Shade enters the ring and other things I'm wrestling

Surprises abound and I am touched about how the works we make live on

The other week I was made aware that a wrestler Dark Sheik sported a Shade, the Changing Girl outfit to wrestle with at EffygayLA. The costume was perfect, and she looked awesome and I was awestruck. It means so much to me. Me and Marley Zarcone and the whole Shade team put so much of our heart into recreating that character and every time I see that it is still resonating with people in the world these few years later is amazing. Loma Shade is a character I adored writing. I really hope that even though she’s a bit underground now, that people will (re)discover her. I hope you have read it or will! And I think she’d make an excellent film, get on that DC and the Gunniverse!

It also has me thinking about how our works live on after their time according to the biorhythms of marketing is done and about how our creations are always there for discovering. Like how I also just licensed two little Nerdy Girl songs for a short film and how I love that someone found it and fell in love with it and wanted it in their short. And how that is one of the great things about making art. The afterlife, the always life.

I’ll be at the LA Times Festival of Books on April 22nd and 23rd and I’ll be at the Stockholm Comics Arts Festival in Sweden on May 13th and 14th. So do come and say hello. I’ll be talking about comics at both festivals, with an emphasis on my latest graphic novel, SHIFTING EARTH which is a hope punk story about a botanist and a parallel Earth. You should read it!

And in case it got lost in my last transmission, I am now a NASA Solar System Ambassador, which is a citizen volunteer position through NASA JPL to do community events about NASA and to communicate the science and excitement of NASA's space exploration missions and discoveries with their communities.  

I’m doing my first two events this week, helping a girl scout troop get their space badge and talking about the Earth, Sun and Moon with an elementary school. If you are a school or library or community group that wants to book me and have me come talk about the space program, feel free to reach out here. It is free!

I hope you are discovering some good old things that become your new favorite thing.

Stuff I am currently crushing on: watching Mapp and Lucia (it’s so funny! How have I never seen it! It’s based on a book series that I now want to read), listening to Blondie in preparation for seeing her play next week, and the book Family Style by Thien Pham

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Love, Cecil