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• There's an interview with Debbie Huey (Bumperboy Loses His Marbles!) here at Sequential Tart. She also does one of this month's "covers".

• Super7 will be debuting a new toy designed by Bwana Spoons at Comic-Con in San Diego, a glowing version of his Steven the Bat.

• Portland's Reading Frenzy has a show running this month, "Male Pattern Baldness & Hummingbirds: The Art of the Sharpie", curated by Bwana Spoons and including work by Bwana, plus Aaron Renier, Maja D'Aoust, Martin Ontiveros, James Jean, Nate Beaty and many others.

• Speaking of art shows, here's another one to check out in Palm Springs, Calif. The Andrew Brandou-curated "Dionysus" Group Show at Modern Gallery opens tomorrow and features Brandou, Tim Biskup, Everett Peck, Shag, Lynne Naylor, Chris Reccardi, Miles Thompson, the Pizz, Bwana Spoons, Robert Goodin and many others.

• A new installment of "Size Matters", Shawn Hoke's mini-comics column, has gone up at Comic Book Galaxy.

• Top Shelf's got a few new books out in September: Owly: Flying Lessons by Andy Runton, Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed? by Liz Prince, The Surrogates #2 by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele and Senses: Sequential Art Anthology edited by John Lowe & the SCAD Faculty.

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• You like Tom Spurgeon's interviews with cartoonists, right? Here, read a few.

• Skip Williamson's got a new website.

• Curious about exactly what it takes to open a comic shop? Then check out Jason Richards' blog about his upcoming store, Riot.

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• Shawn Hoke has a new "Size Matters" mini-comics column up at Comic Book Galaxy.

• Derek Ballard has started an online sketchbook here. (Warning: not safe for work)

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• A documentary-style DVD about the STAPLE! festival that took place this past March in Austin has been released. It features interviews with Shannon Wheeler, Terry Moore, Michael Lark and more. More info is here.

• The latest issue of Bark ("the modern dog culture magazine") contains several comics-related tidbits: "Top Dogs" (a sort of timeline of dogs in comics with an introduction by Patrick McDonnell), a showcase of Andrew Brandou's work, an illustration by Sara Varon (Sweaterweather), a cartoon by Lynda Barry and a 1997 drawing by Charles Schulz featuring Snoopy and that dog from "Mutts".

• It's the bikebookmobile! More info about Slumgullion here.

• Etgar Keret (Alternative's upcoming Pizzeria Kamikaze) was profiled in The New York Times Sunday. Check out the article here. (Registration required; try bugmenot.)

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• The second installment of Shawn Hoke's "Size Matters" column, in which he discusses his list of "Ten Most Innovative Mini-Comics", is up at Comic Book Galaxy. Check it out here.

• If you're anywhere near Charlotte, North Carolina you might want to check out the "Indie Island" at this weekend's Heroes Convention with AdHouse Books, Alternative Comics, Top Shelf Productions, J. Chris Campbell, Paul Hornschemeier, James Jean, James Kochalka, Paul Pope, Dash Shaw and many others. More info is here.

• The new volume of the Potlatch Project anthology (Vol. 4) will be out in August and contains work by Lonnie Allen, Edward J. Grug, Noppie, Stan Yan, Sal Cipriano and others. More info is at the Angry Dog Press site.

• Moxie, My Sweet co-conspirators Mark Campos and Scott Faulkner recently taped an interview for Robin Fisher and Colin Upton's "Onomatopoeia Show" on CiTR in Vancouver. You can listen to the webcast next Thursday (6/30), 2:00-3:00 PM Pacific time at www.citr.ca.

• A new issue of Arthur is out with comics by Marc Bell and Jason Miles, plus lots of other good stuff, no doubt. Find out where to pick up an issue here.

• Robin Bougie has topped his controversial Ex Revenge Project with a new book in the same format, The Incest Project, which features "comics, illustrations and interviews with consentual adults who have or are practicing incest". More info in this thread at the Cinema Sewer message boards.

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Snap! The Comic Arts Festival is scheduled for Saturday October 29th in Dearborn, Michigan.

Katie and Dan Merritt, owners of Green Brain Comics in Dearborn MI, are proud to announce a new showcase for small press and self-published comic creators in the Midwest.

“We have been traveling out of state to attend small press comic conventions since we bought our store in 1999. And after each show, we return home with a van full of great comics and more excitement about the art form of comics than we can contain. My partner Katie and I have been so inspired by other shows like SPACE in Columbus OH and SPX in Bethesda MD, we decided to have a our very own small press show in the Detroit area!” says Dan Merritt, “Michigan is home to a host of self-publishing comic creators, and we have created SNAP! to help connect them with a new audience right here in their own backyard”

The goal of SNAP! is to showcase local, self-published and small press comic creators. By doing this we hope to build community for independent creators and encourage communication between creators and their potential audience, all while having a great time in the hometown of Henry Ford, Dearborn Michigan.

SNAP! The Comic Arts Festival
Saturday October 29th
5121 Oakman Blvd.
Dearborn, Michigan 48126
11am to 6pm

For more info:
www.greenbrain.biz/SNAP!.htm

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• The June/July issue of Hadassah Magazine features a full-length article on comics with a focus on Jewish graphic novels. Cartoonists including Will Eisner, Harvey Pekar, Josh Neufeld, Tomer Hanuka, Asaf Hanuka, Etgar Keret, Marjane Satrapi, Art Spiegelman, Peter Kuper, Robert Crumb, and others are profiled. [ thanks to Jeff Mason ]

• Josh Simmons has just updated his website with a bunch of comics and stuff.

• The entire run thus far of Raina Telgemeier's "Smile" comic at Girlamatic can be read for free until July 3rd in celebration of her being nominated for a Web
Cartoonists' Choice Award. Read it here.

• Coming in November from Alternative Comics are The Placebo Man by Tomer Hanuka and Pizzeria Kamikaze written by Etgar Keret and illustrated by Asaf Hanuka.

• There's a new installment of Austin English's "Dogsbody" review column up at the Comics Journal site.

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After having participated in the last three Annual New Orleans Bookfairs, Hot Iron Press will now be completely taking over the reigns of the bookfair. GK Darby of Garrett County Press, one of the original bookfair organizers, will be leaving New Orleans and thus has asked Hot Iron Press to take his place. We have gladly accepted and look forward to working with all the amazing independent publishers, zinesters, book artists, and other rabble-rousers at the upcoming 2005 bookfair.

In addition to taking over the bookfair, we will also be taking over the Babylon Lexicon book arts show that runs concurrently with the bookfair. We'd love to hear from any and all book artists interested in showing work.

The date of the bookfair has yet to be pinned down, but should be sometime in October at Barrister's Gallery/Zeitgeist in New Orleans. More info coming soon.

www.hotironpress.com

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• J. Chris Campbell has posted a report and photos from MoCCA 2005.

• And here's Marc Sobel's MoCCA report at Comic Book Galaxy.

• Johnny Ryan has announced that he'll join MAD magazine's Usual Gang of Idiots in the July issue, #456, with a three-page full-color parody of the new Fantastic Four movie.

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• Here are Toby Craig's pictures from this past weekend's MoCCA festival in New York City and here's the haul he made it home with.

• For more links to MoCCA reports and photos, check Tom Spurgeon's list here.

• The Beat has a list of this year's Harvey Award winners (presented at MoCCA).

• Wondering what the status is on a late book or two from Fantagraphics? Wonder no longer.

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• Lark Pien is interviewed at Fecal Face. [ thanks to Comics Lifestyle ]

• Karl Wills (Jessica of the Schoolyard) is interviewed at Silver Bullet Comics.

• Did you know Comic Book Galaxy just relaunched? Lots of new features, including this new interview with Tom Spurgeon.

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This mini MoCCA report arrived via e-mail this morning from Alice in New York's Henry Chamberlain:

"It was a pleasure to finally meet Hans Rickheit: very charming. Sophie Crumb is a doll and her Belly Button #2 is excellent. Drawn & Quarterly have put out a fine art series of four: Doucet, Bell, and two others: Luc Giard and Peter Thompson, all great stuff. Matt Madden displayed a dummy for Exercises in Style, due out in November. Jon Lewis has a new True Swamp mini after a long break while writing for DC. See-Saw by Sara Edward-Corbett is excellent: collects her enchanting strip that runs in the New York Press. Other notables: Sidewalk Bump, No Punch Backs, Syncopated Vol 2. There's more..."

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