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My new book Dolltopia is out! It’s a fun and quirky tale about dolls who are tired of being controlled by humans, so they start their own society, and you can read a preview here! It’s not exactly food related, BUT, my publisher, Green Candy Press, is sending me on a book tour with cupcakes! That’s right, a cupcake tour! In October and November I will be making numerous stops in New York, New England, Canada, and the West Coast, with local cupcakes at each appearance. I am having my friends at Cupcakes Take the Cake help me with recommendations along the way (though some choices may be dictated purely by location and if they can deliver). I am open to readers’ cupcake suggestions as well. My intention is to photograph them along the way and blog about them as the tour happens. Come out and meet me, check out Dolltopia, and have a cupcake! Also at each stop, if you bring in a made-over or punked out doll, you could win a free autographed copy of Dolltopia! Tour dates below: (more…)

The Dolltopia Cupcake Tour was kicked off this weekend at Small Press Expo in North Bethesda, Maryland! After researching I found only one nearby bakery that would deliver, which was a necessity at this tour stop. So Cake Love it was!

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Small Press Expo is finally upon us and Dolltopia is debuting there tomorrow! Here are the necessary details: it’s September, 26-27 @ Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, I’ll be at table # B10B. See you there!

I’m looking forward to this weekend’s MOCCA Art Fest and I’ve created a new mini just for the occasion!

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October 2nd, 8pm
w/Matt Loux, Rick Lacy, and Phil Gelatt! Dolltopia / Saltwater Taffy 3/ Labor Days 2 release party @ Rocketship 208 Smith St. Brooklyn, NY

October 3rd 12-3PM
Chile Pepper Fiesta @
Brooklyn Botanical Garden (1000 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY ) at the chocolate chile pavilion – I’ll be selling and signing new posters!

October 3rd 6-8PM
Dolltopia signing and party @
GRNY 437 E. 9th st. NYC

October 16th, 6pm
With Matt Loux! Dolltopia/ Saltwater Taffy 3 event hosted by
The Beguiling Toronto

Oct. 22, 6-7pm
Dolltopia reading w/ slideshow
Revolution
26 North Main Street, White River Junction, Vermont

October 23, 6pm
With Tim Fish!
Casablanca Comics, 151 Middle Street, Portland, ME, (207) 780-1676

Oct 24. 1-4 PM
With Tim Fish!
Comicopia, 464 Commonwealth Ave # 13, Boston, MA (617) 266-4266

October 25, 6-8pm
Dolltopia bash with slideshow reading & Dolltopia art show @
Wonderland Beauty Salon, 418 West 13th St., NYC

October 31, 12pm
Halloween event @ Elfsar Comics, 1007 Hamilton St., Vancouver BC

November 1, 2pm
ECUAD, Emily Carr Theatre (SB 301), 1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver BC

November 4, 6pm
In Other Words, 8 B NE Killingsworth St, Portland, OR

November 5, 5pm
Floating World Comics, 20 NW 5th Ave, Portland, OR

November 6, 7PM
Dolltopia reading and signing at Modern Times, 888 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA

November 7, 1PM
Dolltopia signing @
A Different Light, 489 Castro Street, San Francisco, CA

November 7, 6-8PM
Dolltopia signing @
GRSF, 618 Shrader St, San Francisco, CA

November 8, 1pm
Cartoon Art Museum, 655 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA

What a fun time! I didn’t get too many pics but here’s one of myself and artist Colleen Coover at my first ever Marvel signing. Yay! Don’t forget to buy Amazing Spider-Man Family for our Spider-Ma’am adventures!

Also the panels I participated in were all well attended and fun. Kudos to all involved!

Plus, I got to catch up with Uglydoll creator David Horvath! Here he is with a new Uglydoll (and Dolltopia mini).

Awww!

My newest mini-comic, My Boyfriend is a Space Robot, debuts at APE in San Francisco this coming weekend (Nov. 1 and 2). Still not sure if I will be there, but you can definitely get the comic! It will be exclusively available at the Prism Comics table #338, so be sure to go and ask for it! This is my first full-color mini comic! It’s 12 pages and has lots of heart and color!

It’s about a teenage girl with muscular dystrophy who finds romance with an alien robot. Click below for some page previews.

I went to the WFMU record fair today. if you get the chance I recommend it. It’s held every fall and in addition to the records and CDs for sale there are performances. Somehow for me the highlight is always the AV Lounge where they screen rarities and pop strangeness. For instance a few years ago they screened The Apple, a crazy futuristic rock musical. It’s tough to describe but if you like campiness you must see it! Today I had a few treats, first I caught the tail end of a collection of bubblegum videos, just in time for Yummy Yummy! Love that bubblegum pop and it was neat to see the videos. Then I saw The Beaver Trilogy, another one that must be seen to be believed. It’s a trilogy of movies: first a documentary, then two shorts one starring young Sean Penn, one starring young Crispin Glover about a guy in a small Utah town who impersonates Olivia Newton-John. If you get the chance you must see this film! It was simultaneously funny and mortifying and wonderful. Plus seeing Crispin and Sean Penn do Olivia Newton-John impressions (or rather portraying someone doing that) is awesome. They both did great jobs, I thought! Then we got treated to an episode of Wild Record Collection, a Manhattan public access show by my dear friends Tony and Ron. It’s basically stuffed animals dancing to awesome vinyl records and is a total hoot. Coincidentally this episode featured Xanadu! Something tells me I’ll be dreaming of Olivia Newton-John tonight. They also screened Ghoul A Go-Go, another great show, but I had a hair appointment so couldn’t stay.

I won’t be at SPX this year (deadlines, sorry!) but you can get my latest work in the excellent anthology Boy Trouble 2 which is debuting there! If you won’t be attending you can get it at Amazon here:

I had a lot of fun at the NY Anime Fest panels and we got a good response. Thanks to Kai-Ming Cha, Frank Pannone, and Rie Tange for helping out! I took a few fun pics of people in costume and got a good one of Spider-Man. It’s especially exciting for me now since I’m working on stories for Amazing Spider-Man Family! More info to come…