Secret Acres Website is Born

TODAY is the official date of birth of the Secret Acres website. A big, cuddly welcome goes out to all of you, our new visitors, and everyone else who has been patiently waiting for us to launch. The site took a little longer to put together than we had anticipated, but it’s up now and we think you’ll agree it was worth the wait.

Secret Acres is a comics publishing company started by Leon Avelino and Barry Matthews. You can read more about us here. Secret Acres books will start hitting the shelves next year. In the meantime, there are plenty of mini-comics to pick up in our Emporium.

All of our artists have individual pages with their bios and links to reviews and websites. Most of our artists have mini-comics waiting for you in the Emporium. You can also get a taste of their comics right here online. These will be updated weekly on rotating basis.

Our Critical Ends section is where you can find all the big ideas from comics scholars around the world. Every month, we’ll have a new essay up. The first essay, “Word and Image in Contemporary Fiction” by Zoë Sadokierski, can be accessed here.

Secret Acres’ s first book, Fatal Faux-Pas by Samuel C. Gaskin will debut at APE 2008 next April. Sam’s Xeric award-winning comic, Pizza Wizard #1, is in the Emporium right now. Don’t miss this one.

We’ll have more updates for you as the year winds down. If you’re curious, if you’ve got something to tell us or if you just can’t wait, you can find us at info@secretacres.com. We won’t hide.

Thanks for stopping by.

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