I completely neglected to post about this, so please spread the word, all Melbournites.

Colin and I will be running a comic book Master Class on the Tuesday from 3-6pm which we’d love to see YOU at. We will also be part of a panel discussion on Sequential art and Narrative at the ungodly time of 10am on the Wednesday – For anyone who doesn’t know, I write until obscenely late at night.  I don’t normally agree to do things in the morning… I will try to be coherent.

We will also be signing at a booth from 1pm (a much more reasonable time) until 5pm on the Wednesday.  We will have plenty of copies of our work available, including our new Star Wars Invasion: Rescues TPB and Colin may also be doing commissions.

TUESDAY 10TH MAY

MASTER CLASS- COMICS WRITING AND DRAWING
/w TOM TAYLOR AND COLIN WILSON
3pm-6pm
$10 NMIT Student, $20 External.
Building F: Level 1

WEDNESDAY 11TH MAY

PANEL DISCUSSION- SEQUENTIAL ART AND NARRATIVE
/w COLIN WILSON, BRUCE MUTARD AND TOM TAYLOR
10am-12pm
Free NMIT Student, $5 External
Building F: Level 1

BOOK FAIR
1pm-5pm
Free
Building B: B Space Gallery

Please click the pic for more details, including other guests and activities.

I’ll be signing any Star Wars: Invasion, The Example, Rombies, Flinch and Star Wars: Adventures anyone wants to shove in my face.  If you have anything else you’d like me to deface, that’s cool too.

My new DC/Wildstorm writing gig should be made public by then (should be early next week) so feel free to ask me questions about that (most of which I won’t be able to answer).

“Tom did a great job of capturing the feeling of Luke and Yoda, it felt like the characters I have seen on the screen for the last 30 years, nothing felt forced with their dialogue.”

“There’s danger, excitement, humor, and a good dose of Luke’s determination all brought to the forefront with this story.  I highly recommend this digest if you want to see more of what Luke endured on Dagobah and what helped shape him into the Jedi he became.  Luke Skywalker and the Treasure of the Dragonsnakes is an excellent story and a great way to kick off the thirtieth anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back.” – NJOE.com

Click the image below for the full review.

Another review has surfaced over at Fancore Daily

“Didn’t you always want to see more of that training, and what it takes to become a Jedi Knight? Well, then this comic was written just for you!”

“The writing, by Tom Taylor, manages to flesh out one of the greatest stories ever told on film, while not trampling all over it, and that is a feat unto itself.”

“The plot is only part of what makes this story great. What this book does better than most Star Wars comics, is that it takes you back to that familiar place, and delivers in a way that matches up to what you remember. I’m a pretty hardcore Star Wars fan…And I’m pretty harsh on Dark Horse and the comics they choose to publish sometimes. Heck, I’m hard on the entire Expanded Universe of Star Wars.  But where those comics fail, this is one of the ones that succeeds!” – FANCORE DAILY

ARCANA MAGAZINE #1

Written and art by various.

Arcana Magazine is a bold new endeavor focused on the very best of sequential art and the people behind it. Every issue is packed with interviews, articles, reviews and art to make your eyes bleed. We chat with Tom Taylor, the Australian playwright behind Star Wars: Invasion; Edmund Shern, creator of Radical’s Freedom Formula; and Robert Venditti, writer of The Surrogates. Plus, in-depth discussion with the multi-talented David Mack (Kabuki), BOOM! Studios’ Chip Mosher tells what it takes to sell comics these days and the ongoing love affair between music and comic books.

96 pages, $3.50.

Coming January.