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I know you haven’t heard from me in a while, I’ve been enjoying and recovering from the holidays (like everybody else I’m sure!). I’ll have a table this Saturday at Big Apple Con:

Saturday, January 20th
Big Apple Con
Penn Plaza Pavilion
401 Seventh Avenue at 33rd St., NYC
10am-7pm Free!

You can’t go wrong with a free event! There are also plenty of pop culture guests, check it all out at their site here:
http://www.bigapplecon.com/

This time I’ll be selling Tough Love and several prints. Come and check it out!

Also, heads up on a cool rock show Saturday night! Excellent cartoonist Rick Trembles will be down from Montreal with his band, The American Devices.
Details are: The American Devices, Burns/Glass, & The Octagon, will be playing January 20 at Sin-E in New York City (150 Attorney Street at Stanton). Check out his site here:
http://www.snubdom.com/

Matt and I had a major blast at SPX. As you can see here, he was acting silly and making new fans at the Oni Press booth. He sold out of all the Sidescrollers copies they brought! I sold most of my books too which is a good thing because we had to schlep home on the bus. We must arrange a ride next year. Our bus driver was psycho!
Anyway, it was great seeing all the other comix folks and I even got to present an Ignatz award which was very cool. The new location at the Marriot was nice and there were loads of drink tickets to be had at the parties. All in all a great con experience. Here are some pics!

I had a crazy comix-filled weekend and it was a blast! Last night Matt and I exhibited our comics at the awesome Punk and Independent Comics show at Bowery Poetry Club. We got to sell comix, meet new people, see old friends, and experience some rock and roll! Check out these pics!

We got to see the always awesome World War IX and The Shades whose lamp shade gimmick was hilarious!

Then today I checked out Manganext in NJ. I got to be on several panels and met lots of cool folks. it’s neat seeing how manga fandom is growing and evolving. It’s also just exciting that manga has it’s own convention here! A highlight was meeting the ladies of DramaQueen, a publisher that’s bringing over some cool yaoi manga as well as some really neat Manwha (Korean comics) I really enjoyed the one called DVD by Kye Young Chon. It’s just got a really interesting, funny, story and art style. Plus a punk boy character. Yeah!