I’ve just launched a website for How Comics Were Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page, a book that I’ve been cooking up writing for a few years. On the heels of editing and projecting managing Shift Happens for Marcin Wichary (thus part of raising over $750,000 in that campaign), I am excited to get back into print and share the comics and printing history I’ve been assembling for the last six years.

I’ve already started prep, and hired Mark Kaufman (of the recently late and forever-to-be-lamented The Nib) to design and illustrate the book. He’s created a preliminary cover that we’ll be refining as we move towards a Kickstarter campaign in February 2024. The book’s expected publication date: October 2024. I’ve done a far amount of the ground work already, and need to write the text or revise some work I’ve already written, gather and license material, and work with Mark on designing the book. I’ll be poised by February to move into the next phase, and raise funds to make it happen.

If you’d like to be notified when the book is ready to back on Kickstarter, you can sign up for this very low-volume list. I plan to send just a few announcement emails through the list in 2024 (crowdfunding, pre-order, and shipping, more or less) before deleting the list.