SPX this weekend, and my husband's an Ink Stud!

Hi everyone.  I've been remiss in updating.  Shame on me.  I started teaching and cartooning again and it's taken over my life. Also, I've just joined my community garden and my head is flowing with dreams of murals and composting. I went to CCS in Vermont last week and it was beautiful and the utopian society of cartoonists that I always dream about.

This weekend is SPX and I'm happy to report I'll be debuting something... it's a four page comic in the brand new Ganzfeld with a poster to match...

This magazine is going to be so awesome.  I can't wait to see it.  It's got music and new inventions and it's debuting at SPX and this is the last issue.  Bummer.

Also my husband is featured on Inkstuds this week!

Also, I'm going to be reading at the great Atomic Books in Baltimore on Friday night, with Brian Ralph, Jesse Reklaw, Julia Wertz, Laura Park, Theo Ellsworth, Austin English, Ken Dahl, and Ben Claassen III.

It should be a blast....

This weekend! Kim Deitch, David Sandlin, and Me at Brooklyn Book Fest!

Howdy y'all, I am so happy for Kim Deitch.  He's my hero, one of my favorite comics, and he's having a big retrospective at MOCCA that's opening on Friday.  I've been to his studio before, and he makes tons of pencil sketches for his comics.  I would say 2/3rds of the work he does are in these old-master like sketches, that's not even counting all the penciling and inking he does for his published pages.  Here's one from my personal collection, a character page for Waldo.

There's also a show by the best silk-screener in the world, David Sandlin at Jack the Pelican.

And finally, I'll be at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday signing The Goddess of War at the Picturebox table.  I was there last year and it was fun.

Hand Pics, Thanks to The Strand, and a Special Bonus...

Here are some weird night time pictures of the hand... The hand at night! close-up!

Richard O'Connor from Asterix Animation wrote up the Desert Island party here and has great pics!

On Tuesday I spoke at the Strand.  I think I was totally under-prepared for this event, which sucked, because the place was packed.  Sorry to anyone who was totally baffled by my "talk".  All my friends say it was fine, you know how this goes.  Am I fat?

One thing talks do is make you try and crystallize what you were thinking when you made something.  I still don't know what I was thinking when I made the Goddess of War.  I want to do it more.  Working on it feels like digging a hole deeper into the ground.  Is that a good thing?  Do people want to read that?

Anyways, this is probably the end of relentless hyping of events and parties for now on my blog.  I am going to get into deeper, psychological blogging now.  If all goes right I'll actually be posting a new drawing or two.

Here are some bonus pics from the San Diego Comicon--both the thrills and the chills ...

Here is my publisher Dan. He had a great time at Comicon.

Here's my publisher Dan who was this excited throughout the entire thing, and his underlings, Will and Jon.

I geeked out at Comicon and bought $300 of original art from this man (more on my prizes later...):

Next there's Shayna Yates, who makes the coolest fashions around....

Here's a lot of people clamoring for shit....

Yay! We want it!

an amazing Jack Kirby Collage Comic!

But look at this great Jack Kirby collage comic!!

Thanks to everyone who came to Desert Island!

Hi!  Thanks to everyone who came out to Desert Island yesterday afternoon for such a fun party. Tomorrow I will go to the Strand and speak, and then I will duck down in my house and not come out for another year while I make a couple new comics.  I feel anxiety and total lack of touch with making comics.  This whole summer has been a bust for making anything, that's depressing to even write.  But August I'm going to disappear and hopefully get some good work done on Calamity, (the sequel to Girl Stories). Good closure for all of this, however, will be going to the Strand and talking about the Goddess of War tomorrow.