Winter shore after a blizzard

Below: a shoreline and some gulls hanging around it

A worried look

A worried look...


Over a gingerbread house.

MIT, Show Opening, Boston Bazaar photos

Thursday at MIT's Craft Fair, Dan and I find that our table is in a strange corner of Stata Center. While it makes for an interesting photo, foot traffic was low.

We decide to make a sign that clearly states what we are selling.



Friday, we get a better location, near the center of Stata.


We also take advantage of the blackboard behind the table.

Below: more Stata shots. It was a bit slow overall, but it was interesting to interact with students and people at MIT.





It was fun when people came over, eyes wide and arms open in curiosity, asking out loud -- "Comics?" I had a good time chatting with people.

At one point, two gentlemen looked interested in the comics and came over, while continuing to discuss something. They kept up the discussion (about the recent climatology scandal?) at the table for about 10 minutes, before they finally started browsing.

I had a new minicomic for this shows, a series of cartoons about things I'd seen at MIT. One of the gentlemen was very critical of this minicomic, particularly on one cartoon about how I watched students electrocuting a pickle in the hallway. I had to explain it was a real experiment that Prof. Bulovic occasionally performed for people, which his grad students were replicating.

I also sold the minicomic to researchers who had come into Boston for the Materials Research Society meeting that week, as well as to many other people.



Saturday -- reception for Inbound 4's debut and the corresponding art show at Atomic Bean Cafe!





Sunday --- Boston Bazaar Bizarre!

Above: someone looking at my minicomic... with a suspicious expression?

Above: people looking at my "Bored Angel" book.

Eric B, who organized the table at this event.

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.

Happy Thanksgiving

It's a little weird to celebrate Thanksgiving with photos of live turkeys. (At least, I think so, although I can't explain why exactly.)

But since I have the chance, here's some photos of wild turkeys in Kenmore Square, from two years ago.

Turtles, ducks and exhibit at Atomic Bean Cafe

I'm part of a new show at the Atomic Bean Cafe!




With the soon-to-be released Inbound 4 (Boston History done with comics), the Boston Comics Roundtable is putting up an exhibit of the original pages from the anthology. In the above picture is the short comic that Dave Unger and I collaborated on, "Cowpaths of Waltham". It's a side tangent of Dave U.'s dissertation.

There will be a release party at the Atomic Bean for Inbound 4 in early December, I'm not sure when.

You can find the Atomic Bean Cafe on Mass Ave between Harvard and Central.
904 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139-3041
(617) 499-0972
Link


Also this week, a guest photo:

"Ducks and Turtles" by Junko Rothwell

Halloween 2009

The author of the blog at a Halloween party....




Below -- from Halloween.




Tom dressed as H1N1, I dressed as a Luna Moth, and that's Alex in the back. We rocked the town. Or at least got some puzzled looks.