Tour Time

I'm leaving on tour Friday for a week and a half with three talented friends Dave Roche, Jim Joyce and Xavier Maldonado. Here are the dates and places for the tour, if you're around please come say hi!

Aug 11th Chicago, IL 826CHI (1331 N Milwaukee 7pm)

Aug 12th Grand Rapids, MI Calvin Gallery (106 S. Division 7pm)

Aug 13th Cleveland, OH Soggy Dog House (tentative)

Aug 14th Pittsburgh, PA Cyberpunk Apocolypse (5431 Carnegie St 7pm)

Aug 15th Philly, PA Wooden Shoe Bookstore (704 South Street 7pm)

Aug 16th New York, NY Book Thug Nation (100 North 3rd St 7pm)

Aug 17th Baltimore, MD Red Emma's (tentative)

Aug 18th Columbus, OH luka House (2131 luka ave 7pm)

Aug 19th Louisville, KY Quills Coffee Shop (930 Baxter 7pm)

Aug 20th Bloomington, IN Boxcar Books (408 6th St 7pm)

I'm very excited to take my work on the road. I love having the instant feedback of a crowd, it's pretty amazing.

I've been binding like crazy to make copies to take out. I will have copies of my new edition of Aurthur and the Whale.

I drew this comic for a zine about nannying that Jami Sailor asked me to contribute to. I'm very excited to see the finished product!

And in other huge news-Chicago Zine Fest 2012 date has been set. Please mark your calendars!

In personal news I have a new amazing roommate Sara Drake. It's awesome to have a roommate working on stuff and to have work nights. She is right now working on raising money for an amazing trip she is planning to go to Cambodia and work with women there on making comics. It's pretty incredible and a great cause. Please, think about donating to her kickstarter to try and help fund it. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/178882708/comics-in-cambodia?ref=live

Hope to see some of you on tour!

making things happen

Tour with Paul is over. I was really surprised at what a warm response my readings got at our shows. Lots of people came up and said how nice it was to see someone reading at a show. This made me feel really great.

The biggest show we had was in Grand Rapids, our old stomping grounds, where over 100 people showed up to watch and I read into a microphone on a stage.

I am lucky enough to be friends with such talented people and to let them welcome me into their lives. Paul works really hard to have the kind of crowds he does at house shows so it was pretty incredible to get to read in front of such large groups.

In other news my friend James Payne asked me to do a drawing for an anthology the amazing Anne Elizabeth Moore was putting together for the Chicago Zine Fest.

It's a really neat zine about women's representation in the comic book world. I was honored to be asked to do it. Here's the beautiful cover by the ultra talented Sara Drake:

I was lucky enough to share the middle spread with Ramsey Beyer. Here is our page:

For now, I have to work on getting things together. I have several whale books to make from tour since I ran out and had to start a mailing list for them. I also want to start another large project now that my last book is done.

It's nice to have everything you feel you should be doing reaffirmed in just 12 days.

I started an etsy shop with all my goodies available there.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/leslieperrine