*GREETINGS FROM THE WORLD’S WORST BLOGGER..
I’m supposed to be updating this every Tuesday night for Wednesday. It ain’t working out too well. But I’ve been hard, hard, hard at work on the not-so-secret-anymore secret project that is set to launch on May 5th, National Cartoonists Day (and Boy’s Day somewhere else).

Anyhoo, come see me at the Festival of Books this weekend and I’ll tell you all about it.

*LOS ANGELES TIME FESTIVAL OF BOOKS..
This was my first big event that I attended after I moved to La-La Land last year. The festival smothers the UCLA Main Campus with tons and tons of authors, publishers, book shops and the people that love them. I will be parked in ye olde McSweeney’s Booth once again hockin’ my brand new not-sold-in-stores K Chronicles collection, I Left My Arse in San Francisco. I’ll also have copies of the extremely rare out-of-print Dances with Sheep and Passion of the Keef collections. Git yer ass out there this Sat and Sun from 10am-6pm. Booth #685

*DARK HORSE’S 500 PAGE K CHRONICLES COLLECTION..
..is on it’s way to the printer. Gosh-darn it looks swell!! I hope to have a page up in the store where you’ll be able to pre-order the book for lots off the cover price. I’ll give a holla when it’s set up. But for now, you can pre-order here.

*CHEAP-ASS MOVE OF THE WEEK..
Since we’re in a recession, I’ve decided to add a new feature to this blog called “Cheap-Ass Move of the Week”. It’s where I, the Phat Friar of Frugality, share with you a nugget of money-saving goodness…

The big question is–How can a cheap-ass get even cheaper in times like these? I’ve always lived life like there was a recession, so what do I do now?

Go to McDonalds!!

That’s what I did for the past two weeks. They just introduced their new Iced Coffee. And in one of the local rags they had a coupon to try it for free ..

I’m generally a tea drinker, but I’ll try anything once…Twice if it’s free (actually, 15 times if it’s free)..

Apologies to folks who opened their free weeklies and saw something mysteriously ripped out. It wasn’t Big Brother.

Anyhoo, so every other day I go get my free Iced Coffee and head on over to the library to draw comix. Pick up a coupla DVDs and walk home. No money spent!!

Oh..And I gotta give it up for the Santa Monica Main Library for having Pete Bagge’s big fat Hate collection on their shelves. Guess it helps to be located near the fine comics shop Hi-De-Ho.

Okay…Good luck to everybody going up to Stumptown up in Portland. Let me know how it is..

Cheers,

Keef