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 open for the Eisner Awards!
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.
COME AGAIN is nominated for two Eisner Awards!
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!
Columbus, OH this weekend-- SPACE & a live COME AGAIN reading!
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!
"About Face" interview for The Laura Flanders Show up at Free Speech TV!
Here’s a recent interview I did with The Laura Flanders Show on Free Speech TV about my comics essay “About Face”, which connects the rising normalization of fascist & paramilitary presence with a generation’s worth of civilian consumer style choices.
Thanks so much to Vanessa and Trevor over at Popula for giving this comic a good home!
New events for spring 2019-- Bay Area, Columbus, Vancouver!
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!
"About Face"-- new comics essay at Popula!
I have a new comics essay up at Popula: “About Face”, which breaks down paramilitary influence on military regulation, and how those stylistic changes, crystallized as consumer style preferences, are strong indicators of successful normalization of modern fascist aesthetic and presence in the US.
Punisher skulls. Black and white flags. Beards, hats, and wraparound Oakleys. Totally blacked-out Dodge pickup trucks. This essay also functions as a post-script to my 2011 book Any Empire.
Popula is a great new indie publication, and I encourage you to subscribe and support it here. Thanks!
Happy birthday, Congressman John Lewis!
Happy 79th birthday to friend, collaborator, and hero, John Lewis!
Help honor his lifelong commitment to justice and equality by staying loud, keeping up the pressure, and working together to make real the revolutionary promise of the Beloved Community.
We can do it. And we must.
Our world can only change when we make it happen.
Michigan signings, Feb. 22-23
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.
COME AGAIN on NPR's Best Books of 2018 list!
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!
Miami Book Fair this weekend!
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!
CXC this weekend!
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!
COME AGAIN playlist.
(psst, here’s my personal soundtrack for Come Again:)
Brooklyn & SPX signings this weekend!
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!
COME AGAIN signing in Indianapolis, Sept. 1st!
If you're around Indianapolis, come to Hero House Comics (1112 Prospect St.) on Saturday, September 1st from 2-4pm, where I'll be having a signing for the debut of my new graphic novel Come Again.
Thanks-- see you there!
COME AGAIN talks/signings this week in California & Indiana!
I have several upcoming talks and signings for Come Again later this week:
Wednesday, August 15th, I'll be doing two events at Comix Experience (305 Divisadero) in San Francisco! A public signing there from 6-7:30pm, followed by a discussion/Q&A/signing with the Comix Experience Graphic Novel Club at 8pm.
Thursday, August 16th, I'll be doing a talk/Q&A/signing at Wow Cool in Cupertino, CA (21607B Stevens Creek Blvd.) from 7-9pm.
Saturday, August 18th, I'm having a book-release signing for Come Again at my local comic shop Vintage Phoenix (114 E. 6th) in Bloomington IN from 2-4pm!
Thanks, everyone, for all the support and engagement so far-- see you there!
NPR review of COME AGAIN!
Here's a new piece NPR just published about my new graphic novel, Come Again.
Thanks for picking up the book, everybody-- and thanks to those who came out to see me in Arkansas and Chicago! The next few weeks will include talks and signings in San Francisco, Cupertino, Bloomington, and Indianapolis-- I'll post updates to those soon.
COME AGAIN is out in bookstores everywhere today!
At last, Come Again is available everywhere today-- comic shops, bookstores, and online! Please go visit your local bookstore, or there's always Amazon if you must.
Chicago: I'll see you Thursday 8/9 at 7pm for a talk/Q&A/signing at Quimby's!
Thanks, everyone, for supporting my work.
Arkansas & Chicago signings/talks in early August!
I'm turning 40 years old tomorrow, and hitting the road for my new graphic novel Come Again-- first up, my home state of Arkansas! Come to any of these events if you can:
* Friday, August 3rd-- Fayetteville Public Library, Fayetteville AR. I'll be doing a slideshow talk about Come Again, March, and my general path through comics at 1pm, followed by a loose workshop for independently motivated/interested artists and storytellers. Nightbird Books will have books available for sale at the library.
* Friday, August 3rd-- Nightbird Books (205 W. Dickson St.), Fayetteville AR-- I'll be doing a signing from 7-9pm.
* Saturday, August 4th-- The Comic Book Store (9307 Treasure Hill Rd.), Little Rock AR-- I'll be signing from 2-4pm.
* Saturday, August 4th-- Zine Night, Vino's (923 W. 7th), Little Rock AR-- I'll be selling books and hanging out from 7-10pm.
And if you're in the Chicago area:
* Thursday, August 9th-- Quimby's, (1854 W. North Ave.) Chicago IL-- I'll be doing a slideshow talk, Q&A, and signing at 7pm.
See you there!
Here are some recent interviews and podcast discussions I've done about both Come Again and March:
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (4 Minutes, 4 Questions)
Arkansas Times Rock Candy Podcast
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (main feature)
Aaaaaaaand here are recent reviews of Come Again in Publishers Weekly (starred review), The Comics Journal, and Arkansas Times.
More info and dates soon-- stay tuned!
COME AGAIN debut this week at San Diego Comic Con
I'll be at Top Shelf/IDW's booth (#2743) all weekend at Comic-Con International in San Diego, CA for the debut of my new graphic novel, Come Again.
Here's my schedule-- in general, come find me at the Top Shelf booth, Thursday-Sunday:
* Thursday, 7/19: signing at Top Shelf booth #2743, 1-2:30pm and 4-6pm.
* Friday, 7/20: "The Human Condition: Connecting Humanity With Graphic Novels" panel w/ TBA. 1-2pm, Room 23ABC.
* Friday, 7/20: signing at IDW booth #2743, 5-6pm.
* Saturday, 7/21: signing at IDW booth #2743, 1-2pm.
* Saturday, 7/21: signing w/ Andrew Aydin at CBLDF booth #1918, 2-3pm.
* Saturday, 7/21: I'll be the keynote speaker at the CBLDF's live art auction-- with an original MARCH piece up for sale too! Hilton Bayfront, Sapphire AB, 8pm.
* Sunday, 7/22: signing at IDW booth #2743, 1-2pm.