The Lowell Sun is putting together a reader comic page and is looking for submissions. Read all about it here.

James Kochalka Superstar: Britney’s Silver Can

This fan video for the Kochalka song is almost as wonderfully tedious as the song itself.

“Just Timberlake, Justin Timberlake …”

Watch it!

The Trees & Hills Comics Page is finally online! The first two strips are both T&H-related things by me, but we’ll be adding more strips by various people in the coming weeks.

Although there are still things to do, and in some sense always will be, the site as we envisioned it is now essentially complete!

I’d like to welcome Vermont cartoonist Skip Morrow to our links page, and also announce the unveiling (finally!) of our Articles section – soon to be a flourishing grove of comics journalism.

This Saturday 10/18 there will be a get-together for cartoonists at Trees & Hills confounder Daniel Barlow‘s apartment in Brattleboro, VT from 12-5pm. We will socialize, draw, discuss plans for our anthology release parties and tabling at MoCCA, and more. For more info (like how to get there), email barlowdaniel at gmail dot com.

In other news, I’d like to welcome Vermont cartoonists Steve Hogan and Matt Reno & Massachusetts cartoonist “Thanatos Omega” to our link list.

Also, I added two items to the Resources page. One is a template for those of you who like writing comic scripts in Word. The other is an excellent blog called Comic Tools, run by MK Reed. Each weekday she posts a response to her survey about what tools cartoonists use. The latest 3 respondents today are Adrian Tomine, Alec Longstreth, and Bryan Lee O’Malley.

Marek Bennett of Mimi’s Doughnuts fame will be hosting a comics workshop Saturday for elementary-aged children. The session begins at 10:30 a.m. and runs until 3 p.m. at Artworks of Keene in Keene, N.H.

More information on the workshop can be found here.

Cartoonist James Owen visited the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vt. last month and posted this lengthy report, which includes many photos.

Original comic artwork featured in the new Trees & Hills and Friends anthology will be on display at the Twilight Tea Lounge in Brattleboro, Vt. for all of November.

We’ll be kicking off the gallery showing tonight at 5:30 p.m. Several members of the group will be swinging by, including Cat Garza, Zach Stephens and Steve Bissette!

Trees & Hills debut at the Comic Book Show in Nashua, N.H. Sunday can be considered a networking success, although probably not a financial one. This is the new Talking Point. Please spread the word.

I think I sold 10 copies of the new anthology. Man, I pitched that thing. I pitched it to middle-aged women, Alan Moore fangirls, superhero nuts, goth kids and fanboys. One woman even asked me to sign my contribution, the first chapter of NUKE TOWN with Keith Moriarty and Zach Stephens.

Next dates for the show: April 1, 2007 and Oct. 14, 2007.

T&H co-founder Colin Tedford, meanwhile, was across the country at Stumptown in Portland, Ore. He checked in via e-mail a day or two ago with this dispatch, “Send guns and ammo. Food too. All dead here. Stay away.”

Oops. Wrong e-mail. Sorry. He actually had this to say, “I sold 1 antho & traded 6; sold 14 other comics, traded 11. I was a little disappointed, but things seemed to go
slow for some other folks as well (Julia Wertz, for example, who came over
& traded some minis).”