Jason Ho is handling the artistic mastermind chores on the Frankenstein book I’ve been talking about for the past month and a half, by the by. Here’s his Comicspace page. Check out the galleries — he’s got some pages from his previous classic horror effort, a Jekyll & Hyde adaptation. He also has a fair bit in Dave Roman’s Agnes Quill book (with Raina Telgemeier and Zornow).

You can just imagine how freakin’ happy I am about all this.

A note in the BEA inbox brings this to my attention:

Shelfari: Create a virtual shelf to show off your books

How cool is that? Anyone playing already?

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It was a beautiful day in the neighborhood…

So, our pal Ron of Beatrice.com flexed his editorial muscles and wrote me a doctor’s note for BEA. I am now a “correspondent.” I didn’t think much about it, save for the fact that I am now spared the $150 entrance fee or whatever it is (thanks, dude!), I will happily make with the Beatrice.com coverage and of course will pick up books for Endicott. That is, until I started getting some interesting email.

See, as a “correspondent,” I am placed on a special list of People Who Might Give Publishers And Authors Press. I hadn’t considered this, but of course it makes perfect sense, nothing wrong, nothing to see here. Until interesting pieces of actual paper mail start appearing in the UPS box.

Actually, no, that’s okay. I like mail. I even like direct mail advertisements. Fo’realz!

Until the “representatives of L. Ron Hubbard’s non-fiction works” start calling me on the telephone.

Uncle! Foul! Something or other.

In the plus column, Moleskine is presenting “a special exhibition of 70 Moleskine notebooks created by architects, artists, designers, illustrators and writers” in honor of their FREAKIN’ AWESOME new city notebooks and I have an invitation to the opening reception sitting right here. I need to RSVP.

I’m only going to BEA for the craft books and the notebooks. Okay, and maybe the snacks.

I kid, I kid. I love BEA. I can’t wait.

Terri has a few words here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Alexander

So, I have a few stories in the hopper for the Chemistry Set that are outside of the SCHZDE-iverse, of which “Yes, Mother” will be the first. I’m still not sure when it’s going to start, but it should be fairly soon-ish and will probably roll side by side with the next SCHEHERAZADE tale, “Tattered Coat.”

Sometimes I have these “Okay, enough fucking around. I need to write something RIGHT NOW” moments. Pardon my french, but that’s how these things can go after a dry spell. So it was with “Yes, Mother.” I pulled some book of old school New York ghost stories off the shelf and there was one in there from the 18th century concerning rats. “Yes, Mother” has no ghosts. It has rats.

It was originally written for our friend Rami, for a chapbook last year or something. I can’t remember now. When he graciously bowed out (it happens, we love Rami), Finnish darling Sami Makkonen graciously bowed in, and holy smokes, check out what he’s got goin’ on:

The glaring problem here is that I wrote it with a teenager in mind, but as you can see, Sami saw a girl of nine or ten. Sami is right, I am wrong, I need to fix.

Sami is right about many things. Such as bunny slippers. But that’s another story…

Let’s see… the “meaning to mention”s have been building up…

Joe Infurnari has this bitchin’ webcomic. We were out with Joe and his lady Marisa on Saturday before heading out to Rocketship to see Nick Bertozzi. We hadn’t seen each other in a while and I’d forgotten how much Joe makes me laugh.

Nick Bertozzi has this incredibly charming movie about the making of SALON.

My good pal Doug “Mr. WIZARD” Goldstein did have a bunch of videos up on YouTube documenting his time in the writing room at Robot Chicken, but they all appear to be gone now. Which is rather a bummer, as they were charming as well.

Alex Cox, co-proprietor of our local funnybook joint, Rocketship, is playing with webcomics here. He has also started a blog about awesome things.

Lastly, check out this awesomeness: the Endicott Studio now has a MySpace page! Love! It!

Leland also has a MySpace page in the works, but it’s not yet ready for prime time.

Lastly the second, it seems as though Facebook is finally getting some play with the comic book creators. I’m here.

I have an ever-growing list of things to blather on about, but it’s been a long day. So I’ll just point to the interview with my pal Jeff “We are DOOMED!” Zornow, posted just now.

Dangitall I love this one too!

I hate posting when it’s not our day; however, sometimes, it happens. (Are you reading BIG FAT NOON? Page one, page two, page three…)

Leland’s latest fixer-upper is a white oak ammo box from WWI:

He spent all day sanding it and restoring the handle to its former glory. Note the spot where an old label used to be. Real brass hinges!

They don’t make ‘em like they used to.

edited to add: ah! found the sketch.