an interview and some twarts...

first the twarts. my last two weeks worth...

futurama:

and mr. jonah hex:

i'm very happy to report that my vernissage at montreal's LA GALLERY was a success. monique and i had a wonderful time and i'm very much looking forward to being a part of upcoming shows both there and their paris location.

while i was there i had the pleasure of doing an interview with the aptly named local radio show "les Mystérieux étonnants". the show's in french, but you can listen to the unedited interview here in it's entirety.

C2E2...

i'll be in chicago this weekend for C2E2. if you're so inclined i'll be at table O6 in artist alley selling art/books/prints/sketches. swing on by and say hi.

here are a few commissions and con sketch pre-orders:



as i mentioned i'll be doing sketches. $50 for b/w and $80 for colour.

i'll also be debuting my new sketchbook "Now Pay Me". 24 pages (4 in colour!) and a colour cover for $15.

... (i'll have a few leftovers from last year as well)

mysterius round up (includes monsters, hippies, and poets...)

a few new links for you:

jeff and i would like to thanks the always congenial aaron and evie for having us on the their awesome awesomed by comics podcast the other night. i managed to be slightly less offensive in this outing than i was last week on ajax. jeff, though, goes on a 48 minute long racist tirade that will hurt you soul. good times.


also i just yesterday discovered sporty heidi (the beat) macdonald had linked to a an interview that i'd done with my good friend, slightly feral poet rob mclennan, just before MYSTERIUS' release. i'd forgotten to post it here so now i'm posting both.


also, as some of you are aware we put together a promotion with online comics retailer DCBS for MYSTERIUS. these ten adorable, smiling monsters were randomly inserted into the books as they shipped.






i hope they're all happy in their new homes.

what's "the BIG IDEA"...?

it's this.

mr. john scalzi was nice enough to include our book as one of his "the big idea" picks. thanks, john!

ps... a monster.

podcastses....!

i've been doing the rounds lately.

go on and listen to admirable editing works of chris neseman for my ifanboy interview (which ran significantly longer than 17 minutes) and my cameo apperance on the first part of the last record of around comics, and euge ahn for my interview with him and chris sims on war rocket ajax (for which my wife wants me to apologize for all my salty language...)

it's hard, hard work making me sound even half-way coherent, and an excellent job done by both.


i'd also like to thank everyone at the silver snail for my signing last week and the same to everyone who came out to say hi. it was a really good day and i had a lot of fun meeting you all.

MYSTERIUS on the radio!

jeff and i will be on CBC radio's "all in a day" this afternoon at 5:30 (est) talkin' 'bout comics. you can listen live online at cbc.ca/allinaday. i'll post the finished interview when it becomes available in their archive.

EDIT: my interview with ifanboy/11 o'clock/around comics' chris neseman is now up... at ifanboy.

EDIT THE SECOND: listen to the CBC interview here. scroll down to "mysterius the unfathomable" on the 15th of march 2010.

mysterius signing...

hopefully the first of many...

oscar wilde, twarts, "news"...

first the art...

berko shemets from michael chabon's amazing novel "the yiddish policemen's union" for steven gettis' equally amazing hey oscar wilde! it's clobbering time... site.


and jordi bernet's clara de noche for the comictwart boys.


now the news...

i'm going to be at the silver snail in ottawa signing copies of MYSTERIUS on wednesday, march 17 from 1-5pm (or until closing... who are we kidding). if you're able please swing on by. i'll make a more formal announcement with some possible other appearances next week.

cheers.

Mysterius in march...

...march 17th to be exact.

here's our beautifully designed front cover. (there are still a couple of tweaks to be made, but i just couldn't hold it in any longer)...



the quote alone made my decade.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ME!!!

...or berthday, since i will be spending the day being carried around by a team of midgets while i throw fist fulls of glitter to the sounds of rush's "tom sawyer" (as is the custom in canada).

also here, finally, is the art for the special giveaway poster/print that we're putting together for people who order the MYSTERIUS THE UNFATHOMABLE tpb through dcbs.

it's getting type and logos and will be signed and numbered by both jeff and me. it will be available for free for the first 250 people to order through dcbs, along with 10 randomly inserted original drawings by me (i'll post those, along with the finished version of the above, a bit closer to the day).

i'd say that was a pretty good deal... wouldn't you?




ps... if you like podcasts where people say awesome things about ME! (...and jeff and mysterius and a couple of other things, i guess...) swing over to the truly awesometastic evie and aaron's awesomed by comics year end awards show.

thanks guys.