The Discriminating Collector

A commission that hit a lot of sweet spots for me.

Smaaalll Presss Expoooo!

All right, so it's SPX this weekend. But you all knew that already, right? So I'll be there sketching and what-have-you. I'll be at Table F15, right between the Center for Cartoon Studies and Mark Sahagian. Looking forward to catching up with some friends there and hopefully making some new ones. I'll also be doing a panel on Sunday at 12.30 in the White Flint Amphitheater on the subject of "Telling Stories" (a process-oriented discussion with Meredith Gran and Jon Lewis on how you turn ideas and experiences into a comic), and I'll also be presenting the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Series on Saturday night! That's quite an honour, and probably the nearest I'll ever get to one of those bricks. (Although I will have to practice pronouncing Yumemakura Baku and Jiro Taniguchi.)

Krazy, Daisy

The Small Press Expo is over and went very well, despite a few teething problems - my drawing workshop was cancelled at the last minute due to a room being double-booked - but it had a good vibe and sales were healthy. Looking forward to the next one, especially if it can be joined to the main Bristol show a bit more seamlessly. Thanks to everyone who stopped by, and thanks to Mal Smith and her colleagues for all their hard work.

There's a radio interview with me (which was conducted at the UK Web and Mini-Comix Thing a month or so back) up online now, part of Resonance FM's "Strip" feature. You can listen to it here.

This week's picture is kind of a commission, although I was paid in books rather than cash - Ulrich Merkl is one of the editors of Sunday Press's frankly wonderful Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend collection, which he sent me a copy of in exchange for a Krazy Kat drawing. I finally forced myself to stop drawing pigs in wigs for five minutes and get the thing done, so here it is. The flow is a bit wonky between panels 4 and 5, alas - I couldn't make that work and still keep the design, so the design ended up winning.