Home. Next Stop: Toronto

I'm back home. The first leg of the tour was amazing. Sold some books, sold some art, drove a thousand miles and managed to get a bit of skating in at pretty much every stop. Props to Portland and Vancouver for a couple of super good little skate plazas. One thing I was bad about was documenting the events... but I swear, people came out. Here's a shot from Needles and Pens site. They were better about it.

By the way, they mention on their site that they plan to make the work from the show available online in the next week. I'll try to keep tabs and make a note here as well.

I didn't document the events, or the skating for that matter, but I did get some photos of some of the places I stayed. In Portland that was at Nate's house. He's a friend of my brother-in-law from way back, he's in Witch Mountain and has a rad roommate named Matt who does kind of amazing metal cover art. Here's some stuff from Nate's house:

He also had an amazing super-old poster in his room, a sort of pinup style painting of the "women of the X-Men" with Rogue, the mohawked Storm and Kitty hanging out by the pool. from the late 80's probably. Amazing. And apparently super rare as the image doesn't seem to be anywhere on the web.

Lastly, I should probably mention Brian Ralph's diary comics from ComicCon. They're awesome. And not just because I'm in them.

Lastly, huge thank yous to all the shops that hooked me up: Family, Needles & Pens, Pegasus, Floating World, Fantagraphics and Lucky's.

Next: Pegasus, Berkeley

Finishing up a few things in SF today, including a quick roll around Potrero Skatepark, and breakfast at Just For You where I learned to flip eggs, before heading over to Berkeley to do my thing at Pegasus. The event at N+P was amazing. All kinds of people showed up and stood, sat and laid on the floor to watch the slide show projected high up on the fifteen foot walls. The slide show even convinced a couple of Swedish holiday goers to buy the book they'd earlier deemed a bit heavy to carry with them on their plane ride home. So I must be doing something right. Here are a couple of pics of the N+P show itself from before the people showed up. My eternal gratitude to Andrew and Breezy for hooking this up and doing such a beautiful job framing and hanging the work.

Next: Needles & Pens

Heading up to San Francisco this morning (Tuesday) for the reading and opening at N&P, 7-9:30. The show features several originals from Big Questions, including two covers, a bunch of full pages and several single panels and other scraps. It's the first time I've actually made any material from the book available since around 2005.