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To promote Monsters, I went on a two-week van tour through the northeast part of the States with fellow cartoonists Liz Baillie and MK Reed. The tour itinerary went something like this:

• Sept. 24 – Brooklyn, NY @ Desert Island
• Sept. 25th – 7pm – Baltimore, MD @ Atomic Books (with John Porcellino, Peter Kuper and a bunch of other great cartoonists)
• Sept. 26-27 – Bethesda, MD @ the Small Press Expo
• Sept. 29 – Durham, NC @ Duke University (Rob Clough put Liz, MK & I on a comics panel on women, gender, and comics)
• Sept. 30 – 5:30pm – Asheville, NC @ Downtown Books and News
• Oct. 2 – 5pm – Louisville, KY @ Ray’s Monkey House
• Oct. 3 – Bloomington, IN @ Boxcar Books
• Oct. 5 – 7pm – Chicago, IL @ Quimby’s Bookstore
• Oct. 6 – 7:30pm – Ann Arbor, MI @ Vault of Midnight (w/ Ryan Claytor)
• Oct. 8 – Allentown, PA @ Muhlenberg College
• Oct. 9 – Philadelphia, PA @ Wooden Shoe Books (w/ Sally Bloodbath)
• Oct. 10 – a day in Asbury Park, NJ – no reading booked, but we went to the pinball museum and the Clam N Jam
• Oct. 11 – 5pm – Brooklyn, NY @ Bergen Street Comics

That went so well, we did another one. It went something like this:

• Friday March 19 @ 7pm – White River Junction, VT @ the Center for Cartoon Studies
• Tuesday, March 23 @7pm – Amherst, MA @ Hampshire College (West Lecture Hall)
• Wednesday, March 24 @ 7pm – Providence, RI @ Ada Books
• Thursday, March 25 @ 7pm – Somerville, MA @ Hub Comics
• Friday, March 26 @ 7:30pm – Montreal, Quebec @ the Drawn & Quarterly Store
• Monday, March 29 – Rochester, NY @ Monroe Community College (classroom presentation, students only)

We always seem to have a fine time on tour, and sell a batch of comics as well. I think we’re still updating the official tour blog, if you want a little multimedia about what went down. We’re already tentatively planning a West Coast tour in the Fall, so if you want us to come to your town drop a line: fantods [at] gmail [dot] com