University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

I got quite a cardiovascular workout at the University of Michigan yesterday. Breakfast at 7 with Gabe from the Office of LGBT Affairs. Then at 8, the awe-inspiring cartoonist Phoebe Gloeckner picked me up at 8 and drove me to the School of Art and Design, where I spoke to her graphic novel class for an hour. Then I was whisked back to the Office of LGBT Affairs (love that name) where I met with the infamous Holly Hughes and some of her grad students from the School of Art and Design. Then I did a brown bag lunch discussion, for which I felt somewhat ill-prepared. I need to work on my extemporaneous speaking skills

After that, I talked one-on-one with some flabbergastingly smart and directed students. Then I went back to my room and lapsed into a coma for an hour and a half. Then I woke up and finished preparing my powerpoint thing for the evening. Then I had dinner with a bunch of folks from the O of LGBT A. Then we rushed across campus and set up for my presentation. Then I talked about DTWOF and read from Fun Home to a delightful crowd. Then I signed a slew of books. One of the people in line turned out to be an elementary school chum, Becky Foster, so after signing more books for the bookstore and posing for pictures with the O of LGBT A people, Becky and I went out for a drink. I had more human interaction in those fifteen hours than I’ve had in the past five years.

I was much too frenzied to think about taking pictures of all this. But here’s a shot from the extremely pleasurable dinner I had the previous night with Holly Hughes and her partner Esther Newton, who both teach at U Mich.

And here’s a shot from the booksigning kindly shared by Garrett of Daddy Zine.

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