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Comics and graphic novels make great gifts and The Detroit News has listed their recommendations for comics as stocking stuffers. Our little funnybook is at the top of their list! They write: It’s about a cat named Scratch who runs farther away from home than anticipated and winds up in the clutches of mad...
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A few weeks back at Detroit Fanfare we met Todd Dezago, creator of the wonderful Perhapanauts comic. Todd’s other book Tellos, which he co-created with the late, great Mike Wieringo are, of course, a big inspiration to us here  (Mike drew some amazing looking cat people in that one). If you enjoy a sense...
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BOOTH #100 Rob Worley will be appearing at the Detroit Fanfare Comic Book Convention 2011, held this year at the Cobo Conference and Exhibition Center (aka Cobo Hall) in Downtown Detroit! We’ll have the SCRATCH9 Trade Paperbacks as well as a second printing of SCRATCH9 #1. The Second printing is even more rare than...
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Swah! We just got the news that Scratch9 has been nominated in several categories for the 2nd Annual Shel Dorf Awards! We’re nominated for “Kids’ Comic of the Year“! Writer Rob M. Worley also has a nomination in the “Writer of the Year” category and letterer Bill Tortolini has a nomination in the “Letterer...
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Yowza! The summer months are here and School Library Journal has just published their recommended reading list for kids in Kindergarten all the way up to the 12th grade. We’re tickled silly that Scratch9 is recommended right up there with our faves like Frankie Pickle by Eric Wight, My Boyfriend is a Monster: Made...
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In their regular feature “Food or Comics”, the bloggers over at Comic Book Resources Robot 6 say they’d rather pick up the Scratch9 trade paperback than spend money on the life-sustaining nutrients of food!! If I had $15, I’d start out with the trade of Scratch 9 ($9.99), a great kids’ comic about a...
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Scratch9 creator Rob M. Worley will be appearing at the Kids Read Comics/Teens Read Comics convention in Chelsea, MI on June 18th and 19th. Stop by and check out the new Scratch9 TPB, along with Rob’s new Actionopolis Junior novel The Legend of Tigerfist along with a chance to get the sequel ebook Heir...
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Litterbricks! We still can’t believe the big news from Thursday night! Scratch9 is nominated for an Eisner Award! We’re in the “Best Publication for Kids” category. There are five other great comics nominated in that category too and we’re just proud to be named in the same list as them. Here’s the complete list...
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Swah! Scratch9 has been nominated in four categories of the 29th annual Comics Buyer’s Guide Fan Awards! We have nods in the the “Favorite Comic Book or Mini Series” and “Favorite Story” categories. Rob M. Worley is nominated for “Favorite Writer” and Jason Kruse is up for “Favorite Cover Artist”! Thanks CBG Nominators!  ...
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Happy Opening Day, Baseball Fans! Here’s a Scratch9 pinup by Jason Kruse to commemorate the start of the season in our home town of Detroit!
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