Here is the second issue of our free monthly comics flyer TWIG, featuring work by Colleen Frakes, Colin Tedford, Morgan Pielli, Tim Hulsizer, & Jennifer Omand.

Right-click here and download the PDF to print, copy & distribute in your area. If you do, drop us a line (treesandhills@gmail.com) to let us know where you’re putting them so we can know how cool you are! This month: bring some to your local comic shop for Free Comic Book Day (Saturday, May 3)!

On to the comics! Click to enlarge.

To submit material, send your 300dpi comics to treesandhills@gmail.com (should be suitable for “general audience”).

Hey everyone, it’s the first issue of our new free comic! You’ll soon be able to find copies around Vermont, New Hampshire, and western Massachusetts. If you’d like to help out, you can download a PDF version (right-click & download current month only) to print, copy & distribute. If you do, drop us a quick email (treesandhills@gmail.com) to let us know how many & where you put them. If you’d like to print & distribute regularly, email us about it and about getting small ads to help pay for printing.

On to the comics! Click to enlarge.

TWIG #1 contains comics by Colin Tedford, Marek Bennett, Morgan Pielli, and Keith Moriarty. Send your 300dpi submissions to treesandhills@gmail.com!

Trees & Hills latest anthology NEW STARS is now available for online purchase at Trees & Hills Comix Distro! The anthology debuted at SPX in October 2007, and since that month also marked the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, we took that as our theme. We’re not some kind of fascists, though, so every piece didn’t have to be about Sputnik itself - most of them do relate to space in some way, though. This all-ages anthology by the Trees & Hills Comic Group features an eye-popping full-color cover by Gregory Giordano and comics by Daniel Barlow, Marek Bennett, Miles Cota, Colleen Frakes, Cat Garza, Chris Grotke, Jade Harmon, Tim Hulsizer, Matt Levin, Keith Moriarty, Kathie Mullen, Raymond Prado, Matthew Reidsma, Colin Tedford, and Anne Thalheimer. 5.5″ x 8.5″, 52 pgs. $3.00

In addition to the above events, 3/19 is the deadline for the Keene Free Comics TV Turnoff Week Edition, and 3/20 is the Pioneer Valley Comic & Cartoon Schmooze - click over to our fancy new Calendar for details on all these things.

In other news, I’d like to remind people we do have a forum - I wandered by it yesterday to find a February post from a Missouri resident who’s assembling a 50-State Jam! Check it out if you’d like to participate (I call NH, though!)

Also, Part Two of the awesome HOURLY COMICS DAY CROSSOVER is up on the Comics page.

A month later, the first installment of the Trees & Hills Hourly Comics Day 2007 Crossover Event is up on the Comics page - more to follow! The strips’s author, Tim Hulsizer, has just concluded his Charity Auction, raising enough money to purchase a water buffalo for the needy!

The Western MA Comics Creator’s group meets at Modern Myths in Northampton, MA Tuesday 3/6 at 6:30pm - email Scott Sheaffer (kmacalp at aol dot com) for info.

The Fine Toon art show at the Helen Day Art Center in Stowe, VT runs through 3/31 and features art by Alison Bechdel, Stephen Bissette, Harry Bliss, Jeff Danziger, Gareth Hinds, James Kochalka, Edward Koren, Hal Mayforth, Frank Miller, Skip Morrow, Tim Newcomb, Rick Veitch, James Sturm, and more! The next T&H party might be cancelled due to St. Patrick’s Day - how about a trip to Stowe instead?