I’m hitting the road this week to join Meredith’s Octopus Pie book tour. I’ll be in Brooklyn tomorrow, July 6th at Bergen Street Comics.

Next stop is Austin at Dragon’s Lair for Indie Comics Expo on Sunday, July 11. (the site says Saturday, but it is indeed Sunday)

We hope to have Los Angeles and San Francisco shops coming right afterwards. I’ll let you know as soon as they’re 100%. I’ll also be at San Diego Comicon with Team Dumbrella- same spot as always!

Last year I took the train to San Diego, this year is another road trip. You can follow along at home on Twitter or my venerable Tumblr blog, the Joe Biden Fan Club. No train this year because we will be bringing a tiny dog with us.

Just a quick note! I am down to my last ten or so mens Red Robot socks. They will be reprinted in the future, but it’s gonna be a while. Also, the Saddest Soldier shirts are closing out for the THX-mazing price of $11.38. Grab what you want while you can!

In convention news, I’m going to be in three cities in the next few weeks. (Thank Batman Dr. Melville will be covering for me in the office!) You can always follow me on Twitter to get the “scoop” “as it happens.”

ROBOGAMES
April 23-25, San Mateo CA

Basically, I have always wanted to hang out with insane engineers and meet people who do competitive robotics. I’m exhibiting with a bunch of my robot stuff: I Screw Robots & Crush All Humans shirts, plush Red Robots, as well as a medley of socks and stickers. This is my “treat” for the year, AKA a non-comics event I’ve never been to.

ROFLcon 2
April 30-May 1, Cambridge MA

ROFLcon is a nerd hootenanny and I was lucky enough to get to draw their official con shirt this year. Don’t think I’ll be selling anything here, just mingling and attending lectures to try and learn a bit.

Toronto Comics Art Festival
May 8-9 Toronto, ON

Basically, the best comic show that has ever happened in real life. I’ll be there with Granulac and a whole table of neat stuff, especially pixel skull shirts seeing as it is National Year of Scott Pilgrim and Toronto is his home town.

TCAF has the distinction of being the only comic show I don’t try to come up with excuses to skip. It’s that good and totally drivable from New York and New England. The Beguiling is easily a top ten comic shop for Planet Earth and they put on a show worth braving the Canadian border for.

Did you watch Big Bang theory tonight? Maybe you noticed some Diesel Sweeties out of the corner of your eye? I am the luckiest blockhead in Americatown tonight!

Evil Wil Wheaton guest-starred and CRUSH ALL HUMANS! shirts, Electric Sheep shirts, Pac-Math shirts and Invisible Giraffe shirts got cameos. So rad.

The Scott Pilgrim movie trailer is up and I got goosebumps before even SEEING this screencap.

Edgar Wright, you completely understand how violence works in my imagination. So happy for Mal. This may be the first movie I see in a theater in 2010. I still remember the train ride where I read volume 1 cover to cover without stopping.

Pixel Skull shirts are here as always! Should I do a ringer for filmic authenticity?

Two limited-run shirts which could not be more different from each other are up in the DS store! We’re printing both to order next week, so grab one now and we’ll have yours made special.

And for completists, here are the comics they came from: Red Robot throws a Tea Party / Gonk Gonk!

Promo pics just came out for an episode of The Big Bang Theory airing on April 12 and they combine five of my favorite things:

+ Bowling
+ Evil Wil Wheaton
+ Sheldon Cooper
+ T-Shirts
+ More Bowling

In particular, CRUSH ALL HUMANS! and Electric Sheep shirts. This is so dang cool and you have no idea how hard it has been not to blab.

I drew superheroes in front of Next Generation almost every night in middle school and the only sport I participated in was bowling club, so seventh grade me just had a geek heart attack.

Pixel Socks and Invisible Giraffe shirts may also pop up in the episode. I am so finally hooking my TV up properly.

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