Well! That’s quite enough intimate kissing by candlelight. Back to dudes carping at each other in a well-lit library. Oh, statuary, will I ever tire of using you to mark scene transitions? Survey says no.
Some things of note this week! First off, everybody should go buy Barry Deutsch’s wonderful book Hereville! Barry is a friend and a top-notch cartoonist, and Hereville is his lovely, witty, unusual, most-ages book about an 11 year-old Orthodox Jewish girl using her chutzpah to outwit some seriously cranky foes. (Bonus: I posed in reference photos for a lot of things Mirka does. It was super fun.) Pair it with Raina Telgemeier’s Smile as a holiday or bar/bat mitzah gift for that smart, funny kid you know and you’ll create a comics reader for life.
Secondly: I’ll be at New England Webcomics Weekend (#NEWW on Twitter) in Easthampton, MA. I’m really looking forward to this one – it promises a lot of quality time with readers and fellow creators, something that rarely happens at bigger commercial shows. If you’re in the area, please buy a ticket and come enjoy some of the internet’s finest.
Happy almost-Halloween! I thought about putting up a cute holiday-themed drawing, but I figured you would rather have more kissing. (Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.)
Coming up: on November 6 and 7 I’ll be off and running at New England Webcomics Weekend! My first time ever at the show. I am planning on taking it easy and having fun – they tell me this is possible. It’s quite a slog for me to get to the East Coast and next year I will have a sparser convention schedule, so if you’re anywhere within smacking distance of Northampton, consider dropping by!
Meanwhile, over at The Meek, Der-Shing is showing off another example of the best kind of lady: one who is armed and looking for literature.
Oh, kids. Enjoy the moment.
I had a great time at APE! It was, as usual, wonderful to hear from my fellow nerds and talk about things profound and ridiculous. I even received some truly delightful fan-art (which will go up later today, as soon as I get it to the studio scanner).
It’s a lot of fun two have two books, although trying to explain how different they are is pretty funny. (“Do you like guillotine jokes, or theology jokes?”) Thank you to everybody who said hello, and extra thanks to those of you who dropped some of your hard-earned dollars.
This weekend I’m out of town for some family duties, and then the weekend after Halloween I’ll be packing my suitcase yet again for New England Webcomics Weekend. In the meantime, I am on the trail of those last few pre-orders!
Luther: should get drunk more often.
I’ll be at the Alternative Press Expo this weekend in San Francisco, at table 636 (pdf map), just around the bend from my studiomates Erika Moen and Trixie Biltmore. (Pun Time: it is funny because they are always driving me around the bend! ha! ha!) I’ll have books, more books, a dwindling supply of prints (move fast!), stickers, and a few never-see-them-again Family Man items. Also sketches, in exchange for coffee money. Coffeeeeeee.
On the storefront: I am down to less than a dozen pre-orders, all requiring watercolor paintings, which are in process! Regular orders are now heading out the door and should all be on their way by next week. Light…at end…of tunnel…aghghgh!
Oh, this is getting fun. Despite pre-convention madness, there will be a page next week, because stalling out here would just be immoral. I swear, everybody; this is where THINGS START TO GET REAL.
In other news! Recently Oregon Public Broadcasting’s program, Oregon Art Beat, aired a seven-minute video feature on what it’s
like to work at Periscope Studio, where I’ve been a member since 2007. After years of lame “Biff! Pow! Comics!”-type write-ups, this is a truly lovely little feature that conveys all the silliness, comraderie, and hard work we pack into one office suite.
Click the screenshot to watch the video on OPB’s website and see me and my studiomates in action. Thanks to Tom and Katrina at OPB for putting together such a great little story about us nerds!
Next week: more comic! Then: San Francisco. Yay!
