RASL 2: The Fire of St. George ships to comic book stores today, and I’m packing my bags for C2E2 this weekend. The staff at Cartoon Books is on the way over to the house to have a final scheduling meeting. It’s exciting! I haven’t been to a comic convention in Chicago in 10 years, and I can’t wait to see everyone at the show! On Saturday, I have a spotlight panel at 1:45 in room  E353. Should be fun, it will include a reading as well as a look at some of the new BONE: Tall Tales stories. Then I run over to room #  E271A to introduce the BONE documentary The Cartoonist at 3:00. After that, I’ll be at the Cartoon Books booth (#550) for most of the rest of the day. I’m on an Indie comics panel on Sunday at 1:15 in room #E450. Stop by! We have some fun new things at this show, including a special BONE pin, and the new RASL book collection hot off the press, The Fire of St. George (we’ll also have the first book, RASL: The Drift, of course)!

Speaking of RASL, the parallel universe science I based it on is cutting edge, but I was surprised that there was a new study released that seems to prove the existance of parallel universes!

From the news article: “The strange discovery by quantum physicists at the University of California Santa Barbara means that an object you can see in front of you may exist simultaneously in a parallel universe…”

We posted  a different study last week that ran on National Geographic’s site suggesting the same thing:

“…researchers made the controversial suggestion that the clusters are being tugged on by the gravity of matter outside the known universe. —which in turn hints that our universe is part of something larger: a multiverse.”

Crazy! You read it here first!

Update 4/15/10: The Chicago Tribune is running a profile/Q&A with me as part of its coverage of the C2E2 convention.

Come by the booth this weekend, say hi, and get your RASL on!

Happy Tuesday everyone! Tom again.

Linda R. Hengst, Executive Director of the Ohioana Library Association sent this great news to us last week.

She writes, “It is my pleasure to notify you that Jeff’s, Little Mouse Gets Ready, is a finalist for the 2010 Ohioana Book Award in the category of juvenile literature”.

As mentioned in the letters page of RASL #7, I have to draw the covers many months in advance in order to appear in the Diamond Preview catalog. Most of the time, I know what to put on the cover, since the plots are pretty much sketched out. But when it came time for the cover of #8, I wasn’t quite sure how far into the story I’d be; so I put out  a generic cover of Rasl exchanging punches with Sal as a place holder.

Now the real cover image is ready, and it features the spooky little girl who turns up around Rasl without warning (the pencils are below).

The little girl has generated a lot of mail from readers and in RASL #8 she begins to take on a larger role in Rob’s life

New Proof Unknown “Structures” Tug at Our Universe

A study being reported at National Geographic.com this week offers new proof that unknown “structures” are tugging at our universe – - from the outside! It suggests that our universe is part of something larger: a multiverse.

You can read the full article here. Thanks to Jennifer Oliver for sending the link.

The new issue of RASL goes on sale today.

Hi all, Tom here. We received our comp copies of RASL 7 last week and here’s a pic of the cover. Be sure to pick up your copy at your local comic book shop or over at our store site here.