Presentation, MARCH exhibit, and signing at SPACE in Columbus OH!

If you're in the Midwest, come to SPACE in Columbus OH this weekend! It'll be happening April 12-13th at the Ramada Plaza Hotel (4900 Sinclair Rd.), 10am- 6pm. 

I'll be selling books and artwork at my own table all weekend, and will also have some other things going on:

* Original pages from the forthcoming March: Book Two will be unveiled for the first time ever, and will be on exhibit near my table all weekend.

* I'll be giving a presentation on Saturday from 3-4 pm about all the projects afoot since the release of March: Book One-- this'll include Book Two, Rick Riordan's The Lost Hero, my comics collection You Don't Say, a new printing of Swallow Me Whole, collaborations with acclaimed writers Scott Snyder and Van Jensen, pinups for Operation Margarine and Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever, and an early look at work on my next solo book, Cover.

Here's the FB page for SPACE, and the full programming list. See you there!

OPERATION MARGARINE pinup!

 
Here's a pinup I did of Bon-Bon from Katie Skelly's awesome series Operation Margarine, which will be out next month as a collected graphic novel from Adhouse Books!

NYC folks: Katie will be having a book launch party Thursday, April 3rd at Desert Island in Brooklyn. 7-9 pm. Be there!

My favorite comics and albums of 2013.

Because I can't help but to make unnecessary lists all the time, here are my favorite albums and comics of 2013. There are plenty of comics and music I haven't gotten the chance to experience, so this list is shaped and impaired by not having much spare time.

ALBUMS:

1. HAIM-- Days Are Gone (Columbia/Polydor)

2. LORD DOG BIRD-- The Trinity Knot (Moon Glyph)

3. DAFT PUNK-- Random Access Memories (Columbia/Daft Life)

4. RED HARE-- Nites Of Midnight (Dischord)

5. EYE-- Second Sight (self-released digital)

6. LORDE-- Pure Heroine (Universal)

7. CHVRCHES-- The Bones Of What You Believe (Virgin/ Goodbye)

8. HUMANBEAST-- Venus Ejaculates Into The Banquet (Load)

9. LADY GAGA-- Artpop (Streamline/Interscope)

10. THE BODY-- Christs, Redeemers (Thrill Jockey)

11. IRON TONGUE-- The Dogs Have Barked, The Birds Have Flown (Neurot)

 12. PROFLIGATE-- The Red Rope EP (DKA)

COMICS:

 
1. Demeter by Becky Cloonan (self-published)

2. Hawkeye: Little Hits by Matt Fraction and David Aja (Marvel)

3. New School by Dash Shaw (Fantagraphics)

4. Operation Margarine by Katie Skelly (self-published/Adhouse in 2014)

5. Prophet: Brothers by Brandon Graham, Simon Roy, Giannis Milonogiannis,
and Farel Dalrymple  (Image)

6. Susceptible by Genevieve Castree (Drawn and Quarterly)

7. My Dirty Dumb Eyes by Lisa Hanawalt (Drawn and Quarterly)

8. A Matter Of Life by Jeffrey Brown (Top Shelf)

9. Hip Hop Family Tree by Ed Piskor (Fantagraphics)

10. Delusional by Farel Dalrymple (Adhouse)