Surprise! I’m going to be putting up my adaptation of The Cats of Ulthar, originally drawn for the Couscous Collective Kitties anthology! The Cats of Ulthar was drawn for a smaller-scale book, and in limited time (in fact, I was CHALLENGED by my colleague Shaenon to finish a comic in time for the printing of the anthology), so it’s not as detailed as “The Doom that Came to Sarnath” and some of my other pieces. But, I hope you like it anyway, in all its cartooniness. This is an 8-page story, and I’ll be posting pages twice a week, so it’ll run through most of March, after which, I hope to have something else exciting to post up here. (Fingers crossed, with sweatdrops.)

In form and content this is a very Dunsanian tale, although Lord Dunsany would never have written a story about cats: that dude was such a dog person. (Dean Spanley isn’t an anomaly.) There’s a photo of him in his biography of him sitting with a huge hunting dog sprawled right across his lap. Meanwhile, Lovecraft was content to observe the neighborhood cats from afar… although he, too, would pet them and occasionally let them jump in his lap if the mood struck them. Considering that a frustrated Sonia Greene apparently once told Lovecraft “I do believe you’d take a cat to bed with you if you could!”, I can’t believe there’s no catgirl character in Haiyore! Nyaruko-san.

If you’re in Seattle this weekend come on by to Emerald City Comic-Con where I’m tabling! I’ll be bringing some original art and some new projects and I’m looking forward to the show!! I’m in Artist Alley table X-11, way in the back of the convention center (map behind link).

I’m also going to be on two panels at the convention, both on Sunday. At 4PM I’ll be part of a panel discussion, “Beyond Categories: Non-Binary Sexuality in Comics” in room 2AB, talking about some new comics I’ll be drawing. I’m going to be sharing the panel with Erika Moen, Zan Christiansen of Northwest Press, Leia Weathington and a bunch of other awesome people. Also, at 2PM (going backward in time a bit) in the gaming area, I’ll be showing off my forthcoming tabletop game, MANGAKA: The Fast & Furious Game of Drawing Comics!! (Map of the panel here.)

Please come check out both panels and say hello at the booth if you can! Whether your tastes run to Lovecraftiana, the amorphous nature of human sexuality, OR geeky tabletop/card-dealing & drawing games, this weekend, I’m ready to nerd out with you! See you soon!