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Wondering where the hell your package is?

Apologies to everyone who has ordered something and not received an e-mail or their stuff yet. It’s thesis season in these parts and we’ve all been drowning in work.

BUT FEAR NOT!

I am taking a huge load of packages to the post office tomorrow (Monday, 4/21) morning. Odds are if you ordered something, and its in stock, it’ll be on it’s way.

Again, apologies to all for the delay. Cartoonists are always bad at making deadlines.

Congratulations to CCS guru James Sturm and IKJK’s own Rich Tommaso on their multiple Eisner Award Nominations!! James is even tied for the MOST nominations for any one creator (4)!

Three of the four noms were for James and Rich’s combined effort, Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow. Wotta team!

Here’s the list:
Best Publication for Teens
Laika, by Nick Abadzis (First Second)
The Mighty Skullboy Army, by Jacob Chabot (Dark Horse)
The Annotated Northwest Passage, by Scott Chantler (Oni)
PX! Book One: A Girl and Her Panda, by Manny Trembley and Eric A. Anderson (Shadowline/Image)
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow, by James Sturm and Rich Tommaso (Center for Cartoon Studies/Hyperion)

Best Reality-Based Work
Laika, by Nick Abadzis (First Second)
The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam, by Ann Marie Fleming (Riverhead Books/Penguin Group)
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow, by James Sturm and Rich Tommaso (Center for Cartoon Studies/Hyperion)
Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm, by Percy Carey and Ronald Wimberly (Vertigo/DC)
White Rapids,by Pascal Blanchet (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Graphic Album—Reprint
Agents of Atlas Hardcover, by Jeff Parker, Leonard Kirk, and Kris Justice (Marvel)
Gødland Celestial Edition, by Joe Casey and Tom Scioli (Image)
James Sturm’s America: God, Gold, and Golems, by James Sturm (Drawn & Quarterly)
Mouse Guard: Fall 1152, by David Petersen (Archaia)
Super Spy, by Matt Kindt (Top Shelf)

Best Writer
Ed Brubaker, Captain America, Criminal, Daredevil, Immortal Iron Fist (Marvel)
James Sturm,Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow (Center for Cartoon Studies/Hyperion)
Brian K. Vaughan, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Dark Horse); Ex Machina (WildStorm/DC), Y: The Last Man (Vertigo/DC),
Joss Whedon, Astonishing X-Men (Marvel); Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Dark Horse)
Brian Wood, DMZ, Northlanders(Vertigo/DC); Local (Oni)

Good luck at the awards you two!

The first 4-Square Book is here! Here at IKJK we’re publishing a series of anthologies as a site benefit, to help defray convention costs for our artists. The 4-Square Books are so named because a) they’re square, and b) we get 4 different artists to come together and write on a common topic. The topic for the first book is “Sorry,” and it’s ready in time for the Stumptown Comics convention.

We have it for sale on the site, too, just go to The IKJK Store