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Hey there, y’all. I’m pretty psyched about the newest labor of love coming from Scott Allie and Dark Horse. Exurbia is wicked fun and Kevin McGovern’s art is funky (in a good way). I’m also excited to announce that we’ve got a few copies that include Book Plates that are signed by Allie and McGovern!

At TFAW.com, we’re all about the extras–so we’re giving a couple of them away. One will be given away to one of our Twitter followers on Monday (follow us here), and the other will go to a lucky person who posts a comment on this blog article (also awarded on Monday 10/12) . After that we’re going to ship the rest of these special copies of Exurbia at no additional cost while supplies last.

Exurbia at a Glance:
Gage Wallace’s day seemingly couldn’t get any worse. After breaking up with his girlfriend, he finds himself framed for blowing up his apartment building–the latest in a string of deadly bombings in this doomed suburb. After the neighboring Fat City fell into the river during an earthquake, these hapless exurbanites have been waiting for their own town to sink. The only glimmer of hope is a talking rat, whose drunken ramblings are taken as the prophecy of a better time ahead.

Now Gage finds himself being pursued by well-intentioned friends, bored cops, and the bloodthirsty Bald Suzie, a local firearms enthusiast whose brother was killed in a recent explosion.

Check out our 13-page Exurbia First Look and try before you buy.

I recently got to sit down and chat (via email) with Kevin McGovern, the artist for Scott Allie’s newest project, Exurbia! Haven’t heard of Kevin? That’s because Exurbia is his big debut–working with Scott Allie, for the third-largest comic-book publisher in the country, Dark Horse Comics.

Jealous yet?

Exurbia is a crazy-unique comic, and it’s gotten some positive response from folks like Gilbert Hernandez, who wrote, “Exurbia boldly continues and transmogrifies the type of lunatic stories that only comics can do with any justice. Try as films and TV might, here is the real stuff. Bravo and yikes at the same time.”

Read on as Kevin takes us through his 13-year journey of bringing Exurbia to print!

TFAW.com: Hey Kevin, thanks for taking some time to talk with me today!

Kevin McGovern: Thank you. I appreciate the opportunity.

TFAW.com: So how did you get into drawing comics?

KMc: Like a lot of enthusiasts, I grew up with them. My parents kept our house well-stocked with cartoon collections: Peanuts; Charles Addams; Doonesbury; Bloom County and the like, plus we had a huge box of Marvel and DC comics. I didn’t really start drawing until after I got out of high school and rediscovered comics in the late ’80s and early ’90s. But it was Scott Allie’s Sick Smiles project that really got me going in earnest.

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