Cartoon Movement, which is edited by my friend David Axe this week against and for embedded war correspondency.
Check it out!

I just received word that my cartoon blog from Afghanistan took First Prize at this year’s Association of Alternative Newsweekly Awards. This is my first-ever AAN Award, and I did begin my career in alt weeklies, so this is a bit of a thrill.

The only alt weekly that ran them wasBoston’s Weekly Dig. No other alt weekly paper was interested, so yay Dig and thanks to my editor, the brilliant cartoonist Tak Toyoshima.

The only other recognition I received for filing uncensored unembedded cartoons from the war in Afghanistan was a runner-up placement in the Scripps-Howard Journalism Award.

I am currently working on a book based on my experience for Hill & Wang, a division of Farrar Straus & Giroux.

In case you missed it, hundreds of thousands of Americans will occupy Washington DC and refuse to leave until US military forces withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq. This dramatic event begins October 6, 2011, a Thursday, and ends…well…when the wars end. Tahrir Square comes to Washington!

Here’s my video of why I’m going:

Not so many costumes this year.

I am signing books today and tomorrow at San Diego Comicon:

Friday and Saturday, July 21-22, 2011
Book Signing
2:30-4:00 pm
San Diego Comicon
San Diego, California
I will be at the NBM Publishing booth

I’m in this video promoting the Oct. 6th occupation demonstration of DC. Spread the word!

This is the view across from my book signing.

Check out my signing tomorrow:

Thursday, July 21, 2011
Book Signing
2:30-4:00 pm
San Diego Comicon
San Diego, California
I will be at the NBM Publishing booth

Last week’s eBay cartoon auction just ended. The winner paid $202.50 and has not yet decided the topic. Last week’s winner requested a cartoon about a dystopian topic that will go out next week into national syndication.

I have just posted a new cartoon auction on eBay. Starting bid is 99 cents; the Buy It Now price is $500.

Most of these have gone off at the $200-ish range, with the lowest win at $107 and the highest at $355.

Winner gets to pick the topic of the cartoon. She or he also may reprint it or donate the reprint rights. They also get the original cartoon artwork.

I also may syndicate the cartoons that result from this. So far all have been syndicated.

Happy bidding, and good luck!