I have told a few of you that I would be attending Dave Mckean's signing at Chicago Comics on Saturday, July 18th. Since he is one of my favorite artists ever, I was, naturally, an exited little boy. So excited, in fact, my head transformed into a red Airheads balloon, powered by gaseous excitement, rocketing my flailing, useless body through holes in my home, racking up thousands of dollars in debt which eventually forced me to live in the rubble I had created.

Anyway, tomorrow I will depart for Chicago. But not for the signing--I will not be going. I've known we would be going to my family reunion party thing that day for quite some time, but as it turns out, I just discovered, it will take place in the exact time of the signing, leaving me trapped in my uncle's home with family members I don't even know, without even one item with Dave's vandalism scrawled carelessly on the cover. Naturally, learning Dave's less than 10 miles away from my location inflated me with anger, causing an anger-fueled Airheads balloon to rocket my raging body in fury at very expensive furniture and a few slightly less expensive people I don't even know. Not my cup of tea.

So: if anyone happens to be in Chicago tomorrow (July 18th) go to Chicago Comics and see Dave McKean, the man I could only gaze at through film. Even if you've never heard of the guy he's definitely worth seeing. Dave's a spectacularly gifted artist who could create awesome art simply by sneezing on a bathroom mirror, forming gorgeous yet temporary saliva-paintings.

More insight on all that here. [link]

However, I will be traveling to New York City in roughly 3 weeks. Probably no cool people will be attending any cool events, but the experience itself should be...cool. Even though I'm not particularly looking forward to it. That last word of the second sentence of this paragraph might be stretching the truth a bit.

In unrelated news, Coraline and Watchmen will be on DVD this Tuesday (July 21st) and I can say I'm very eager to purchase both. Oddly enough, though, I'm more excited to watch Coraline for the third time than Watchmen which I still haven't seen yet. Hmmm. Must investigate further.