Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant is a light-hearted adventure through the Turkey of the early 1800s and is available in print at the end of August. Unlike the following short story, however, it does not feature such a strong emphasis on cats. You’re welcome to see for yourself and preview The Turkish Lieutenant at www.delilahdirk.com. You’ll notice I made the foolish mistake of featuring a human woman in the starring role.
This error was brought to my attention during an episode of Jerzy Drozd’s Comics Are Great podcast. He was interviewing Calista Brill, the sensible and insightful editor at First Second with whom I worked on Delilah Dirk. She was explaining the type of give-and-take an editor may have with an author, and said, “for example, I would not ask Tony Cliff to replace the character of Delilah Dirk with a cat.”
Hearing this and knowing it could only possibly be a passive-aggressive airing of grievances, I have tried to correct the error with this short comic, Delilah Dirk and the Easy Mark.
Enjoy! Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant arrives on August 27th from First Second Books.
This is awesome, like everything else Faith Erin Hicks does!
That was so adorable! Your friend was wrong though. Never stop being such a fan. (Just don’t turn into that fan.)
I love this so much. I am so happy for you, Faith; I just teared up a little.
Congratulations Faith! You definitely create amazing stuff too! I hadn’t had the time to read Friend with Boys, but What Could Possibly Go Wrong was awesome! May you continue to create great things
I’m sincerely happy for you, Faith, for getting your talent recognised and having it open so many doors for you.
@2: Since Faith’s shown her love for Avatar and Korra before, maybe we can tell Faith to become the sort of fans Mike DiMartino and Bryan Koinietzko are of Hayao Miyazaki or that Gene Luen Yang is of Mike and Bryan; loving her idols’ work and being inspired by them to do her own thing.
You’re living the geek dream, Faith. Never stop.
Lovely.
This was a fantastic overview of your ComicCon guest of honor experience. Keep doing what you do Faith!
You clearly rock. Glad you got over the fannishness to be able to enjoy yourself on a whole different level!
Faith, that was gorgeous. Thank you SO much for sharing the experience with us all.
I really love that your style doesn’t change, whether you’re telling us madeup stories or real life ones. Oh, and I adored Demonology 101 and might have cried a little bit when it finished! So glad it got a mention.