flying to portland, oregon tonight, from there i’ll be driving to the emerald city comicon in seattle, washington this weekend.  i’ll have books and shirts, not a ton of either, so anyone who needs anything should put in their appearance sooner rather than later.   

see you there.

having a conversation with niko henrichon, both of us looking at the jack kirby 2001 series that machine man came out of.

niko says “i’d like to go back in time, to become an american kid while these books were being published.”

today, new SECRET INVASION: HOME INVASION, (click HERE) by me and nick postic

wednesday there’s another page up, plus the first part of MACHINE MAN, by niko henrichon (pride of baghdad) and i, in marvel comics presents #8.  the cover, by brandon peterson, looks like this:

my event widget’s wonked for multiple days, so let me just say that i’ll be at the NYC COMICON with andy macdonald today (saturday april 19th) and tomorrow, all day, at ARTIST ALLEY BOOTH J-15, directly behind mike oeming.

we have a brand new shirt we’re selling at the con and a zillion trades including the recently eisner-nominated 24seven 2 and the new 2nd nyc mech trade, BETA LOVE.

HeavyInk interviewed me about robots, skrulls and south america and CBR interviewed nick postic and i about skrulls and more skrulls.  click below or in the PRESS section to check them out.

CBR

HEAVYINK

the 2008 eisner award nominations were just announced to the world, and on that list:

Best Anthology: 24Seven, vol. 2, edited by Ivan Brandon

i was floored last week when they told me, i’m still floored now.  

i recommend you read THIS

slammed with work and preparations for the NY con, which as far as i can tell from talking to all my local friends is a giant stressful mess for everyone who lives here.  i have a couple pictures and things to post next week and some interviews and such should be out by then.  in the meantime i just got a table at next month’s emerald city comicon, which you can get to by clicking the tourdates in the sidebar.  i also just got a pretty amazing bit of news which i can hopefully talk about tomorrow.

i just moved the site to another host.    

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, IF YOU SEE ANYTHING THAT DOESN’T WORK, POST A COMMENT. or hell, even if you have a suggestion, i’ll gladly listen.  but mostly i’m looking for broken things to fix.

please excuse any wonkiness in the meantime and thanks for your help.

4 months, 6 countries and 14 plane rides later and we land in NYC in an unbelievable wave of good luck: customs line takes 2 minutes, when we get to the luggage spinner, our luggage is there.  though it’s 5pm, we get home with no traffic.  and not on side-streets… on the VAN WYCK.

my bed’s more comfortable than ever.  huge thanks to all of my friends in argentina and brazil, especially EDUARDO RISSO who found and negotiated the rental of my apartment in argentina and kept us undefeated at the pool table on my birthday, DAVID ALABARCEZ who put us up in his home for 10 days when we were homeless and showed us the magic of the rosario bus system and MARCELO FRUSIN who kept us as busy as we could hope to be throughout the trip and on the last night waded through flood-water to get our bags into the car to the airport.
it was a hell of an experience.  i’m like an idiot, grinning, invigorated. 

i’m home.