Dramatic Reading For The PEN World Voices Festival Of International Literature

I'll be doing a serious, dramatic reading of my U.S.Agent story from Strange Tales II at this year's PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature this Saturday along with some fellow NYC-based comic creators like, Kate Beaton, Mike Dawson, R. Sikoryak, Michael Kupperman and Dean Haspiel. Check out all the details here.

2011 Stumptown Comics Fest And Portland

I had the honor and privilege of sharing a booth at this past weekend's Stumptown Comics Fest in Portland, OR, with the immortal Jason Leivian, proprietor of Floating World Comics, one of the best comic shops on the planet. The show itself was fantastic. We had a spacious booth to relax in and sell our wares from. I found some terrific comics including some Jademan back issues and several mind-blowing comics from an indie company called Raw Fun. I was introduced to several fine folks from Dark Horse Comics including publisher Mike Richardson. I spoke with Brandon Graham, Nate Simpson, Tom Neely, Rick Remender, and many others. I chatted at length with Matt Maxwell who writes Strangeways, about horror movies, Clive Barker ones in particular, and Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II specifically. I did a few sketches at the con in people's sketchbooks including one of Pinhead for Matt.

On the Thursday before Stumptown, Jason hosted an art opening and signing at the store for me. Floating World Comics is the comic store you think you can only imagine, but there it is, in downtown Portland. I bought many things. During the signing I was able to speak at length with a bunch of folks I only know through the internet mostly.

Other than hanging out with Jason for a quality amount of time, the best part of the trip was meeting all the fine people living in and around Portland. Already plotting a return to next year's fest.

Nick Gazin Covers MoCCA At Vice

Nick Gazin has a write-up over at VICE that includes myself (pictured above) and several other folks, like Rob Corradetti, Whitney Mattheson, Zach Hazard Vaupen, and Dan Nadel, who showed stuff last weekend's MoCCA Festival. Check it out here.

Strange Tales MoCCA After Party

After the Saturday edition of this year's MoCCA Festival, I'll be at The Mad Hatter for the Strange Tales II Party, along with several of my sterling co-creators. Be sure to stop by if you're going to be at MoCCA. Check out the flyer above for detes.

MoCCA 2011

I'll be at this weekend's MoCCA Festival at table A17 (see above floorplan). Swing by for some deals on some comic books! ... except for GANGSTA RAP POSSE. I'm sold out of that one. The MoCCA fest is at the Lexington Avenue Armory, 68 Lexington Ave. Things kick off at 11 AM on Saturday.

Nylon Guys Illustration

I made this illustration recently for the issue of Nylon Guys hitting stands this week. It's for the upcoming Rockstar video game L.A. Noire.