cartoonists on the evening news

May 17th, 2007

My local TV station, WCAX, has been doing a series this week called “Drawn Here,” about cartoonists who live in Vermont. It’s in honor of the first graduation ceremony at the Center for Cartoon Studies this weekend. Tonight the segment about me aired. Many Vermonters refer lovingly to WCAX as WGOP-TV, so I was a little skeptical about how they’d tailor a bunch of dykes and my closeted dad for the six o’clock news. But the reporter Jack Thurston did a dang good job, I think. Times have really changed.

They also did segments on James Kochalka, and New Yorker artists Harry Bliss and Ed Koren. I managed to record the segment with Ed too. You know Ed’s stuff, those gentle, furry monster people. They look just like him.

I just figured out how to transfer stuff from the VCR to my DV recorder, and thence to YouTube. So I’ll post these quick before someone tells me I’m breaking the law.

DTWOF episode #508

May 15th, 2007

Here’s the latest. This temporary slowdown to one strip every four weeks is working out pretty good for me. I’m starting to make a dent in all the other stuff I have to do. Read the rest of this entry »

the paperback tour

May 15th, 2007

Look, this came in the mail yesterday. The official publication date is June 5. In a couple weeks I start flitting hither and yon again, and not a moment too soon–I’m almost out of tiny hotel bottles of shampoo. (Uh…I have a dim recollection of having made that feeble shampoo joke before. Sorry if I’m repeating myself. It must be a side-effect of too much travel.) Anyway, come see me read at one of these places:

New York:
May 30: Barnes & Noble, UWS, 2289 Broadway @ 82nd, 7 pm
June 2: Book Expo, BEA, Signing & Panel Events Read the rest of this entry »