Belgium and A Few Big Announcements (and one non-announcement)

I’m home from Belgium as of tonight and instead of boring you with tales of my travels, I’ll give you a few incomplete sentence highlights:

- If you received an email from me the last few days, the picture to my left is what my “office” most often looked like. Cigarette, trapist beer and blackberry, which left me one hand short.
- 53% of all books exported from Belgium are comics
- I don’t like eating eel
- I had a great talk with Belgian editors and publishers while there. The national export association is wanting to launch a large comic focused event next year and we plan to discuss cooperation. Cool. Now I can expense all that trapist beer.
- Framboise beer is made w/the same bacteria that causes athlete's foot (Pedeacoccus) but it makes the beer taste super-fruity. My brother taught me that one.

Cliffs Notes

VIP Lithograph – Check out the limited Marvel lithograph. They will only make about 400 of these and the first 100 will be signed by Joe Q. How do you get one? Buy a NYCC VIP package, that’s how!

More Big Names at NYCC - Eva Mendes and Frank Miller will be at the show and singing on Saturday at 3:30! We’ll have more info about this ASAP but this is again part of Hollywood’s NYCC invasion, cool on Lion’s Gate!

My Lips Are Sealed – BIG announcement for NYCC first thing tomorrow. Due to strict embargoes I cannot say a word tonight, but I’ll blog it first thing tomorrow and a formal announcement will follow.

Ticket To Ride – Seriously, BEA special event tickets are available for purchase, so don’t delay! NYCC VIP tickets and Ultimate Experience tickets are also available, buy em for God’s sake!

Dates – We’ve extended the volunteer sign up to 3/21, fill out the form online to be a NYCC volunteer. Make sure and buy your tickets by 3/13 if you want them mailed to you!!!!!

Short and sweet tonight, I’m jet lagged and need to blog up my super secret announcement for tomorrow morning.

- L