Issue 41: QCon, film fests, interviews, and outlines!
It’s June!
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Jyewn!
NEW STUFF
Broken Frontier did a really lovely interview with us for Pride month! It gets into some detail about our upcoming graphic novel, Just Another Summer, and also talks about our overall careers and what it’s like being writing partners. Check it ouuuuutttttt.
Andy Oliver
And Comic Book Yeti had us on their Cryptid Creator Corner podcast to do a full interview all about Just Another Summer, so check that out too!
QCon is this Saturday, June 20 in Plummer Park in West Hollywood! SoCal’s only queer comic con, one day only! It’s FREE!
Tilly will be on the Trans and Nonbinary Creatives panel in room 2, from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm!
We’ll then both be signing at the Prism Comics booth from 1-2 pm!
Copies of Begin Transmission: The Trans Allegories of the Matrix, Star Trek Voyager: Homecoming issue 1, and Star Trek Celebrations will be available for purchase while supplies last!
And then we’re both on the Queer Eye on Star Trek panel in room 2, 5-6 pm!
In Long Away news, some kind soul added the film to Letterboxd! If you’re not familiar with the app, it’s for tracking (and rating/reviewing, if you want) films you’ve seen.
And there are, uh, some very lovely reviews up there.
If you’d like to leave it a star rating and review, we’d certainly appreciate it!
If you’re in the UK, don’t forget that Long Away screens in the FP Arts Short Film Fest in Scotland, June 25-27! Get tickets here!
And here’s a reminder that Long Away is screening in the SDCC international film fest, and we’ll both be there, along with Griffin Kelly, Justin Lawrence Barnes, and Jessie Earl for a short Q&A panel after the screening! Day/time/location info should be released sometime in July!
We’ll have one signing with IDW, and at least one signing with Mad Cave, who have confirmed they’ll have early copies of Just Another Summer available! This is special for SDCC, and will be the only way to get the book before it hits bookstores on Aug 4!
But if you can’t make it to SDCC, and because preorders make or break books, here’s the links to our two books releasing this August!
Our YA queer trans romcom, Just Another Summer, available in paperback and hardcover!
And Star Trek Voyager: Homecoming, the complete series collected in a trade paperback!
Kelly Thompson
WHAT WE’RE WORKING ON
We did some more lettering script revisions for the still-unannounced graphic novel, the third portion of the book (out of four). The revised script will go to the letterer, and then we’ll review her letters and make any final adjustments with the editor, and then there’s just one section left to letter and it’ll be done.
And, um… to our surprise, the book has finally been announced!! This issue of the newsletter is long enough as it is, so we’ll talk all about that next time. But if you want to have a gander…
DC Publicity
We also revised the loose outline for the new pilot, and are going to try scripting from that, rather than doing another more detailed outline first. We’re too excited about it, and don’t want that excitement to get dumped into an outline or for it to fall off before we get the script done.
Which is not to say that it’s not outlined, because it is, we always outline. Why? We’ll talk about that in the Process Stuff section of the paid version of this newsletter (it’s only $5 a month, or discounted at $45 annually, and you also get exclusive stuff besides the Process Stuff section, like comic pages, concept art, audio commentaries on our work, and lots more! Okay, pitch over).
In any case, we’re just gonna plow ahead without knowing every little detail first, and we’ll see how it goes!
Also our book agent is back from medical leave and is preparing to send our first graphic novel proposal we have with them out on submission. Hooray!
TRANS TUESDAY UPDATE
Trans Tuesdays have been kinda heavy in many recent ones, with big and difficult topics that needed to be discussed. So for these two we went a lot lighter, because there’s so much joy to be found in transition.
First we discussed LETTING GO of our preconceived notions of who we are, and who we’d become, so that we can get to the truth of who we actually are. Because releasing those expectations is the only way to get to our truth.
Tilly Bridges
And then we got into EMBRACING YOUR TRUE SELF, and how sometimes our own self-acceptance can grow bigger than we ever thought was possible, without us even realizing. And how that can change so many things you never expected… like not only wanting to be seen and perceived, but making sure you are seen in the most visible way possible.
Tilly Bridges
RECOMMENDATIONS
This show. This show. This is the one we cannot believe we somehow did not recommend before now. We watched it earlier this year on super strong recommendations from creative friends we trust, and it was instant love.
It’s a detective murder mystery thriller… but it’s also a comedy. And much like we mentioned with Widow’s Bay in the last newsletter, it blends the two genres seamlessly, but with even more expertise than Widow’s Bay does. Which is no slight against Widow’s Bay, it’s just that Deadloch is above and beyond pretty much anything.
It’s queer as hell. It’s one of the funniest shows we have ever seen, and it’s not even a straight comedy. It’s Australian! Despite being a show about cops, it acknowledges the problems of policing and addresses them head-on (it is so surprisingly, in no way, copaganda). It’s also one of the most trans-positive shows we’ve ever seen.
There’s only two seasons, and the second just premiered a few months back. Hopefully there will be more, because we love it so much, but even if there isn’t, it’s one of the most perfect and amazing shows ever made. It became one of our all-time favorites so fast, it really surprised us.
It’s just basically perfect from top to bottom. Highest possible recommendation.
THE DIRTBAG DISPATCH
Tilly took this photo while she was eating lunch, and both of these miscreants hopped onto the table and tried to coyly and very innocently get the chicken she was eating. She did not let them.
And so of course they both shunned her, because how very dare.
WHAT’S IN THE BIG TIME?
Big Time issue 41 goes into outlines in all their wonderful, terrible forms, the different goals and benefits they provide, and why they’re your best worst friend. There’s also another page from one of our earliest comic anthology stories, the gritty 70s crime story, Morrow!
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THE END
We haven’t had a new writing gig all year.
We’d like that to change, please!
Hiiiiiiire ussssssss.
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