Back from New York. Highlights: - Eating all day long on Friday, despite the winds and pouring rain. Highlights included the raw oysters w/kimchi consomme and steamed pork buns (these were prepared Peking duck style, which was an absolute stroke of genius) at Momofuku Ssam Bar , a traditional New York lox and cream cheese bagel from Russ & Daughters, potato knishes from Yonah Schimmel, crème brulée...

Well, let's see. What can be said about this year's MoCCA Art Fest that hasn't already been said? Dave has a report from our shared vantage point; Heidi has a good general summary up at The Beat , and Even Dorkin lays it all out on the table with little apology. As for me, I was hot and miserable and tired all weekend. I usually do my best to put a positive spin on things, and since MoCCA is pretty...

Well, let's see. What can be said about this year's MoCCA Art Fest that hasn't already been said? Dave has a report from our shared vantage point; Heidi has a good general summary up at The Beat , and Even Dorkin lays it all out on the table with little apology. As for me, I was hot and miserable and tired all weekend. I usually do my best to put a positive spin on things, and since MoCCA is pretty...

MoCCA 2009 My partners: Meghan Orfiteli bleed_ink Branson Belchie II bbstard I neighbored up with the unbelievable, incredible: Lamar Abrams neo_rama (class is your middle name) Megan Baehr gummibaehr (superlative work) I got to meet: Lamar Abrams neo_rama Rachel Dukes poisonrational Slyvan Migdal Katie Rose hellokatierose Dave...

VIACOM CANCELLED NICK MAG MY FURY LET ME SHOW YOU IT! THIS MEANS, NO ZUKO VRS SOKKA SWORD FIGHT, NO KUZON/AANG DRAGONS NO COMICS PERIOD. FUCK YOU VIACOM FOR SCREWING OVER  rufftoon   ali_wildgoose  and  yaytime   MY HATE HAS NO BOUNDS, I TOTALLY FEEL FOR THE DOZENS OF FREELANCERS WHO HAD BEEN REAMED BY THE MEGACORP.  H FJDKA;LSDFJ THIS IS TOTALLY CAPS WORTHY, YOU MAY VENT YOUR...

So there's some stuff coming up that VARIOUS FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES are doing, and it seemed prudent to mention a couple of them here! ;3 First, the always fantastic Tom Warburton, creator of Codename: Kids Next Door , just released his first book! It's called 1000 Times No and while it's meant for small children, it's also just a really great looking book and I am SUPER EXCITED for him! We had...

This is me pretty much all of the time. SAD, NO? I WISH I WAS JOKING. Unrelatedly, Comic Con was actually pretty damn rad! Highlights included: • Friday night socializing up in Astoria with many awesome folks and piles of delicious food • Getting to meet and hang out with jetbaby , who was completely delightful, and by some strange coincidence ended up knowing all my NY comic friends...

NYCC was good. It's very rare for me to attend a convention without actually exhibiting, and I kinda cheated on this one by sharing a bit of Josh Elder's space at the Kids Love Comics booth (thanks, Josh!) and thus having a place to stand, put my books, and stash my stuff while I was there. But I think it was the right choice. NYCC is too big, too exhausting, too loud, too expensive, and too much...

The next round of NickMag Avatar comics is on its way, starting with a (deeply silly) story I wrote called "Don't Blow It" in the newest issue of Nickelodeon Comics Club! (art by Elsa Garagarza, who did a really fantastic job!) GUYS, THERE ARE NO WORDS FOR MY EXCITEMENT! yaytime put up a big post with lots of preview art from upcoming stories, including another of my contributions...

Still haven't posted new stuff to my website , but I will this week. I'll post what I got done for my Sketchcrawl outing this past weekend, too. This strip is dedicated to yaytime , marionv , and goraina . This was a very important part of the show for me.