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I’ll be on this panel! Click for details!

Parsons will host a panel at Comic-con in July 2008, featuring Parsons Faculty and alumni in a conversation about how art school, and in particular a Parsons Illustration education, prepares young artists to enter these areas of professional activity. The panel is titled:
“Toys, Comics and Characters: Illustrators as Entertainment Entrepreneurs”
Friday, July 25th, 2008
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Comic-con International
Room 32AB
San Diego Convention Center
111 W. Harbor Drive
San Diego, CA

L’Arte Del Gelato has 3 locations:

Chelsea Market (75 Ninth Ave)

75 Seventh Ave.

Lincoln Center Plaza

Check it out, yummy gelato comic at The L Magazine!

I finally got down to the Murakami exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum . It was really great, right up my alley. He’s done some amazing things with bright colors and flat cartoony art, it really blew my mind. My favorite part is called ” So Many Flowers” which apparently (according to the description on the wall) also translates to “Cuteness! Summer vacation.”

It consists of a huge room wallpapered with brightly colored flower designs, in the middle of which is a flower sculpture and several flower paintings on the wall. It was very busy, bright, and beautiful. Almost psychedelic. Some visitors were heard to say that the room made them dizzy. ^_^ Of course I ended buying a cute flower pin that was in the gift shop on the way out.

Dolltopia was name-dropped on Pop Candy, Whitney Matheson’s fun pop culture blog for USA Today. Cool!

It’s been a while, but I have a new Powerpuff Girls story in Cartoon Network Block Party #46! On the stands now!

I’m privileged to once again have a story in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, the excellent speculative fiction ‘zine published by Small Beer Press. It’s a comic about snakes! Order it at this link!

Time for another fun art show and I’ve got two new paintings in it!

SHOW & SELL: The $99 Art Fair @ destination
Thu 6/19 - Sat 7/19 (11AM) @ destination
32-36 Little West 12th Street Ground Floor New York, NY 10014 Opening Wine Reception:
Thursday, June 19, 6-8pm

MOCCA Art Fest was fun as usual, I debuted Dolltopia 2 and it had a very good response! I also presented the Lulu of the Year Award (congrats to winner Martina Fugazzotto) at the Lulu Awards which was fun and well attended. Great job Marion! I have a few pics from the event here:

Modeling my glam outfit! (written up in ComicMix here)

With the lovely ladies Rachel Nabors and Heather Bradley of gURL.com

Sorry, not too many photos were taken (by me anyay) but I got some cool new books! Goddess of War, Freddie and Me, and Chiggers were the big purchases I made and Ivy and The Hookah Girl are among the cool zines I got. Also, meeting Cecil Castellucci was a highlight. Also got to meet Rachel from Cupcakes Take the Cake and Whitney Matheson of Pop Candy fame, lots of cool bloggers about! I have a huge pile to read now!

You can also click here for The City Sweet Tooth, featuring Tazza in Brooklyn Heights on The L Magazine’s site!

Update: Tazza no longer carries the mocha sandwich T_T but they do still have a LOT of yummy desserts including a giant oreo which is quite similar. They also just opened a second location (also in Brooklyn Heights)  at 72 Clark St. Congrats to them!

July 25-27
San Diego Comic Con
San Diego Convention Center
111 W. Harbor Drive
San Diego, CA

“Toys, Comics and Characters: Illustrators as Entertainment Entrepreneurs”
Friday, July 25th, 2008
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Comic-con International
Room 32AB

Also Friday 5-6PM Signing at Prism Comics booth (#2146 and #2148)

September 26-28
New York Anime Festival