Princeton Zine Fest, Autobiographix interview, French edition at Albertine, and my Next Book slated for fall 2025

How do we ride the roller coaster of a lifetime of creativity? That’s what I talked about with Marika Reisberg in episode #199 of her podcast Sustaining Creativity.

Cruising my favorite local kraphaus (which calls itself an antique store but is really an overpriced flea market), I found this gem. It’s a copy—on wood—of a study of the head of an old man painted by the incredibly prolific and celebrated sixteenth-century Northern Renaissance woodcut carver and painter, Albrecht Dürer.

Stumbling exhaustedly past an old stone archway after my book signing at the Angoulême International Comics Festival two weeks ago, I saw the sign for an exhibition of original art by one of my first and most deeply influencing comix heroes, Julie Doucet. A Canadian artist who transformed indie comix in the 1990’s, she was awarded the Grand Prix at the Angoulême festival in 2022.

So I was meditating the other day and when I opened my eyes I saw this in the corner of my studio. Wow, I thought. Even if I had arranged it on purpose, I could not have made it express more perfectly how I feel about my upcoming trip to France.

New French Edition of The Story of My Tits — and me — at the 2023 Comics festival in Angoulême!