Saturday's strip is notable for three reasons. One is of course the guest appearance by Jon Rosenberg of Goats (which currently is undergoing a tedious visit by a particularly bizarre guest cartoonist). Another is that I'm dabbling with brush inking again. I brush-inked almost all the strips for our first year and half. Then I drew my 24-hour comic with markers and thoght, "gee, this is much easier!" But I feel the quality has suffered a little. Last week I brush-inked a bunch of commissioned drawings and realized how much I had missed the feel and look of a good brush-inked drawing. So I'm trying it again. I have no idea what this means for my theories about drawing the strip on a Tablet PC. Finally, it's notable because I inked it while my daughter Rosie was laying on my lap, babbling away at my recyling bin.

Feb 20 morning Spartanburg, SC
Spartanburg Public Library Staff Day (staff only)
Keynote (Gene & Bill)

Feb 20 7pm Columbia, SC
USC LISSA event
Program (Gene & Bill)

Mar 13-17 Philadelphia, PA
Public Library Association
Booth (Gene & Bill)

Mar 30-April 1 Seattle, WA
Emerald City Comic Con
Booth (Gene & Bill)

April 13-15 Chicago, IL
Chicago Comic Entertainment Expo
Booth & Talk (Gene & Bill)