I’ll be in New York City for the debut of Fall Through at MoCCA Festival (my first time since 2018!)— here’s my schedule:
Saturday, March 16th:
signing at Top Shelf, 12:00-2:00 pm (booth 24)
signing at Abrams, 3:00-3:30pm (booth 147)
Sunday, March 17th:
signing at Top Shelf, 11:00am-12:00pm (booth 24)
signing at Abrams, 2:20-2:50pm (booth 147)
“Taking Sides, Drawing Lines” panel, 3:00pm (Room 1)
It’s my pleasure to reveal this brand-new poster to celebrate 10 years of March— our publisher Top Shelf is distributing it free to comics shops, bookstores, schools & libraries! (Please see Top Shelf’s linked announcement— if this is you, get in touch with your Penguin Random House rep, and the poster’s SKU is MKT1000061855.)
You can also grab the poster from Top Shelf/IDW at their table at shows, and I’ll have some that’ll also be free for anybody who gets a March trilogy boxed set from me at shows.
Thanks to everyone who’s been moved by this work over the past decade, and who’s doing their part to defend accurate history, comics in the classroom & libraries, magnifying marginalized voices, and fortifying our right to information and ideas.
10 years ago this weekend, I had just finished drawing March: Book One and joined my collaborators John Lewis & Andrew Aydin on a pilgrimage to sites of the civil rights struggle in Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma, Alabama.
It’s increasingly hard to wrap my head around that weekend’s sincerity and sense of reckoning, in the knowledge that the last decade’s rise of mainstreamed fascism and white supremacy— including concrete work to dismantle the entirety of our society’s gains from the civil rights movement onward, as well as consolidated efforts to suppress the history and context of the civil rights movement itself. That includes coordinated intimidation campaigns and legislative attempts to ban and suppress our own work on March, including schools in John Lewis’s own congressional district. (I’ve written about all of this additionally at CNN, the Washington Post, and the Nib.)
Other specific moments, like then-Montgomery chief of police symbolically removing & giving his badge to John Lewis (specifically identifying the white supremacist police forces preceding him as “doing the work of evil”), and then being fired for it shortly afterward— a decade later, this kind of gesture is unthinkable as police have far beyond passed a point of no return.
I’m remembering that powerful weekend through the lens of still being fairly early in our work on the March trilogy, but I’m mostly struck with sadness and anger at a majority of white American adults’ refusal to question, learn, grow, and fight back against the rapidly-consolidating monster of fascism today. Fascism will come for them, too, and you, too— unless we stop it.
Our institutions absolutely will not save us. Only we will save us, strangers as neighbors. All power to the people— and especially all power to the young people.
This weekend marks the triumphant return of the Small Press Expo (Bethesda North Marriott, 5701 Marinelli Rd., Rockville MD), and my first time back at SPX since 2018!
I’ll be slangin books at booth W74, and will also be on the Top Shelf 25th anniversary panel Sunday at 2:30pm in the White Oak Room.
For the show, all my books will be $20 or less, the MARCH boxed sets are $45, and you can pick any 3 graphic novels for $50. I’ll also have 3 relatively new-ish pandemic-era books which are all still pretty fresh: Two Dead, Save It For Later, and Run.
See you there!
What a profound honor— March: Books 1 & 2 were included in Time’s list of Best 100 suitable-for-young-adults books OF ALL TIME! (And lots of friends and peers were included in this list as well— in particular, Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell’s Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me is one of the best graphic novels of the past decade!)
Go comics, go readers!
It’s an honor to announce that my graphic novel Come Again has been selected as a finalist for the Indiana Authors Award in the “genre” category!
The winner will be announced on September 1st. In the meantime, you can get a copy of Come Again from your local bookstore, your local comic shop, directly from me, your public library, or from Amazon.
I have a new illustration in The New York Times today, in George Gustines’ piece about IDW’s collaborative comics line with the Smithsonian!
It’s an honor to find the March trilogy included in A.V. Club’s “Best Comics of the 2010’s” list!
“The March books became even more relevant in the midst of the shifting political tides of the decade’s latter half, and with its presence in schools, March gives future generations an accessible, poignant look at why they need to stand up to bigotry in all its forms and continue the fight for human rights.”
If you’re in the Los Angeles area, I’ll be doing a discussion, Q&A, and signing on Wednesday, June 5th at A Shop Called Quest (300 Santa Fe Ave., DTLA) from 7-9pm. I hope to see you there!
Here is the FB event listing too.
And as a reminder, my graphic novel Come Again is nominated for two Eisner Awards— Best Graphic Album (New) and Best Writer/Artist. If you’re eligible to vote, please consider my work for the Eisners— thanks so much!
I’ll be in Vancouver for VanCAF next weekend— here is the event description of my signings and panel discussions.
I hope to see you there!
Voting is officially open for the Eisner Awards! Vote HERE.
For those eligible, please consider my book Come Again for the “Best Graphic Album (New)” and “Best Writer/Artist” categories— thank you for your support!
Here is a 26-page excerpt from Come Again, if you haven’t yet had a chance to check it out.
It’s a profound honor to find that Come Again is nominated for two Eisner Awards— for Best Graphic Album (New) and Best Writer/Artist!
It means so much to me that this book has resonated powerfully with readers. I feel it’s the best work I’ve ever done, hands-down.
I’m just as honored to be considered alongside so many of this year’s nominees— friends, peers, inspirations. Thank you for helping keep each other going!
Stay tuned for more information about when Eisner Award voting opens— the winners will be announced at Comic Con International in San Diego this July 19th!
To grab copies of Come Again, try your local comic book shop or bookstore, direct from Top Shelf or from me, and there’s always Amazon.
Thanks again for spreading the word— more soon!
If you’re in the Midwest, come to Columbus, Ohio this weekend for SPACE— the Small Press & Alternative Comics Expo!
I’ll be slangin’ books there all weekend— Saturday 10am-6pm and Sunday 10am-5pm (Northland Performing Arts Center, 4411 Tamarack), and you can have a sneak peek at my forthcoming book Two Dead, out this November from Gallery 13!
Admission is FREE.
Also, I’ll be doing my first ever live comics reading from my newest graphic novel Come Again— Saturday night starting at 8pm at Kafe Kerouac (2250 N. High).
See you there!
Hi everybody! Here’s a list of upcoming events I’ll be doing over the spring:
April 17th: Andrew Aydin and I will do a talk & signing for March as a part of San Mateo’s all-county reading selection— Fox Theatre (2215 Broadway, Redwood City CA).
April 27-28: I’ll be in Columbus, Ohio at SPACE (Northland Performing Arts Center, 4411 Tamarack Blvd). I’ll also be doing my first ever live reading from Come Again on the 27th at Kafe Kerouac, as a part of the SPACE After-Party— please come support all the brave introverts!
May 18-19: I’ll be a special guest at VanCAF in Vancouver, BC (The Roundhouse, 181 Roundhouse Mews), signing at the Pulp Fiction booth and participating in panels as well. Info on signing/panel times TBC!
Here’s a master list of all my upcoming events, with more reliable and up-to-date details.
More info, and maybe an extra event or two, forthcoming— see you there!
If you’re in Michigan or northern Ohio, I’ll be slangin books at these two upcoming events:
Friday, February 22nd in Ann Arbor, at Vault Of Midnight (219 S. Main St.), 7-9 pm. Here’s the FB event page.
Saturday, February 23rd in East Lansing, at the MSU Comics Forum (MSU Main Library, 3rd Floor, 366 W. Circle Dr.), 10:30am-5:30pm. Brilliant cartoonist friend Carolyn Nowak will be hanging at my table too— her book Girl Town is one of the very best comics of 2018!
Spread the word— thanks! See you there.
I’m thrilled to find Come Again on NPR’s Best Books of 2018 list, alongside great work by buds Cecil Castellucci, Marley Zarcone, Vera Brosgol, Lisa Hanawalt, Eleanor Davis, Ben Passmore, Jose Villarrubia, Ngozi Ukazu, Magdelene Visaggio, and more— go comics!
Here are the most direct ways to find Come Again:
* Top Shelf
* Your local bookstore
* Your local comics shop
* Amazon, if you must
Thanks for supporting the medium of comics, everyone!
See you this weekend at Miami Book Fair— my last comics event of the year!
I’ll be discussing Come Again on two panels, each at 3pm in the MAGIC screening room (300 NE Second Ave., Building 8, 1st Floor):
Saturday is “Beasts Of Our Own Making” w/ Dean Haspiel & Jonathan Ames!
Sunday is “Pretty On The Outside: Village Secrets In Fiction” w/ David Small & Maggie Thrash!
Signings are immediately after the panels— see you there!
Columbus, Ohio— see you this weekend (September 29-30) for Cartoon Crossroads Columbus at the Metropolitan Library (96 S. Grant)!
I’ll be at table 36, with copies of my new book Come Again, a few copies of the “rare-in-the-US” Spanish March omnibus, and most of my older work as well.
Saturday at 3:15 I’ll be on the “Drawing Injustice: Activism & Artistry” panel in the Carnegie Room.
See you there!
(psst, here’s my personal soundtrack for Come Again:)
Come join me for a few ill-timed East Coast events, in the middle of a giant hurricane!
Thursday, Sept. 13th— I’ll be in Brooklyn, doing a talk/signing for my new book Come Again— 7pm at Desert Island (540 Metropolitan Ave.), as a part of Brooklyn Book Fest!
Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 15-16th— I’ll be slangin books at the Top Shelf booth at the Small Press Expo in North Bethesda, MD! My official signing schedule is Saturday 11-2 and 4-6, then Sunday 12-1 and 2-5:30. I’ll also be on the “Look Back And Laugh: Youth And Autobiography” panel Sunday 1-2pm in the White Flint Auditorium.
See you there!
