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.

Don't Write Me Off
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OCB: Private Enemy -- Phase One

The latest issue of Giannis Milonogiannis's Old City Blues is finally here, and it was definitely worth the wait! Everyone with even a passing interest in cyberpunk should take a look — unless you have yet to read the first major story arc, in which case you should go here right away.

With thrilling chases, gruesome technological crime scenes and a poolside seduction as cold as ice water, Giannis knocks it out of the park once again!

Spera-Comic.com has a new look!

The new design is a collaboration between Olivier Pichard, Afu Chan, Kyla Vanderklugt and myself. Our goal is to clarify the different aspects of Spera — the original collaboration, new online shorts and Archaia graphic novels — in a way that’s more in line with the series’ current direction. Although only Lono appears on the site for now, Pira, Yonder and Chobo will be showing up on the other pages in the coming weeks.

To help celebrate the new site, two new shorts — She Saw It Then by Julia Scott and Free Verse by Roman Muradov — can be found in the Online Comics section. Both focus on moments that took place in Lono’s castle before the events of Volume I.

We hope you enjoy how it all turned out!

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Spera: Volume I Preview

You can now preview the first 16 pages of Spera: Volume I at the Archaia site! These specific pages feature the art of Kyla Vanderklugt.