I'm doing this mini-convention at the Cartoon Art Museum on Saturday, December 12. If you're in the Bay Area, check it out. It's got WEBCOMICS.

And lives in the Bay Area?

From the Cartoon Art Museum:

Monsters of Webcomics: Webcomic-Con 2009

Cartoon Art Museum event: Saturday, December 12, 2009, 11:00am-5:00pm,

Free with paid admission to the Cartoon Art Museum

The Cartoon Art Museum is proud to host Webcomic-Con 2009, a single-day mini-convention dedicated to online comics and their creators. Visitors will have the opportunity to meet local webcartoonists and talk with them about their work. The featured artists will sell and sign copies of their comics, draw sketches for patrons, and conduct writing and drawing workshops throughout the day.

Featured guests include Brian Andersen (So Super Duper, Reignbow & Dee-Va, http://www.sosuperduper.com), Leigh Dragoon (By The Wayside, The Faerie Path Manga, http://www.leighdragoon.com), Shaenon K. Garrity (Skin Horse, Narbonic, http://www.shaenon.com), Victor Hao (King of RPGs, http://www.kingofrpgs.com), Karen Luk (Raconteur, http://www.karenluk.net, http://www.girlamatic.com/raconteur/, Betsy Streeter (Brainwaves, http://www.betsystreeter.com) and Chuck Whelon (artist and co-writer of Pewfell, http://www.pewfell.com).

NOTE FOR WEBCARTOONISTS: If you are interested in participating in this event, please contact Andrew Farago at gallery@cartoonart.org for more details.

A new Skin Horse storyline, "Tin Soldier," starts today! After the intimidatingly long Alaska arc that just ended, this is a good jumping-on point for new readers. I promise romantic angst out the wazoo. Also robots.

Jeffrey Wells, my cowriter on Skin Horse, will be at Geek.Kon in Madison, Wisconsin this weekend, doing a panel on writing webcomics. If you're in the area, stop by, see Jeff's panel, and wish him a belated happy birthday (oh, yeah, his birthday is today).

Crossposted from Modern Tales...

Dirk Tiede is just a few pages away from finishing Book Three of Paradigm Shift and is now taking preorders for the print collection. The full announcement and preorder info are up on Dirk's site at Dynamanga.net. Preorder your copies now and show some love for the world's greatest werewolf cop comic (now with extra werewolf)!

As mentioned previously, I'm going to be at the Alternative Press Expo, where Skin Horse Volume One will be making its convention debut. (Want to buy it online now? Here!

Also, I'll be at this thing:


CAM Alternative Press Expo Party:
Monsters and Mayhem

Cartoon Art Museum Event: Saturday, October 17, 2009, 8:00-11:00 pm

Sliding Scale: $5 - $20

The Cartoon Art Museum hosts a fun-filled evening of Monsters and Mayhem on Saturday, October 17, 2009 from 8:00-11:00pm. Special guests include featured artists from the Cartoon Art Museum’s Monsters of Webcomics exhibition Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant), Dylan Meconis (Family Man) and Jesse Reklaw (Slow Wave), plus famed webcartoonists Batton Lash (Supernatural Law), Erika Moen (DAR: A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary) and Shaenon K. Garrity (Skin Horse, Narbonic). Popular syndicated cartoonist Keith Knight (The Knight Life, The K Chronicles), cartoonists Jon “Bean” Hastings (Smith Brown Jones: Alien Accountant, Haunted Mansion) and Rich Koslowski (Three Geeks, Geeksville), will also be in attendance, and more special guests will be announced shortly.

Admission for the event is on a sliding scale, from $5 to $20, with guests encouraged to donate whatever they can to support the Cartoon Art Museum.

All proceeds from this reception will benefit The Cartoon Art Museum, a non-profit educational museum dedicated to the collection, preservation and display of original cartoon art in all its forms.

I did fan art for Dirk Tiede's Paradigm Shift. Look how beautiful!

Up now at the Cartoon Art Museum! I've got some comics in the virtual gallery.

The Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco (www.cartoonart.org) is organizing "Monsters of Webcomics," a showcase of cutting-edge webcomics work. The show's ten spotlight artists have already been selected. However, the museum also wants to include a virtual gallery of as many other webcomics as possible. If you're interested in having your art included in the virtual gallery, email curator Andrew Farago at gallery@cartoonart.org.

Feel free to spread this information around the webcomics community. The museum wants a wide range of comics included in the show.

Here's the press release:


Monsters of Webcomics
August 8 - December 6, 2009

The Internet has revolutionized all forms of communication, and comics are no exception. The Cartoon Art Museum explores the digital revolution in its latest exhibition, Monsters of Webcomics, a showcase of some of the best and boldest work published on the World Wide Web.

Cartoonists choose to work on the Web for many reasons. For some, it’s an opportunity to reach readers directly without going through editors, publishers, or syndicates. For others, it’s a chance to explore the artistic possibilities of the Web, whether that means working in a format that would be impossible in print, tackling subject matter most comic-book publishers won’t handle, or taking advantage of the rich palette available with digital coloring. Others simply want to share their comics with as many people as possible.

The comics by the ten artists featured in this exhibition run the gamut from four-panel comic strips to full-length graphic novels and include comedy, drama, history, science fiction, and sociopolitical commentary. As varied as this work is, however, it represents only a very small sample of the comics available on the Web. The Monsters of Webcomics exhibition also includes a virtual gallery that will highlight dozens of additional online comics.

(IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: If you are a webcartoonist and would like to participate in the virtual gallery component of this historic exhibition, please e-mail C.A.M. Curator Andrew Farago at gallery@cartoonart.org)

FEATURED ARTISTS:

Slow Wave
By Jesse Reklaw
http://www.slowwave.com

Hark! A Vagrant!
By Kate Beaton
http://www.harkavagrant.com

Girl Genius
By Phil and Kaja Foglio
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com

Cat and Girl
By Dorothy Gambrell
http://www.catandgirl.com

The Perry Bible Fellowship
By Nicholas Gurewitch
http://www.pbfcomics.com

Dicebox
By Jenn Manley Lee
http://www.dicebox.net

Family Man
By Dylan Meconis
http://www.lutherlevy.com

Achewood
By Chris Onstad
http://www.achewood.com

Templar, AZ
By Spike
http://www.templaraz.com

Today's Skin Horse is a shout-out to my homies.