Reading at Pete's Candy Store 8/23

The night before (8/23) Pete's Mini Zine Fest, there's a free-and-open-to-the-public reading from 6:30 until 7:30. I'll be reading an excerpt from a veteran interview or two, it should be cool and fun. 

Pete's Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer St., between Frost and Richardson St. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Take the L to Lorimer/G to Metropolitan.

Check out this cool poster Cat Gilbert made:

Northern Lights - Bowerbirds

These dudes are from Raleigh, NC and are pretty good at making music.

Post-Grand Comics Festival Review

I had a great time at the inaugural edition of the Grand Comics Festival, and am happy to table again next year, if afforded the opportunity. After reading Kenan Rubenstein's amazingly thorough blog post, with nearly David Foster Wallace-esque use of footnotes, I scrapped the idea to cover the event in full detail, instead hoping you'll read his post to glean just how fabulous it was. Massive props and thanks to Pat Dorian, who single-handedly brought together many incongruous parts to form an amazing show. For further reading and more photo-ogling there's also a great write up on The Comics Beat here.

Kenan's table at the Grand Comics Festival.

Photo courtesy The Beat.

Today in the Studio

Jen came by with some friendly rat friends, and I finished stapling my zines. See you tomorrow at the Brooklyn Zine Fest!

Brooklyn Zine Fest in the New York Times

Matt Carman and Kseniya Yarosh got a nice mention on the New York Times website, about the Brooklyn Zine Fest here. I got a shout out as well--click and scroll down for a link to this blog, where you can then click on the link again and involve yourself in some sort of weird loop. Or just get a copy of today's paper and check out p C29 in the Weekend Arts II section. And please come to the zine fest on Sunday! It's free, so you can devote all of your hard-earned cash to buying interesting ephemera. Come say hello!

Photo courtesy Brooklyn Zine Fest.

Brooklyn Zine Fest Preview

I made some drawings for a zine about my recent trip to Hattiesburg to interview my veteran friend Nathan. I used a Pentel brush that I don't normally use, I love the grey tone and dry brush, it's super fun. Can't wait to print these.

Brooklyn Zine Fest at Public Assembly

I'm tabling next to So What? Press at the Brooklyn Zine Fest in Williamsburg this year. Desert Island, DreTime, Suzan Choy, Christa Cassano (Swingin' Meat Comics) will be there, too! Come check it out. One day only, Sunday April 21st, from 11am-6pm.
I'll have a brand-new collection of veteran stories for sale, (IN COLOR!) and a new mini-comic about my trip to Hattiesburg, Moonshine Sketchbook.

Here's a preview page from the latest veteran story I did with Army Reservist veteran, capoeirista, and designer Nichole Marinaccio de Freitas.