Exciting news!!

The NEXT YEAR'S GIRL trade paperback has finally been released! It's a full-color, 80-page collection of my webcomic, PLUS the first handful of strips I did (which aren't even on this site)! I'm so pleased with how the book turned out; it's a really nice piece. Thanks for your support & encouragement; I couldn't have gotten to this point without all of you!!

You can order the book by following the link below, or by visiting Laughing Ogre Comics or Packrat Comics in Columbus, OH or Quimby's in Chicago, IL. It's also available whenever 2 Headed Monster Comics makes an appearance at a convention! Follow me on Twitter (@katievaleska) to keep up on 2HMC news.

Check it out!

http://2headedmonstercomics.storenvy.com/products/1274274-next-years-girl-trade-paperback

Well, as hard as it is for me to say, I'm sure it won't come as a surprise to many of you... NEXT YEAR'S GIRL has run its course. I'm moving on to bigger and stranger things.

NYG has seriously been the best thing I've ever started in my whole entire life. It got me back into drawing, won me some terrific new friends, and somehow got my artwork into a friggin' Elvis Costello box set. I mean, seriously. It's given me hours and days and weeks of enjoyment, and the response has been so wonderful, nothing I ever expected when I bought my first COPIC markers in Chicago a few years ago and started playing around. I'm starting to need the 10+ hours I spend each week on NYG for my new comic pursuits (like The Rotten Ones), and like many autobio comics before mine, the ideas have been running dry lately. As much as I've loved this project, I'm really looking forward to this opportunity to get out of my own head for once.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for reading my comic and sharing all of these amazing moments with me! I hope you'll keep in touch and keep track of my doings online and in the 'real' world. I'm only getting started in comics, and I can't wait for you to see what's up next. I'm working my butt off with the 2 Headed Monster comics crew to bring you some really great books, starting in April with our sampler, the Little Monsters EP.

Please please please, follow me on Twitter: @katievaleska
2 Headed Monster Comics: @2hmcomics

Like the 2 Headed Monster Comics page for updates on not only my own work, but James' and Joel's awesome comics, and our live appearances!:
2 Headed Monster FB page

PLUS! For those of you who have really liked following NYG, the print collection (yep, a book!) will be out this summer. Like that 2HM Facebook page above to keep up on its release!

Thanks again, you guys. You're the very best and I couldn't have gotten this far without ya.

LOVE, Katie

katie@nextyearsgirl.com

Hey everyone!

This is my last week of working on the Rotten Ones 4-pager for the 2 Headed Monster Comics sampler to debut at SPACE in Columbus on April 21st. Thanks for your understanding! Please check out the NYG Facebook page and "Like" it for updates!

http://facebook.com/NEXTYEARSGIRL

xoxo Katie

Here's a peek into what I've been working on with my writer friend James. The four-page opening story for "The Rotten Ones" will debut in April as part of a 2 Headed Monster Comics sampler. These are some initial character sketches. Only two of the characters depicted made it through to the sampler. Wouldn't you like to know which ones??

You'll find out in April!

Also, happy two-year (and two day) anniversary to NEXT YEAR'S GIRL!!

Congratulations, Jason—I'm super proud of you! You're the best ever.

This drawing of me throwing a snowball isn't just for NEXT YEAR'S GIRL... there's a great project I'm taking part in this year, in order to help a community of talented artists raise money to end human trafficking.

Read more about it here, and please consider supporting their cause and the charities they're backing! Doing a little something nice for others will make your holidays brighter, too.

http://comiccreatorsforfreedom.com/

Thanks again, so much, for reading my comic and for being a part of the absolute best year of my life! I can't wait to see what's in store for 2012!