Welcome to the “First-Friday-of-the-Month” update (and apologies for the slightly delayed posting)! If you’re looking for the most recent Galaxion page, it can be found here.

Yes, I am a great big Star Trek nerd! I know, this comes as a terrible shock to you all. I drew this to go in the programme booklet for a local Toronto convention– darned if I can remember which one– back in 1995. This was shortly after that Nitpicker’s Guide book came out, and hence the gag. The Borg is Hugh (from the 5th-season episode of the same name), and the two Klingons are the Duras sisters, Lursa and B’Etor. I’m not completely sure anymore, but I think the three of them were all guests at this particular convention, which was why I featured them in this little fan art.

See you Tuesday for the regular Galaxion update!

The Galaxion Graphic Novel is here!

The more eagle-eyed among you will have realized that this print collection has actually been available for a few weeks now, but here is the official announcement for the website.

Galaxion Book One: The Jump is now available to be ordered from our new store! This book collects the first three chapters of the webcomic,, the 15 page “Pathfinder” interlude, the “Fusella vs. Interplanetary Patrol” short story, and some between-chapter pin-ups and a bonus page that are exclusive to the print edition. Johanna Draper Carlson of Comics Worth Reading recently gave the book a lovely review!

If you order the book directly from us you will get a signed copy. My good friend and Galaxion co-creator Wendy Linkous has graciously taken on the job of shipping these books for me, which means we can offer reasonable shipping rates instead of the arm-and-a-leg it would cost to mail these out from Canada. The downside is that, normally, I won’t be able to do the sort of dedication and quick sketch that I put on copies that I sell at conventions. But! I get down to the States a couple times a year, and during those times I’ll be able to offer those extra trimmings on the books. I’m planning a trip at the end of June, so if you want to place an order before then I can personalize your copy!

The store link can be found in the menu bar just underneath the banner at the top of the page.

I am also keen on getting the book into comic shops for those readers who don’t follow a lot of webcomics! I don’t have access to the old Diamond Comics system of distribution anymore, so I’m doing it the hard way—store by store. So far Galaxion Book One: The Jump is available at The Beguiling in Toronto, ON, and also Dewey’s Comic City in Madison, NJ. Want to see Galaxion in your favourite comic shop? If you know of a great comic store (or bookstore!) that you think ought to be carrying Galaxion, please send me an email with the contact information and I will send them some copies! The store name, email address or phone number, and the name of the store manager would be perfect, but if all you know is the store name and address I’ll be happy to work with that.

And finally, I am interviewed! I had a chat with Johanna, and you can also see a brief video interview (I’m one of four people interviewed) from Free Comic Book Day done by some folks from the Toronto Animated Image Society.

My book is out at last! Actually, it was probably out months ago, but I only just got my copies. Here it is, my very first not-self-published book (yaaaay! *waves arms like Kermit the frog*)

Roberta’s Space Adventure is part of the Grade 6 space book club unit Mission: Space in the Moving Up with Literacy Place program by Scholastic Education Canada. Comics in the classroom—isn’t that awesome? There are, I think, eight comic stories in total in the unit, all done by different artists. In the ongoing struggle to get kids reading, this is going to be a pretty good tool!

Roberta’s Space Adventure is a fictional story set sometime in the nebulous future (where I like to set all my stories!), but the purpose of it is to teach the reader about the Canadian astronauts. The two main characters, who live on a large Canadian spaceship (because of course we have one, in the future), learn about their early space-pioneering ancestors. The more they learn, the more they appreciate how amazing those first Canadians to go into space—people like Marc Garneau, Roberta Bondar, and Chris Hadfield– really were.

The story is 40 pages long, and there is additional biographical information on the astronauts in the back. I did the pitch, script, script rewrites, art, and colouring (but not the word balloons or the title design) all within the space of about 5 months, which for me is insanely fast—especially considering the weeks of downtime where I was waiting for editorial approval before I could go on to the next step. It was both hideous and wonderful, and I hated and relished every minute of it.

Unfortunately, the book is only available to schools and similar educational groups (meaning I can’t sell you one). So if you’re an elementary teacher or if you know one, you may be in luck! Oh, and I guess you probably have to be in Canada, too… though if you represent a school in another country and have a burning desire to teach your kids about the Canadian Astronauts, I suppose Scholastic won’t say no to you! If you are in Canada… please spread the word!