Thanks to everyone who came out to the FPNYC signing last night! I had a great time meeting all the fine folks and friends of Pood both new and old. Over at the Pood blog are a number of photos from the signing. Most of them have me buried in a Pood doing a doodle. Here’s a couple for your viewing pleasure.
Thanks also to fellow Pood creators, Henrik Rehr, Bishakh Som, Mark Sunshine, Andrés Vera Martínez, Kevin Mutch, Adam McGovern and Alex for a wonderful evening!
As the poster says, I’ll be appearing at Forbidden Planet in NYC with Pood creators, Adam McGovern, Andrés Vera Martínez, Kevin Mutch, Henrik Rehr, Bishakh Som and Mark Sunshine on Thursday August 5th at 6pm to sign and doodle in copies of Pood #1! Please come out and support this exciting project (Pood #2 will be coming soon!) and this wonderful comics shop, Forbidden Planet!
Forbidden Planet
840 Broadway
New York, NY 10003
United States
Phone: 212.473.1576
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At this year’s Mocca Art Festival, I’ll be spending time at the Act-i-vate table, F27, and while I’m there I’ll be signing copies of The Act-i-vate Primer as well as selling two limited edition posters. Each poster (13″x19″) sells for $20 or $35 for both. Buy any book at the Act-i-vate table and a poster goes for $15! Each poster is signed and includes a sketch.
Italy’s premier national newspaper, La Repubblica, did a 9 page piece on the NYC graphic novel scene for their Saturday glossy magazine insert, D. In it you will see that I have been glorified with a full page photo and if you can speak italian, you’ll find that I even provide a blurb as well! Also included in this article are photos and information about such luminaries as Mike Allred, Becky Cloonan, Simon Fraser, Dan Goldman, Laura Lee Gulledge, Dean Haspiel, Josh Neufeld, George O’Connor, Kat Roberts, Jim Shooter, Joe Simon and Art Spiegelman! Molte grazie go to writer, Anna Lombardi, photographer, Seth Kushner and Chris Irving at Graphic NYC! Congratulations to all involved!
Members of the New York City-centric Web comics collective ACT-I-VATE will be in the area on Saturday signing copies of their first anthology book, The ACT-I-VATE Primer. You’ll be able to meet Harvey Pekar collaborator Dean Haspiel (Billy Dogma, The Alcoholic), Simon Fraser (Lilly MacKenzie, Nikolai Dante), Joe Infurnari (ULTRA-lad!, the Process, Mush!), and Washington’s own Jim Dougan (Sam & Lilah, Crazy Papers, No Formula). ACT-I-VATE was founded by Haspiel in 2006 and has been growing tremendously since then, by inviting new cartoonists and offering oodles of free Web comics. You can catch the creators in person at two locations, where you can buy the book and ask such searching questions as “How do you make any money off the Web anyway?” and (for Fraser) “Is living in Brooklyn really better than Scotland?”
Details after the jump:
The creators will be at Big Planet Comics Vienna (426 Maple Ave. East, 703-242-9412) from 2 to 4 p.m., and then at Politics and Prose (5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, 202-364-1919) from 6 to 8 p.m.
Press Release from Mike Rhode of Washington City Paper.
Tomorrow night, I’ll be appearing alongside my Act-i-vate cronies at FIT, The Fashion Institute of Technology. Check the above image for pertinent info. If you’re in the NY area, please come out and join us!