[Above, Aidan's Wolf Man is out to get you! Below, the Dispatch hides in the shadows.]

• Check out these sweet monster drawings by 5-year-old Aidan! Buying something from his store not only gets you some awesome art, but also helps out paying for his leukemia treatment.
• Monsters are invading Bergen Street Comics at 8pm on Oct. 30! Fun times and refreshments will be had by all (monsters included)! (NYC)
• It’s almost the end of October, which means that Sean T. Collins’s Love and Rocktober is coming to an end.
• Congratulations are in order for Jeff Lemire whose Essex County was named one of Canada Reads’s Top 40 Essential Canadian Novels of the Decade!
• If you haven’t already heard, Frank Santoro has been holding comics class over at Comics Comics. This week he talks about 9-panel grids.
• Popeye + Indiana Jones + Chuck Forsman… what’s not to love?
• Julia Wertz would like you to know that after being out of print for over a year, Fart Party: Vol. 1 has finally been reprinted.
• Be sure to catch a sneak preview of HIVE 5, soon to be released from Grimalkin Press!
• And don’t miss this conversation between Will Wilkinson and Nate Powell!
• If you’re in Chicago, Charles Burns will discuss his new book X’ed Out on Nov. 3 at Quimby’s Bookstore. (Chicago, IL)
• Or if you’re in New York on Nov. 3,  Desert Island will host the release party and signing for Sarah Glidden’s How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less. (NYC)
• Only a few short days later is the fifth annual NY Art Book Fair which will be held this Nov. 5–7 at PS1 in Queens. (NYC)
• In short succession, is the second annual King Con Brooklyn which will be held this Nov. 6 & 7 at the Brooklyn Lyceum. There will be a special edition of The Crosshatch Podcast LIVE as well as other great panels. (NYC)
• And simultaneously, but in different states, is the second annual New England Webcomics Weekend which will be held at the Eastworks building on Nov. 6 & 7. (Easthampton, MA)

–L. Nichols