October 🏒🍂

Check Please Question: On one of your Pillowfort posts (that you linked on twitter recently), you mentioned the diversity in Bitty's teammates, including a Latino character. Did I miss who that is? If so, who is it? Merch question: Would you consider doing the Samwell jerseys for other characters? Touring question: Is everything just a blur, except for a few really really memorable moments at this point? or do you have an amazing videographic memory? (suspicions on the latter)

Denois

It's still the September password for me. It's in her Sept 3 and Sept 17 posts on here.

painted

I have a question I didn't get to ask during your book tour stop! Could you tell us some of the gory details of negotiating your unusual publishing contract? I've known so many authors, over the past couple decades, who have workshopped fiction online, then been obliged to take down every trace of it as soon as they landed a book deal. This is TRAGIC and TERRIBLE from an archivist's perspective, because it means losing the record of the process, especially the communal aspects, the beta comments and questions and jokes and cartoons and that entire reader relationship, which is so interesting and unique in the evolution of storytelling. Of course First Second wants you to have a social media presence, but how did they justify the free comic AND the kickstarter AND the Huddles? What the hell kind of newfangled profit model are they testing? I am delighted? I keenly hope it works, for multiple reasons. But I've been kind of agog!

Congrats on the book!!!! Question: has the overtime blog password changed? I can't get in, but I haven't seen a post about a new password either.

Caitlin Olsen

I have a question I'm curious about: did you consider the "touching the stanley cup" hockey superstition when you drew 24 hour celly? Like, Rans and Bitty have their hands all on that thing, and my snap reaction when I saw it was "NO WHAT ARE YOU BOYS DOING YOU ARE HOCKEY PLAYERS AND YOU ARE TOUCHING THE CUP AND YOU DID NOT WIN IT YET."

Just got back from the Boston Fierce Reads event and it was amazing! It was a fantastic and hilarious discussion. It was great to see Ngozi in person, even though we were a little starstruck and forgot all the things we'd planned to say. But we do now have signed Kickstarter and First Second books with doodles of Bitty, Jack, and Chowder. I'm still excited so I came over here to squee at y'all about it.

Coldtoes

How does it feel to just walk into a bookstore and see your book on the shelf????? (sounds fake?? 😂)

Do you have any plans to do a book tour or come to Canada on the west coast at any point? Hope you'll come to Vancouver, CA one day. =) Also, would any Providence Falconers merchandise like t-shirts and jersey's be possible one day? Hope so cause I'd buy both! :)

Elfinder

How *does* it feel like to tour? I feel like author events might usually involve reading a bit from the book - how does that work when it's a graphic novel?

Check please question: how are Jack and Bitty spending their one year anniversary??

Max