Umbrellas for free

getting ready for the storm that's coming.

I wonder if someone notices when I skip a week in here. I wonder if someone notices if I skip several weeks.

I notice.

Every breakfast on Mondays I think about what can I write, and about all the things I said or did or planned or saw. Some Mondays, the more chaotically busy ones, I finish breakfast and spend the rest of the day trying to catch up on everything I have to do and end up giving up on writing the letter by the time I can stop to break for coffee at 6PM. I’ll often get back to another work shift after the coffee break, and I rather have some new work done by the end of the day than writing about how late I feel I am at everything I’m currently doing. I think it’s always more exciting to point people to interesting things I’ve done or experienced when they can also find it, instead of talking about the stuff I can’t show or the stories I have no idea when they’ll be published.

I’m coloring a variant cover this week, the last cover I have on my schedule, and I have a class to prepare for some hundred ninth-grade students, so I’ll keep this letter short again, focusing on what actually is exciting and you can find:

Free Comic Book Day happens next Saturday, on May 6th, and Bá and Gerard have a brand new Umbrella Academy short story. Besides a few variant covers I’ve done which haven’t been announced yet, this story is the only new story your favorite Brazilian wonder twins are publishing this year, so go get it! Also, it will appease your Umbrella appetite until Bá and Gerard finish the Sparrow Academy storyline.

(I published a Firefly-related FCBD comic a long time ago, and I was in Toronto for TCAF that weekend, so I managed to go sign some free comics that Saturday at the Beguiling comic book store. It was our first TCAF, and we had just come from Italy after attending Napoli Comicon. Both conventions were incredible, and I kept thinking about them this past weekend because this year they both happened on the same weekend.)

Here’s the full line-up of free comics you can find this weekend. Something for every taste, and hopefully it will bring people to the comic book store after the free stuff and they’ll discover more stuff that they’ll like.

Back to work (on a Labor Day holiday, of course).

Be safe. Be kind. Be curious.
Pa-ZOW!

Fábio Moon
Moon Base, São Paulo
May 1st, 2023