Sep 27, 2010
The Cross Hatch Dispatch 9.28.10
Categories: The Cross Hatch Dispatch

[Above, the Sketchbook Project haunts your dreams. Below, the Dispatch terrorizes your every waking hour.]
- The new documentary Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods is available for pre-order on Amazon. The film, featuring extensive interviews with Morrison, examines the writer’s 30-year career, and the real-life events that inspired his stories.
- The Sketchbook Project is taking thousands of sketchbooks on the road to be exhibited in galleries across the country. As the site says, “it’s like a concert tour but with sketchbooks.” You too can create a rockstar sketchbook! Sign up on the website by October 31.
- Some of the beautiful, surreal (and often downright creepy) original art from The Squirrel Machine is now for sale online.
- Meanwhile, Dorothy Gambrell is still offering prints from her Cat and Girl strip—but only until October 5. So hurry, hurry, hurry if you want one.
- Elsewhere, Lucy Knisley’s 25-page minicomic Salvaged Parts, is available, as a .pdf, for a mere two dollars. But who knows for how long? The internet is fast, and cartoonists are fickle!
- Shipping October 8: My New New York Diary, a joint creative effort between Julie Doucet and Michel Gondry. The result is “a unique combination of drawing and film.” For $24.95, you get both a hardcover, image-filled 80-page book about the project, plus the 18-minute movie on DVD.
- Toby Jones’ Memory Foam and Memory Foam II, his collections of diary comics, are now available (and affordable!) on his Etsy.
- Get ready to draw till you puke: 24 Hour Comics Day is this weekend.
– Athena Currier







