Allan Harvey writes: “I was at 30th Century Comics this morning, and a guy came in expressly to buy copies of ADS and Book of Lost Souls TPBs after he’d seen the free ADS pages on your site.” Excellent! If you know of a comic shop, or if you are a shop owner who supports A Distant Soil, just send us your info and we would be happy to promote you and send more customers to your store! Thanks! c

Lexie over at Last Exile Words gave us a nice plug on her blog. Thanks so much!

Thanks for the kind mention of the new blog and site to all the great folks at Broken Frontier! The site also mentions the doings at Diamond Comics, which have affected retail order minimums on comics and will probably send a lot of small press companies down the tubes. There’s a link to a New York Times article with more about it all. There has been some very interesting analysis at The Comics Reporter, The Beat, and other comics blogs. This is similar to the situation that felled many in the small press in the mid-1990’s. I mention it on the dvd Scenes From the Small Press (available in the…

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Thanks to Allan Harvey at his fantastic classic comics blog GorillaDaze for the article about our new website! If you or a friend blogs us, please let us know so we can send our thanks!!!