My new minicomic King for a Day had a quiet publication date on October 12 - quiet because I got it back from the Sir Speedy copy shop just an hour or so before I headed off to the UK and Iceland for a groovy 10 day vacation.  I didn’t print up a large amount and the majority of them are for me to sell at MIX coming up soon (more about that below), but if you’d like to purchase a copy in the meantime I can certainly send it to you. Price is just 4 bucks (which includes $1 for postage) and you can send to me at my email address via Paypal: curbside2@earthlink.net

King for a Day is a 24 page pantomime story (i.e. told entirely without text or dialogue) with B&W interiors and a color cover. The story is a real departure for me and when all is said and done I’m pretty proud of it. A few trusted colleagues have given it the ol’ thumbs up, which I’m really happy about - I worked on the goddamned thing for over a year - drawing a multipage comic with no text is harder than you’d think - so I figure it better at least be pretty good. I look forward to seeing what sort of reception it receives as it gets out there.

Hey, as alluded to above, on Sat & Sunday November 5th and 6th 2011, MIX, aka the second annual Minneapolis Indy Expo, will be taking place at the mighty Soap Factory Gallery here in Minneapolis! I will be there tabling with the awesome Kris Dresen (Chicago’s finest), and the mighty David Kelly (Seattle’s best), with my pal, the lovely and so talented Bay Area artist MariNaomi at the table right next to us, plus breakout new talent & 2011 Ignatz award nominee Marian Runk (also Chicago’s finest), may be lurking about as well!  

So, c’mon, no excuses - if you’re in the Twin Cities that weekend just go. Admission is free and other amazing cartoonists will be there, folks like John Porcellino, Noah Van Sciver, Julia Wertz and Tom Neely, among many more.

More on this as we edge closer to the date.

Hey, in conjunction with MIX, Mpls.TV.com is running a feature on Twin Cities cartoonists, one artist per week, with one new comic strip page, excerpt or panel appearing daily from Monday through Friday. Guess who this week’s featured cartoonist is? Why, yes it is me, however did you know? The Twin Cities alt-comics scene is quite a hotbed of talent and I’m more than pleased to be featured in such esteemed company.  

Finally, THREE #2 has received more press recently, first from Rob Clough at his High-Low comics blog, then from Steven Surman at Broken Frontier, Greg McElhatton at Read About Comics, and this just in today from Cathy Camper at Lambda Literary.  Much thanks to all. Let’s leave off with that fine, fine Michael Fahy cover art, as I never get tired of looking at it: