Chester 5000 book, coming August 2010!
SO, people have been asking me for a long time if there will be a Chester comic to purchase soon. I wanted to wait until things were more final before announcing this but now I am pleased to say…
Top Shelf comics will be publishing Chester 5000 in 2010!!!
AND Top Shelf will also be publishing my time travel memoir, We Can Fix It!!!
http://finkenstein.livejournal.com/136911.html
Sample: http://jessfink.com/junk/TTC_1.jpg
I’m so excited I can hardly contain my own bodily functions.
I’m ridiculously happy because Top Shelf has always been my favorite publisher. In high school I read whatever semi indie thing I could find at the comic shop, but when I got to comics college my Professor Tom Hart’s first book assignment to us was Craig Thompson’s Goodbye Chunky Rice (published by Top Shelf). It was a book that blew my mind completely away, it changed forever the way I looked at comics and how I wanted to make comics and it remains the closest a book can get to my heart.
I suppose it’s kind of silly to dream of being published in the age of web comics, but it’s something I have wanted since I first picked up a comic and somehow I couldn’t let that dream die. I’m so happy it’s going to have a home among some of my favorite authors and artists.
It’s been a really rough couple of years for me where nothing seemed to go right so this influx of good news all of a sudden has sort of held me in shock.
I’ve had a hard time talking about this with people because it’s one of the best things that’s ever happened to me and I don’t know how to express that without feeling like I am bragging! Maybe I’m just so used to complaining!
Anyway, if you want to check it out the books are listed in Top Shelf’s 2010 publishing schedule for August! EXCITE BIKE!!!
http://www.topshelfcomix.com/news.php?type=5
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:42 pm
omgosh! yay! I might have to buy it to keep in my private stash ^.^
congrats!
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Congrats! I’ll definitely be picking up both books when they’re available.
November 23rd, 2009 at 8:43 pm
That TTC preview comic has the best possible ending to any comic ever. Thank you!
November 24th, 2009 at 4:02 am
Definitely a major win and I can’t wait to get my hands on my own copy
) congrats!!!!
November 24th, 2009 at 5:38 am
Yay, this is great news, I’m very happy for you and Chester.
Imo it’s not silly to dream of being published, even though I read a ton of webcomics I still buy a lot of print as well and try to buy books of my fav webcomics, just to have it on paper. I’ll definitely try to pick up both books if I can get them here in Germany.
(Btw, my first comment ever. Love the comic, big fan.)
November 24th, 2009 at 9:34 am
Congratulations! I don’t think publication is a silly dream at all, and this is a huge accomplishment. Yay!
November 24th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Very nicely done. Congratulations, and here’s hoping your fans help to make these projects successes.
November 24th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Congrats!!!!
November 24th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Ohmygod wanttttt. Congratulations Jess! You deserve it : D!
November 25th, 2009 at 2:01 am
sweet hottness! I shall purchase this! then keep it precariously perched on my bookshelf, just drawing enough attention till someone cracks it open. mwhahaha
where it goes from there, nobody knows.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:03 am
Excellent! I love it when awesome things happen to awesome people. I may have never met you, but I just have a feeling.
I look forward to seeing this on my shelf.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:01 am
Congratulations, it is rightly deserved! Glad things are going swell.
Goodbye Chunky Rice is probably one of the greatest comics out there…imo. Being published by the same company must feel like an honor. Congrats and hope things continue to prosper on your end.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:26 am
A heartfelt dream is never silly. Congrats on making one come true!
November 25th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Book coming, August 2010. Your fans, also coming, August 2010
November 25th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Yay! I’ll be purchasing a copy indeed
There’s just something wonderful about having beautifully drawn erotica in your hands rather than on your screen.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
YAY!!!! Congratulations! I cant wait to buy it <3
November 29th, 2009 at 10:28 am
Congratulations to you! These will be some good lookin’ books!
December 1st, 2009 at 1:27 am
Yayyyy!!! Why is August so far awayyyy? XD
December 11th, 2009 at 3:28 am
Can’t wait to pick it up.
Just have to make sure to keep it tucked away xD
December 16th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
That’s awesome Jess… There are not nearly enough erotic comics that get published!
December 21st, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Congrats! You’re so lucky! 8D I’m gonna buy it >3<
February 16th, 2010 at 11:23 pm
I KNEW I had seen your work before! I read We Can Fix It from a link on Dinosaur Comics, but I somehow forgot its name, your name, and the style of the comic! And every time I saw it mentioned here I was like, “We Can Fix It… that sound so familiar… @_@”
Glad that mystery’s solved. We Can Fix It was pretty great, by the way. And I’m so excited for you! I can’t imagine how completely amazing it would be to have my own work published in a real, solid book by something other than a vanity press o-o;;
February 24th, 2010 at 1:26 am
HOORAY! This is really great. I’m very happy for you, and for me (for being able to own your book in the not so distant future). Did you know they were available for pre-order?! They are! I was just wondering if you knew any more affordable alternatives for your Canadian fans?
Okay. Congratu-well done!
February 24th, 2010 at 1:57 am
IT’S ON AMAZON.CA, so no worries about the 19.95 shipping from Top Shelf. So yes, I’m quite pleased.
Much easier on the wallet and I can finally add Chester to my bookshelf and reading table.
March 22nd, 2010 at 12:04 am
Pre-ordered! I hope that I forget about it, let it rest in the back of my mind, so in the heat of August I will have a little gift to help me celebrate the removal of clothes.
October 3rd, 2010 at 2:44 pm
Sooooo… pre-ordered waaaay back in the day, past August, and top-shelf still announces “Pre-Order”. Any news?