Shows, shows, shows and a skull

The engimatic drawing above is courtesy of a figure drawing session where I ran out of time. It's a long story.


And now --

Show, shows, show!


Going on right now! Holly Fair! I'm not there, but some stuff I worked on is there.

Where: First Parish Unitarian Church - corner of Church Street and Mass Ave, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
Website: www.harvardsquareholidayfair.com



Dec 3 and 4th: Catch me at MIT selling comics! In an Authorized Manner!

Thursday and Friday, I will be at the Stata Center, selling minicomics and anthologies!

When: December 3-4, 9am-5pm
Where: MIT’s E25 Atrium and Stata Center (see MIT campus map for directions)
Website: web.mit.edu/abd/2008-2009calendar_sp.html



Dec 5th: "Inbound 4" Opening Reception this Saturday 4-6pm at Atomic Bean Cafe!

The Book about Boston History, drawn in comics! Original artwork will be gracing the wall of the cafe, and the book will be sold there as well. I'll be there, and so will the cow comics pages I keep mentioning on this blog. (Here, here, here and here.)

Atomic Bean Cafe location
Events Link


Dec 6th: Boston Bazaar Bizarre!

I will be there selling comics!

When: December 6, 12-7pm
Where: BCA Cyclorama, 539 Tremont St, Boston, MA
Website: www.bazaarbizarre.org/boston.html

Dec 12th: Comikazi Bazaar! I won't be there, but again, books I worked on will be there!

When: Saturday, December 12, 10am-4pm
Where: George Dilboy VFW, 371 Summer St, Davis Square, Somerville, MA
Website: www.comicazi.com

Jan 21 (?) Inbound 4 even at Porter Square Books in Cambridge. Signing and reading, I think.

Boston Zine Fair 2008!

Photos from Boston Zine Fair 2008! (not Halloween)

Here's Julia, who came to say hello! Below that, a photo of Jay.

Jay was my neighbor on Saturday. I think I can now repeat his spiel myself, if I had to.

Having food on the second level helped draw people upstairs, but we still weren't getting as much traffic as the first floor. So later that day, Dan decided that the skeleton in the corner of the room (this was the Art Institute of Boston building) was a major selling point which we should tap into. So we posted signs downstairs, encouraging people to come view the skeleton.

(Cathy and I were still laughing and repeating "I'm gonna eat you! And kill you! --- Be my friend!", even after the Zinefair ended.)

Saturday night, we all regrouped at the Papercut Zine Library and then headed over to a local pub restaurant place.

This just in! The Boston Comics Roundtable meets at an actual round table, for the first time!

(Also, the people's gestures in this picture make me laugh, for some reason.)

Sunday -- below, a giant jam comic, courtesy of Che (in the picture).

Che brought the giant foamcore board and encouraged passerbyers to draw on it. Lindsay, also in the above photo, is taking a picture of it. And to the right of Che (or Che's left) . . . Oh, look, a familiar orange-with-green-and-purple image. Yep, I was sharing the table. You can see that I found a tablecloth by the second day. (The pretty blue cloth is a gift from the family I stayed with in Mangaia. I lent Dan a pink cloth that was also part of the gift.)

Che, who needs to have a dash over the "e" in his name (if I knew how), says he'll have a high resolution image of the two giant comics on his website or blog soon. (http://diy-jet.blogspot.com/) In the meanwhile, here's a photo of Sunday's comic.




I drew the thing in the center, the burning buildings and attacking monsters. And another panel below that. And a few things in other people's panels.

Hang on, here's a close-up.



Lindsay is the one who drew the woman saying, "Oh no! My baby's in the burning building! I left him alone because I'm irresponsible!" Incidentally, she was (quite sucessfully) selling her wares, these cigar boxes decorated with iconic segments of old comics carefully xacto'd out and glued on. Also Mary came by and drew the eHarmony and fetch panel, which I followed up. And James and Hyun came by too. How many other links can I stuff into this post.

Anwyay, as you can probably premise from the photos, I had a lot of fun at the Zine Fair! I sold a good number of books, traded a bunch, donated copies to the Papercut Zine Library, ate peanut butter and jelly sandwitches for two days, and met a bunch of people.