San Diego Comic-Con 2024 was a fantastic experience, catching up with good friends and promoting Godzilla: Monster Island Summer Camp. Speaking of which, our new Godzilla graphic novel is out today in stores everywhere.

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Back to SDCC, here's a big photo dump of me, Rosie, Oliver, Chadwick, Johnny, Esther, and other great friends. Shoutout to all the new fans and friends we made at the convention while we were signing flyers and zines at the IDW booth or just hanging out at the show. Big thanks to Chadwick and Jules Chin Greene for snapping pics!

With this new Godzilla graphic novel out in the world we've got lots of cool events coming up in Los Angeles and Columbus...

Aug 25: Godzilla signing at Secret Headquarters, Atwater Village in LA from 3-5pm

Sep 7: Tabling at OC Zine Fest, Anaheim Public Library from 11am-4pm

Sep 14: Tabling at Orange Comic Con, Orange Public Library from 12-4pm

Sep 29: Signing at CXC (Laughing Ogre booth), Columbus, OH from 2:30-5pm

Oct 2: Godzilla signing at the Laughing Ogre, Columbus, OH from 4pm-close

Ten years ago I headed down to San Diego Comic-Con for the first time to announce* my published debut, Holy F*ck. A decade later, I'm headed back again (not sure if it's for the 9th or 10th time [???] it's hard to keep track because of the pandemic) for what is now an annual ritual for myself and my friends.

Naturally, I'll be joined by my stellar wife Rosie Knight and the talented Oliver Ono, both in attendance to celebrate next month's release of Godzilla: Monster Island Summer Camp, an OGN where I assisted on colors. They'll be signing (with a stealthy appearance by yours truly) at IDW booth #2729 on Friday, July 26th at 2:15pm. Fingers crossed that IDW will have early copies! Otherwise, we'll have some free homemade preview zines for you.

Last month was the ALA Annual Conference, also held in the San Diego Convention Center. It was an alternate utopian vision of a comic convention. My time was filled with intriguing conversations with incredible librarians and fantastic people from across the business of publishing, pics of which are scattered throughout this post. Exhibiting at the Zine Pavilion was an unbelievable experience and I look forward to being there again next year for ALA Annual in the city where my family hails from, Philadelphia.

Unrelated, I need to mention that I had a fantastic time recording a new episode of Frankenstein's Podcast with Rosie about my beloved beast, Biollante. Joe and Khalid were terrific hosts, discussing the classic Godzilla film with us alongside other fun topics. Listen to find out which niche interest is my top obsession at the moment (you'll never guess).

*I was hoping for a big announcement or two this year at SDCC but those projects aren't ready to be revealed just yet! Stay tuned because I anticipate news of at least one to get out by the end of the year. In the meantime, find me at SDCC to check out new printings of KUTE Crew and my deranged Baby Shrek zine, both debuting this weekend.

ANOTHER UPDATE: IDW Publishing has released some more information about the Godzilla Rivals books announced at SDCC 2022, including a release date for my Biollante Vs. Destoroyah comic, currently slated for Spring 2023.

UPDATE: The panel was @#$%ing awesome!

Tons of fantastic fans turned out to hear us talk about the rad Godzilla comics we've been working on and I loved it.

Nola Pfau from the three-peat Eisner-winning WWAC did a totally sick tweet thread about the panel, covering all of the announcements including the upcoming Godzilla Rivals: Biollante vs. Destoroyah comic book that I'm writing with art by Sean Dove. IDW shared the pencils for our variant cover drawn by Andrew MacLean.

my collaborator on godzilla rivals: biollante vs. destoroyah is @andthankyou who is absolutely going to explode your socks off with this comic 🤘 sorry but youre gonna need to buy new socks https://t.co/ICZQo5XdfY

— nick marino is writing things (@nickmarino) July 23, 2022

Big shoutout to all of the great comic creators who I shared the stage with and everyone who attended! I'll post more about our comic as soon as I can.

ORIGINAL POST:

Rosie and I will be on IDW's Godzilla comics panel at Comic-Con in San Diego on Friday, July 22 at 4pm in Room 4. Rosie's incredible Godzilla comic is on sale in just a couple of weeks, and I hope everyone gets to see a ton of Oliver Ono's rad art. As for why I'm on the panel, well... you'll just have to wait and see!