24 hour comics, party this Friday at Atomic Bean, DC rally, icy puddles

Quick update on what I have been up to:

* A 24 hour comics event.

* Traveling to Washington DC for the Sanity Rally. You can see Alice and I in the background of this Getty image [link]. Arianna Huffington gave us pistachios and told us to try the free yogurts. I held a sign at the rally reminding people to vote.

* Oh -- Promotion stuff! This Friday, Nov 5th! Join me at a party at Atomic Bean Cafe from 7-9pm to celebrate Inbound 5's release, a comics anthology about food. I have a story about eating Durian when I was a freshman. (If you know what to look for in the background, you can tell the incident specifically took place in Warren Towers floor 5C at Boston University....)

Atomic Bean Cafe: 904 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA

Update: link to the book

* The leaves outside have suddenly changed color, and I think I saw ice on lakes and puddles.

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.

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

Boston Comicon, Atomic Bean Cafe, Squirrel

Very important blog update: no birds at the bird feeder on my window, but a squirrel poked its head in my open window. Too bad I was right there, staring at it in surprise; the squirrel freaked out and ran away.


Also Boston Comicon and all that.





Some of the more colorful guests I saw.



Actually, this person below is not colorful, technically speaking. Kind of mostly grey and black.




From the Saturday night reception at the Atomic Bean Cafe.


Nice crowd.

We ended up putting the inside inkwash pages of "Mark and the Aliens" on display, because it was a complete short comic. I don't have a very good photo of my pages on the wall, but I'll try and get a picture soon.

Anyway, the Atomic Bean Cafe show will be up for at least this month. Copies of "Inbound" (1-3) as well as "Mark" (and possibly other minis) will be available for purchase at the cafe. The cafe will put 20% of sales into a charity to support artists.





And finally --

This is not the squirrel at my window, but it's similar to what I saw.

Photo I took of a squirrel at Harvard University.