Goblin: The Wolf & The Well Book Signing with Eric Grissom at Howling Woods Farm

October 12, 2024

You may already know that Will Perkins and Eric Grissom‘s Goblin comics (published by Dark Horse) are among some of my all-time favorite stories. Not just comic book stories. Any story. If you’d like to learn more about why, read my book review on Goblin volume two, The Wolf and the Well.

I’ve been to a book signing events, mostly when I know the creators on some personal level even if only internet-acquainted. I did go to one as an unacquainted fan having met the author (Susan Wittig Albert) before, but I read her books and newsletters. Plus, there’s all the experience I’ve had meeting creators at comic conventions and through podcasting. None of those events were as cool as this one.

I know Eric Grissom; his partner on Goblin, Will; and basically their families—are more imaginative thinkers and dreamers than I could ever be. They take those dreams and actually get them made. Therefore, it should not have shocked me that Eric would come up with the idea of having a book signing at a wolf preserve because one of Goblin’s main characters is a white wolf named Fish-Breath.

Howling Woods Farm isn’t like other sanctuaries I’ve been too. I’m not that far from the Lakota Wolf Preserve in New Jersey right on the border of the Delaware Water Gap. I think I’ve been there twice. I also got to visit the Wolf Sanctuary of PA while spending a weekend in Lancaster. Howling Woods Farm is the forever home for hybrid canines which are illegal to own in certain states like New York. Because New Jersey has different laws, when a hybrid wolf-dog or coy-dog is captured, they might end up at Howling Woods or a sanctuary like it. The other refuges I mentioned take in wolves and other wildlife that are not hybrids; they require a different permit and cannot have hands-on education like Howling Woods Farm provides.

If it hadn’t been about 100°F in bright sun and a setting where I wasn’t allowed to carry my parasol or even wear a hat *gasp* — it might have been hard for me to leave for the long drive home.

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