I’ll be doing two slideshow booksignings in the Bay Area on Friday and Saturday August 14 and 15th, alongside San Francisco cartoonist Lev (Tales of Mere Existence).
Lev and I were neighbors in the hardcore, rough and tumble SF neighborhood known as the Inner Richmond.
Friday, Aug. 14-I’ll be at COMIC RELIEF ( in Berkeley) starting at 6:30pm for a slieshow presentation of (th)ink, the K Chronicles, and the Knight Life, seen locally in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Berkeley Daily Planet, Contra Costa Times and the Marin Independent Journal.
I’ll be signing books, answering questions, and showing/selling original art.
Saturday, Aug. 15-I’ll be at AL’S COMICS (Market St. near Octavia in San Francisco) starting at 6:30pm for another slideshow/booksigning. This will be similar to the Berkeley gig, with books, art, CDs and DVDs.
These signings have been booked super-late, so if anyone can help hype them through their blogs, Facebook, Twitter and all, please do.
If you can hang posters for me, send me your address and I’ll mail you twenty!!
*MORRIE TURNER CAREER RETROSPECTIVE AT THE SF MAIN LIBRARY..
The big reason I’m heading up north is to experience the AfroSolo/SF Main Library opening of the Morrie Turner comic art show. Morrie was the first nationally syndicated African-American cartoonist (Wee Pals) and has been an extraordinary inspiration to generations of kids and cartoonists. I hope you’ll join me on Saturday August 15th at 2pm for this event. Morrie’s gonna be interviewed by legendary Bay Area news reporter Belva Davis.
Glad to see Mr. Turner is still alive and kicking! Not only was the first “bro” in terms of syndication, he was also the first in terms of having his creation adapted for film/TV (decades before “The Boondocks”). I used to love watching “Kid Power” (the TV version of “Wee Pals”) on ABC back in the day, as neither of the so-called “major newspapers” in my town would run the actual strip.