So many things!

Please forgive my sporadic updates - but look, I come bearing many a-link!

"What if you could manipulate a road like you could bend and curl a ribbon?" That was the inspiration between one of Athens' new artist-designed bus stops. Read more about them here . One is bright magenta!

"This love affair between audience and celebrity chef sparked a thought in Vance's mind: 'What if he's trapped, he's created this character and can't escape it?'"
Local playwright John Vance's most recent show was a witty take on a miserable celebrity chef who wants out; read more here.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Richie Rich creator Sid Jacobson, who came to Athens to talk, in part, about "The 9/11 Report" graphic adaptation he wrote (with artist Ernie Colon -a highly recommended read). He was just as pleasant in person when I met him after his talk on UGA campus. What a lovely man! It's interesting that the headline writer chose "Comics for Grown-Ups" for my story on his visit, as it suggests that comics are mainly viewed as being created for children. Yet, as Jacobson said during his lecture, "Comics for children are dead." (He was referring to comics created for a young readership made without commercial tie-ins.) Sad and true.

The beaded gauntlet show at the Georgia Museum of Art is pretty stunning; here's my story on it, along with a sidebar on a local artist, Jared Brown, whose had some pretty exciting luck with his own beadwork.

Look for my work in the current issue of Athens Magazine (How to be a Good Host!) and the next issue, too (How to Organize your Life! And yes, I see the hilarity in someone like me writing that).

In other exciting news, I have art up in a comics-themed show at the Lyndon House Arts Center in Athens; you can see snippets of that work, "Clownie & Button-Eyes" here.

And, for fans of the 8-Track Gorilla, I appear in the recent documentary of this wily and mysterious subject, "Tracking the Gorilla." The premiere was Friday night, and I'm pleased to report I don't come off too much of a lunkhead on film (although I was heavily pregnant when interviewed, I was filmed from the chest up, so I just come off as being puffy-faced and a bit out of it - lovely!) There was some talk of it going to SXSW; I'll keep you posted.

Til next time!