June 19 - July 19
SHOW & SELL: The $99 Art Fair @ destination
32-36 Little West 12th Street Ground Floor New York, NY 10014
Wine reception Thursday 6/19, 6-8 PM
July 25-27
San Diego Comic Con
September 26-28
New York Anime Festival
Here are some great pics from the Zeus Comics signing! If you’re ever in Dallas you must go to this Eisner winning shop! That’s me with owner Richard and staff-member, Barry. I hope to hang out with them again soon!
Also, while in Dallas I ate at some cool places Cosmic Cafe (vegan funky Indian / fusion) and Mia’s (Tex-Mex), plus brunch at Cafe Brazil. All recommended!
Fans of queer comics and literature won’t want to miss this signing at Jim Hanley’s on Wed. Jan. 16, 6:30-8:30 PM!
Jim Hanley’s Universe
4 West 33rd St., New York, NY 10001
Featuring:
Abby Denson
author of the graphic novel Tough Love: High School Confidential
http://www.abbycomix.com
Erica Friedman
Head of ALC Publishing / publisher of lesbian/girl’s love manga
http://www.yuricon.org/
JD Glass
author of the novels Punk Like Me, Punk and Zen, Red Light, and American Goth
http://www.myspace.com/jdglass
What a fun weekend! The signing at Jim Hanley’s was great (I love that store) and it was wonderful seeing all the other cartoonists as usual. Kudos to Ivan Velez for getting another cool event together! Then the MOCCA Art Fest, which is pretty much the main comix event of the year in my opinion. Great crowd, as usual, and so many talented folks! My minis were popular and I got a lot of positive feedback on Tough Love. All the touring has paid off, people have really been noticing the write-ups I’ve been getting as well as the great job on distribution Manic D Press does. I’ve gotten reports of Tough Love sighted in bookstores everywhere! Here are some pics from Hanleys and one of Alison Bechdel and I at MoCCA. It’s been so great talking with her at the events I’ve attended the past year. This has been a very special year for comics and Fun Home is a big part of that! Also, the anthology Life Meter 2 that Matt and I are in sold out on Saturday! Woo-hoo! It’s got so many great people in it and is helmed by Zack Giallongo, Dave Roman, Stephanie Yue. Awesome people all-around!
Check out this Pre-MOCCA Art Fest Pride Signing! Fri. June 22 7pm!
FEATURING :
ALLAN NEUWIRTH; Chelsea Boyz
IVAN VELEZ JR. ; Ghost Rider (writer), Dead High Yearbook (editor, writer, designer), Tales Of The Closet
ABBY DENSON: Tough Love, The Powerpuff Girls Comics
TIM FISH: Young Bottoms In Love, Cavalcade of Boys, I Heart Marvel
JOSE VILLARRUBIA: The Mirror of Love w/ Alan Moore, Ultimate X Men, Midnight, Army @ Love (colorist) and
ROBERT AGUIRRE SACASA: Spiderman, Nightcrawler, Marvel Knights (writer).
Come get your stuff signed in rainbow colors, get the dirty lowdown on the big companies, and find out which character ‘is and isn’t’ in your favorite mainstream Universes.
JIM HANLEY’S UNIVERSE; 4 West 33rd St. , New York, NY 10001,
(off 5th Ave. - opposite the Empire State Building)
Tel: (212) 268-7088
Here are some pics Ivan sent me from last Saturdays event. It was fun and it was also my first time wearing a cape ever!
I’m one of the celebrities that donated a camera full of shots I took for MixNYC. It’s being auctioned Thurs. June 14 and there is a party for it too! Check it out!
The party is at Rapture Cafe 200 Ave. A (at 13th St) from 8pm-midnight.
$20 to get in, it’s a benefit for the MIX festival.
Tim and I had a great time in New Orleans (though I got a cold right in time for it, ugh!). We still managed to enjoy ourselves. We stayed at a great place called Olivier House. It’s like a beautiful old fashioned maze with a courtyard and pool and all the rooms are different and unique. Ours had stairs leading up to the beds and it made me feel like royalty! The festival was great and we had a wonderful time meeting the other authors. Our panel went well and was well attended, especially considering it was a morning panel and everybody likes to party late in New Orleans. We stayed near Bourbon street which had that famous party atmosphere (drunk fratboys). Though we found it especially cool near Decatur and Frenchman St. I think those were more local hangouts. So we did some touristy things, eating beignets at Cafe Dumond and taking the horse-drawn carriage ride. The architecture is stunning, though so many of the houses are in terrible repair. We didn’t see too much of the flood damaged areas, since our activities were all in the French Quarter. The locals are quick to convey the “we’re still here” message to tourists as so many people (Mr. Bush?) seem to have written the city off entirely. I think the restaurants I liked best were El Gato Negro (Mexican place) and Eat Restaurant where I had my first fried green tomatoes. Also, we went to FAB - Faubourg Marigny Art & Books, a very old gay bookstore on Frenchman St. A unique place and the owner is very nice. Here are some pics! The papier mache giant lady is from the Ambush Magazine house (which was amazing!) where a party was held for Saints and Sinners fest. There was another giant lady in different colors near that one too, but it was hard to get a good picture in that hallway.
Here are some cute ones from Matt’s camera. Matt by the sea lions at Fisherman’s Wharf and me at the Marin headlands.
