Hey, I was interviewed on the Comics Coast to Coast podcast.

One of the show hosts, Justin Thompson was instrumental in hooking me up with my visit to the Charles Schulz museum. In return, everyone should check out his awesome comic strip Mythtickle. He has a new book out, btw.

Anyway, check out my episode of Comics Coast to Coast here

Thanks for having me on the show, guys.

It’s been a while since I posted, so let’s catch up.

What happened in Santa Rosa?
I know I still owe you a recap of my amazing trip to California and my visits at both the Cartoon Art Museum and the Charles M. Schulz museum. My time was so amazing I’m actually auditing which parts I should keep to myself for fear that sharing everything with you might lessen the importance of the experience. Expect something soon on that front.

Upcoming Appearances
We’re not even two weeks away from my setting up shop inside the safe and familiar walls of the Emerald City Comicon. Seattle will be my official home in about two months. I had really hoped 2010 would be the year ECCC was local for me. It’ll be half-local. It’s also happening really close to my birthday (Beware the Ides of March), so I’m expecting to have a lot of fun on this trip.

Two weeks later, you’re going to find me and Kris Straub at the inaugural Pax East. Yes, we’ll be selling stuff there. But more importantly, we’ll be making a Blamimation live during a panel and we’ll want your help. More details on that as we get closer. But be safe and mark your calendar for that weekend. You don’t want to miss it.

Study the work of those before you
King Aroo is a collection of Jack Kent’s comic strip that started in 1950. It’s good. Really good. Like, I can’t believe I’ve never heard of it. Reading it makes me wish that I could have experienced that time when cartoonists all worked in suits and smoked pipes and nobody had done anything yet. It was all open. And everyone was so proficient with the brush and lines were thick and fluid and amazing. Pick up this book. It’s history. Learn from it.

Productivity.
I’ll do bigger write-ups on these over at Webcomics.com, but if you work in any kind of creative endeavor, and you use a mac (and especially if you use a mac and an iphone), here are some applications that have been total game changers for my productivity and work flow.

Simplenote, Justnotes and the Simplenote website: Take notes anywhere and have them all sync to one place. Free
Things: $49 but a great task management app. Tags sync with your calendar. Has sister iphone app for $9.99
BusyCal: $49 bucks but better than ical, syncs both ways with google calendar and over the lan. they offer family packs.
Tripit.com (forward your travel confirmation emails and it’ll build an itinerary for you. Syncs to a sister iphone app. all free.