Friday, March 25, 2011

The book's done

Last Monday night, at something like 1am I clicked on the upload button and sent the last remaining bits of the Big Questions collection to D&Q. There will likely be a few rounds of proofs and last minute scouring for stray commas, but basically, I'm done. And it's a huge relief. Here's the cover:
In addition to catching up on the rest of my life – which has been more or less on hold since I started the revision process last October – and sleeping a lot, I'm cleaning up my house which has been strewn with scraps and stray pages from the book. And coffee cups and stray shoes, bills, pen caps, rulers, cereal bowls and grocery store receipts. Some of the book related scraps found their way into the last few posts, without giving away too much of the new material here are a few more:









I plan to do a few more posts in the coming days regarding an upcoming project I'm doing with Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi at Sonnenzimmer, a book cover I did recently and another button piece. Also about the expanded reprint I'm planning of my painted strip, The Game, from Kramer's Ergot #7. And about fifteen other things that I haven't had time to think about for a while. Hello world.

5 comments:

Tom said...

Awesome!

Steve said...

I find myself both happy and sad to see that the hard cover sold out in advance of the release; happy that so many people appreciate Big Questions, but disappointed because I missed out. Do you have any plans to print a second edition?

Tom Devlin said...

Steve, The hardcover has not sold out. What you see is just a fluke in our website (hopefully fixed this Fall). There isn't a "not yet printed" option so books that haven't been printed yet list as "out of stock." So you can still get one.
Maybe from Anders in person as he tours the US soon.

Unknown said...

Wow, just had my order for the softcover cancelled by Amazon. Can't believe that is already out of stock too!

Unknown said...

Wow, just had my order for the softcover cancelled by Amazon. Can't believe that is already out of stock too!