From the SLG Livejournal:

Michael May (whom I owe a column! eep!) reviews The Clarence Principle by Fehed Said and Shari Chankhamma at the Blog@Newsarama. He has praise for both the story and art:

Chankhamma’s art is as poetic as the story it tells. Her depiction of the afterworld is affecting: dark at times; hauntingly lovely at others. And the people who inhabit it are sometimes funny, sometimes spooky, sometimes beautiful, but always expressive and real. All of which makes visiting The Clarence Principle an engrossing event.
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From the SLG Livejournal, Jennifer de Guzman writes -

Nowheresville, USA has a review of The Clarence Principle, giving the new graphic novel by Fehed Said and Shari Chankhamma three and a half stars: “It’s rare that I come to the end of a book (comic or otherwise) and just lose my breath from being astounded. I sat there dumb-founded. It was a good sort of feeling - to not really know what to think. I think it’s been a long time since I was surprised.”

Meanwhile, at SLG Art Director Scott Saavedra’s blog, he gives you a look behind the scenes at the process behind the design of the cover of The Clarence Principle. Writes Scott, “Sure, this a completely insane, backward way to produce a cover design but we’re all crazy here. That’s just how it is.”

Yep.

The image of Clarence’s face that was on the original cover is now on the spine. We don’t like to waste art here.

End of SLG Post.

In other news, Shari is still working her butt off on our upcoming 44 pager, ‘The Forgotten Incident of San Sabian’. She’s a trooper that one. Really, she’s been losing out on a lot of sleep and working non-stop all day everyday to get this done by the deadline, and she’s not cutting any corners either! Click on it for a larger more detailed image:

Shari has been getting to grips with the technical side of things in Manga studio. Our latest comic has a lot of scenery in it of buildings in decay. They’re not easy buildings to render either. There’s a lot of details going into them. Also, the perspective and angles are very important in this piece and thanks to Manga Studio’s features, as you see in the picture below, you have the ability to draw guidelines to aid in this.

Other tests one can try in Manga studio is to import photos. It’s great as a guideline for checking to see how to represent certain actions in your comic. Shari did a bunch of tests with this one till she settled on this particular angle. The attention to detail that’s gone into this comic even out does a lot of the scenes in Clarence. I just wanted to show how technical it all was ^^

Rack Raids gives The Clarence Principle “Three and a half out of five Vikings”.

Suicide, as we know it in North American culture, is a dark, disturbing, and wholly selfish act, one derived from pain, often done to deliver more pain, and sometimes done to relieve it. It’s an act that’s not really very easy to make light of, and perhaps even more of a challenge to adapt into a “down the rabbit’s hole” type adventure. Yet, that’s what writer Fehed Said and Shari Chankhamma have attempted to do with their original graphic novel, The Clarence Principle, which explores a purgatory or restless wandering that resembles a landscape plucked from the Sandman’s Dreaming merged with the backdrop of a Tim Burton animated movie.
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From the SLG Publishing LiveJournal

The Clarence Principle by Fehed Said and Shari Chankhamma - 224-page graphic novel, $12.95

Embark on a surreal voyage into an unconventional vision of the afterlife. Clarence wakes to the aftermath of his own suicide and a hidden message spawns his journey beyond. Follow Clarence’s twisted tale, as he meets whimsical characters whose fates are destined to intertwine with his.

If you’re looking to get a copy of The Clarence Principle, we recommend that you try Borders or Waldenbooks . The bookstores ordered far more copies than comic book stores did. And of course, it’s also available from the SLG website, www.slgcomic.com.

Kevin Melrose at the Blog@Newsarama chooses The Clarence Principle as his pick of the week. “I’ve been looking forward to The Clarence Principle since SLG Publishing announced it back in February,” he writes.
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To celebrate, Shari and I asked a friend, Carrie Dean, to create some LJ icons for us. Here’s a small sample:

You can see all 20 icons and download the full set here.