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June 24th, 2008

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Hot off th’ press! Here’s the edition of the Daily Distress that my publisher printed up to promote The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For to booksellers. Thank you again a zillion times to everyone who contributed to it. UPS just delivered the copies today. I’m sorry, but Katie and I have had a hard time coordinating our schedules and she’s still working on contacting everyone who submitted an article or an ad. The folks whose work made it into the final version will be receiving a copy shortly, along with the original cartoon artwork of their choice. And everyone else who submitted something that didn’t make it into the issue, we’ll be contacting you soon to get your snail mail address so we can send you a copy.

I’ll have some copies left over, so if anyone wants one, mail a self-addressed, stamped envelope to me at PO Box 215, Jonesville, VT, 05466. If you don’t want it all folded into origami, send a big 9 x 12 one. Dunno how much postage that’ll take. Two stamps? Three?

my Entertainment Weekly piece

June 21st, 2008

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Lookit! I have a four page story in the latest Entertainment Weekly. It’s for their 1000th issue, whose theme is “The New Classics.” The issue lists the 1000 best movies, tv shows, albums, books, and other cultural products of the last 25 years. My piece goes with the book section, and it’s about my experience of not being able to read books once someone tells me I have to. Umm..I don’t know if I’m allowed to put it online…it’s only in the print edition of the magazine. I realize this is annoying, to tell you about it if you can’t see it. But I’m just excited. And maybe you get the magazine anyway, so you can check it out. Or, you know, go buy it!
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we live in interesting times

June 17th, 2008

book

I’ve been meaning to do a formal post here about the Amazon Bookstore in Minneapolis closing. As I sat down to do this just now, Read the rest of this entry »

milking in brooklyn

June 14th, 2008

cow

Hey, sorry I disappeared. I’ve had rather a whirlwind week. I’m posting this from JFK airport on my way home after spending yesterday and today in NYC. Read the rest of this entry »

Sex and the City

June 2nd, 2008

Okay, this might disillusion you but I have to confess that I’m a total SATC junkie. I never watched it when it was originally airing, just had no interest in it. And then when I finally rented first season 3 or 4 years ago I couldn’t understand what the fuss had been about… Read the rest of this entry »

sautéed brain, veeries

May 29th, 2008

morel 3

That’s actually a morel mushroom that magically appeared in my yard on Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »

some fanfic

May 29th, 2008

Tana, who contributed a guest strip recently, has sent another. It’s about Lois being single, Read the rest of this entry »

self-documentary

May 28th, 2008

poser

As part of my debilitating self-archiving disorder, I made a little documentary while I was working on the last DTWOF strip, the final one before my sabbatical. I boiled two full days of work down to twelve minutes, Read the rest of this entry »

the darling birds of may

May 22nd, 2008

listening to thrush

As I drove home from the moose’s house in town this morning, there was a story on the radio about bobolinks. Their diet in South Read the rest of this entry »

cartoon school graduation

May 19th, 2008

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Hey, I delivered the commencement address on Saturday at the Center for Cartoon Studies. This was the second graduating class. It was pretty fun. That’s James Sturm, on the right, the Director of the school, Read the rest of this entry »