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Following on from where Smuggling vacation left off, the second story 'Day of the Deal' has now began. First four pages are up and I'll be updating every Sunday night - this time right to the end no matter what. It's a follow on rather than a sequel. Going up on the site which is far more action pac...

Am after feedback on a dilemma. Have received some media attention lately for my book Smuggling Vacation. The attention has got the book labeled 'controversial' which has done a lot of good to be fair. I've rolled with it and when a reporter contacted me from the Sheffield Star to discuss my attendi...

Peace and love, groovy man. *taps on bongos* Did my best - so much so that when I was invited by the BBC to debate the MP live on air I couldn't resist. Here it is : http://www.smugglingvacation.co.uk/blog/ - and live on air he admiitted he hadn't even read it nor seen it! XD Drat: This account has...

Dotty wrote:Peace and love, groovy man. *taps on bongos*

Did my best - so much so that when I was invited by the BBC to debate the MP live on air I couldn't resist.

Here it is :http://www.smugglingvacation.co.uk/blog/
- and live on air he admiitted he hadn't even read it nor seen it!

Certainly makes me want to read it! Definately, I'd want to see what all the fuss was about after reading that article. XD Copies are there to be grabbed from the site for the moment. Feedback yesterday was the prison has put it on the banned list whilst they review the situation which conjures up ...

Came across this yesterday in the U.K's No.1 Sun Newspaper:

The attention is great but it's a COMIC BOOK for crying out loud!

Redtech wrote:How about, FUCK NO!!
People slated it? I think your stoners are using the wrong kind of drug methinks. I'm sorry.

Eh?

After a great deal of thought over the last ten days I've finally decided to halt the serialisation of Smuggling Vacation. :( This is because: 1) The feedback from those who now have the book is that I absolutely should not put the last pages up. 2) It's becoming clear to me that putting up the end ...

Congratulations! Mmmm... the delicious smell of freshly printed book. Cool! Don't be nervous - you're the main man there, after all. And don't be disappointed should there not be a lot of customers - the important thing is the marketing aspect; making people aware the book exists. Tell your local p...

... and the punchline to all this is, my local Borders have ordered thirty copies and want me for a book signing this Saturday. I'm not the most outgoing of people but they say the promo posters go up tomorrow! Great, but scary news from my pov.

BEST DAY OF THE YEAR! At last the printed copies of my my precious little webcomic arrived this morning. After a year or working away and listening to the many constructive critisisms, especially from the webcomic forums such as Comic genesis to begin with , my initial crude little strip has grown u...

In answer to an earlier thread about 'Do comics and cannabis mix?' I've produced two covers and had 2,500 of each - one with lots of green for the smokers and a red,yellow and white colourscheme on the other for bookshops and comic shops. Is making it much easier to promote and sell. As for whether ...

Break even is 2,100 for the print,assuming I make £3 per copy on average. You might want to have taken preorders first- seen how many people are interested, that sorta deal. You'll likely find 5000 is a bit too much, but best of luck :) As you're in the UK, is there a Travelling Man shop near you? M...

Now printing away.... :D http://www.smugglingvacation.co.uk/assets/photos%20-%2022.06.08/SL370220.jpg http://www.smugglingvacation.co.uk/assets/photos%20-%2022.06.08/SL370225.jpg The Smuggling Vacation books arrive Friday- 5,000 copies! Have I taken on too much? Can I shift them? Should I have order...

Now printing away....


5,000 copies here we come!

I'm now into the closing pages of my story 'Smuggling Vacation' which runs to 74 pages altogether and wraps in about 7 weeks time. The dilemma I face is what to do when i reach the end? I've a print version to start selling in about two weeks time. So should i: a) Serialise to the end. Keep the fina...

...just a week before print and Jennifer Cortino at the Pulse runs a Smuggling vacation interview - http://www.comicon.com/pulse/

I see no reason why it denys the strip a regular comic reading audience just because it's now associated with Weedworld which is what, to me at least, your question infers. Then you're not thinking. I have no objection to comics that involve drug use, or even revolve around them, just like I watch ...

congrats on getting into print - ... but im not really surprised about the subject matter of the magazine - now being firmly assosated with drugs and the smoking of same - is that really what you wanted ? It's part of what I wanted, most definitely. Smokers have been following the strip for a while...

Parables wrote:...an afterthought, shouldn't it be "his and hers?" or did you do that on purpose?

It's kept that way on purpose. More a colloquialism in line with how people talk which is in keeping with the spirit of the strip.