When Wolfgang Bylsma of Gestalt Publishing was contacted by a retailer in Montreal, asking why Gestalt were going ahead with the Flinch book launch when Diamond had canceled the distribution, it’s fair to say he was confused.

After contacting several other retailers and getting confirmation of the cancellation, Wolfgang’s confusion turned to annoyance, then anger.  He then turned huge and green, flew into a blind rage, and brought down a small city.  I was there; it happened.

By 2am, Wolfgang still hadn’t heard anything from the distributor and was contacting media.  The media ran with it.  CBR had this to say.  The comics reporter went with this – What If Diamond Cancelled Your Comics Anthology And Didn’t Tell You?

Early this morning, Diamond reversed the cancellation… power to the people.

So, the Diamond order code is “MAR094269“. If you don’t want another small city to be lost at the hands of an enraged publisher, you should go hassle your local comic book store to order the book.

The launch for Flinch and The Example is taking place on MAY 7 at 6.30 pm at Dymocks, Melbourne.  That’s two books, people; a double launch.

The Example, written by me and illustrated by the incredible Colin Wilson, and Flinch, with Shaun Tan, James Barclay, Terry Downling and featuring my stories White Dove III (Illustrated by Colin Wilson) and 96000m (illustrated by Tom Bonin).  Two books.  Three of my stories.  One launch.

It’s open invite people.  Come along.  Meet Shaun Tan, Bobby N, Colin Wilson and me.  Pick up a copy of The Example and, the book that caused the destruction of a small city, Flinch.