THE BIG TULSA SHOW!

(Click the poster above for more bigness!)

Folks, it's finally happened! My performing career has reached such a fever pitch that I will be headlining at the Tulsa Elks Lodge! Can anything stop me now?

I'll be in Tulsa for two different types of show, on two subsequent nights, this is the second one, as closer inspection of this blog will show. The show the night before will be at Philbrook Art Museum, and different than this one. Click here.

This Elks show is different in these ways:
1. MORE and different stand-up comedy and cartoons. And some slightly more adult humor.
2. A special V.I.P party beforehand, for people with a few extra bucks (to charity) and a misguided desire to meet me in person in a smaller room.
3. MORE songs than on the previous night, with talented backup musicians. NONE have EVER been performed in public.*
4. ALL the money goes to charity. You can spend a few bucks, have a great time, then pretend you went out of your way to do something nice for someone!
5. You will want to attend BOTH shows, compare and contrast.

Come and see me, laugh, meet me, get some signed cartoon books for holiday gifts, take pictures, create a memory that will last for an undetermined amount of time. This year, I'm looking forward to spending the week before Thanksgiving with YOU!

Ticket info here.

*Except one



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THE BIG TULSA TALK!

As you can see from the poster above (click it to see it huge and legibly) I'll be appearing at Philbrook Museum of Art in my hometown of Tulsa soon! I'll be doing a bit of a hybrid sort of presentation with some stand-up comedy, lots of my favorite cartoons on the big screen, a discussion of my fine art, and an overview of my 25-year career as a cartoonist. And, most exciting and terrifying of all, I'll be performing a few of my original songs with talented musicians. Not comedy songs – songs about death and depression and hard drinking and sin. It will be FUN!

The next night I'll be doing a different kind of show, also in Tulsa, see the next post for that info. You'll want to be at BOTH of them! Trust me.

I'll be answering questions and signing books and whatever afterward, so this is your big chance to rub elbows with me and pretend I'm a celebrity. I'll help by dressing funny, like celebrities usually do. We can take a picture together and you can use it on your Christmas card. (No Hanukkah cards, please.*)

For more info, go to the Philbrook web site. http://www.philbrook.org/

*Kidding, of course. You can put me on whatever card you want.**

**Just a small sampling of some of the sort of politically incorrect humor I am likely to employ!

Halloween, Idiots, Teeth

Bizarro is brought to you today by Teeth.

I hope everyone had a dandy Halloween weekend. CHNW and I stayed home and watched scary movies. If you ever want to see a movie that will absolutely make your blood run cold and afraid to be alone after dark for the rest of your life, find one other than 1959's House on Haunted Hill, starring Vincent Price. If, on the other hand, you want to get stoned and laugh your buttocks off, this might be just the right choice.

I love old movies (and new movies, too, I'm not some weird gay guy still living with his mother, after all) and it always amazes me what passed for scary in olden times. Part of my problem is probably that I don't believe in anything supernatural – ghosts, demons, magic, spirits, etc. – so I never fall for those kinds of stories. The only movies I find "scary" are films about murderers or whatever. Things that could actually happen to me. I can't bear slasher or torture movies at all.

When I was a teenager, however, it was different. During my brief few years as a fundamentalist "teen for Jesus" type, I firmly believed in the devil and demons, so movies like The Exorcist scared the crap out of me. Almost as much as the prospect of President Sarah Palin does now, for instance. Oh yeah, it's election day, I have to go vote. You should go vote, too, unless you're superstitious and think that gays, Mexicans and socialists are trying to take over America. Then maybe you should skip it.

Let the angry comments begin!

By the way, the "idiot" joke above was a collaboration between me and my good friend, Wayno. Here's his post on how it morphed as we discussed it.

New Library Comics: October 2010

Here's a list of the comics we added to our library collection in October:


Acevedo, Juan. Ciudad de los reyes / Lima, Perú : Contra Cultura, 2009.

Anderson, Ho Che. Ho Che Anderson's sand & fury : a scream queen adventure. / Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics ; London : Turnaround [distributor], c2010.

AX : alternative manga. / Marietta, Ga. : Top Shelf ; London : Diamond [distributor], 2010.

Bell, Blake. Fire & water : Bill Everett, the Sub-Mariner, and the birth of Marvel Comics / Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics ; London : Turnaround [distributor], c2010

Brown, Jeffrey, 1975- Cats are weird and more observations / San Francisco, Calif. : Chronicle ; Grantham : GBS [distributor], c2010.

Brubaker, Ed. Bad night : a criminal edition / New York : Marvel, c2009.

Brubaker, Ed. The sinners : a Criminal edition / New York : Marvel ; London : Diamond [distributor], 2010

Butler, Tracy J. Lackadaisy / [Carmichael, CA] : 4th Dimension Entertainment, 2009-

Campbell, Ross, 1979- Shadoweyes. Volume 1 / San Jose, Calif. : SLG ; London : Diamond [distributor], 2010.

Chieffet, George. Lucky in love. Book one : a poor man's history / Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics ; London : Turnaround [distributor], 2010

Clowes, Daniel. Daniel Clowes : conversations / Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2010

Cthulhu. / [Philadelphia] : KettleDrummer Books : Diabolo Ediciones, 2010

Dinski, Will. Fingerprints / Marietta, Ga. : Top Shelf ; London : Diamond [distributor], 2010

Doerr, Stephen. Exorcisms and pogo sticks / [Las Vegas, Nev.] : Yaoi Press, c2005-2006

Dupuy, 1960- Haunted / Montréal : Drawn & Quarterly ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008.

Ellis, Warren. Transmetropolitan v. 8 : dirge / New York : DC Comics, c2009-

Gaiman, Neil. The dangerous alphabet / New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, c2008.

Galliquio, David. Lito "el perro" / Miraflores, [Perú] : Ediciones Contracultura, 2009.

Giandelli, Gabriella. Interiorae no. 4 / Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books ; Bologna [Italy] : Coconino Press, c2005-

Girl comics / New York : Marvel ; London : Diamond [distributor], 2010.

Goodwin, Archie. X-9 Secret Agent Corrigan v. 1 : 1967-1969 / San Diego, Calif. : Library of American Comics ; London : Diamond [distributor], 2010-

Griffith, Bill, 1944- Zippy the pinhead : ding dong daddy from Dingburg / Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics ; London : Turnaround [distributor], 2010.

Hagio, Moto, 1949- Moto Hagio's a drunken dream and other stories / Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics ; London : Turnaround [distributor], 2010

The Harvey Comics treasury. v. 1. Casper: the Friendly Ghost & Friends! / Milwaukie, Or. : Dark Horse ; London : Diamond [distributor], 2010-

Hernandez, Jaime. Love and rockets : new stories v. 3 / Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, c2008-

Holkins, Jerry. Penny arcade. 6, The halls below / New York : Del Rey : Ballantine Books, c2010.

Holmberg, Pablo, 1979- Eden / Montréal : Drawn & Quarterly, c2010

Jacobson, Sidney. Anne Frank : the Anne Frank House authorized graphic biography / New York : Hill and Wang, 2010.

Johnson, Mat. Dark rain : a New Orleans story / New York : DC Comics/Vertigo, c2010

Killed cartoons : casualties from the war on free expression / New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007

Kim, Susan, 1958- Brain camp / New York : First Second, 2010.

Kitchen, Denis, 1946- The art of Harvey Kurtzman : the mad genius of comics / New York : Abrams ComicArts, 2009.

Konami, Kanata, 1958- Chi's Sweet Home = Chīzu suīto hōmu v. 2 / New York : Vertical, 2010-

Langer, Sergio, 1959- Langer for export. / [Perú] : Ediciones ContraCultura, 2007.

Lapham, David. Modern Warfare 2. Ghost / Jolla, CA : Wildstorm, c2010

Lee, Stan, 1922- Marvel masterworks presents the Silver Surfer v. 2 / New York, N.Y. : Marvel Comics, 2003

Lemelman, Martin. Two cents plain : my Brooklyn boyhood / New York : Bloomsbury, 2010.

Lewis, Corey Sutherland. Seedless / Berkeley, Calif. : Image ; London : Diamond [distributor], c2010.

Lockpez, Inverna. Cuba : my revolution / New York : DC Comics/Vertigo, c2010

Marzocchi, Leila. Niger no. 3 / Seattle : Fantagraphics Books ; [Bologna, Italy?] : Coconino Press, c2006-

McCarthy, Brendan. Spider-Man. Fever / New York, N.Y. : Marvel Comics, 2010

McDonnell, Patrick, 1956- Earl & Mooch : a Mutts treasury / Kansas City, Mo. : Andrews McMeel Pub., c2010

Messmer, Otto, 1892-1983. Felix the Cat : the great comic book tails / San Diego, Calif. : IDW ; London : Diamond [distributor], c2010.

Mignola, Michael. The amazing screw-on head and other curious objects / Milwaukie, Or. : Dark Horse ; London : Diamond [distributor], 2010

Millionaire, Tony. Billy Hazelnuts and the crazy bird / Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics ; London : Turnaround [distributor], 2010.

Montana, Bob. Archie : the complete newspaper comics. Vol. 1, 1946-1948 / San Diego, Calif. : IDW ; London : Diamond [distributor], c2010.

The 'Nam v. 2 / New York : Marvel Comics, c1999-

Niffenegger, Audrey. The night bookmobile / New York : Abrams, 2010.

Nury, Fabien. I am legion / Hollywood, CA : Humanoids, c2010

O'Connor, George. Athena : grey-eyed goddess / New York ; London : First Second, 2010.

Ono, Natsume, 1977- House of five leaves. v. 1 / San Francisco, Calif. : Viz Media ; London : Simon & Schuster [distributor], 2010

Pérez-Ruibal, Jorge. Y se me presento en forma de Bestia / Miraflores, [Perú] : Ediciones Contracultura, 2008.

Pettingill, Norman, 1896-1991. Norman Pettingill : backwoods humorist / Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, c2010.

Ponchione, Sergio. Grotesque no. 4 : unknown questions / Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics Books ; [Bologna, Italy] : Coconino Press, c2007-

Reading with pictures : an educational comics anthology v. 1 / [S.l.] : www.readingwithpictures.org, c2010-

Rossell, Luis. Entre cuadernos y barrotes : la educación peruana desde el punto de vísta de sus víctimas / Miraflores, [Perú] : Ediciones Contracultura, 2008.

Rossell, Luis. Rupay : historias gráficas de la violencia en el Perú, 1980-1984 / Lima : Ediciones ContraCultura, 2008.

Rucka, Greg. Batwoman : elegy / New York, N.Y. : DC Comics, c2010

Ruckdeschel, Sandra C.  Ellen Degeneres / [Vancouver, Wash.] : Bluewater Comics, 2010

Ryan, Johnny. Prison Pit. Book 2 / Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, 2009

Sally, Zak. Sammy the mouse no. 3 / Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, c2007-

Schulz, Charles M. (Charles Monroe), 1922-2000. The complete Peanuts v. 14 1977 to 1978 / Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, c2004-

Shanower, Eric. The marvelous land of Oz / New York : Marvel Worldwide, Inc., 2010.

Simon, Joe. The Simon and Kirby superheroes / London : Titan, [2010].

Somei, Yoshino. Skyscrapers of Oz / New York : Kitty Press, [2004], c2001

Stanley, John, 1914-1993. Giant size Little Lulu v. 2 / Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Books, 2010-

Stanley, John, 1914-1993. Little Lulu's pal Tubby : the castaway and other stories / Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Books, 2010.

Stanley, John, 1914-1993. Tubby / Montréal : Drawn & Quarterly, c2010.

Sturm, James, 1965- Adventures in cartooning : activity book / New York : First Second, 2010

Takahashi, Rumiko, 1957- InuYasha vols. 51-52 / San Francisco, CA : Viz, LLC, c2003-

Takahashi, Rumiko, 1957- Rin-ne v. 4 / San Francisco, Calif. : Viz Media, c2009-

Tezuka, Osamu, 1928-1989. Apollo's song. Part 1 / New York : Vertical, c2010.

Tezuka, Osamu, 1928-1989. Apollo's song. Part 2 / New York : Vertical, c2010.

Tezuka, Osamu, 1928-1989. Black Jack v. 12 / New York : Vertical, c2008-

Tobe, Keiko. With the light : raising an autistic child v. 7 / New York : Yen Press, 2007-

Toyoshima, Tak, 1971- Secret Asian man : the daily days : a collection of daily comic strips / [S. l.] : Tak Toyoshima, c2009.

Turner, James, 1968- Warlord of Io / San Jose, Calif. : SLG ; London : Diamond [distributor], 2010.

Urasawa, Naoki, 1960- 20th century boys v. 10 / San Francisco, CA : Viz Media, 2009-

Venus ataca : 10 historietistas peruanas / Miraflores, [Perú] : Ediciones Contracultura, 2010.

Walker, Mort. Beetle Bailey : daily & Sunday strips 1965 / London : Titan, 2010.

Wang, Jen, 1984- Koko be good / New York : First Second, 2010

Weing, Drew. Set to sea / Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, 2010

Wertz, Julia. Drinking at the movies / New York : Three Rivers Press, c2010

Yaginuma, Kō, 1973- Twin spica v. 3 / New York : Vertical, Inc., c2010-


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