Here’s the final, final cover:

And here the back cover text:

Expelled into the hot, empty streets, fifteen-year-old Kit takes to feeding the stray cats that haunt the forgotten and unseen spaces of his town. There he also meets Jess, a manga-loving punk stuck with heavy-metal headbangers. But the pack can only hold for so long once she creates Katman, a ferocious shape-shifting stand-in for Kit’s quiet version of heroism. Not that he thinks of himself as a hero. After all, heroes don’t typically lie, steal, and hang out with crazy people.

Exploring themes of abandonment, reluctant responsibility, and the transformative power of art, KATMAN tells the story of two people forced to make a choice: Is it cooler to care about something, someone, or nothing at all?

And, finally, a preview (click on image to see larger):

Here’s a nifty show I’m in. 51 artists, each addressing, in an 8 x 8 ft. space, the idea of the Labyrinth as a metaphor for our confusing, complex national/global situation. It’s at Exit art at 36th and 10th ave. and opens Sunday the 14th (3-9pm) but the public can drop in an see the artists at work. here’s some pics:

My old friend (and shadow editor) Scott Cunningham has launched a hilarious, “kid-friendly,” webcomic. Check it out (here.)

The Real Cost of Prison Comix series I did an issue of (Prison Town) has been collected into one highly informative, perfect bound, collection by PM press. It also has comics by fellow WW3 contributors/editors Sabrina Jones and Susan Willmarth, who also did the cover. You can check it out (here.)

I’m incredibly honored to have BLINDSPOT included in Houghton Mifflin’s latest collection. This year was edited by Lynda Barry, which makes the honor especially sweet as I’ve loved her work forever. It’s out now and I’m anxiously awaiting my own copy. Order your’s now!

I’m not there on Saturday but will be there all day Sunday.
All needed info here:(check it out)

Doors open at 8:00pm. Performances begin at 9:00

Donations Requested
Proceeds to benefit the ABC No Rio Zine Library

ABC No Rio
156 Rivington Street
(bet. Clinton & Suffolks Streets)
212.254.3697
www.abcnorio.org

‘FACTS ON THE GROUND’ ISSUE

Featuring multi-media presentations by:

FLY
SETH TOBOCMAN
MAC McGILL
PETER KUPER
CHRISTOPHER CARDINALE
REBECCA MIGDAL

with music by the I.E.D.s

Friday December 14th, 7:30 pm
at the
Time’s Up ! space
49 east Houston Street

admission is free

The Young Adult Library Services Association (a division of the ALA) has nominated Blindspot as one of the Great Graphic Novels for Teens of 2008. I’m very proud of this one because I think librarians are much cooler than the reputation they had when I was a kid.