After a rollercoaster ride of over 15 years, the book is here. Finally. Today is the official release day. And while the story is not yet finished (and in my mind it probably will never be, even long after I have drawn the last panel and wrote ‘the end’), there is a book now. It’s real. I can hold it, flip through it and read it. People can order it and receive it. At comic book shops, at online shops. It’s really out there now.

These last days have been weird. It’s something I’ve both dreaded and longed for, for such a long time. Does it live up to my hopes and dreams, to my nightmares?

It feels funny. It’s both a big and a small moment. A day like any other with kids going to school and daycare and the regular daily activities. A moment both close to my heart and far away, with my cherished publisher residing abroad and the book releasing in a foreign language on a book fair where I am not present. (continued in the comments)