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Starting March 17th, we’ll be on the road again for Punchbuggy Two (Gabby insists that I not follow this with “Electric Bugaloo” but I feel compelled to at least acknowledge it)! This go-round we’re hitting New England, upstate New York and a touch of Canada!

Dig these fancy stops! Hit up one of our dates if you’re in the neighborhood! We’ll be reading from our comics and performing a song or two on our many quaint acoustic instruments, as well as providing a live acoustic soundtrack to some of the readings! FUN!

PUNCHBUGGY TWO

Friday March 19 @ 7pm – White River Junction, VT @ the Center for Cartoon Studies

Tuesday, March 23 @7pm – Amherst, MA @ Hampshire College (West Lecture Hall)

Wednesday, March 24 @ 7pm – Providence, RI @ Ada Books

Thursday, March 25 @ 7pm – Somerville, MA @ Hub Comics

Friday, March 26 @ 7:30pm – Montreal, Quebec @ the Drawn & Quarterly Store

Monday, March 29 - Rochester, NY @ Monroe Community College (classroom presentation, students only)

We are still trying to put together the third and final EPIC section of the Punchbuggy Tour coming up in May, so check out this page to see the dates and places we’re trying to book, and let us know if you can help us find a place to read (or at least, hook us up with a place to stay)!

Be sure and the check out the official Punchbuggy Tour site for updates on the tour, and posts straight from the road! The Punchbuggy site has an RSS feed and everything, so you can subscribe to that and read the updates right in your little RSS reader thingy! THE FUTURE!!

So yeah, come check us out at one of our stops! You don’t want to miss THIS LEVEL OF OPTIMUM FUN, do you?

Granted, I haven’t drawn too many cute things. This is a quizzical raccoon from Freewheel, Chapter Five. He is quite tiny on the actual page but here he is blown up for your enjoyment.

The Freewheel: Volume One Fundraising Campout has just a little over a week left to raise $868! If you were thinking about contributing, now’s the time! The more money I raise, the less I have to go into debt over this book, and if you don’t think $868 is a lot of money, well… you obviously have a day job, haha.

Today I finally deleted my MySpace profile. I never log in anymore unless someone sends me a message, and the whole process of getting to my messages involves clicking on so many things as compared to simply checking my email that it just got too annoying to bother anymore. Also, I have a tendency to forget to reply to messages on MySpace because I’m not constantly looking at my MySpace inbox all day like I am my email.

Anyway, apologies if you really love the stupid thing for some reason but really, if you need to get in touch with me, email me. It is quite literally the only way to contact me that I am probably not going to forget to reply to. liz (at) lizbaillie (dot) com.

There are a multitude of other ways to keep up with my goings-on or to get in touch with me. Here are those things:

lizbaillie.com (has an RSS feed for easy following)

Freewheel (also has an RSS feed for easy following)

Twitter (@replies always get read and if it’s a question I always answer it)

Facebook fan page (for general comics-related updates on all my projects)

LiveJournal (yes, people still use those)

And once again, my email address is liz (at) lizbaillie (dot) com. All other methods of communication are likely to be forgotten about.

I don’t mean to sound jerky, I don’t know why I hate MySpace so much. Maybe it’s the terrible layout and general worthlessness of the thing. Who can say?

Hey everybody! So as you may already know, I’ve been serializing Freewheel on the web every Tuesday and Thursday since November 2009. Well, I realized that since I have such a massive buffer of pages already drawn (several months’ worth) and being that the story is very long and intricate, it would be much better served by switching to a Monday/Wednesday/Friday schedule, which means it starts TODAY! Woo hoo! So now Freewheel will be updating on a much more regular 3x a week schedule. I think it’s definitely a much better way for me to do it.

Also, the Freewheel: Volume One Fundraising Campout is still going on to raise money to cover the printing costs of Freewheel: Volume One. As I type this, we’ve only got a meager $888 left to raise before it’s 100% funded, so if you’ve been thinking about contributing, now’s the time! You only have three weeks left, so get on it! The Campout ends March 1st!

Remember – all Level 2 and above contributors will receive Freewheel: Volume One MONTHS before it goes up for sale online, and will contain several chapters ahead of what’s posted online right now. If you don’t get the book through the Campout, you’ll have to wait!

Anyway, here’s where funding’s at right now. SO CLOSE I CAN TASTE IT!

Fundraising Ideas by EFI

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I really like this page but in order to avoid spoilers I had to blur out the story text. Anyway I just wanted to share the work I’m slaving away on until the book is done. I have probably a little less than 30 pages left to finish before February 28th.

Big ups to Alec Longstreth, whose fanatical snow scenes in Basewood somewhat inspired my snowflakes, though admittedly nowhere near as crazy as his, I had them in mind. I am about to draw a fuck ton of snow over the next few pages. Wish me luck.

If you haven’t already, I implore you to consider contributing to the Freewheel: Volume One Fundraising Campout, which is my way of raising the funds to print the first five chapters as a book. I’m just shy of meeting my funding goal halfway!  More info here.

Okay, back to work!

BIG BIG NEWS – there is a HUGE sale going on right now in the store to benefit the printing of Freewheel: Volume One. Basically I cleaned up my inventory shelves, discovered a bunch of stuff I thought I didn’t have, and actually counted how many of other items I have, so I put EVERYTHING on sale at a discount!

Anything purchased under the section marked LIMITED TIME FREEWHEEL FUNDRAISING SPECIALS will go towards the printing bill for Freewheel: Volume One and all funds collected from those sales will be added to the Freewheel: Volume One Fundraising Campout page calculator! Books, shirts, minicomics, you name it – ALL ON SALE! Check it out!

Yesterday I cleaned out my business shelves (doesn’t that sound like a metaphor for… something dirty?) and I found, among many other things, 8 copies of My Brain Hurts #2. The magazine-sized first printing that’s stamped and numbered (of 100) with the original cover price of $2 on it (I raised the price to $3 after this went out of print). I’m selling the copies I have left (already sold five) at cover price for U.S. orders (at shipping cost for international orders). Let me know if any of you people want one!

If you want one, let me know and I’ll tell you where to PayPal the bucks!

Also – big sale at my online store coming soon! I was going to start it on Wednesday but I’m too tired to deal with it now so… maybe Thursday or Friday!

TODAY IN FREEWHEEL – we learn about the Gang Mills nest security system! It’s a little bit like Lord of the Rings, like the warning beacons of Gondor? (I call them the Maglites of Gang Mills) Maybe one of them read the books…

I always wondered about the one guy who lived on top of that snow covered mountain… is his ONLY job to light that fire? What if they never used the beacons? Would he just live up there forever? What does he eat? Does he live alone or with his family? These questions, they bother me!

Anyway, so since Freewheel: Volume One is not even halfway funded yet, I’m afraid I still have to bug you every week about the Freewheel: Volume One Fundraising Campout. As I type this, we’re at $882 out of $2500 (which is about 35%), so there’s still $1618 left to raise before the end of February! Check out the Campout page for details on how you can help, and even if you can’t contribute financially, spreading the word is sometimes even better!

Oh AND be sure and check out the sweet writeup Jen Vaughn of Mermaid Hostel did on the Freewheel Campout! She drew a really neat picture of me in an outfit I WISH I owned! You should go look at it!

Currently the Freewheel: Volume One Fundraising Campout is at $796 of the $2500 needed to print the first volume of Freewheel (collecting chapters 1-5). Which brave soul will step forward and put this project over the $800 mark? I have less than two months to collect the remaining $1704, so your help is needed now more than ever! Even if you can not contribute financially, word of mouth is just as, if not MORE important than cash contributions.

Check out the Freewheel: Volume One Fundraising Campout for details on how you can help and all the rad stuff you can get by helping to fund the first printing of Freewheel: Volume One!

I will soon be sending out my second funder email update, including preview panels from the not-yet-seen Chapter Four, which I am currently working on. If you’d like to see that, you should totally contribute!

Fundraising Ideas by EFI

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Update Fundraiser Thermometer Here

A comic I did in about two hours with no pencils straight to the paper with limited supplies I happened to have on me for the amusement of Bouncing Souls fans and family at their annual Home for the Holidays shows this year. It was originally a fold-out one-pager so to reconstruct it for the internet it looks a little odd. Click each page to see the bigger version.

Enjoy!

Real-life Greg at the real-life show

Real-life DJ doing real-life texting (with sunglasses indoors)

Real-life DJ’s real-life crack attack