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Expozine this weekend!
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If you’re in Montreal this weekend, you should come down to Expozine and buy a ton of amazing small press work! Here are the details:
EXPOZINE 2012
NOVEMBER 17 & 18
12pm – 6pm, 5035 St-Dominique
(Église Saint-Enfant Jésus, between St-Joseph & Laurier, near Laurier Métro)
Free admission.
I’ll be there with some cartoonist pals, selling comics and probably eating a samosa or ten.
Also, come to Librairie Drawn & Quarterly tonight for the Expozine Launch event: a panel discussion and screening of scenes from Cartoon College, a documentary about The Center for Cartoon Studies:
EXPOZINE LAUNCH EVENT: CARTOON COLLEGE!
Friday November 16 at the Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore
211 Bernard W., 7 – 10p.m., free admission.
Join us for a screening of select scenes from the brand new documentary, Cartoon College! Each fall The Center for Cartoon Studies in nearby Vermont invites 20 aspiring cartoonists and graphic novelists for a no-holds-barred education in comics.
Several will be on hand to discuss their experiences: Jon Chad Dakota McFadzean Sophie Goldstein Julie Delporte Jai Granofsky
Finally, here are the comics I’ll have at my table for you to buy…
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My good pal dw will be at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival this weekend, selling copies of Irene, as well as his new book Abzernad, which is being put out the wonderful Hic and Hoc!
dw and I used to talk extensively about work, ritual, and cartooning during grad school. He’s also a fellow daily drawer, with an overwhelming and dizzying aesthetic. Be sure to drop by the Hic and Hoc table (U34) and say hi to him.
Oh, and while you’re here, check out this extensive interview with dw, Andy Warner, Rachel Dukes and me on Bleeding cool.
Go! Go to the festival!
On the Road to SPX!
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It’s been a busy summer, friends. Since leaving Vermont in May, I haven’t been in one place for more than a few weeks at a time. But now I’m back in Montreal, and ready for comics-related action. And the first order of business, now that I’m no longer a transient vagabond, is to pack my bags and hit the road for the Small Press Expo!
I’ll be tabling once again with my good pals Beth Hetland, Pat Barrett, and Josh Kramer. Here’s a selection of my wares:
Irene #1
$10.00, 64 pages, screen printed cover
This new anthology is edited by Andy Warner, dw, and myself. It features work by the three of us, as well as Jon Fine, Rachel Dukes, and Nate Wootters. There’s laughter, tears, and other strange curiosities. Here’s a sample from my new story, Skeletons:
I’ve also put together new editions of some of my past minicomics:
Last Mountain – Issue 0
$5.00, 36 pages, colour cover on gold paper.
Features three short stories I did over the last year. You’ll see everything from disconcertingly invisible enemies, to high school anxiety, to cowboys.
Unkindness
$5.00, 40 pages, colour cover
This comic debuted at MoCCA 2012, and the second edition features a new cover with 120% more bird close-ups.
The story is about a small town, a fracturing family, and a flock of birds whose unusual behaviour permeates and intersects with the lives of the townspeople.
Ghost Rabbit
$3.00, 24 pages, colour cover
This comic has been making the rounds since it came out. It made The Comics Journal’s list of The Top 30 Minicomics of 2011, and was nominated for the Gene Day Award for Self-Publishers at this year’s Joe Shuster Awards (which will be happening this very weekend in Montreal while I’m at SPX!).
It’s a story about memory, death, childhood, and cartoon rabbits.
So be sure to check out all the great stuff we have at table E3!
And that’s just one quarter of one table! Now imagine a gigantic room filled with tables, and amazing comics made by wonderful people. It’s going to be a great weekend, friends. Can’t wait to see you there…
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Hi gang. I know I haven’t been updating the ol’ blog very much these days. Sure, I post The Dailies once a week, but that’s barely even three minutes of distraction from work. What if I told you there was a way you could buy some of the longer things I’ve been working on, and that said things would offer you distractions from work that last upwards of fifteen minutes?
I’m talking, of course, about the MoCCA Festival in New York. I’ll be there again this year selling my comics, and making eye contact with strangers. Be sure to come to my table say hi to me, Andy Warner, dw, Nate Woots, and the rest of my cartoonist pals!
Here’s this year’s spread:
Unkindness
This 40-page story was the main project I’ve been working on over the last few months. It’s set in a small, prairie town in the early spring. The crows have returned from their migration early and they are behaving very strangely, though most of the townspeople barely take notice.
Last Mountain – Issue Zero
After years of being afraid to commit to an ongoing collection of my work, I’m finally going through with it. Last Mountain contains three short stories featuring cowboys, high school, immigration, forests, and looming invisible forces.
Ghost Rabbit
After Ghost Rabbit made The Comics Journal’s Top 30 Minicomics of 2011, I decided to print a 2nd edition of it. It tells the parallel stories of a little girl who is beginning to understand age and death, and a ghost rabbit.