It really did happen, thanks to Compass at SFO! And, of course, Hark! A Vagrant. Thanks for the tip, Wow Cool!
In case you wondered, here’s how I spent last weekend. Primates, with art by Maris Wicks. Coming in 2013. It’s real! I’m excited. (And now, many errors, many of them mine, will not appear in the book. Thank you Jill, Adin, and Calista!)
Leland Purvis does the art, I do the writing, you do the reading. It’s great when things are simple like that.
I wrote (and Nick Sousanis drew) a short story about two of my favorite things in DC: the Metro and the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial. How do they relate? Well…you’ll have to read the story in District Comics: An Unconventional History of Washington, DC.
If you’re attending the American Library Association conference in a few days, you can get an early look via Matt Dembicki. You can see his schedule at his blog post about ALA.
I enjoyed doing it (that’s the common theme for every comic I’ve written) and hope you’ll enjoy the results.
Speaking of strange intersections, I now need to get back to writing about Dr. Dolittle, Alan Turing, and a bat. I can’t say more about how they all relate and how this will be published just yet, but the topic has been on my mind for ages.
Hearing from Neil Armstrong, live and in person, for almost an hour is uncommon. He’s a great interviewee, even after all these years of repetitive questions. Even better, the combination of Google imagery side-by-side with the actual Apollo landing footage in Part 4 is marvelous. So go, watch:
Part 1 – Space Race
Part 2 – Blast Off
Part 3 – Giant Leap
Part 4 – Presidential Pride
Thanks to CPA Australia for making this happen, and to Sharyn November for tipping me to it.
I hope you’ll join Leland Myrick and me at the American Institute of Physics this Friday to celebrate Feynman’s birthday. I don’t know if we’ll have cake, but we will have books!