There is just one day left to bid this Herman the Manatee art! And still at a reasonable price! And for a good cause!

The Web-Comics Auction for the Gulf Coast is underway and you can now bid on my ink-wash “Deepwater” drawing! All proceeds from the auction benefit the Colbert Nation Gulf of America Fund. This is the first time any of my original art has been available for purchase and it is for a good and necessary cause. You can place your bid at this link and also see the other items in the auction here.

BOSTON: This Sunday, June 27, I will be at MassMarket 6, a “DIY flea market” at the Pozen Center at MassArt. There will be a bunch of artists, artisans, musicians, bakers, and, um, cartoonists? Maybe? I dunno. I’m a cartoonist and I’ll be there, trying not to look terribly out of place. Sunday, 11 to 5pm, admission is $1 to benefit the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts. It is like a very hip version of your town’s annual craft fair. Come check it out!

The third volume of Herman the Manatee comics is now available in the store! Get re-introduced to Knuckles the Narwhal and Self-Loathing Lester! Revisit their astonishing jailbreak attempt! Scratch your head at Herman’s unlikely and inexplicable friendship with a neutrino! It’s all here and it’s all just $3.

Hello to everyone I met at MeCAF! We loved Portland and it was great to see so many little kids excited about comics. Let’s hope my books do not send them into depression. Thanks also to those who drew in our little LOST sketchbook!

In three weeks, I will be exhibiting at the Maine Comics Arts Festival in Portland, ME! Last year, MeCAF hit the ground running and everyone expects an even better event this year. I’m hardly ever able to go to panels at these things, so it’s nice to see that they have put scheduled the show itself on a different day.  Saturday, May 22 at the Portland Public Library are the free panels, then Sunday is the fair at the waterfront, from 10-5 with a $5 admission. If, like me, you are one of the poor souls not going to TCAF, this is your opportunity to attend something that sort of sounds like it.

I’ll be debuting the third minicomic collection of Herman the Manatee strips, which features a chilling critique of America’s prison system. Also a manatee in drag.

So come! It should be a lot of fun and if you live in New England, this is our show! 

A few months ago, my brother-in-law, Bob Stanievich, asked me to help him with his homework. I said no sweat, I remember Of Mice and Men well enough. He said, great, he is coming to our place with a small film crew. In preperation, we got out the vacuum cleaner, the broom, then the guns and zombie masks. But he said, no, he wants to make something about life. Then we got out the fedora and the bicycle and he said, no, about your life. So I put the zombie mask back on. It was all very confusing. Finally he said, just put the blood capsules away, sit down, and answer some questions. Easy enough.

At the Boston Zine Fair last month, Matt Young interviewed me for his podcast, Art School Fraud. He essentially recorded two interviews, and the one in which I’m introduced follows the second one, so it might be a little confusing, but my portion starts after about 12 minutes. I talk about deciding to be a cartoonist and deciding not to apply to CCS.

Thank you to everyone at the Boston Zine Fair and Buffalo Small Press Book Fair! I had a fantastic time at both and just wrote about it on my Livejournal.

On Saturday, March 27, I’ll be in Buffalo for the 3rd Annual Small Press Book Fair! It will take place at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Muesum and promises to be full of bookmakers, poets, authors, and artists. Just one week earlier I’ll be close to home at the Boston Zine Fair, and Buffalo is another city I have strong ties to. I went to college there and met my wife, a native Buffalonian, shortly after. This city has a lively arts scene hidden beneath all the ice and snow and I expect it to be an exciting event. 

 Admission is free and the fair runs from noon to 6pm. There will be workshops that day and readings the night prior; the schedule will probably be finalized soon. Hope to see some of you there!

It’s been a while since we last spoke! Meanwhile, Herman the Manatee Fails Again, the second collection of Herman comics, was reviewed at Midnight Fiction. The third volume will be put together within the next couple of months. It’s about prison!

I’m going to be at the Boston Zine Fair on March 20 at the Cambridge YMCA. Doors open at 11, and then it quickly becomes part of Blastfest 2010, a music festival run by Whitehaus. If you live in the Boston area, stop by! There will be zines and music and you can probably go swimming!

Thanks for the emails, tweets, and comments about the 100th strip; I hadn’t initally planned on this strip lasting over two years… or even over two months… and I am relieved that I have not yet fallen on my face. A few months ago, a small student film crew came to my house and made a short film about this comic, and I will try to get it on the web soon. I don’t injure myself in this version.