6/22/2012

Recent Amazing Facts

I haven't posted a link to my recent Leon Beyond strips in a while, so here they are: 











...and remember, there's still a SALE going on if you'd like to pick up some of the collections.

6/06/2012

Out and About

In Chicago June 15-17:
Dan Zettwoch and I will be signing our new books Gloriana and Birdseye Bristoe at Quimby's, Friday, June 15.
Plus we'll be at CAKE that weekend (with Ted May and Mardou). I will be on a panel with old friends John Porcellino and Anders Nilsen.


In St. Louis June 22:
And then we will be signing at Star Clipper on June 22. Refreshments will follow.






6/03/2012

BIG LEON SALE

***SALE SALE SALE SALE***

Over at the Catastrophe Shop, all AMAZING FACTS AND BEYOND Collections have been marked down from $5 to $3 each! That's all 5 for just $15! For a Limited Time!* ACT NOW. We're into our 5th year now on this strip, and all of them have been uploaded FREE to the Leon Beyond Blog. The collections contain extras like behind the scenes Introductions and useful "Beyondexes" for cross-referencing. The first and fourth collections have screen-printed covers.





Collections:


Each one has its peculiar charms! 






Tell a friend!

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*but probably for a while

5/22/2012

New Comics: May / Mardou

My good friends Ted May and Sacha Mardou have awesome new comics out--



We got 'em at the Catastrophe Shop, but you should really get them straight from the May/Mardou household -- go here and here to do so. Elsewise, we will all be sharing a table at CAKE (the Chicago Alternative Kcomics Expo), and we'll see you there on June 16 and 17.

5/12/2012

Five Sleepy Firemen


-from Five Little Firemen, by Margaret Wise Brown and Edith Thacher Hurd, pictures by Tibor Gergely.

5/06/2012

Gloriana covers

This was my inspiration/source for the Gloriana cover.


Here is the first pass -- all agreed it was too plain.



There were also many other attempts, other styles, best forgotten... Here's one that isn't too bad.


5/02/2012

New Book


Gloriana is finally here! Should be in stores in a few weeks. It turned out super good.


more at D&Q's blog here

4/04/2012

Timelines


A bundle of beautiful timelines posted over at the Dave Rumsey Map Collection. Many of these are featured and discussed in Cartographies of Time, one of my favorite books I read last year.

Making timelines* seems to be one of those things that we can do on computers very easily now, using gestures and drag-and-drop, instead of the nightmare interface of something like this.

I wanted to add some more to this post, so here's some other TIMELINE links that I came across in about 10 minutes of searching. I haven't done in-depth research or anything. Also -- if you're searching for "timeline" on google you'll want to add "-facebook," to filter out a billion mentions of Facebook's (badly designed) timeline feature.

BeeDocs Timeline App
Verite Timeline App (play with the coal industry power play timeline)
SIMILE Timeline Widget
Tiki-Toki
ChronoZoom Project
Wikipedia list of timelines
Hyperhistory (oldstyle, charming)

Add more in comments if you want. There's gotta be some huge, Wikipedia-type timeline somewhere on the web, right? I thought I saw something like that once, but I couldn't find it just now.

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*...and mindmaps, 3D environments, nested documents, etc....

UPDATES:

Here's an interactive timeline thing called "Here is Today."