Author: Alex Irvine
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Things I Wish I Could Have Gotten into the Comic Book Story of Baseball, Part 1
Having only 176 pages to work with, I couldn’t come close to cramming in every baseball story I wanted to tell. So, to get some of these regrets off my chest, I’ll post once in a while about other great baseball-related stuff I ran across while researching The Comic Book Story of Baseball…but couldn’t get…
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Black Friday Art
Check out this cool Kyle Stecker art for my short story “Black Friday,” due to appear May 30 at Tor.com:
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Play Ball!
The Comic Book Story of Baseball is out today! Thanks to Tomm Coker and C.P. Smith for making it look so good, Jason Yarn for his indefatigable agenting, Patrick Barb and Chloe Rawlins for their sharp editorial and design work — and you for reading. What’s that, you say? You would like to purchase a…
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Baseball Countdown Numbers
If you were following along and perhaps wondering who some of the players were in the countdown to The Comic Book Story of Baseball‘s launch, here’s a complete list: 60 Dallas Keuchel 59 Todd Jones 58 Jonathan Papelbon 57 Johan Santana 56 Mark Buerhle 55 Orel Hershiser 54 Goose Gossage 53 Don Drysdale 52 CC…
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Walt Whitman and Baseball
This is one of my favorite panels from The Comic Book Story of Baseball. (Whitman did say this, and reflected on baseball at other moments as well.) There are some more sample spreads at the book’s Amazon page. (But if you can order local, please do.)
Crooked House Fictions 