Becky Cloonan's Blog

Hi guys! I’ve moved this shop over to a new domain, and combined it with a few friends- enter THE WEREHOUSE! Not to fear- all orders that were made through my old Bigcartel site will be shipped this week- and if you haven’t received an order for some reason please email me- beckyattack@gmail.com, and I’ll sort out the problem asap! I want to thank everybody for championing my self-published work, and sticking with me even though towards the last few months it got a little crazy— especially now that con season (and allergies) have kicked in!  The main reason for the new store is because I just can’t keep up with this stuff on my own. It’s grown way bigger than I ever thought possible! I am overwhelmed by the support you’ve shown me over the last few years, and I’m pleased to say that I’ve mailed out over 4,000 books in that time!!! This whole thing has been a huge learning experience, since I basically jumped into this without any idea of what to expect, and now I feel like I might kind of know what I’m doing! (More or less.) Now with the Lounak guys behind Werehouse, it’ll free up more of my time at the studio to getting comics drawn!So check out the Werehouse. It’s got work by Andy Belanger, Karl Kerschl and a whole bunch of other stuff too. Some products have bene taken off to make way for new ones, and DEMETER has been added up as a preorder! (Exciting!) I want to point out one big change that comes with the new store- I’m phasing out my silk screened covers, which will be replaced with a new, completely offset edition. This new printing will still be wicked nice- I’ve even updated the cover design of both Wolves and The Mire! The interiors won’t change- really this just makes the silk screened editions a little more “collectable,” whatever that means. :) Rest assured that you will still be getting a good quality book; I took a page from John Hammond’s playbook and spared no expense. As for DEMETER pre-orders, there are two options- $10.00 for the screen printed cover, and $5.00 for the offset. (There is also a third $50.00 sketch edition available, that is limited to 100.) The extra color on the cover raised the price point- but it looks great and I have no regrets! Any questions you guys have please feel free to ask- I’ll try to answer them as best I can! :D

Thank you, I love you!

DEMETER
New mini comic coming later this year!(In the meantime, you can get my two other self-published books, The Mire and Wolves here, and digitally here.)  ;)

And whoa, check out this interview with Gerard Way on the Huffington Post!

High On Fire
Goatwhore
Lo Pan
18x24
screen print
edition of 100
Signed & Numbered by Becky Cloonan and Brian Ewing
THESE WILL SHIP DECEMBER 17th
MORE INFO HERE
I am beyond excited to finally show you guys the collaboration I did with Brian Ewing! I’ve been a huge fan of Brian’s for longer than I can remember- we met at San Diego Comic Con, and here we are years later with this little offering to the ancient gods! It’s amazing to work with someone that you not only admire as an artist, but someone who is an all-around rad person to boot! When Brian asked me if I wanted to collaborate I jumped at the chance! Never mind that I was in Scotland with none of my normal supplies, equipment and reliable internet connection- oh no, that wouldn’t stop me from finally working with Brian.He sent me some sketches of what direction he was thinking of going with this, and a few pics of Countess Marya Zaleska from the film Dracula’s Daughter, and then I sent him my contribution— when he sent me the final poster, it floored me! It went in a direction I don’t think either of us expected, but we are both really psyched on the results. I’m really proud of  it!And for those of you not familiar with Brian Ewing’s work, go check it out. He’s a monster with a brush, controlling it with a mastery I can only ever dream of achieving. A true wizard of the ink! And damn, he can draw the shit out of a skull.\m/ forever

Lots of things happening, lines being drawn, pencils being inked, THE MIRE being sent out...! (YES!!) With lots of help from our new assistant Ryan, I sent out about 200 copies last week, with another 300 or so to go out next week! Working hard on getting these out as quickly as possible- take a gander at some of these sketches! As always, thanks for the support! I'm really proud of this book, and I'm really excited to finally have the chance to set them loose in the world!

I was honored to do the poster for Hope Larson's new short film BITTER ORANGE! Big props to Dustin Harbin who did the amazing logo as well. Very cool to be involved in this project! Read more about Hope's latest projects (Including her adaptation of A WRINKLE IN TIME which I am beyond stoked for) here!

The ETA from my printer is I will get the remainder of my books in two weeks! This is great news! The majority of my pre-orders have been processed, though I have 150 (most with sketches) that need to go out first, and after that I will be filling out the rest of the orders that have been piling up! I'd like to express my apologies for these books being so late, I wish there was more I could do about it! Whenever I get books in they are out the door almost immediately! Self-publishing has been a huge learning experience for me, and I thank you guys for sticking with me :) So to sum up, I'm very happy to say that all orders will be out by the end of August! Becky :D

I wanted to give a big thanks, and update anyone who hasn't received their books yet!

First off, I received over ONE THOUSAND pre-orders for this book! How crazy is that? I was expecting maybe a few hundred at best, so again I want to say THANK YOU GUYS! Emphatically. I'm also waving my arms around, it means a lot.

Next! I've been getting the books printed in batches! There was a hiccup with the cover paper stock, so the first few runs I did for cons were digitally printed- thanks for hanging in there! And anyone who hasn't received a book in the mail yet, no worries- it's coming! I'm getting the books shipped to me in batches, since I'm moving at the end of the month, and don't want to lug thousands and thousands of books around (I also reprinted WOLVES again, which means even more thousands of books).

If you haven't got your order yet, and are wondering if I forgot about you- fear not! I have not forgotten. I have all of your envelopes stamped, addressed and ready to go, just waiting for the next boxes to arrive to stuff them full of Mire. I'd like to think that all orders will go out by the end of the month, after I get back from Heroes con!

With cons and moving and work it's been crazy, as you can imagine! And since this all started back in August, I've been running the store on my own. I've filled over 2,000 orders since then, not including all the ones yet to go out. It takes a lot of my time, so I plan to hire an assistant this summer, which should lighten my workload and make things run a lot faster!! In the meantime, thank you for your support!

The Mire gets 5/5 stars over at Comics Bulletin!


Ideas of love and loss are a frequent sight in Cloonan's output, but The Mire takes a different approach towards the themes, and the result is a richly rewarding, dense and compressed story which feels light, open and dreamlike. It's a romantic story which plays like a gothic take on classic British folklore. It is, in short, a complete delight. -Steve Morris

Real quick, I wanted to give a quick "Thank you" to everyone who has supported my newest comic THE MIRE. And anyone who's picked up a copy of WOLVES, either from me at a convention, through my online store or at a comic shop, retailers who have wholesaled from me, even digitally through iTunes or Graphicly! It's been a crazy year with all of this self-publishing business, I've learned a lot (mostly on the job!) and wanted to say thanks.

Because I took pre-orders, and a thousand of you are interested enough to actually go through the trouble, I am able to not only print copies of THE MIRE, but I can keep WOLVES in stock with a third printing without taking a huge financial hit (and right after taxes, eek!) So I just wanted to say thanks, I appreciate it a lot.

For anyone interested on what cons I'll have The Mire at- I'm debuting the book at TCAF with a limited signed and numbered run! Then a few weeks later I'll be at KAPOW in London, in June I'll have copies at Heroes in North Carolina, and July at San Diego Comic Con.

Now, if you ordered copies, please notice that I'm traveling a lot. I'll start mailing copies out the first chance I get, in the order I got them- but realize that I don't have an assistant (YET!) so while I'm not at home nothing will get mailed out. I am guessing that the bulk of the orders will go out towards the end of the month, but I'm getting envelopes and all that stuff ready now O_O;; It's daunting, so please have some patience for a few weeks in May for your book to arrive! :D

Lastly, I wanted to mention that I'm still taking pre-orders for the book (I will until it actually comes out I guess!) but on May 1st I'm closing down the sketch option. :D

Not much else to say. I'm equal parts nervous and excited about this book- it's very different from Wolves in a lot of ways, but still there's a lot of chain mail! I've even had stress dreams that it was printed without the words, and that it wasn't stapled so it falls apart... Aagh I just hope everyone enjoys it. Andy Belanger read it and said he liked it better, SO FINGERS CROSSED! That's all we can do, right? Try to make each page better than the last...

I also wanted people to know that this book is an analog exclusive for the summer! When convention season is over I'll release it digitally again (same as Wolves) sometime in the fall, for all those of you who won't see me at a show or can't order through my store!

Already planning my next mini for 2013...

THANKS AGAIN!!! :D Love you all!