"Not 'Hollywood Independent' - writer John Oak Dalton is the real Real Thing." --Cinema Minima."Very weird and unpopular b-movies and comics."--Blogalicious. "After watching the film I am left to wonder if he had some childhood trauma he is not telling us about."--IMDB user review. "Screenwriter John Oak Dalton wanted to be in Hollywood. Instead, he's in the rustic kitchen above the Germania General Store, stirring a pot of boiling hot dogs."
--The Harrisburg Patriot-News.
My old pal Tom Cherry decided to table at the Small Press and Comics Expo this year, a great show in Columbus Ohio that we have both visited several times. I offered to help him table, which mostly meant I walked around and talked to other cartoonists and then drew sketches that forced people to take a wide berth around his booth. A fun day and a neat event.
I have been following Tom Scioli's career for a long time and met him some years ago at SPACE. Here he is signing American Barbarian for me, a lunatic masterpiece.
Some of the stash I picked up at SPACE. I am a longtime fan of Pam Bliss and really like her mixed-media Green Peas and Chickenhorses and was pleasantly surprised by something I'd never heard of before called Indestructible Universe Quarterly. I picked up some new Cynicalman and King Cat Comics and really enjoyed meeting King Cat's John Porcellino. I have been reading his autobiographical comic for over ten years and had the surreal experience of feeling like I knew somebody I had never met before.
Me working the door at the Mike Posner concert put on by my university, taken with complete irony by my daughter. I can't remember for sure but I think my last concert might have been They Might Be Giants, not exactly the same crowd. However, I did like this show, especially Mike Posner's unusual covers, including Wonderwall, Rolling with the Deep, and Evil Woman
My first trip to the Indiana University Cinema in Bloomington, Indiana, a hip, alternative film venue as evidenced by these two hip, alternative dudes. This is me and director Miguel Coyula at the screening of his film "Memories of Overdevelopment." I met Miguel some years ago when his movie "Red Cockroaches" played at Microcinema Fest in South Dakota, where I was a festival judge. Since then Miguel has played in some less prestigious venues, such as Sundance. He was so busy at IU we didn't even get to reminisce about sharing a bunk bed at American University in Rapid City.
