RIP

JD Salinger died today at age 91. "Nine Stories" remains one of my favorite short story collections of all time.

Howard Zinn died yesterday at age 87. Reading "A People's History of the United States" totally changed my life.

Shiny Shiner

Joyteeth is still going!

Newts

Here's a comic starring Freddy that's in the newest issue of 7days, a Vermont weekly newspaper.

New Goal: New issue of Freddy will be out and ready for TCAF 2010!!! I'll be tabling with Chuck Forsman and Sean Ford! James Sturm will be there with his new book, Market Day!! I looooved TCAF last year and I'm excited for this year too. Clearly.

Dogs!

As many of you know, I freaking love dogs. I just think they are amazing. Which is why I'd like to draw a portrait of your dog for you. It could be your dog, or your friend's dog, or a dog movie star that you really love, like Beethoven.

Drawings are 5"x7", $30.00 for black and white, $35.00 for color.

Email me at mendes.me@gmail.com for details! Makes a great gift!

(p.s. if you love cats more, my friend Gabby does some beautiful cat portraits)

This is Sammy, the dog I had growing up. He always had a guilty look on his face from those eyebrows, which made you love him all the more.

This is Ziggy, dog of a friend, one of the smartest dogs I ever met.

Nelly

Nuala Frijolita

She smiles.

Roscoe

Dane!

I just want to take a moment to appreciate cartoonist Dane Martin. If you have not seen his work, look at it. He has a way with words that I absolutely love, and he's been posting lots and lots of stuff on his blog.

Thanks Rob!

A review of Freddy and the mini I did for SPX called Birthday!

Rob Clough has been doing lots of great reviews of CCS alumni and current students for th

e Comics Journal. Here he reviews me along with two of my talented classmates, Jose-Luis Olivares and Garry-Paul Bonesteel. I've been reading Rob's reviews since before he was doing them for TCJ, and I've always appreciated how closely he reads everything he writes about, and how attentive he is to things that work and don't work. So thanks

Rob!

WHOLESALING!

Freddy and Warmth are now available to order wholesale through Tony Shenton! If you have a store and would like to sell my comics, please contact Tony at Shenton4Sales@aol.com.

If you live in Baltimore, check out Atomic Books. They have some of my books for sale already, and they also sell them online. They are also one of the greatest comic stores ever.

Freddy and Warmth will soon also be available at Jim Hanley's Universe in NYC, Cosmic Monkey in Portland, OR, and at my old friend Ada Books in Providence, RI.

And here's something weird! As Freddy first appeared in my thesis project at Hampshire College in 2005. So much has changed.