My favorite of our hometown comic shows, the MoCCA Festival, is this weekend (June 6th & 7th), located at the 69th Regiment Armory (Lexington Avenue & 25th Street) in New York City. While I won’t have a table of my own (how bourgeois!), I will be signing with my brothers-in-webcomics ACT-I-VATE (table #311) on Saturday from 3-4pm. Otherwise I’ll be walking the show just like you, so if you see me, come say hello… I look just like that picture to the right.
More info on the MoCCA Festival by clicking this lovely poster by Molly Crabapple:
After too long an absence, my online comic “KELLY” returns to exactly the gut-wrenching moment where it left off. Click and enjoy, my lovely lolly-lickers:
An auspicious prelude to the NY Comic-Con, I’m quoted in this Friday’s New York Times Metro section piece on “the downtown comics scene” along with a handful of my NY cartoonist friends.
A few months ago, I’d quietly decided to license “KELLY” under a Creative Commons CC-by-NC license after reading a particularly brain-popping article on doujinshi culture in Japan. Applying open-source ideas to comics has always excited me… and my freakadelic “KELLY” has served as my current laboratory for pushing boundaries in all directions, so it felt natural for me to take this step with this particular project.
Imagine the smiles exchanged when I met the folks behind Creative Commons at SWSWi recently and the lovely chats we had… and imagine my smile when they graciously posted “KELLY” to their main page last week:
For those unfamiliar with CC, publishing “KELLY” online under this license effectively allows you to spread and remix “KELLY” however you like… as long as you credit my original work and you’re not making any money off it. I enthusiastically encourage all sorts of “KELLY” sharing/remixing… and I hope to hear from you about what you’re doing with it.
And yes, you can expect new installments of “KELLY” coming soon.
My heartfelt apologies for the delay; I’ve got comics in the oven you don’t even know about yet.
I’ve got 3 pieces from “KELLY” in this weekend’s FLIST Art Show in Chicago; the show is touted (and I am interviewed, teehee!) in today’s article in Chicago’s Gapers Block. Fellow ACT-I-VATOR Dean Haspiel is also exhibiting, so if you’re in the Windy City, pass by and witness.
This coming weekend (Sept. 8/9) I’ll be representing ACT-I-VATE at the Carl Solomon Book Expo in Thompkins Square Park, part of the freak-fest HOWL! Festival in lovely old New York City. There’s going to be a huge graphic novel presence there this year, as you can see on the flyer below:
I’ll be attending with prints of my work for sale, as well as some secret goodies for you special people. Special thanks to organizer James Romberger.
Some of us are off to Baltimore this weekend for the official ACT-I-VATE Wave 2 Hurrah/Huzzah and it’s going to be amazing. For those of you coming out, please drop by our table and press some flesh. For those of you away, SUNDAY is the day that your Wave 3 dreams come true and free new comix rain from the eyes like manga manna..
Hey, are any of you sexy pairs of smouldering eyes reading this text DIGG USERS? You can digg our Wave 3 Hoohah and help us rotate the sun to shine directly on us on Sunday with the oiled, chiselled and immaculately-waxed power of the internets.
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