stratosmacca

Rod and I have released our first children's book featuring the adventures of Hickory, an inquisitive little hippo, and his animal friends. This has been a long time coming, and we're excited to finally be able to introduce it to the world!



The first adventure, Hickory Hippo and the Snow Mystery, is available right now in time to be a holiday gift for any little ones, friends or family in your life.

Please check out our cute little project and consider sharing or ordering Hickory Hippo and the Snow Mystery. It can be purchased through Amazon.com or HickoryHippo.com.

We appreciate all the support we can get!

--Leanne

It's been forever since I updated this journal, so I figured I'd make use of it to pimp out a few things.

The store on my website is live again-- right now I have my 2012 sketchbook and artbook available for sale.

As always, keep checking BMS for new art from me (and hopefully a few laughs too), or my Twitter or Tumblr pages. And I've been trying to post art more regularly here too, so... there's that.

Thanks for all the new follows and favorites here on DA. Much appreciated!

This entry's gonna be twofold.


Firstly, this coming Saturday and Sunday, September 22-23, 2012, I will be at Power-Con/ThunderCon in Los Angeles, CA, a convention dedicated to He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and ThunderCats. If you're in the area, please stop by and say hey!

Show hours are:

Saturday: 10 AM – 6 PM
Sunday: 10 AM – 5 PM

I'll be doing commissions all weekend, handing out postcards, selling prints and will also be selling my new 2012 sketchbook which features 32 pages of art.

I will also be attending the Roast Gooble Dinner Dinner on Saturday night (7 PM – 9 PM), the Masters Cast After-Hours Mixer (9 PM – 1 AM), and I'll be a part of the MVCreations panel on Sunday at 2 PM in Panel Room 2.

And secondly, I gots to pimp out the newest episode of Masters Cast, the very first He-Man and She-Ra podcast. The fine folks at MC asked me to join the crew (crazily enough), and I accepted. So now everyone will have to put up with me going on about Stratos and whatnot. But seriously, the show is a ton of fun to do and I was honored to be asked to join.

(And Bretzky, I gave House of Pop Culture a shout-out in the latest ep, cause it's the best comic shop in the land! Holla!)

And that's it for me! Hope to see some of you at the show this weekend.

--Leanne

See! I said it wouldn't take me long to make another journal entry.


This coming Saturday and Sunday, September 8-9, 2012, Rod and I will be at the Baltimore Comic Con, one of my favorite shows of the year. We'll be at table A96, so please stop by and say hey!

Show hours are: Saturday 10-7, and Sunday 10-5. (Stan Lee will be there again!)

I'll be doing commissions all weekend, we'll have prints for sale of various things (superheroes, Star Wars, Blue Milk Special, etc.), AND I will have a brand new 2012 sketchbook that will debut at the con, featuring 32 pages of art.

I'm planning on throwing the sketchbooks up on my website for sale sometime later this month too, so watch this space...

Along with all this, Rod and I will also (if all goes well) be debuting a new Blue Milk Special banner that should be pretty sweet. Rod was also kind enough to put together a map of the convention floor to help convention-goers in finding us. Check it out here!

We'll also be handing out new Blue Milk Special postcards, which will be free as always. So if you're planning on going to the show, or just thinking about it, please stop by and say hey!

Later this month I'll also be attending Power-Con in Los Angeles, CA, but more details on that later. Hope to see you at the show!

--Leanne

It's been ages since I last updated this journal, but I figured I'd pimp out the fact that I guest hosted an episode of Masters Cast, the He-Man and She-Ra podcast, just last weekend.

Masters Cast is a monthly podcast recorded by some of my good pals-- Jon Kallis, Katie Haile, Martin Penny and Josh de Lioncourt-- wherein they discuss anything and everything to do with Masters of the Universe, Princess of Power and beyond!

In episode 47 we discuss the recent Masters of the Universe print and digital comic series, the Mattel/MOTUC subscription craziness, and the utter injustice of Mattel killing off Stratos. (Curse you, Mattel!) Check it out!

September's going to be a busy convention month for me, so I'll be updating this again fairly soon with more information. I swear.

--Leanne

PS. Btw, thanks for the bday wishes back in June-- much appreciated!