We drove up to New Haven today for our reading at Atticus Books. It was one of those days where things feel a little precarious, but everything works out in the end. I decided to break my cartoons up into single panels so they'd be easier to see; this involved frenzied editing on the laptop the entire way to New Haven. Between the brilliant sunlight and axle-bustingly shitty roads, it was difficult to execute delicate Photoshop commands, but somehow I prevailed (I'm now a master of Extreme Photoshopping).

We arrived to find a rather distressing shortage of chairs at our venue; I set about plucking chairs one by one from the cafe as people cleared out, which became something of a sport until I was told to stop. To be fair, the cafe was extremely busy. But providing chairs for a reading is kinda de rigueur, you know. Anyway, it turned out my extra chairs were almost enough, and the people sitting in front on the floor didn't seem to mind. And we were provided free sandwiches, to my delight. Free sandwiches are one of life's great joys.

There's a nice article about us in the New Haven Advocate this week, but I can't find it online.