Ken Mills, the director of the Bone documentary, The Cartoonist, has uploaded a short interview with Harvey Pekar on YouTube. It covers his friendship with Crumb, and Harvey’s views on the potential of comics.

School’s out for Summer…Go visit MoCCA and check out their current exhibition: NeoIntegrity: Comics Edition!

We were honored to be included with such a talented and eclectic mix of artists such as Winsor McKay, Daniel Clowes, and Charles Schulz to name a few. Over 210 cartoonists, illustrators , animators and fine artists have works on display, so this exhibit is not to be missed!  Originally scheduled to end in May, the exhibit has been so well received that its run has been extended to August 29th.

Stop by MoCCA at 594 Broadway, Suite 401 in New York City and visit them online at www.moccany.org

Well we’re all back from Chicago, and we had a great time. Everyone was in a good mood, and I met a lot of new readers, and saw some readers who got drawings from me 16 years ago when I used to hit the windy city on a regular basis. I love Mid-Westerners!

It was a little slow on Friday, but we were slammed on Saturday and Sunday.

I enjoyed my Spotlight panel on Saturday where I had a great audience! There’s a good write up at Comic Book Resources. A accompanying interview can be found here.

I did a bunch of interviews, like the one above with Newsarama.

Rich Johnson at Bleeding Cool has audio of my Sunday panel with Mark Waid. Over at Robot 6 you can find a nice overview of the show.

And then we were attacked by a giant Tie Fighter!

RASL 2: The Fire of St. George ships to comic book stores today, and I’m packing my bags for C2E2 this weekend. The staff at Cartoon Books is on the way over to the house to have a final scheduling meeting. It’s exciting! I haven’t been to a comic convention in Chicago in 10 years, and I can’t wait to see everyone at the show! On Saturday, I have a spotlight panel at 1:45 in room  E353. Should be fun, it will include a reading as well as a look at some of the new BONE: Tall Tales stories. Then I run over to room #  E271A to introduce the BONE documentary The Cartoonist at 3:00. After that, I’ll be at the Cartoon Books booth (#550) for most of the rest of the day. I’m on an Indie comics panel on Sunday at 1:15 in room #E450. Stop by! We have some fun new things at this show, including a special BONE pin, and the new RASL book collection hot off the press, The Fire of St. George (we’ll also have the first book, RASL: The Drift, of course)!

Speaking of RASL, the parallel universe science I based it on is cutting edge, but I was surprised that there was a new study released that seems to prove the existance of parallel universes!

From the news article: “The strange discovery by quantum physicists at the University of California Santa Barbara means that an object you can see in front of you may exist simultaneously in a parallel universe…”

We posted  a different study last week that ran on National Geographic’s site suggesting the same thing:

“…researchers made the controversial suggestion that the clusters are being tugged on by the gravity of matter outside the known universe. —which in turn hints that our universe is part of something larger: a multiverse.”

Crazy! You read it here first!

Update 4/15/10: The Chicago Tribune is running a profile/Q&A with me as part of its coverage of the C2E2 convention.

Come by the booth this weekend, say hi, and get your RASL on!

Starting next week, on Chicago’s PBS WISE TV (WYCC) the Cartoonist will air. You will have three chances to catch it.

March 8 at 2:00 PM, March 9 at 4:00 AM and March 15 at 4:00AM

Set your dvr’s!

You can see the full lineup of the station here.