*FIRST CONVENTION APPEARANCE OF 2005:

will be at Wondercon 2005 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Feb. 18-20

*ANYBODY WANT ME TO SPEAK AT THEIR COLLEGE?

send me the address of yer school. i’ve got new postcards that i must get rid of. they’re cluttering my tiny studio floor.

*BRAVO TO TOM WILSON..

not the guy who invented “Ziggy”, i mean the dude that grilled Rumsfeld about the U.S. military being ill-equiped..

*EMAIL O’ THE WEEK:

Ah, Keef…

>

> … what else is there to say? Verily, you rock, and with awesome

> consistency. Don’t you ever have a bad day at the ol’ drawing board?

> Sure doesn’t seem so!

>

> “But then you remember- you live in Canada!” Lucky for me, I do.

> Toronto. Where I am a professional caricaturist. I make most of my

> living as an entertainment caricaturist, being sent out by various of

> my agents to bar mitzvahs, corporate parties, trade shows and the odd

> bachelorette party. The rest of my dough comes from studio

> assignments: sometimes commissioned cartoony portraits, sometimes

> making corsets and assorted kink couture for the wealthier discerning

> pervs of this fine city. Hey, it’s a livin’.

>

> All this is by way of letting you know that there’s some oomph behind

> the best compliment one artist can offer another, which is this:

> almost everytime I catch the latest K Chronicles, I not only find

> myself nodding in agreement, but think…

>

> “DAMN, I wish I drew that!”

>

> Continue to make us laugh and think, Keith. The art world’s a finer

> place with you in it.

>

> cheers,

> Kimberley