Once again, the first Saturday in May has come and gone and with it another Free Comic Book Day was celebrated in comic shops across the land. If you were celebrating in the Las Vegas area, you might have run into some of your favorite Plot Twist staffers.
PTP’s own Walid Atshe, Greg Boucher, Cillian Cubstead and James Stone spread art for art’s sake at Cosmic Comics.
Makin’ art and breakin’ hearts.
I’m told a good time was had by all. Greg’s mashups were also a hit but I dunno if I can share them here without worrying about copyrights. I guess you had to be there…
Alternate Reality Comics hosted our bosslady, Jean Munson. She was slinging sketches alongside former PTP contributors Ed Nesmith and Donovan Petersen. Yours truly was only there in a visitors capacity before I was called away to my day job.
Hard at work.
Jean also had this to say: “I am happy to be invited again to Alternate Reality Comics and rep our company with my sketch skills. The thing that makes me happiest is how receptive people are to comics and the continual increase of women identified readers. I hope people continue to open and expand their reading that be stunted by the end of Marvel movie trends. Not everyone has access to studios to make films, but folks have their local shops with affordable comics as medium for the ever expanding human imagination.”
Another happy customer.
And if you stopped by Alternate Reality, you would’ve had an opportunity to be among the first to pick up the winning selection form 2018’s Plot Twist Publishing Pitch Tank, Heaven’s Bastards. If you’ve been keeping up-to-date with our shenanigans, you’d already know that Heaven’s Bastards was written by Pierce Elliott and drawn by Donovan Petersen. Jean did the colors and Justin Newberry crossed the I’s and dotted the T’s as the letterer. Your humble blogger served as editor. If you didn’t stop by, you’ll be crestfallen to know that all the copies we had sold out. But worry no more, dear reader, because the first Wednesday in June (the 5th, in case you wanna watch your calendars) Heaven’s Bastards will be the subject of Alternate Reality’s Artist Spotlight and if you missed it, you can buy copies then before they make their way to other shops in the Las Vegas valley.
Oooh! Also, for those of you who are attending Phoenix Phan Phusion (May 23rd-26th at the Phoenix Convention Center), word on the street is that Jean will have copies at her table (A1821 & A1823) in Artists Alley. Rumor has it that our very own James Stone (A1827) and Cillian Cubstead (A1924) will also be tabling there, so there won’t be a shortage of PTP books to be had. Maybe one of them will file a report about it…. On the 22nd, Jean is also hosting Comic Zine Making For Teens at the Wasted Ink Zine Distro, 2222 N. 16th Street in Phoenix. The fun starts at 7pm and the workshop is free.
-Otto