NEW WEBSITE LAUNCHED!

The new website for the graphic novel Battle of Alberta launched today. This blog will be abandoned, but follow the link to get Battle of Alberta content as well as the free digital comic MediaSpeed.

New website for Face Press: Face Press website

Hope to see you there,
Jason

Something New

Sheesh.

It's been quiet around here, eh? Hello to those poking in once and a while. I can finally say to you, that I have new Battle of Alberta content soon to be completed. And no - I'm not talking about the entire graphic novel written entitled Team Deathmatch either.

Instead comes MediaSpeed. My attempt to enter the world of digital comics. Self-publishing is one (necessary) thing to consider and accomplish. Distribution is a whole other. Paper is nice, but silly at a certain size due to the gamble in estimating the sales for your print run. Why are we accepting that, when digital offers instant worldwide distribution and no print costs?

I'm not. I hope to post test sequences here, but after I get back from vacation.

Tally-ho!
Jason

In case things do get ugly

And you want to be there, right at the end, hopelessly fighting off wave after wave of frenzied marauders intent on burning the written word in all forms?

I would suggest gathering at the Merril Collection, located on the third floor of the Lillian H. Smith branch of the Toronto Public Library, with your Morningstar or whatever gun you've saved ammo for. Their rich and essential collection of science fiction across mediums is to be saved, at all costs.

Thanks to the ladies there for the collection access, it was great. Here's a link to their website:

http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/merril.

Jason

Expanded Google Books Preview

Hey,

Would you like to take a longer look at Battle of Alberta? Check the Google Books Preview page here: Google Books - Battle of Alberta.

Thanks,
Jason

Battle of Alberta is on Amazon.

Now available on Amazon.

So for those few remaining years where people still buy physical copies of books, I'm set! But as soon as budget tablets hit the market - it's all over. Except maybe for comics - nice hardcover trades could stick around. But prose doesn't matter how you read it. And old books smell bad. So, see ya!

Perhaps you'd like to go to Amazon.com and give Battle of Alberta a favourable to semi-favourable review, right now? I would have written my own, but they have protections against that sort of thing. Cagey, they are.

Please check it out: http://www.amazon.com/Battle-Alberta

Thanks,
Jason

From the back cover...

2082: Peak oil came and went. Science let us down. The world got bigger. And then the guns came out.

But in the northwest corner of the North American continent, a young nation producing the last barrels of oil has split, embroiling David Shumenko and his family in an unreported war between the north's Republic and the south's Democratic Union.

David, as a covert OpForm contractor, a man tasked with planting the seeds of apathy toward the north's new neighbour. Alex, his oldest and pilot prodigy for the north's Defence Force, who tests strange designs like those appearing in the globe's unrelenting conflicts. Hannah, his sister and commander of a battlefield retrieval unit in a world where you can't count on replacing anything old with anything new. And Colton, the youngest, a jaded student who searches for something louder to wake his sleeping city with.

As Alex pilots the Amarok, the north's newest and most deadly weapon in a series of escalating clashes, and David's superiors come closer to getting the war they want, all those caught in the middle prepare for what could be the continent's last battles to stink of exhaust.

Battle of Alberta info:

written by Jason Ask
art by Devon Jopling

Cover art by Michael Grills
Cover design by Phillip Hickson

150 ppg, Black & White - Graphic Novel. 1st printing.
$12.95 CAN

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Thanks,
Jason