Wow, June happened fast!

This is a reminder that I will be having my cartoonist-in-residence event at the Charles M. Schulz  Museum in Santa Rosa on Saturday, June 13th, from 1-3pm. I will be a living exhibit, which means I’ll sit there drwing and people can come up and ask me questions. Great fun all around!

I wasn’t able to pull together the new material I was planning on (fluke hand accident that ate April and May is to blame for that) but I will have copies of Ellezilla, a minicomic that compiles all my out of print short stories, The Frog Prince, and the freshly released Erstwhile 01: Short Tales! It’s got three short fairy tales with different artists, all written by Gina of Strawberry Comics (mine is “the bird, the mouse, & the sausage”).

I’ll also be tabling at APE again this October, but more on that later.

Today’s strip is starting a run of guest strips on Littlest Elle so that I can catch up on things and give my arms a bit of a rest

Of course, it didn’t make sense to have other artists do a journal comic about my life… so guest strips will be other people’s journals! Maybe I’m wierd, but I think that sounds awesome!

Today we have the ever-talented Allie Kleber. Friday will most-likely be a regular Elle strip, then there a second strip by Allie, and then two strips by Jeanne (Jeanne week is running from Friday to Monday). So enjoy the efforts of my talented friends and it will be back to business as usual in October!

Which will be just in time for me to run around freaking about APE. Excellent.

Good news:

As Friday’s strip would indicate, a series of three small robot drawings made it into Studio Gallery SF’s annual Mischief show. I’m bummed that I likely won’t be able to go to the opening, because the pieces I saw when I went to drop mine off were really fun!

Also, I will be at Zinefest over Labor Day weekend. More details in August.

Other news:

My computer is sick. I can get it booting but I can’t trust it not to crash if I put it into sleep mode. So, playing it by ear and backing up everything as I go. Cross fingers for it, guys, I cannot afford to replace it at the moment ^_^;

Also, as so tactfully mentioned in Friday’s strip, I go in for hand surgery next week (it is related to this injury last year). It needs doing but I’m still very nervous about the whole thing, so, wish me luck there! Well, at least that’s over with! Rocking a splint but otherwise doing well!

So, yeah. SF Zinefest is creeping on up there! I’ll be there Labor Day weekend, toting my usual wares and working on something comicky at the table.

After that there is Alternative Press Expo from October 16-17. I’m hoping to debut a brand new mini comic for that event, as well as some original artwork.

Meanwhile, I heard about the opening weekend results for Scott Pilgrim and I am shocked. Shocked! It is an awesome adaptation of the comic series I wish I had written and people should go see it. So that’s my advice for the week: Go see Scott Pilgrim.