5 Favourite Albums of 2011

1. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
2. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
3. Little Dragon - Ritual Union
4. M83 - Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
5. Cut Copy - Zonoscope

Spera-Comic.com Winter Update

Head to Spera-Comic.com for the site's first seasonal update, which brings Pira and Yonder to its pages (Online Comics and Graphic Novels, respectively).

This update was put together by Olivier Pichard (backgrounds and coding) and Afu Chan (characters).

Newsarama.com Interview

Click here for an in-person Spera interview with Newsarama.com.

Spera: Volume I now available at Amazon.com!

Spera: Volume I is now available to purchase at Amazon.com!

It should be in bookstores on December 19th, comic stores on the 28th and will be available from other online retailers on January 3rd.

Spera: Volume I is a hardcover graphic novel from Archaia featuring art by Kyla Vanderklugt, Hwei, Emily Carroll and Olivier Pichard, short comics by Jordyn F. Bochon, Cécile Brun, Luke Pearson, Leela Wagner and Matt Marblo, and pin-ups by Don Cocor, Paul Maybury, Jack Teagle, Sam Beck and Gigi Digi. Cover art and character designs are by Afu Chan. For a full description of the book, look here. You can also preview the first 16 pages here.

The Starless

A new Spera short is now online! Illustrated by Anna Wieszczyk and lettered by Ed Brisson, The Starless is a dark, foreboding prequel to Spera: Volume I, offering the first real look at Pira's old life.

The Archaia hardcover edition of Spera: Volume I will be in bookstores on December 19th and comic shops on the 28th.

Spera: Volume I interview at Don't Write Me Off

I somehow bumped into blogger Andrew Russo at both TCAF and NYCC. Here's an interview Kyla Vanderklugt and I did with Andrew as a result of these encounters.

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