Best of 2011?!

Hey wow! Critic Nathan Wilson at Graphic Novel Reporter just selected Liar's Kiss as one of the Best Graphic Novels of 2011! (You have to scroll down a bit in that link.) He also says the book "combines all the flavors of a classic Bogart film with the soulless debauchery of a Jim Thompson novel," which might be my favorite pull-quote yet. Thanks, Nathan!

(P.S. Hope to see any NYC-based folks at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival in a couple hours!)

Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival 2011

This Saturday is the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival, at which I'll be set up with a table, selling the usual comics and prints, including Liar's Kiss and a hot-off-the-presses new issue of EGG! (That's the cover above.) The Festival looks to be expanding exponentially this year, with TONS of great artists in what I imagine will be a tightly-packed room. New Yorkers, elbow your way in and say hi!

The Festival is in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church at 275 North 8th street. As you can see on this (PDF) map, I'll be upstairs toward the back, table 27. It runs from noon to 9 PM, hope to see you there!

Miami International Book Fair!

For what it's worth, this blog isn't *quite* dead, just a bit fallow lately... I have a couple of posts in the queue that I'll get up here soon(ish)...

In the meantime, anyone in the Miami area is invited to come check me out this weekend at the Miami International Book Fair! The fine people at the Book Fair have very generously invited me out there to participate in a panel and talk about Liar's Kiss, which I am both excited and frankly a little nervous about. Should be a fantastic event, though! In addition to the talented folks sharing the stage with me at our panel (Rob Venditti, Philip Gelatt, and Tyler Crook), the HUGE festival includes appearances from people like Kate Beaton, Dan Clowes, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jennifer Hayden, Michael Ondaatje, Chuck Palahniuk, Seth, Adrian Tomine, Colson Whitehead, etc, etc, etc...

Our panel is 11 AM on Saturday, so if you're planning on being at the book fair, please do come by!

Also, just in case I forget to mention it later, I'll also be appearing at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival on December 3rd in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. And if all goes to plan I should have some new comics in one form or another to debut there.

NYCC 2011

Hey, remember how I have this blog? Yeah, me neither. Anyway.

In case anyone was wondering, yes, I will be at New York Comic Con this weekend. Mostly hanging out at the Top Shelf table, signing copies of the not-really-a-'new-release-anymore-but-still-worth-your-time Liar's Kiss and just generally being personable. Stop by, say hi!

ATP 2011

This year's ATP posters... or, postcards, actually. Collect 'em all! Trade with friends!

More info on the film schedule for this weekend here.

TR!CKSTER / San Diego

In case you haven't already heard the news, I'm curating a small gallery show in San Diego this weekend. Criterion is partnering with the TR!CKSTER crew to present this one-night-only show at the TR!CKSTER space. I think you'll agree it's a pretty stellar pool of talent: Mike Allred, Scott C., Josh Cochran, Francesco Francavilla, Robert Goodin, Victor Kerlow, Ted Mathot, Scott Morse, Sho Murase, Bill Presing, Jim Rugg, Yuko Shimizu, Bill Sienkiewicz, and Connor Willumsen have all generously donated their time and talent to pay tribute to the films of Akira Kurosawa. The show starts at 7:00 PM this Friday night and runs until 1:00 AM. It's free to enter, but proceeds from the sale of the artworks will go to benefit the Japan Society Earthquake Relief Fund.

There's also going to be Criterion DVD and swag available at TR!CKSTER throughout the weekend, and Kent Williams may be stopping by at some point to sign Rashomon posters. For those not already on the bandwagon, TR!CKSTER is the spot across the street from Comic-con where all the "cool kids" are going to be hanging out all week. With talks and "symposia" and rock shows and specialty cocktails, not to mention lots of cool exclusive stuff to buy, TR!CKSTER is the place to be in San Diego. And when I say "across the street"…



…I really mean it!

So if you're one of the 125,000 people descending on that city for Comic-con, hop across the street Friday night for what should be one hell of a great show--and hopefully a pretty good party, too!

(Below: a sneak preview of Josh Cochran's Throne of Blood piece and Victor Kerlow's I Live in Fear.)



Also: just a reminder that I'll be in San Diego myself this Friday and Saturday, splitting my time between TR!CKSTER and the Top Shelf table at SDCC proper, hawking Liar's Kiss. I'll try to update the tweetymachine with my location at any given moment if you want to try to track me down. Hope to see you there!

San Diego

Just booked my flights: I'm officially headed to the San Diego Comic Con this year. I'm busy enough this summer that I can't justify the full 5 days, so I'm only going to be there Friday and Saturday (July 22-23). (Limited engagement! Catch me while you can!) I'll be promoting Liar's Kiss with the Top Shelf folks, plus I'm also involved with another fun event that should be of interest to readers of this blog. I shouldn't talk about that yet but it'll be announced next week. (Here and elsewhere.)

This'll be the farthest I've yet travelled on my "book tour," and my first time at the (in?)famous SDCC... I'm mildly intimidated, but also psyched! Hope to see you there!