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Astronaut Elementary is finally available in shiny book form with a brand new name: Astronaut Academy: Zero Gravity! It’s published by the amazing :01 First Second and available in most cool bookstores and comic shops.

Here’s the official promotional guide:
Astronaut Academy book trailer

HYPE: Audio-Visual Audacity with RAINA TELGEMEIER and DAVE ROMAN
KIDS OF ALL AGES: Do we have an event for you! Straight from New York, we’ve got authors RAINA TELGEMEIER (Smile, Babysitters Club) and DAVE ROMAN (Astronaut Elementary, Agnes Quill) giving an exciting sight-and-sound heavy presentation for young and old alike. HEAR Dave and Raina read from two of their all-ages graphic novels! SEE accompanying slideshows of both books! TASTE some cool snacks! SOME ACTION that signifies getting copies of SMILE and ASTRONAUT ELEMENTARY signed by the authors!

It’s going to be a fun night, so bring the whole family!

More information at the Challengers Comics + Conversation website.

The hiatus was a little longer than planned, but Zip and Li’l Bit’s third big adventure, The Captain’s Quest, is finally under way. I hope that people will find it to be worth the wait.

Today my new webcomic, Cleopatra in Spaaace, launched at the aptly named CleopatraInSpace.com. And I hope a lot my c&b readers will go and check it out and help support it and and comment and tell all their friends how much they love everything I do. Of course, if you don’t do any of this, that’s fine. We just can’t be friends anymore.

In all seriousness though, I’m really excited about this new comic. It’s something I’ve been working on for a while now and I plan to stick with it for the long haul. It’s going to contain a lot of the same humor you’ve all come to expect from c&b and you’ll even find that the two comics are connected in ways you might not expect.

ALSO, I’m not done with c&b! There’s a reason I put that “to be continued” at the end of the last strip. In the words of our future President Schwarzenegger, “I will be back.” For now though, you’ll find me hanging out over in Cleo’s world. I hope to see you there!

Holy grappling udders! Cow & Buffalo’s new book is now available (on an also all-new cow & buffalo site)! Here is the press release:

Cow & Buffalo’s second book is here! Stuperheroes collects the popular webcomic’s entire superhero epic from August 2006 to December 2007 and includes an all-new six page back-up story, select comics from 2007’s “Journey Cow” event, new illustrations, guest art and a recipe for The World’s Greatest Sandwich featuring a special comic introduction starring none other than Mike Maihack himself. It is available now for only $10 at www.cowandbuffalo.com (shipping included)!

Also, for a limited time only, Cow & Buffalo’s first book Adventures in Sandwich Making, is on sale for only $5 with the purchase of at least one copy of Stuperheroes. This deal is only available at cowandbuffalo.com and not any other retail market.

Specs: Stuperheroes features a full-color, perfect-bound cover with 112 black and white pages inside. It is a book.

There is more action, more humor, more exclusive all-new content and 33% more pages than Cow & Buffalo’s last book. Plus, I’m drawing a sketch in every book purchased too. Hurry! There’s no time to waste! Purchase Cow & Buffalo in Stuperheros NOW before it’s too late!

Join creators Dave Roman (Astronaut Elementary, Nickelodeon Magazine), Matt Loux (Saltwater Taffy, Star Wars Adventures), and Abby Denson (Powerpuff Girls, Amazing Spider-Man Family), as they talk about creating comics for kids and lead the audience in a fun comics workshop!

Sunday February 8th at the NY Comic Con
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM - Kids Zone 1
http://www.nycomiccon.com/.

The ballot for the first ever Nickelodeon Magazine Comics Awards is in the December issue of Nick Magazine! And also online at:

nickmag.com/comicsawards

Sorta like the Caldecott of comics! And since it’s Nickelodeon…we included lots of fun categories like “Best Hair in Comics”, “Grossest Thing in Comics”, “Cutest Thing in Comics” as well as best Graphic Novel, Manga, Comic Book, Comic Strip and more!

The awards logo was designed by cartoonists, Sara Varon (Robot Dreams) and the website is actually fun in it’s own right! If you know any kids who have opinions about what they read, be sure to let them know about the awards! Ballots must be received no later than December 31st and the winners will be announced in the April issue of Nickelodeon Magazine, which is the cartoon themed issue!

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