First off, this week's Sequential Tart features interviews with both Andrew and me about life in the Couscous Collective. Interviews with other Couscousians are soon to follow.

Also, I've been nominated for Lulu of the Year from Friends of Lulu!

http://friendsoflulu.wordpress.com

Although it's my name on the ballot, Jeffrey Wells, my cowriter on Skin Horse, shares credit for making our comic the awesome thing it is. Anyway, everyone can vote in the Lulu Awards, so click on over and vote. There are a lot of great nominees this year. I am very intimidated to be duking it out with the likes of Danielle Corsetto, Jessica Abel, and Lynda Friggin' Barry, and the other categories are equally strong.

So vote! And now I have to sign off, because I'm typing this on a Japanese keyboard and it's really hard.

After a long absence, GraphicNovelReview.com is back, and kicking off the relaunch is a scary huge essay I wrote on yaoi manga. There's more yaoi stuff to come, and I'll be writing regular graphic novel reviews for the site for as long as they keep paying me.

Also, I keep forgetting to mention that my biweekly column for Comixology.com, "All the Comics in the World," is still going strong. My latest column is about the silent issue of G.I. Joe.

Yes, this is happening! The first Skin Horse print collection will be out in August. The book will include a the first year of strips, plus a bonus story, pinups, and other great stuff. Many thanks to Pancha Diaz for the lovely book design.

I'm super excited about this. Putting this together has been a lot of fun, and Jeffrey and I are going to totally flip out when the actual books arrive.

You can preorder copies here.

And now available on my website. This volume features the final year of Narbonic, plus an introduction by superstar comic-book writer Gail Simone and a bonus story written by me and drawn by Andrew Farago. Finally! Hooray!

My life is weird. On Sunday, Andrew and I went to a fancy-butt Oscar gala held by the Academy of Friends, a San Francisco-based AIDS charity. The Academy had chosen "A Night of Superheroes, Villains & Divas" as its theme for this year's bash, so Andrew was tapped to provide a display of superhero comic art from the Cartoon Art Museum. In return, he got tickets for himself and his lovely wife. Local cartoonist Justin Hall's comic "Glamazonia the Uncanny Super-Tranny" was featured in the display, so Justin and his partner Nash were invited too.

Figuring we were unlikely to get invited to any other gala events in the immediate future unless you count the masquerade at Wondercon (see you there, Phil!), Andrew and I got totally dolled up.



I was ready for the red carpet, although with my hair up I looked disturbingly ready to govern Alaska.



Yes, Andrew wore a Watchmen smiley-face button in his lapel. Because he's just that awesome.

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It's been a long time since I offered Narbonic T-shirts, but that time has come again.



And look how happy my shirts make people!

Evil tees are now available through the new ComicSpace Store, currently in beta testing. So if you've ever wanted a shirt that says "evil" in big ol' letters, this is your lucky day.

More info on the ComicSpace Store here.

Guess who helped set up the Watchmen show at the Cartoon Art Museum?



Of course 90% of the work was done by the museum's hot curator, Andrew Farago. But he let me hold the sign.

The "sneak preview" version of the show, with movie props, costumes, and concept art by Dave Gibbons, is up now. More art will be added in time for the opening reception on February 27. The museum is also hosting a benefit advance screening of the movie on March 5, with tickets available on a sliding scale. Info at www.cartoonart.org.

Hurm.

I Saw You...: Comics Inspired by Real-Life Missed Connections is available on Amazon now.

http://www.amazon.com/Saw-You-Inspired-Real-Life-Connections/dp/0307408531/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233694362&sr=8-1

I have a story in there. It's good.

Hey, I've got a two-pager in I Saw You, a collection of comics based on Craigslist missed-connections ads. Julia Wertz of The Fart Party put the whole thing together, and the contributors include Keith Knight, Peter Bagge, Tom Hart, Sam Henderson, Gabrielle Bell, Emily Flake (one of my major girl-crushes), and a bunch of my friends. So, yeah, that's all good.

And thus ends "Adjustment." I'll probably be drawing the next storyline myself, as ill-advised as this may be. A million thanks to the incredible Neil Babra for drawing "Adjustment" and sticking with this ridiculously long story to the end.

But with an ending comes a new beginning, as Andrew has just launched a new chapter in The Chronicles of William Bazillion! It opens with a handy recap, for those of you who have forgotten how the "Muppet Show" cloning project and the 536 Richard Nixons connect to Santa's Nazi gold. And where William Bazillion fits into all this, anyway.