It is with great sadness that we write this today; the Sparrow & Crowe graphic novel, recently solicited through Diamond and Amazon.com, has been cancelled.

Hermes Press, our publisher, has been very supportive of the book, but we knew the risks when we solicited the book for pre-sales — if the orders were too low, Hermes Press would not be able to print the book.

So, what does this mean? Well, all five chapters of the book are still available on ComiXology.com, so if you read digital comics on your computer or tablet, this is still a viable option.

That said, we’re still looking at options to bring the printed book to you. We’re proud of the book, and we’ve gotten very positive reactions from those who have read it. But pre-order sales are a tricky thing, and we’ve got to look at new strategies for the book.

Thanks again for your support. We’re grateful for every single pre-order that we did get. And, as always, you can contact us at mailbag (at) sparrowandcrowe.com if you’d like to reach us.

We’re not done yet. Stay tuned, and we’ll keep you posted.

Sincerely,

David, Jeremy and Jared

We’re pleased to present a simple graphic that explains, as we best we can, how you can read the complete, print edition of Sparrow & Crowe: The Demoniac of Los Angeles.

We’ve lapsed a bit in our updates. If you’re happening to check in on our site, you’ll be pleased to see that, as promised, Issues 3-4 of Sparrow & Crowe are now available on ComiXology.com as digital exclusives. Our pre-orders for our print run were not strong enough to continue to publish the series as individual issues—our compromise with Hermes Press was to release issues 3-5 in digital-only formats for our die-hard fans, and then focus on a printed GRAPHIC NOVEL for the collection.

Our goal is to have the collection out in the summer of 2014. We’re actually wrapping up the art and lettering on the final issue as we type this — with a late April or early May release date on ComiXology.com.

So, stay tuned! We’ll post a lot more as we get get closer to the finale and the collected edition!

With the success of our Sparrow & Crowe Halloween Special (still available on ComiXology.com), we’ve decided to celebrate another holiday with Sparrow & Crowe in our new anthology, WEIRD WINTER STORIES: A Sparrow & Crowe Yuletide Anthology, on sale NOW at Amazon.com! Read on…

‘Tis the season to be eerie in this volume of strange and unusual holiday tales featuring two-bit occult detective Doctor Xander Crowe and his partner, the sardonic hacker-magician, Sparrow. Together they encounter all manner of winter mysteries, from a new relationship troubled by Krampusnacht to a generational family story haunted by bloodthirsty tomte. Over the course of nine stories, the uncanny twosome come face to face with an assortment of sinister marvels, including festive homunculi, and a necessary plot to kill Santa. If you like your eggnog with a side of ectoplasm and brimstone, these Yuletide stories are ready to be read in front of a fire, with a glass of single malt whiskey, and maybe some rosary beads. Just in case.

WEIRD WINTER STORIES is a Kindle-ready e-book with Sparrow & Crowe prose stories by a talented line-up of writers, fronted by series creators David Accampo and Jeremy Rogers, and including: Jay Stringer (Old Gold), Joshua Alan Doetsch (Strangeness in the Proportions), Paul Montgomery (Marvel.com, Wormwood: A Serialized Mystery), Christa Nahhas (Sparrow & Crowe Halloween Special), Caroline Pruett (FantasticFanGirls,org, Chicks Dig Comics), Teresa Tulipano (Lines+Stars, Two Hawks Quarterly), and Chris Anderson (Sparrow & Crowe Halloween Special) — with interior illustrations provided by BREED (Sparrow & Crowe Halloween Special).

The e-book is currently available in the Amazon marketplace, and this is our favorite part: in the true spirit of the holiday, all of the writers and Habit Forming Films, LLC., have decided to donate ALL of the proceeds from this eBook directly to charity!

We’ve selected 826LA as our charity this year. 826LA is a wonderful non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. 826LA provides after-school tutoring, evening and weekend workshops, in-school tutoring,help for English language learners, and assistance with student publications—and all of these services remain free because of donations.

At Habit Forming Films, LLC., we have always championed the power of story to entertain, to communicate, to explore, and to reveal Truth. We are very excited to help the next generation do the same, and YOUR purchase of our e-book will help enable us to do that.

For more information about 826LA, visit their website at http://826la.org.