new COMETBUS book, new interviews & video!
Hey everybody! Back from San Diego Comic Con, and TCB'in. .
* I did a bunch of all new illustrations for the new Cometbus collection, Add Toner, which is out now! I have some copies for $12 each-- you can paypal me at harlanrecords@yahoo.com, and the store will be updated soon.
* I just did an interview with Comic Book Resources' Robot 6 about my new book, Any Empire. You can read it here.
* Here's some video of a presentation I did in April in my hometown as part of the Arkansas Literary Festival, courtesy of Mark Barnes. Thanks Mark!
* San Diego ruled again this year, though I miss not getting out to the Adventure Time beach party. Thanks, everybody, for stopping by the booth to meet and talk and pick up the new tome!
* I did a bunch of all new illustrations for the new Cometbus collection, Add Toner, which is out now! I have some copies for $12 each-- you can paypal me at harlanrecords@yahoo.com, and the store will be updated soon.
* I just did an interview with Comic Book Resources' Robot 6 about my new book, Any Empire. You can read it here.
* Here's some video of a presentation I did in April in my hometown as part of the Arkansas Literary Festival, courtesy of Mark Barnes. Thanks Mark!
* San Diego ruled again this year, though I miss not getting out to the Adventure Time beach party. Thanks, everybody, for stopping by the booth to meet and talk and pick up the new tome!
SAN DIEGO COMIC CON throwdown this week!
See you in San Diego for Comic Con International! I'll be at the Top Shelf booth (#1721) all weekend, selling copies of my brand new book Any Empire! I'll also be part of the following panel presentations:
* Comics For Teens with Cecil Castellucci, Hope Larson, and Gene Luen Yang! Thursday July 21st, 4:30-5:30pm in Room 26AB.
* Top Shelf Panel with Robert Venditti, Kagan McLeod, James Kolchalka, Mike Huddleston, and Leigh Walton! Saturday July 23rd, 4:30-5:30pm in Room 8.
I'll have tons of original art for sale over the weekend, including pages from Any Empire.
See you there!
* Comics For Teens with Cecil Castellucci, Hope Larson, and Gene Luen Yang! Thursday July 21st, 4:30-5:30pm in Room 26AB.
* Top Shelf Panel with Robert Venditti, Kagan McLeod, James Kolchalka, Mike Huddleston, and Leigh Walton! Saturday July 23rd, 4:30-5:30pm in Room 8.
I'll have tons of original art for sale over the weekend, including pages from Any Empire.
See you there!
ANY EMPIRE -- ready to go!
I'm now taking orders for ANY EMPIRE, hot off the presses and looking sharp! These babies will ship out to you on July 19th. You can order here in the store section.
Also, I have a special deal going-- get ANY EMPIRE, SWALLOW ME WHOLE, EDIBLE SECRETS, and SOUNDS OF YOUR NAME all for only $50! That's 1000 pages of esoteric flim-flam comin at you! Check it out here.
interview in Mass Movement magazine!
Mass Movement #30 is out now, featuring an interview with yours truly alongside GWAR, Amon Amarth, and Earth! dang! A print version is available, or you can download the whole thing for free here.
Erin Tobey's VOCALOCOMOTION show opens July 1st!
If you're in Bloomington in July, come see Erin Tobey's show entitled VOCALOCOMOTION at The Owlery (212 S. Rogers Street), eat some delicious food, and buy some art!
The show's opening will be Friday, July 1st from 10pm-1am. Erin will be playing a rare solo musical set at 11pm-- don't miss it!
Interview up now on MTV Geek!
All my Headbangers' Ball fantasies are fulfilled. Check out the interview here!
This week-- 12 Hour Comic Day for kids at the Library & Summit City Comic Con!
Hey there, Hoosiers--
on Thursday, June 16th, I'll be at the 12 Hour Comic Book Day workshop for kids at the Monroe County Public Library in Bloomington, IN at 4pm to talk about comics, work with young folks on their comic projects, and do a Q&A with parents about all things related to making comics (from professional to creative to practical issues!). See you there!
Also, on Saturday, June 18th I'll be at the Summit City Comic Con in Fort Wayne IN, at the Grand Wayne Center (120 West Jefferson Blvd.) from 10am-6pm. Bring it on!
on Thursday, June 16th, I'll be at the 12 Hour Comic Book Day workshop for kids at the Monroe County Public Library in Bloomington, IN at 4pm to talk about comics, work with young folks on their comic projects, and do a Q&A with parents about all things related to making comics (from professional to creative to practical issues!). See you there!
Also, on Saturday, June 18th I'll be at the Summit City Comic Con in Fort Wayne IN, at the Grand Wayne Center (120 West Jefferson Blvd.) from 10am-6pm. Bring it on!
THE SILENCE OF OUR FRIENDS cover!
Here's the finished cover to The Silence Of Our Friends, written by Mark Long and Jim Demonakos and drawn by yours truly. Should be out in January 2012 on First Second Books! You can pre-order it on Amazon here.
last copies of PLEASE RELEASE!
We just realized there are only a handful of copies of my 2006 comic Please Release left... order here, or get one from me or Top Shelf at a comic con in the next month, and then they're gone forever!
Oxford American & weekend con in Kankakee!
Hey there!
I have an illustration in the brand new issue of Oxford American magazine (#73). check it out!
Also, if you're around northern Illinois this Saturday, June 4th, I'll be at the Kankakee Fantasy Con from 10am-5pm. It's at the Kankakee Public Library (201 E. Merchant St.). Please save me from the lightsaber wielding action figure collectors.
See you tomorrow night at my art opening at the Owlery in Bloomington! 10pm!
I have an illustration in the brand new issue of Oxford American magazine (#73). check it out!
Also, if you're around northern Illinois this Saturday, June 4th, I'll be at the Kankakee Fantasy Con from 10am-5pm. It's at the Kankakee Public Library (201 E. Merchant St.). Please save me from the lightsaber wielding action figure collectors.
See you tomorrow night at my art opening at the Owlery in Bloomington! 10pm!
Show opening at The Owlery, June 3rd!
If you're in the Midwest, I'll have an exhibition at The Owlery (212 S. Rogers St., Bloomington IN 47404), an extremely tasty new vegetarian restaurant run by some punk friends doin' it legit! The show will be up for all of June, meaning it'll be around if you're coming in to town for Plan-It-X Fest.
We'll be having an opening party on Friday, June 3rd, from 10 PM - 1 AM-- stop by for the late-night menu, some beer or coffee, and check out or buy some art I've been working on for the last couple of years.
See you there!
We'll be having an opening party on Friday, June 3rd, from 10 PM - 1 AM-- stop by for the late-night menu, some beer or coffee, and check out or buy some art I've been working on for the last couple of years.
See you there!
ANY EMPIRE is off to the printer!
After a few years of scribblin', my forthcoming graphic novel Any Empire is en route to the printer. It'll debut at Comic Con International in San Diego, July 21-24, but you can pre-order it now via Top Shelf and Amazon!
TCAF this weekend!
I'll be at the Top Shelf table all weekend for the Toronto Comic Arts Festival on May 7th and 8th, and will also be part of a panel on storytelling at 4:05 pm Sunday.
See you there!
See you there!
Little Rock presentations next week!
I'll be in my home turf next week, doing some presentations in conjunction with the Arkansas Literary Festival and National Library Week! Each of these will be a slideshow presentation followed by Q&A:
Monday April 11th-- 12:15-1:30 pm: workshop at Pulaski Technical College Visual Arts Studio (PTC students only)
Tuesday April 12th-- 12:15-1:30 pm: ALF presentation/Q&A at PTC Campus Center Grand Hall (3000 West Scenic Drive in North Little Rock)
Wednesday April 13th-- 6 pm: presentation/Q&A at Fletcher Library (823 N. Buchanan St.)
I'll also have books and stuff for sale at all these events. See you there!
Monday April 11th-- 12:15-1:30 pm: workshop at Pulaski Technical College Visual Arts Studio (PTC students only)
Tuesday April 12th-- 12:15-1:30 pm: ALF presentation/Q&A at PTC Campus Center Grand Hall (3000 West Scenic Drive in North Little Rock)
Wednesday April 13th-- 6 pm: presentation/Q&A at Fletcher Library (823 N. Buchanan St.)
I'll also have books and stuff for sale at all these events. See you there!
Outstanding Eight
Hey, if you're in the Michigan area, I'm doing a bunch of set art and projected illustrations/panels for a play called The Outstanding Eight by Gabriel Cooper and Jonathan Wierenga-- it'll be performed at Michigan State University's RCAH Theatre on April 28-30th. Check it out!
Tickets are on sale now at 21st Century Comics & Games in East Lansing.
Tickets are on sale now at 21st Century Comics & Games in East Lansing.
store updated!
The store section is now up-to-date, including Sweet Tooth and Edible Secrets! purchase till it hurts!
FAT SHADOW tour and new LP out!
Hey crew-- Bloomington powerhouses Fat Shadow are touring the east coast and midwest from March 25-April 23 in support of their incredible new LP, Foot Of Love, which can be ordered from Houseplant Records with a free digital download, or the whole thing can be downloaded here!
Fat Shadow are a quartet making classic-rock-leaning tiki torch punk melodies with spectacular vocals, like a sweet mix of Heart, The Pretenders, Throwing Muses, and X. Members are/were also part of Landlord, The Door-Keys, Pink Razors, Erin Tobey, and Abe Froman. Get on it!
Tour dates and info can be ventured here.
see you at SPACE this weekend..
If you're in the Ohio area, come to the Small Press Alternative Comics Expo-- I'll be there all weekend, and will also have limited copies of Great Caution, the preview mini-comic with chapters from Any Empire and The Silence Of Our Friends!
springtime jams
Hey there! It's been a while since I've given a general update-- here's what's in the works:
* After two years, Any Empire and The Silence Of Our Friends are both done! Any Empire will be out in July for Comic-Con International.
* I just got started with the drawing chores for Cecil Castellucci's Year Of The Beasts, due out in 2012 from Roaring Brook Press.
* Check out the February 2011 issue of Oxford American magazine for a weird illustration.
* I have a comics story called "Conjurers" in the forthcoming YA fiction anthology What You Wish For, which is a benefit for building an educational center in Darfur. Bookwish Foundation is releasing it with Putnam Books, and it will feature work by Nikki Giovanni, R.L. Stine, Joyce Carol Oates, Alexander McCall Smith, Francisco X. Stork, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sofia Quintero, Jeanne Duprau, Karen hesse, Cornelia Funke, Ann M. Martin, Marilyn Nelson, Meg Cabot, Jane Yolen, Gary Soto, Cynthia Voigt, and me. It'll be out in Fall 2011!
* I just finished a bunch of illustrations for the forthcoming Cometbus book Add Toner, collecting issues #46-53. (And if you haven't yet, check out #54, featuring a tour diary of traveling across Asia with Green Day-- it's a spectacular issue.)
* I'll be doing album artwork for Band Of Beards' new LP/CD, Fuerteventura. Should be out in the spring!
*If you're around the Bloomington area, come to Boxcar Books' Rock 'N Roll Prom at The Bluebird on April 9th. It's a benefit for the Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project. I'll be in the Black Sabbath cover band Supernaut (as sweet sweet Ozzy) with Jarod from Universe/Morrow, Mike from Universe/Good Luck, and Benny from Gourmet Scum/Butt Piss! Bring it on!
Here are my upcoming comics-related events for the year:
* March 19-20 SPACE in Columbus, OH
* April 11-12 Presentations/workshops at Pulaski Technical College in North Little Rock, AR
* April 12 Arkansas Literary Festival presentation/Q&A at Pulaski Tech (more info soon!)
* April 13 presentation/Q&A at Fletcher Library (823 N. Buchanan St.), Little Rock AR. 6pm.
* May 7-8 TCAF in Toronto, Ontario
* June 4 mini-con at Kankakee, IL public library (201 E. Merchant St.). 10a-5p.
* July 20-24 Comic-Con International in San Diego, CA-- Any Empire debuts!!!
* August 11-14 Wizard World Chicago in Rosemont, IL.
* Sept 10-11 Small Press Expo in North Bethesda, MD.
* Dec 5-Feb 10 solo exhibition at Arkansas Historical Museum, Little Rock AR
see you there!