April 1, 2019

Alec Longstreth, currently the outreach director at The Center for Cartoon Studies, is a comics workhorse. A stay at home father, he continues working on his Phase 7 series of mini-comics. He runs Phase 8, his new publishing house. And he has an ongoing webcomic, Isle of Elsi, which is currently on Kickstarter for the print book. The book collects the first three Isle of Elsi stories:  The Dragon’s Librarian, A Menagerie of Messengers, and The Search for Spinoza. This kid’s comic is full of wordplay, from alliteration to puns to rhymes.

The book itself will cost you $25, which is pretty great for a full-color 144-page comic. But that’s only the beginning. The book comes with an activity book that Alec made for a 24-Hour Comic, or you can get just the activity book for $5. If you have a lot of kids in your life that would love to get a fun comic, you can get 5 copies for only $60, which is quite a deal. If you don’t yet own the giant hardcover Basewood, the last 36 copies (down to 25 as of the last count) are available. You can even get some original art of Nogard reading under a tree at sunset.

But for the true dragon fan, you can get a hand-made plush toy of Nogard the Dragon by Alec’s wife, Claire for $300. She has professional training as a toymaker, and this beast is 13 inches tall! The first 10 already sold out, so they opened up 10 more slots. Grab your own dragon now before they are all snapped up. You have until May 1, so make haste!