Sandy Relief

Tucson: I'll be at Heroes and Villains tomorrow (Wednesday) from 3-5, drawing you pictures to raise money for Sandy relief.  Come say hi!

Unlucky Charms Cover

This was not the original cover, and I'll be telling the story of that soon.  But I am proud of this NEW! and Improved cover of Unlucky Charms, the sequel to Cold Cereal.

Unlucky Charms will be available On February 5th.

Naked Attention Grab

I'm craving some external validation today, so here are a bunch of baby animals.

Cold Cereal NEW! and IMPROVED!

Just occurred to me that I've never posted the NEW! cover of Cold Cereal, which graces the paperback edition.  Tada.

Unlucky Charms is Coming.

Are coming?  It's a title, so...I think "is coming."

UNLUCKY CHARMS IS COMING.

This sequel to Cold Cereal will be in stores in two weeks.  So here's a picture of a tree throwing tiny men at a guy.

To help me with all these drawings of the brownies above, I made a quick little head out of my kneaded eraser.  Then I photographed him with my laptop, atop a toothpick I'd pulled out of my sandwich.  I find it's best in these situations not to explain anything to the people at the tables next to you, and let them work out their own narratives for what you're doing.

Previously, This is So Raven.

Toad of Toad Hall

Chu's Day is out...

...and I can't help but link to a blog post that Neil Gaiman writes about it.  So go read that.  But I hope he won't mind that I stole one of his images, which I present below.

When Gaiman presented his manuscript to HarperCollins, he actually included his own B&W dummy, a drawing from which you can see above.  I don't actually know how many authors do this, but it was the first time that a publisher forwarded along such a dummy to me.

Anyway, it was understood that I didn't have to make the book-dust blower an elephant if I didn't want to.  But man, why NOT an elephant?

New Pssst! Review

Nice new review of Pssst! by Sid Allie.  Contains spoilers.

His dad's the Editor-In-Chief of Dark Horse Comics, so you know he knows what he's talking about.

I Attempt Felting

THE GREATEST STORY EVER

Hey, click here and scroll down for the GREATEST STORY EVER.

Anyone Want an Original Illustration from The True Meaning of Smekday?

Here, click on these words.  The ones you're reading right now.

Chu's Day Trailer

Fun fact–Gaiman wasn't available to make this video, so I played him wearing a Neilsuit a la the British "pantomime" tradition.

CONTEST WINNERS

We had a great response to our Hallowtweet Poety Contest (just made that name up).  I think it was exactly fifty entries.  Which makes this next part hard, but...

The winner of the 2012 Hallowtweet Poetry Contest is...

Zack Rock (@zackrock)

Frankenstein dons Calvin Klein/Dracula wears Crocs/Wolfman shaves & behaves/Bigfoot's in big socks/Tonite it's thus: we're them, they're us.

Isn't that nice?

Zack, if indeed that is his real name, will receive an original drawing by me, suitable for framing, if you think framing something like that is suitable.

We also have five runners up, in no particular order:


Brian Rafter (@WerewolfBathtub)

2 spatulas, a wooden spoon/The choices make him wince./The Slasher's stuck; the dishwasher/Is locked on normal rinse.

Talky Tina Kugler (@tinatheatre)

No child fears the Jubbalo/Sharp horns on top and claws below/No child fears his eyes a-glitter/His favorite food is babysitter.

Amanda C. Davis (@davisac1)

Ghoulsie dies and ghostsie dies and little vampsy dorgans. (A wolfully dorgans too, wouldn't you?)

Carter Higgins (@CarterHiggins)

Sugar coated canines and rotting roots in heaps. On Hallow's Eve, Tooth Fairy shakes her piggy bank and weeps.

Julie Falatko (@JulieFalatko)

The wind is howling/ The candlelight flickers/ To the wee goblins I say:/ Keep your hands off my Snickers.

Thanks again to everyone–this was even more fun than I'd expected.  Winners should get in touch via the email in my blog profile.

CONTEST

Hey, does anyone want to win a sketch by me? Head over to twitter and tweet a 140 character Halloween poem to @stevenmalk before midnight tonight!

Austin was a good time.

Birdie.

Bunny.

Art Show

Hey, if you're in or around Tucson tomorrow (Friday), maybe come by the opening of this art show. Features me, Mike Nolan, cartoonist Max Cannon (Red Meat), and my teacher, David Christiana. 

Effin' G's!

SMEKDAY MOVIE

Oh! Well, apparently Dramworks has officially announced their Smekday movie, starring Jim Parsons and Rihanna: http://bit.ly/N9jRn9

Our Cat is Missing

I realize this blog is kind of a blunt instrument, but if you live in Tucson, please keep an eye out.

I Did a Podcast!

On which I make semi-coherent points about censorship!  Also I think I use the word "ass" twice.

http://katiedavis.com/the-dirty-cowboy/

This Is So Raven

Piece I just finished for the sequel to Cold Cereal.

Holy Cats.

This 14-year-old Japanese kid Konan (named for Arthur Conan Doyle!) took it upon himself to translate the entirety of Brixton Brothers #1: The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity.  Apparently he's well into translating the second book, too.  He did it all for an annual event called Rōsaku-ten, or "Painstaking Words Exhibition."  He won an award!

Speaking of Great Letters...

From the National Coalition Against Censorship:

TDC Letter to AC Schools 5-15-12