Dragon and Goat

We’re excited to announce that the Kickstarter campaign for the next Dragon and Goat book will launch this Wednesday, Nov. 15th!  Stay-tuned for the actual web address for the page or you can go ahead and follow my profile on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/1843414090

This is the 9th book in the Dragon and Goat series but our first Kickstarter so all the help you can give, by pledging or passing around the info, is much appreciated! For this Kickstarter we’re not only printing a book but also creating new enamel pins, one for Dragon and one for Goat!

Since Dragon and Goat lived in China for a time (and where Adam met Alli), the Mid-Autumn Festival is an important holiday on the D&G calendar.

Also known as the Moon Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a big festival in China celebrating the harvest of rice and wheat with paper lanterns and mooncakes.

You might also make offerings to the Moon Goddess of Immortality who stole an immortality elixir from her husband (either out of love or fear that he would be a tyrannical despot, depending on the legend you believe) and went to the moon to live as an immortal by herself.

It’s a good time to check out China town or your local Chinese grocery store or restaurant and be sure to get the mooncakes with the egg yolks! They’re egg-cellent…

And if you missed their adventures at the Beijing Olympics, check out Dragon and Goat’s Journey East

Come check out our table (#43!) at Chicago’s Book Expo at Columbia College this Sunday, October 1, at 1104 S. Wabash, noon-5pm.

You can check out the newest D&G book The Curse of the Robo-werewolf and chat with Adam about the soon to be launching Kickstarter!

Adam is back in the classroom at Chicago State University and the College of DuPage. This semester he is teaching Painting 1, 2 & 3, Illustrator/ Photoshop, Cartooning and Storyboarding/Sequential Art. This is his 9th year at Chicago State  where he is a full-time lecturer and his 8th at the College of DuPage as adjunct faculty.

So far in Illustrator/Photoshop students have used CSU’s electron microscope to capture ultra-zoomed images of personal objects and in Storyboard/Sequential Art students are gearing up to create a short comic about Social Justice- mot just changing typically male characters into female characters, but by engaging in the real stories of the fight for social equality.

In Painting II students are into a new project You Are What You Eat, exploring self-portraiture through still lifes that they are setting up themselves with actual food (looking at Wayne Thiebaud’s paintings and other delicious food depictions from art history).

We’re gearing up to not only finish the next Dragon and Goat book but launch the Kickstarter to fund a limited run of the first edition printing of the book, and we want you to be a part of it!

So what’s the book? Thyme Bandit is the 9th book in the all ages comic series Dragon and Goat. In this book Goat’s community garden is being burgled at night, and Dragon takes on the case to find who (or what!) is pilfering his best bud’s rutabegas. The humorous adventure comic is hand-drawn and inked with digital coloring. (each book self-contained so you don’t have to read them in order so don’t worry I this is ur first d&g book!

There’s still some work to be done (at least the pages above are finally finished!) but we’re aiming for a late November launch date. With the Kickstarter not only will you be able to get your name in the book for picking up a copy ahead of time, but there will be a few other tasty levels to pick up some D&G swag and original art.

Stay tuned to find out more about the next book: Dragon and Goat: Thyme Bandit!

We’re busy at work getting the next Dragon and Goat book Thyme Bandits together. Even Cora is joining in the fury of coloring!

Here’s preview of a spread in the up-coming Dragon and Goat book Thyme Bandits.  It’s pages 14 & 15 in the book, so coloring and is almost half-way finished!

Be on the lookout for more info about the book and the Kickstarter that we’ll be launching towards the end of the year (this will then be a poster that you can get along with a copy of the book)!

Come see us at the Fotopia Press Tent L on the East Side at Printer’s Row Lit Fest today and Sunday. We’re on Dearborn just South of Harrison. We’ve got the newest Dragon and Goat book the Curse of the RoboWerewolf along with lots of Adam’s other books! 

Plus you can pick up some great prints from our buddy Phil of Cape Horn Illustration right next door!