You Rach You Lose: Book Deal of the Day!

rachelfershleiser:

Illustrator Kyle Hilton’s ART HISTORY 101: 16 ARTIST PAPER DOLLS, a collection of renowned artists and their signature accessories and artworks in paper doll form, from Leonardo da Vinci to Andy Warhol, to Christina Amini at Chronicle.

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YOU GUYS! I have been a fan of Kyle’s paper doll…

Really excited to get to share this! Chronicle Books and I are about to dive into this thing in the next few weeks.  Lots and lots of brushing up on my Art History is involved, and I couldn’t be more excited.  More soon!

agentgates: If you haven’t gotten your copy of Agent Gates, pick it up at your local bookseller tomorrow! Or buy online now! Here’s our book gracing the shelves of the gorgeous Brookline Booksmith in Brookline, MA. If you’ve got a photo of you and your copy, or if you’ve just seen it out in the wild (especially at more local bookstores like Brookline), we’d love to see it! Photo reply to this post with your photos and we’ll repost them here! Agent Gates wants to see your face! We’d love to see who out there is buying our book, so have some fun and share your photos with us! High-res

agentgates:

If you haven’t gotten your copy of Agent Gates, pick it up at your local bookseller tomorrow! Or buy online now! Here’s our book gracing the shelves of the gorgeous Brookline Booksmith in Brookline, MA.

If you’ve got a photo of you and your copy, or if you’ve just seen it out in the wild (especially at more local bookstores like Brookline), we’d love to see it! Photo reply to this post with your photos and we’ll repost them here!

Agent Gates wants to see your face! We’d love to see who out there is buying our book, so have some fun and share your photos with us!

agentgates:

Check out the official book trailer for Agent Gates and the Secret Adventures of Devonton Abbey, available January 1st from Andrews McMeel Publishing!

Here’s the trailer for my book, Agent Gates, a great post-holiday gift!

agentgates: Got a Downton fan in your life, but they already have the DVDS? Agent Gates, a new, hilarious graphic novel parodying the hit British drama, comes out January 1, 2013 from Andrews McMeel.   Preorder the book for a loved one at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, or Indiebound and print out this certificate to let them know it’s on the way! And follow our Tumblr for more info and fun stuff in the coming weeks! The Dowager has spoken. My book, Agent Gates is available for preorder.  Think of it as a perfect New Year’s gift.  No one expects a New Year’s gift. High-res

agentgates:

Got a Downton fan in your life, but they already have the DVDS? Agent Gates, a new, hilarious graphic novel parodying the hit British drama, comes out January 1, 2013 from Andrews McMeel.  

Preorder the book for a loved one at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, or Indiebound and print out this certificate to let them know it’s on the way!

And follow our Tumblr for more info and fun stuff in the coming weeks!

The Dowager has spoken.

My book, Agent Gates is available for preorder.  Think of it as a perfect New Year’s gift.  No one expects a New Year’s gift.

(via rebloggiftguide)

Here’s a look at the revised, revamped and official cover for the Downton Abbey parody comic I’m illustrating, Agent Gates and The Secret Adventures of Devonton Abbey, out this January from Andrews McMeel Publishing.  What do you guys think? This one’s much better than the first go round, and hopefully you guys think it looks alright! Would love to hear any and all opinions. Does it feel like something you Downton Abbey or comic fans would dig? The interior is going to be a really classy black and white scheme.  Really hoping it comes across as a nice looking package.   High-res

Here’s a look at the revised, revamped and official cover for the Downton Abbey parody comic I’m illustrating, Agent Gates and The Secret Adventures of Devonton Abbey, out this January from Andrews McMeel Publishing.  What do you guys think? This one’s much better than the first go round, and hopefully you guys think it looks alright! Would love to hear any and all opinions. Does it feel like something you Downton Abbey or comic fans would dig? The interior is going to be a really classy black and white scheme.  Really hoping it comes across as a nice looking package.  

I finally get to talk about this! The big project I’ve been talking about working on is officially listed and announced.  Agent Gates and the Secret Adventures of Devonton Abbey: A Parody is a 100-something page black and white graphic novel that will be out in January 2013, written by the amazingly gifted Camaren Subhiyah and illustrated by me.  And, according to our publisher’s (Andrews McMeel Publishing) official press release, this is what it is:   “Presenting a parody spin on the characters we know and love from the hit show Downton Abbey, this story is told through the eyes of the downstairs staff—especially one secretly badass valet John Gates, who turns out to be an undercover spy for Her Royal Majesty’s British Secret Intelligence Agency (the SIS). Gates and several other Devonton staffers are part of a nationwide top-secret division of operatives scattered throughout country estates, all supervised by (who else?) the Dowager Countess, a close personal friend of Queen Victoria herself. Armed with his own superpower—his limp disguises a steampunk titanium leg perfect for dispatching enemies of the crown—Gates’s mission is to protect Devonton Abbey from foreign spies, assassination attempts, and traitorous household staff, all while posing as the valet to the utterly clueless Lord Samson. Action-packed antics ensue, romance blossons, and, as usual, the downstairs crew continues to run the show…and always saves the day.” I am incredibly excited, as Camaren and I have worked really closely with her hilarious script to create a fun comic we’re really proud of.  I can’t wait to share some of the artwork as it gets closer to being finished.   High-res

I finally get to talk about this! The big project I’ve been talking about working on is officially listed and announced.  Agent Gates and the Secret Adventures of Devonton Abbey: A Parody is a 100-something page black and white graphic novel that will be out in January 2013, written by the amazingly gifted Camaren Subhiyah and illustrated by me.  And, according to our publisher’s (Andrews McMeel Publishing) official press release, this is what it is:  

“Presenting a parody spin on the characters we know and love from the hit show Downton Abbey, this story is told through the eyes of the downstairs staff—especially one secretly badass valet John Gates, who turns out to be an undercover spy for Her Royal Majesty’s British Secret Intelligence Agency (the SIS). Gates and several other Devonton staffers are part of a nationwide top-secret division of operatives scattered throughout country estates, all supervised by (who else?) the Dowager Countess, a close personal friend of Queen Victoria herself.

Armed with his own superpower—his limp disguises a steampunk titanium leg perfect for dispatching enemies of the crown—Gates’s mission is to protect Devonton Abbey from foreign spies, assassination attempts, and traitorous household staff, all while posing as the valet to the utterly clueless Lord Samson. Action-packed antics ensue, romance blossons, and, as usual, the downstairs crew continues to run the show…and always saves the day.”

I am incredibly excited, as Camaren and I have worked really closely with her hilarious script to create a fun comic we’re really proud of.  I can’t wait to share some of the artwork as it gets closer to being finished.