Vanity! Vanity! Vanity!

At this summer's San Francisco Zinefest, I had the great privilege of introducing a purchaser of The Single Girls to one of the ladies who adorned its cover.  "The blonde one" owes her good looks to my great friend Cuffington, aka Catie N., San Francisco lady and fashionista extraordinaire.  Catie blogs almost daily, which makes Cuffington the perfect site to check over your morning coffee.  What is she wearing today?  What bizarre tidbit of haute couture is catching her eye?  Have a quick click, and she'll be sure to tell you.

This weekend, I helped Catie out with a Big Project (yet unrevealed), which entailed me modeling, her styling and shooting.  Photos.  Just to clarify, she did not shoot me.  But she did take some awesome pictures of yours truly.  Have a look, and go be ridiculously inspired by her website.

Still waiting breathlessly for my APE recap?  Wait a little longer.  I am breathless with a tenacious cold and mild asthma, which means I fall asleep promptly at five every night.  Soon, baboon.

New Books! and APE

Hi everyone!!  Just in time for this weekend's Alternative Press Expo, I've got two new books:

and

I'll be at table 153B at APE, selling these lovelies plus your old favorites.

APE is at:
The Concourse
620 7th St, San Francisco
11am-6pm Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 17-18
$10 for one day, $15 for both

Hope to see you there!!

Holy Crap, is it FALL?!?

Holy crap, is it totally passe to be all like "Holy Crap, where did all that time go?!?"  You will have to excuse me, for you see, I just turned around to take a sip of coffee after writing my New Year's blog and when I turned back, it was almost flippin' October. 

Have I had the quiet uneventful year that I wanted?  Ach, no.
Am I glad?  AYE!

Some awesome things have happened!  I have a new apartment that I want to marry.  I have some new friends that I constantly want to invite over for pudding.  Isn't that all we need, folks?  That and food.

But wait, I'm getting ahead of myself.
All yapping away as if there weren't three months of 2009 left.  And they are big ones.  All y'all should be coming to APE at the Concourse in San Francisco, October 17-18, and visiting me at table 153B.  I will have TWO new books for sale there, along with all the old ones.  And hopefully some lovely prints.  We'll just see how much I get through in the next couple weeks... 

Also in October (probably): my first anthology publication!!  I have a four-page comic in Not My Small Diary #15, which should be out in the next couple weeks.  I'll update when it's available.

And early next year, two exciting events:
I'll be Cartoonist-in-Residence at the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa on Saturday, March 13, 2010.
I'll be Cartoonist-in-Residence at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco in May 2010.
NOW AREN'T YOU EXCITED??  I sure am!  For both events, I'll be drawing at the museum on a Saturday afternoon, answering questions, chatting comics, and demonstrating how I draw.  I'm really looking forward to these events and am very grateful to the Cartoon Art Museum and the Schulz Museum for the opportunities.

Okay, that's all I have for now..... except for this sneak preview of the two books I'll be debuting at APE!  Ta-ta!

Review on 4thletter.net

Hey!  My funnie ladies got a very nice writeup from the very nice David Brothers on 4thletter.net.  Check it out here.  Thanks David!!

SF Zinefest 2009

....was awesome! 

Photo by Gary Lake

(MariNaomi, me, and Melaina)

So I didn't get away from my table EVEN ONCE, to walk around, so I brought home almost nothing.  A shame, because there was some really great stuff this year.  And everyone seemed so *happy.*  It was cloudy and chilly out, but inside! art! comics! staples! cupcakes! bathrooms! friends! etc!  I talked to a lot of cool people.

Photo by Josh Ellingson

Next up:  APE 2009.  October 17 and 18 at the Concourse in San Francisco. 

For now:  enjoy, buy, wrap yourself in the NEW BOOK I sold at Zinefest: Bachelor Girl, Issue 1!!

Buy it, that's what!!

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Other news:
Did I mention I moved?  Again?  Well, I did.  To a WAY better place.  It's a gas.  So much more room for all my drawing shit, and painting. 
Okay, falling asleep.  Watch for more sketchbook lovelies coming soon, like as soon as I get my scanner back from my neighbor.

--Amy