Folks, I couldn't make this stuff up. If you've been reading this, you know by now that I've been putting together some little comic books about the exploits of my son Alec. Today, I picked up the final copies of Alec's 4th Year Book (from the wonderful - despite their lack of apostrophe - Rileys). So I have all the books. I'm ready for this weekend's Calgary Comics Expo. And to make everything even better, my last-minute, fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants InvestYYC campaign to raise the money to have my books printed, has taken off like a rocket - thanks to some amazingly generous donors (some of whom I'm lucky to have as friends too!). So that's it! Happy ending to this tale!
But no! I have a confession to make. There's something I didn't tell you.
The Alec's Year Book stories are made up of daily entries in a series of sketchbooks that I've been keeping since Alec was born. For the first couple of years I kept them in green sketchbooks like this one. But then those sketchbooks were discontinued (don't you hate it when that happens!?) and I had to find something new (see below). So there was a period of a few months in which I didn't have any steady place to keep track of my comics. And somewhere in there... some comics were LOST.
But no! I have a confession to make. There's something I didn't tell you.
The Alec's Year Book stories are made up of daily entries in a series of sketchbooks that I've been keeping since Alec was born. For the first couple of years I kept them in green sketchbooks like this one. But then those sketchbooks were discontinued (don't you hate it when that happens!?) and I had to find something new (see below). So there was a period of a few months in which I didn't have any steady place to keep track of my comics. And somewhere in there... some comics were LOST.
I was sure I'd drawn a few pictures at the beginning of 2012, but I couldn't find them anywhere. Ever since I decided to compile the last two years' sketchbooks into two new installments of Alec's Year Book - which was this January - I've been hunting for those lost comics. But to no avail. So finally - deadlines being deadlines - I just decided to go ahead and have the final book printed without the missing pages.
This afternoon I was getting some stuff ready to take to the Expo and I opened up an old portfolio. You've already guessed what was inside.. yes. The lost sketchbook. Did I mention I'd been looking for this, for almost four months??? Did I mention I just picked up the book from the printers', about two hours before this??? There's a rule about this kind of thing, right?
Well, it's too late to print them now, but I'm going to put them all up here - for posterity!
This afternoon I was getting some stuff ready to take to the Expo and I opened up an old portfolio. You've already guessed what was inside.. yes. The lost sketchbook. Did I mention I'd been looking for this, for almost four months??? Did I mention I just picked up the book from the printers', about two hours before this??? There's a rule about this kind of thing, right?
Well, it's too late to print them now, but I'm going to put them all up here - for posterity!
Thanks to everyone who's been so supportive of my Alec's Year Book campaign (and at the time of writing, there's still ONE DAY in which to do so!) - not just the awesome donors but all sorts of others such as my colleagues on the Ramsay community newsletter editing team, who right this minute are proofing our monthly intake of content so that I'll have free time to get ready for the Expo (of course, here I am frittering away that valuable time on this blog...) - thanks everyone! I couldn't do it without you!
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