But here’s what I noticed, while walking across my office floor, after I had been at work for about an hour and fifteen minutes:

SOMETHING WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?

In my defense, they are technically the same shoe with a different “style” so the soles and heels are identical and they FEEL identical?

…But that’s a pretty weak defense.

Fortunately, I had actually packed a different pair of shoes to wear for New Year’s, so I put those on:

WIN.

The only trouble here, as I sit at my desk ruminating about the end of the day, is trying to decide whether to wear the mismatched but comfortable shoes to commute, or the matching but not really conducive to carrying heavy luggage full of booze.

MY LIFE IT IS A COMEDY OF ERRORS.

<3

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And then I forget that I have not been telling you all enough about my life lately, mostly because I’ve been so busy, doing things like building a site, where, tomorrow at midnight EST, I’ll be posting the work of close to 100 syndicated newspaper cartoonists who were part of our project to pay tribute to the 10th anniversary of 9/11

I am really proud of this as a New Yorker and as someone whose life was profoundly affected by the events of that day, both emotionally and physically.

If you pick up a paper that carries comics on Sunday anywhere in the US, you will see cartoonists from all over the world recalling their memories of that day, thanking our firefighters and police and military men and women for their service, paying respects to those who died, and contemplating how we have changed and grown since that day. The variety of voices and messages is pretty astounding– it’s almost a hundred different people who volunteered to take part.

I spent the past few weeks working on this project, and I’ve seen every comic in the collection. A lot of them made me cry.

On the website, there are also links to the five museums who will be showing exhibits of some of the work from this project. You should try to catch it one of the shows if you are in NYC, Washington, DC, Pittsburgh or San Francisco, or pick up a newspaper this Sunday, even if you’re not in the habit.

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For those of you in the New York area, on Thursday night, I’ll be moderating a panel at MoCCA, called “The Humor Behind Six Chix”

You can read more about it here!

Joining me will be Rina Piccolo, whom you know from our jam comics if not from her other awesome amazing comics, Isabella Bannerman, and Anne Gibbons, who, together, make up three of the Six Chix.

They will be talking about the syndicated comic they create together (one cartoonist per day of the week, with Sundays alternating). They are three awesome ladies, and you should definitely stop by.

The event will start at 7pm on Thursday. If you are a MoCCA member, it is free. It is $5 for non-members. Do drop in!

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I made a new blog for Bizarro!. It is just like the old blog, except it is a new blog!

Hooray! Everyone go there right now.

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To enter, your child needs to draw a picture of him or herself, and then you can go here to enter the contest. (Parents have to enter for their kids, of course!)

If you have an artistically-inclined kid, or a kid who would like to be a cartoon character, make sure to send in an entry for them!

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We have a (sort-of) new comic launching today! Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog, which has been a popular webcomic on GoComics for four years, is rebooting with KFS today!

Starting today, Bleeker will be on www.bleekercomics.com where you will be able to read it for free every day!

I am very excited to have built the new Bleeker website! Jonathan Mahood, the cartoonist behind Bleeker is an awesome guy and budding beer connoisseur (which earns him extra points with me) and you should go read it right now!

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The absinthe came with a new set of mandolin strings.

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To celebrate Veterans Day at work, we’re doing a Beetle Bailey-themed charity auction. You can bid on nifty Beetle Bailey-themed stuff, or you can just donate to one of eight charities that help US service men and women and their families.

Check it out!

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Last weekend was Comic-Con. andrewfarago came out to visit and so did liret. Andrew was mostly here to interview Mort Walker, the creator of Beetle Bailey, and to present him with the Sparky Award, which is an awesome little (and heavy!) statue of Snoopy.

The Con itself was pretty uneventful, though I got to see a bunch of people I like to see! The most exciting part of the weekend was that I got to meet Caroll Spinney and got a book signed by him– with an illustration of Big Bird that he drew in it! Plus, I went to a panel that had him, plus David Newell, AKA Mr. McFeeley, and a whole bunch of other puppeteer-and-child-television types. It was one of the best con panels I’ve ever been to!

In the midst of all this, on Sunday, our Pink Comics went live and you can see them all on the site now!

Then, on Monday, Norm Feuti launched his Retail site, which I built and helped him design. Score! Retail is a really funny comic; you should check it out if you don’t know it; there is a full five-year archive up.

On TUESDAY, we launched kids’ activities on the Oh, Brother! site. I designed those, too! The woman who wrote them, Donna Erickson, is pretty awesome and a lot of fun to talk to.

That is all my crazy updates. Also, on Tuesday, I got the best smelling mail in the world, from karnythia. She sent me my skirts that she organized a mass order for, and they are super pretty; I wore one of them already. Also in my box were vanilla beans and a jar of homemade sugar scrub! The sugar scrub is amazing; I used it twice already. Seriously, though, when I got the box, it smelled like sugar scrub, even before I opened it. So good.

I’ve also been reading a lot more than usual lately– I’ve been going through about a book a week, after, well, um, not reading more than a book or two a year for a very long time. I blame this change in my literacy on my newfound commuting time– reading is much more exciting than playing Frozen Bubble on my Android for the fifth time, even if Frozen Bubble is kind of addictive. I will admit to still pretty much exclusively reading YA fantasy.

On the downside, I feel like I’m coming down with a little cold, and I am hoping to stave it off. Lots of tea and honey? I hope so!

What is going on with all of you?

Smoochies!

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