One of my favorite artists in life, not just in comics, happens to also be one of my best friends (I’ve mentioned her before in a similarly gushing post). So I’m more than thrilled to shill for her and point you toward Kate Glasheen, an artist you should be keeping a very close eye on.

This Friday, September 28th, you can get up close and personal with Kate. Her gallery show, A FINE MESS, is debuting in Troy, NY and if you’re in the area I can’t recommend strongly enough that you stop by. Hell, even if you’re not in the area–I’m driving more than two hours to be there because I’ve seen some of the new pieces she’s been doing and want to drool on them in person (thus raising the price, obviously, so get there early). Click the invite for all the pertinent details.

But hey, maybe you want to know more about why I’ll shout about Kate at strangers in the street, like a mad hobo barking at pigeons. Might be because, amongst her other comic and artistic achievements, she wrote and illustrated my favorite book of 2011. Watch the sweet trailer below:

BANDAGE: A DIARY OF SORTS is one of Kate’s passion projects. She worked on this book, a poetry/graphic novel hybrid, for the better part of a decade. She funded the book with Kickstarter and got it out to the world last summer.

If you want to check out a book unlike anything else on your bookshelf right now, and is all the better for it, follow this link and pick up a copy directly from Kate via Amazon. You won’t regret it.

Also called “Bandage: A Diary of Sorts” and created by talented writer/illustrator Kate Glasheen.  This book is a passion project for her, one I had the pleasure of reading an early draft of in October ’09.  I loved it then and love it more now that I can hold my own copy.

 
Part poetry, part comic, this is the book you need to own this year.  This book was a Kickstarter baby, and it my pleasure to contribute to it.

Now it’s your turn – go to Amazon and order a copy directly from the creator.  Then go bookmark http://katiecrimespree.blogspot.com/ and keep up with all her shenanigans.  Her weekly drawing club is killer.

The wonderful and talented Jackie Santiago is completely overhauling her portfolio. Why does this matter to you?

Original art for sale on the cheap.

She’s got 20 pieces 18 17 pieces (now) from 2008 – 2010 and they’re all priced to move.

Go. Look. Buy.

Carry on.

Original art by the inimitable Mark Holmes

Quick reminder, NYC-area comic fans – Tonight I’ll be signing at Jim Hanley’s Universe NYC for today’s release of Popgun Volume 4! The anthology features Rusted: Faded Signal, the first of a series of interconnected shorts written by yours truly and illustrated by the inimitable Alex Eckman-Lawn. We finished this particular story last May so we’re both PUMPED to see it out today.

Sadly, Alex won’t be able to make the signing today. We’ve got all sorts of nasty weather that came through yesterday and is coming through later in the week, which means Alex has to finish up work on his solo gallery debut.


WHAT?! Solo gallery show?!


Fuck yes. Cool people (that’s you) in the Philly or NYC-area, (or anywhere commutable to Philly) need to get out next Friday night, March 5th, from 6-9pm to check out the show. Info to follow after the invite:

REBUILT: Redifining the Spaces That Define Us

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Proximity

2434 East Dauphin Street,

Philadelphia, PA 19125

Hope to see some of you tonight at Jim Hanley’s and more of you next week at the opening. Because you’re awesome. And we love you.