BEHIND THE SCENES SECRETS: this strip largely exists to establish that Mona Spector is the events director at her humble coffee shop. HOWEVER, I do think this would be a great event to see at a place where food and coffee are served! HERE ARE TWO MORE GREAT EVENTS YOU MAY ENJOY: A Reading with Jeanne Thornton at DOMY Books (link is to Facebook): Austin people ought to know about this DOMY Books! All manner of indepdent books, comics, zines, and other reading matter, plus constant excellent events, book clubs, and much more. Any city is only as good as its bookstores, and DOMY is one of the stores making Austin a legitimately good city in which to live. AND NOW CLEARLY IT IS ALL THE GREATER, as I will be reading there on November 1! Come celebrate DAY OF THE DEAD with me! Bring any questions you want to ask, whether they have to do with the book or not! November 1, 7 pm, 913 E Cesar Chavez St in Austin! Austin Comic-Con: Come pick up a copy of Rocksalt! A bunch of Man Who Hates Fun books! Copies of my novel! And an infinity of other delightful surprises! I’ll be with Geoff Sebesta and Uncle STAPLE! at booth 930 on Saturday and Sunday, and mmmmaybe part of Friday, if I can get necessary freelance work done early. Come hang out! So more news you may like: I’m going to shoot for three updates next week, Tues/Weds/Thurs. This is largely to get a true Halloween update in there, since there is in fact a Halloween strip this year, in CLASSIC NEWSPAPER COMIC TRADITION. So here is the signal I will give you: if you see this Halloween strip on Tuesday, expect the regular Tues/Thurs schedule. If, however, Tuesday is a normal, non-ghostly strip, PREPARE YOURSELF FOR HALLOWEEN EXCITEMENT A DAY LATER, plus another strip on November 1! I do want to get to three strips a week at some point, and we’ll see how it goes in terms of actually getting the time to get the work done. All right: so I’ll see you this weekend at Austin Comic-Con, and then on Tuesday! Is it a deal? It is a deal!
