I have a new piece up at Cartoon Movement about my trip with Cartooning for Peace to Corsica in June. And this weekend is Zine Fest! Where I will be selling comics per usual with the inimitable Joey Sayers. It’s the 10th annual Zine Fest, so if you’re in the Bay Area, I recommend stopping by — after all, it’s free.

In two weeks, I will have a big new piece up at Cartoon Movement culminating a lot of research and reporting over the last couple months. I’m pretty excited about this one.

I’ve just returned from two weeks in France, and there is so much blogging to catch up on. I did a short interview with the Seattle Times’ Seattle Sketcher columnist Gabi Campanario — Gabi’s work is really lovely, and I hope to see more jobs like this at other traditional media properties in the US. (I saw quite a bit of it in France, ahem.)

I’ve got five new comics lined up for the upcoming weeks, including a report on my trip with Cartooning for Peace, but for now perhaps you can sate yourselves with this follow-up to my Education in For-Profit Education — the Incredible Shrinking Pell Grant.

In case you missed them over there in the sidebar, I also did a two-parter on the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco for 7×7 Magazine, and a comic for American Prospect on our impending debt ceiling doom — still impending!

The Bay Area was out in full force at this year’s Stumptown Comics Festival in Portland, Oregon. We had an action-packed table, with all sorts of new comics, including my new full-color Israel travelogue Notes on Conflict, which is now up for sale in the store. Look how excited we are! (That may or may not be because we just ate some rad fried pies from a food cart, though.)

I was also on a panel about local printing and publishing that I wish I’d recorded, as it was a really lively and interesting discussion between a diverse group of people. Plus it reinforced to me how awesome printing on newsprint is, especially given how web presses are hurting with shrinking newspapers right now. I think even more comics and zine newspaper projects will be popping up soon as a result.

I’d never been on a convention panel before and this was a really great experience. People were even taking notes!!

While my sales weren’t exactly amazing at Stumptown, I don’t think I’ve ever had so much fun at a show, so I call it a success. You’ll have to wait for specifics, though: my piece for the Daily Crosshatch ain’t going live ’til Monday.

I’ll be posting more of these in the coming days.

This is my comic that will debut at Stumptown next weekend in Portland, Oregon. Full-color, 24-pages, con special price of $5. You pay that much for xeroxed shit! ‘Cause you’re a sucker! I mean, no, because you’re a patron of the arts!!

I’ll be tabling with local favorites Melanie Lewis, Damien Jay, Joey Sayers, and Elenore Toczynski, who I am not linking here because yes, that is how lazy I am, and they are already linked over there in the sidebar okay? Jeez.

It’s been so long since I did one of these that I forgot to compensate for the Flickr wash-out with my watercolors, so it’s a little light ‘n bright. Two more on the drawing board, then I can finally get to some TIWCM updates.