I’m sitting in the crowd at MIT right now at the Futures of Entertainment 4 conference, but I juuuuust had to ping you about a piece in this week’s NY Magazine I’ve done.
FYI I finished some color illustrations yesterday for next week’s issue; more on that later.
As promised, my DIY Days presentation “The Right Now of Comics” is right here, right now:
Unrelated: I’ve got a new series on stovetop; watch this space for news coming soon, my lovelies…
This Saturday (August 3rd), I’m giving a talk on “The Future of Comics” at the cross-media conference DIY Days, put on by my friends at The Workbook Project. DIY Days is free for all; details are here:
If you can’t attend, my talk will likely be available online shortly after as well.
At our Book Court signing last night, Michael Crowley and I presented a signed copy of 08 to Alan Balicki of the New York Historical Society, who will place the book in their permanent archives as a historical record of the 2008 presidential election… in comics form.
Alan rattled off an incredible list of people who’d dedicated printed materials with the phrase “Presented to the NY Historical Society” before us and it’s an honor to be a part of that tradition:
Last week, Michael Crowley and I appeared on NY1’s “Inside City Hall with Dominic Carter”; I’ve put the clips on our 08 Facebook group but I wanted to share them with the rest of you guys as well:
Yesterday I was visited by photographer Seth Kushner to shoot/interview me for his upcoming NYC Graphic Novelists book; we went up to the roof of my building to grab its gorgeous vista as a background:
More shots of me and other NYC cartoonists at Seth’s photoblog now.
The New York Comic-Con is coming to the Javitz Center next weekend (April 18-20) where I’ll be signing shiny hardcovers over at Grand Central as well as moderating the following two panels:
Friday, April 18 / 4:00-5:00 pm
Saturday, April 19 / 2:00-3:00 pm
SHOOTING WAR Book Signing, Grand Central Publishing
You can also find me kicking back at Artists Alley Table E-11; I’ll have all manner of things with my artwork on them there, including a malnourished young child whose entire body I’ve tattooed from head to toe with the only existing copy of Act Three of “KELLY.”
A very helpful KELLY IS LOVE member (thanks Giles!) pointed out that the Act Two archive of “KELLY” stopped abruptly… leaving Max and Theresa in donkey-punchus interruptus. I’ve reorganized the entire Archive into buttons, restoring the pacing of the original micro-installments for added thrills:
I’ve also made added the ShareThis app across the entire site, allowing you to fave any page or post till your heart explodes without even leaving the page.
Comic-Con was a smashing good time, loads of new friends and crusty old ones, signings and demos and a general electricity in the air that was more palpable than recent years. Everyone was so excited to see the preview booklet we were signing; it was like Anthony and I were the only ones with the secret knowledge of how much hotter the finished novel is… the anticipation leading up to November is probably going to be hardest on your favorite comic artist, truth be told.
Upon touching down in Brooklyn, there was a brief disco nap and then Lil and I pulled the ripcord on our sweltering Park Slope studio, landing in our bigger and airier new joint in South Williamsburg. As you can see, web access is back and new “KELLY” is already cooking; stay tuned my beautiful ones.
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