• The Isotope Mini-Comic Award is now accepting admissions for its 8th annual award. Send them your best mini by October 1st.
• Oliver East’s latest comic, Trains Are…Mint 7 is up online, available for your eyes to read—for free!
• San Francisco’s Comic Art Museum is having its 6th annual Comics 4 Comix fundraiser and silent art auction on Tuesday, September 7 at the Punchline Comedy Club. Come to enjoy food, drink, stand-up, and original art by cartoonists Keith Knight, Lynne Johnston, Dan Piraro, and more. All proceeds will go to the museum.
• Ivan Brandon will be at Midtown Comics in New York on Thursday, September 9, from 6:30-7:30pm, signing copies of Weird War Tales #1 and Doc Savage #6.
• The Brooklyn Book Festival is happening this weekend, September 10-12, at Brooklyn Borough Hall and other nearby locations. The Festival will feature two panels about comics, and quite a few excellent cartoonists, including Ben Katchor, Jessica Abel, Matt Madden, Jillian Tamaki, and Josh Neufeld.
• James Sturm will be in D.C. on Friday, signing copies of his new book Market Day at Politics & Prose from 8:00-9:00pm.
• Just in case you were worrying about it, Jim Woodring did indeed raise the money he needed to begin construction on his giant pen.
• How long did Mr. Chen hold Dorothy Gambrell’s nose? A pretty long time.

-Athena Currier