Thank you to everyone at the Boston Zine Fair and Buffalo Small Press Book Fair! I had a fantastic time at both and just wrote about it on my Livejournal.
On Saturday, March 27, I’ll be in Buffalo for the 3rd Annual Small Press Book Fair! It will take place at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Muesum and promises to be full of bookmakers, poets, authors, and artists. Just one week earlier I’ll be close to home at the Boston Zine Fair, and Buffalo is another city I have strong ties to. I went to college there and met my wife, a native Buffalonian, shortly after. This city has a lively arts scene hidden beneath all the ice and snow and I expect it to be an exciting event.
Admission is free and the fair runs from noon to 6pm. There will be workshops that day and readings the night prior; the schedule will probably be finalized soon. Hope to see some of you there!
It’s been a while since we last spoke! Meanwhile, Herman the Manatee Fails Again, the second collection of Herman comics, was reviewed at Midnight Fiction. The third volume will be put together within the next couple of months. It’s about prison!
I’m going to be at the Boston Zine Fair on March 20 at the Cambridge YMCA. Doors open at 11, and then it quickly becomes part of Blastfest 2010, a music festival run by Whitehaus. If you live in the Boston area, stop by! There will be zines and music and you can probably go swimming!
Thanks for the emails, tweets, and comments about the 100th strip; I hadn’t initally planned on this strip lasting over two years… or even over two months… and I am relieved that I have not yet fallen on my face. A few months ago, a small student film crew came to my house and made a short film about this comic, and I will try to get it on the web soon. I don’t injure myself in this version.
Some brief news: The two Herman minicomics were reviewed together at High-Low…. Also! Somehow I got nominated for the “Best Indy Artist” Fanboy award – how this happened, I don’t know. I am among much more talented and established folk. But thank you to the Fanboys who snuck me in.
I’ve compiled a second collection of Herman strips for a new minicomic, titled Herman the Manatee Fails Again! For those of you who did not attend SPX (and for those that did but were frightened away by my imposing personality), it is now available in my store! It is among other fine books which you are bound to love. If there is room on your minicomic bookshelf for cute and depressing things, be sure to add this to your collection.









