blog: appearances

This week! Bellflower & NYC!

I am back from San Francisco! A cheery hello to everyone I saw at WonderCon, I had a pleasant and friendly time. I think that’ll be a show I return to next year! But I will have no shortage of trips to the Bay Area this year yet. The Bay Area shall become my second home, or third office, or Ninth Gate, or Twenty-Third Skidoo. I will know this Bay Area.

Tomorrow (Wednesday) I’ll be doing a special in-store signing at Metropolis Comics in Bellflower, CA! Dave Kellett and I will be visiting from 5-8PM, signing books, shaking hands, drawing sketches, and probably solving problems. If you are in the Bellflower area, please stop by!

Then, this coming weekend, I’m in New York City for the MoCCA Art Festival! I will be exhibiting with the stellar Topato Corporation and many of my fine colleagues and friends in the comickal arts. I’m always thrilled to visit New York and this will be my only appearance in NYC this year, so please come out and say hello. Also if you’d like me to bring any prints of individual comics, it’s a new thing I’m trying out at cons! Drop me a line via email or Twitter if you have any particular requests, and I will see what I can do.

Finally, only ONE WEEK REMAINS to pre-order Artist Edition books! For this limited time, I will sketch in your books and it might look like this:

Or, it might not.

ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT

Houston! Help me out!

I’m super-excited to be heading to Houston tomorrow for the first-ever Comicpalooza! Everyone I’ve corresponded with at the show has been extraordinarily nice, and I can’t wait to meet everyone in Houston.

Now then! It is a three-day show, and I’m exhibiting alone in the booth. I would love some company and minor assistance! If you’re in Houston and would be interested in helping out for one or more of the days of the show (nothing too strenuous, but ideally for a full day), please email me at dave at wondermark dot com with your contact info and availability. I know this is short notice! But so is life. UPDATE: I think I am covered! Thanks, Houston Action Turbo Squad. OTHER HOUSTONIANS: see you at the show, I hope!

Also! MORE APPEARANCES ADDED: An April 7 book signing at Metropolis Comics in Bellflower, CA (5-8PM, with fellow cartoonist Dave Kellett) and Bazaar Bizarre at San Francisco’s Maker Faire, May 22-23!

2010 Appearances AKA “The Busy Spring”

I’ve updated the right sidebar to indicate my confirmed-as-of-this-instant 2010 appearances! Coming up first is this weekend‘s Tweet Me Harder Live event plus Emerald City Comicon, both in Seattle, to be followed very quickly by visits to Houston, San Francisco, New York, and Chicago.

ALSO: Regarding the One Too Many Mornings contest: I neglected to mention that the deadline is Friday at midnight! And if you don’t have Facebook or Twitter, but would still like to enter the contest, you can always tell the filmmakers your story directly — their contact info is listed at onetoomanymornings.com! But really, the point of the contest is to spread the word about the movie. So — email the filmmakers, then tell twenty strangers about the time you were hung over, and we’ll call it even. Deal? (I have no way of knowing if you don’t do the last part.)

ALSO here is a sketch I just did:

Next weekend: SEATTLE!

I’ll be appearing in Seattle next week! I can’t wait — the Emerald City Comicon is one of my favorite shows of the year. But I’m also doing something else special: a live performance of my podcast Tweet Me Harder!

Kris Straub and I will be headlining the TopatoCo Pre-Con Kickoff Party on Friday night, March 12, in West Seattle. Admission is free, and it’ll be a fun time with cartoonists and friends! Everyone’s invited to come have a great time. It is The Official ECCC Pre-Party. More info here, or it’s on Facebook right here.

THEN: Saturday and Sunday, March 13-14, I’ll be at the Emerald City Comicon (at the TopatoCo booth, just inside the front doors and to the left). I’ll have shirts, books, prints, hopefully some brand-new stickers (if they arrive in time) and of course, awkward hugs and shifty glances for all. It’s my official kickoff to the spring convention season, so catch me while I’m still chipper and excited. Hope to see you there!

THIS SATURDAY: I’m in Long Beach, CA!


Photo by Keith May for the OC Weekly

This Saturday I’ll be at the Long Beach One-Day Comic Expo at the Long Beach Convention Center! This’ll be a great chance to experience, once again, the beauty and grandeur of the interior of the Long Beach Convention Center, one of the great marvels of 20th-century “Convention Center”-style architecture. Such soaring ceilings! Such concrete floors! Such strange acoustics. Such utilitarian angles.

I’m gonna make a special print to sell at this event. I just got a weird craving to do so. What’ll it be of? I don’t even know!

ALSO: I have officially been accepted into the Renegade Craft Fair in Austin, May 15-16! I’LL SEE YOU SUCKERS THERE. Suckers!

FINALLY: In the L.A. area but don’t want to go to the LBODCE for some reason? Recently my wife and I discovered the Rancho Park Archery Range, nestled deep into a strange corner of Rancho Park (a.k.a. Cheviot Hills Park) at Pico & Motor — right across from the Fox lot. Built in 1984 after the Los Angeles Olympics to promote the sport of archery, this is a free community archery range where you can just show up, check out a bow and some arrows, and go to town! There’s a Saturday-morning safety/instructions class (also free) that you have to attend first, but it’s super-fun and very informative. Then you can just come back whenever you want and shoot arrows! I cannot recommend this enough. A great way to spend a Saturday at the park.