working today in fábio moon and gabriel bá’s studio in sao paulo, brazil. read 5 issues of their upcoming vertigo series DAYTRIPPER, which is one of the most unique and heartbreaking books you’ll ever read.

heading to brazil again this weekend to first go to the brazilian release party of umbrella academy in sao paulo and then head to belo horizonte for the 6th annual FIQ (Festival Internacional de Quadrinhos). the week after that i’ll be doing a talk at the quanta academy in porto alegre and then i’m back on october 18th for …

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 …

saidera is the equivalent, basically of “this last one for the road”.
in canto grande, brazil, one night, when i knew i was done drinking, my friends told me that i could only leave after i’d spoken that word to the bartender, and she’d brought me my last drink.
goodbye brazil. obrigado, leao. saidera.
pictured here, in somewhat random order: rafael …

every year my friends and i answer mostly the same way, about new year’s eve, mostly a shrug, i guess mostly hoping that someone else will plan something great. no one ever does. which is not to say that there isn’t fun to be had, because i’ve never had anything but a hell of a lot of fun …

i’ll be back in the real world, (IE not on a beach) later this week, but in the meantime, happy new year to anyone who’s sitting in front of a computer today, for however long.  we’re still in brazil, kristyn’s freckles are in full bloom, and i believe the new year here involves jumping over waves at midnight.
also: 2008, i have an irrationally …

christmas eve, and we’re in a little brazilian beach town in the middle of nowhere. we woke up and walked one of the 2 beaches on either side of the house, past a horse that seemed to be wandering aimlessly down our street. the beach is quiet, the water is warm, with waves over our head. i …

as usual, this place is not what we’re told to expect. brazil’s major cities have been advertised as terrifying places where you’ll get robbed on any corner… 6 days in the country so far and i haven’t felt the evil eyes on me.
we landed at around noon yesterday, fábio moon picked us up all was well until his twin …

rio de janeiro is a place i’ve thought a lot about.  it’s a place i’d read about since i was a kid and a place i had always hoped to be, eventually.  on my list of places to go to, it was right up on top.  it’s not unlikely with the kind of expectations i had, that i’d be disappointed, and …