Me and tewwo of my favorite Always Comix contributors, Pat Aulisio and Matt Wiegle will be all over the road this weekend! Matt is the giant cat.


We will be HERE and THERE!

Current Location: Inside a Red Delicious

Did you know that Erin and I made a secret issue of Always Comix? Well, it's a secret, no more!

SPREAD is a chapter by chapter interpretation of our take on how to suceed in the small press industry- here is a section from MANNERS:




Come and see me with Pat Aulisio and Matt Wiegle this weekend, Fri and Sat at the Richmond Zine Fest in Virginia, or Sunday at the King Con in Brooklyn!

WE ARE BUSY

Tags: always comix, brad mcginty, josh latta, jusin decarlo, katie skelly, l nichols, liz baillie, manners!, matt wiegle
Current Location: Appletown, NY
Current Music: This American Life 300

Matt Wiegle of Partyka fame did the same day of hourlies as me... we may have had slightly different perspectives on how things went, who was right and who was wrong!?!?! YOU DECIDE





Please note that Matt's day included part of the Punchbuggy tour with Liz Baillie, MK Reed, and Ken Dahl, which I was honored to be a part of! Definitely my best comic experience of the year!

Sorry about the cuts... I had to destroy them to make myself more powerful...

Tags: ken dahl, liz baillie, matt wiegle, mk reed, the watchmen
Current Location: Appletown

Do you live in Philadelphia? If so, Liz Baillie, MK Reed, and Ken Dahl are coming to your local anarchist book store this Friday to read comics and play instruments! Live on the road vicariously through the sweet videos and sweeter doggy photos they have been posting on their tour blog!

I will be reading there as well... reading 100% BRAND NEW TOTALLY NEVER BEFORE SEEN MATERIAL! It is one of my most embarrassing stories to date- if you like seeing me sweat, you can not miss this!



In other news, world-renowned Sally Bloodbath impersonator, Matt Wiegle of Partyka, pointed out to me that my name was misspelled on Twitter... it's fixed now (sallybloodbath), but that means that if you added me before yesterday I owe you an apology.

In local news, I lost the hourlies I made over the weekend, so I guess this means I gotta make more. Dang it.

Tags: gabby schultz, ken dahl, liz baillie, mk reed, punchbuggy tour, puppies, wooden shoe
Current Location: City of Apples
Current Music: The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

I can't wait to hook up my scanner so there will be things on here less than 6 years old!



Today my three favorite J-cartoonists, Justin Decarlo, Jason Clarke, and Josh P.M. Frees* are turning 79! That's a lot of spanking that's going to be going on!

*I wanted to link to his Encyclopedia Dramatica page, but I couldn't find it anymore- wha happen?

Tags: jason clarke of philadelphia, josh pm frees, justin decarlo, old sweater
Current Location: City of No Beds

So, I finally joined Twitter, after all your nagging, KATIE. If anyone wants to follow me (it will just be updates on shows and what I'm eating for dinner).

I bet you can figure out what my name is on there!

Current Location: City of Apples

Some of you saw this in Soldier of Love at SPX, some of you did not.

All of you may have been wondering what happened to this story back when I tried to post it originally- my apologies- due to reasons that were 100% my fault, I lost the files and had to re-ink the pages, which, as you know, can take anywhere from 2 hours to 6 months.

Tags: embarrassing yourself, france, violet soda
Current Location: City of Apples
Current Music: Marshall Crenshaw

(page one of more to come tomorrow)

Hey KIDS- is everyone as totally pumped for The Philadelphia Alternative Comic Con on September 13th as I am?! It is being hosted by frequent Always Comix contributor Pat Aulisio in our very own City that Loves Brothers. Remember Hyper Toast by Justin DeCarlo that I have been endlessly raving about?! You can buy it at the PACC! IT will be there... as will local hero Charles Holy-Crap-of-Black-Hole-and-RAW-Fame Burns!



Go! You Must!

Tags: charles burns, embarrassing your friends, hyper toast, justin decarlo, pat aulisio, philadelphia alternative comic con, violet soda

This was made for an anthology debuting at the San Diego Comic Con by the heroic J Chris Campbell Wide Awake Press, there's work by lots of amazing artists including the endlessly darling dreamboats

Current Music: guess!

I will be tabling at the Brooklyn Zine Fest tomorrow (Sunday) with Justin DeCarlo! If you are not familiar with DeCarlo's work, here is some fan mail I sent him last year:



Hyper Toast, DeCarlo's comic, is in it's third issue, and let me tell you, if you are in any position to attend the Zine Fest, you are a Grade A moron if you neglect to pick up DeCarlo's comic. Hyper Toast #1, after some 25 Zine Fests and Conventions I have attended, is still my favorite find. Go get it!

AND, DeCarlo's work is featured in the upcoming Volume 6 of Always Comix- the How We Met Issue- we will be announcing the full roster next week, and before I do, let me say that we received OVER twice the number of comics we can afford to print, which is about 2/3 as many comics as we got for the Evil Issue. There were many quality comics that we were forced to cut, but we are deeply appreciative of everyone who submitted.

Brooklyn Zine Fest is held from 12-7 Sat&Sun at the Lyceum- 227 4th Avenue, Park Slope

Tags: how we met, hyper toast, justin decarlo