Portland Zine Symposium and a New Book!

I’ll be attending the Portland Zine Symposium for the first time in several years this weekend, and I’m quite excited about it! Very fun to have new “home town” shows to go to. I’ll be splitting a table with Greg Means of Tugboat Press and the Aron Nels Steinke, and many of my other Portland cartoonist pals will be in attendance, so the whole thing should be lots of fun!

In addition to my usual Family Style-published wares, like Bird BRain and ELFWORLD, I’ll also be premiering my illustrated version of “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce. This is the first in a series of illustrated chap-books that Scout Books (where I work) will be releasing over the next few months! I am super excited about these little books, as the series editor I got to pick out a great line-up of classic American short stories by my favorite authors (like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edgar Allen Poe, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman), and pair them with some of the coolest cartoonists and illustrators out there (such as Vanessa Davis, Tom Neely, Meg Hunt, and many other winners. Mayhaps you might be intertested in a subscription, hmm?

Regarding my own contribution, I had a ton of fun drawing. My book has two short stories, the first, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” which is quite famous and has probably inspired hundreds of twist endings since it was published in the 1890s. I remember reading it in grade school and being quite taken with it. The second tale, “A Horseman in the Sky,” was new to me, but very cool as well! I had a ton of fun doing drawings for these two.