Get Your Can Over to Mechanicsburg, PA

Okay, so, yeah... it's been a couple of months since my last blog post. I have no excuse other than: I've been writing. Comics, chunks of future novels, and other stuff (I can't talk about quite yet). Comics like, say... Bloodshot (#2 is available in fine comic shops near you)! Yes, that was a ham-handed plug. Sorry.

Anyway, I'm writing you from lovely downtown Mechanicsburg, PA. Okay, this is lie, because I'm not downtown. I don't even know if Mechanicsburg has a downtown. I'm in a hotel near a highway, listening to Talking Heads, sipping a rye on the rocks, writing this blog post.

But tomorrow... I'll be at Comix Connection in Mechanicsburg (possibly in the actual heart of its downtown!) for its fifth annual Creator Cookout! Here's the deal: Show up with a can (or more) of food for the Central Food Bank of Pennsylvania and you'll get to chow down on free burgers, dogs and kebabs and hang out with comics folks like Brian Keene, Mike Hawthorne, Dirk Shearer, Andrew Griffith and myownself. Comix Connection is also offering a ton of back issues at a buck each; donate a can and you'll be entered in a drawing for signed comics, gift certificates, and quite possibly your own private island in the South Pacific. (Note: I've had a few ryes; this may not be entirely accurate.)

I'll have some books for sale (including a bunch of increasingly rare paperback copies of Secret Dead Men, and a few hardcover copies of The Wheelman, complete with spine typo). But I also have a small stack of Judge Dredd promo cards to give away, free to whoever stops by early.

Fun starts at noon. If you're anywhere near the greater Harrisburg area tomorrow, stop by and say "yo."