Billy Johnson and His Duck Are Explorers by Matthew New ’14 is being published by Capstone Publishing in August 2020. Originally self-published as four mini-comics for his The Center for Cartoon Studies thesis, this story has it all: humor, peril, and out-of-this-world archaeological adventures (oh, and ducks!).
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Mathew New ′14 has released four self-published issues of Billy Johnson and His Duck Are Explorers. And now it’s also being collected in a book through Capstone Publishing, coming in fall of 2020. The acquisition was announced recently in Publishers Weekly.
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