bold as to ask a favour: if you’ve read and enjoyed Last Band On Earth, would you be so kind as to write a five star review on Goodreads or Amazon? As much as I tried to get people to review the book, it barely got any coverage apart from a few very small blogs – which, I won’t lie, really bums me out because I think it’s really good and deserved to get more coverage. I got lots of buzz for Look Straight Ahead, after all – though I do realize there were a lot more media outlets covering graphic novels back then (2013).
Anyway, venting aside, Amazon etc reviews really do help me out, so if you’d be so kind as to take the time to write one, I’d really appreciate it! Thank you! :)

Moving on -

I was going to put this in the last newsletter, but I was still in the process of finishing them up – here’s some new book covers I did for my good friend Oli Jacobs, for his noir series Mr Blank.

For the first year ever, I remembered it was Goblin Week! (One of those online art challenges which takes place during the last week of January and I believe was started by Evan Dahm of Rice Boy/Order Of Tales/Vattu fame) So here’s some of the highlights from that:

The last one also doubles as “Drawing things that could be album covers.”

I successfully filled all three of my Punk Pet Portrait commission slots over the Christmas season, so here’s how those turned out!

I’ve opened more slots for these, and you can get your own by filling out this form here! Two slots are currently still available.

Finally, I will be tabling at Nerdvana at the Western Development Museum in Saskatoon on Saturday, March 28^th. This is the replacement for the Prairie Pop Culture Celebration show at the same venue, which friends of mine have done before but I’ve somehow always managed to miss the signup window. Excited to table at the new show!

That’s it for now. I have some more exciting things happening behind the scenes and can’t wait to share them with you soon! Till next time,

- E