It’s that time of year again!

April 16, 2008

The brand new Owly & Friends comic books are here and that means that Free Comic Book Day is almost here! Don’t forget to mosey on into your favorite comic book store on Saturday May 3rd and pick up a great selection FREE comics! Just Click here to find the participating store nearest you!

This year’s offering from Top Shelf is an all-ages mini-anthology! Inside you’ll find an all new 10 page Owly story, a brand new tale from Christian Slade’s Korgi, one starring James Kochalka’s best little ghost, Johnny Boo, and a sneak-peak at Cori Barba’s upcoming Yam!

I’ll be spending Free Comic Book Day at the wonderful New England Comics in Boston, Massachusetts! I’ll be sure to give everybody more details about that as the day gets closer. I’ve never been to Boston so I can’t wait to spend this wonderful day in that glorious city!

I’ve also updated the site with a brand new Teaching section, featuring the Owly Lesson Plans! My 2008 Tour Schedule (below, right) has also gotten a refresh and I added a few other tidbits here and there. I’ll be adding more as time goes on so be sure to check back soon! :)

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Twitter 2! The return of Twitter :)

January 7, 2008

Happy 2008 everybody! I hope everybody had a wonderful holiday! I certainly did and let me just tell you, that as far as Owly goes, this year is going to be absolutely amazing! I’ll be posting more about that as well as my Owly Tour schedule for 2008 soon, But first, I have to tell you about a little birdie that came to visit us!

You may remember “Twitter” from last year, the little Rufous Hummingbird that stayed the winter in our yard, well… we have another little visitor this year. We’re incredibly honored to have a winter hummingbird staying with us so we called our friend, local Hummingbird expert Karen Theodorou from the Georgia Hummingbird Study Group to come out to take a look at her and to band our new little winter guest so that they can track the migration of these little jewels. Well, when she caught our little hummie we were surprised to find that she was already banded… and not only that, but our “new” little Rufous was our own little Twitter!

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