Hello Reader,

If you're LIVE in Hamilton, Ontario, you may see me at LIT LIVE! But I won't see you...

They've been promoting my reading, but it's a little misleading on the poster. Where you see it say "in person," what they mean in my case is they will be playing a video I recorded. I'm still in Winnipeg.

But I recorded the video in person!

Anyway, I wish I could make it, because it looks like a great event. Please attend if you can!

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In other news...

Everything in my online store is still 50% OFF TODAY but not after tomorrow.

​Check out some of my new comics and old books! All of them come signed!​

Sometimes people ask me which book is the best introduction to my work. It's a tough question, but I usually answer CLOCKFIRE, which includes 77 plays that are impossible to produce.

CLOCKFIRE is definitely the reader favourite and the one that connects the most with people and shows how I stand out from other writers.

But is it the best representation of who I am as a writer? It's a very closed system of a book, that has more in common with Yoko Ono and Antonin Artaud than Jonathan Ball, in some ways.

Probably the book that best tells you where I am as a writer today is THE LIGHTNING OF POSSIBLE STORMS (which won the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, but would make Margaret Laurence weep ... definitely would not be her thing).

But if comics are your thing, then you need to check out THE EYE COLLECTOR. It's maybe my most ambitious project to date, and it's been turning out exceptionally well.

Very proud of everyone's work on this project... and the first full story arc is available in print now.

Stay strange,

Jonathan

PS — If I had to recommend just one comic, I'd say go with the special issue THE EYE COLLECTOR: DOWN TOO SOON. Not only is it a one-shot story, but this is a special Convention Exclusive that isn't otherwise available ANYWHERE else (unless you bump into GMB Chomichuk).

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