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What am I doing instead of getting ready for tour? Posting the tour info on social media! Here you go:

ROCHESTER NY / BRYN MAWR PA / PITTSBURGH PA / COLUMBUS OH

John Porcellino will be touring with his newest D+Q book, From Lone Mountain this spring. Catch him in Chicago, Milwaukee, Bryn Mawr, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Minneapolis, and Madison!

From Lone Mountain (in stores March 20th) collects stories from his influential zine King-Cat, and sees John entering a new phase of his life—remarrying and deciding to leave his beloved second home Colorado for San Francisco. Grand themes of King-Cat are visited and stated more eloquently than ever before: serendipity, memory, and the quest for meaning in the everyday.

Chicago, IL Friday, March 16 - 7:00pm Quimby Bookstore 1854 W North Ave, 60622

Milwaukee, WI Saturday, April 7 - 10:00am Milwaukee Zine Fest 814 W Wisconsin Ave, 53233

Bryn Mawr, PA Wednesday, April 11 - 5:00pm Bryn Mawr College Art Club 101 N Merion Ave, 19010

Pittsburgh, PA Friday, April 13 - 6:00pm The Copacetic Comics Co 3138 Dobson St #3, 15219

Columbus, OH Saturday, April 14 - 8:00pm Kafe Kerouac 2250 N High St, 43201

Minneapolis, MN Thursday, April 26 - 7:00pm Magers & Quinn Booksellers 3038 Hennepin Ave, 55408

Madison, WI Saturday, April 28 - 10:00am Madison Print & Resist Zinefest 201 W Mifflin St, 53703

Chicago, IL Saturday, May 19 - 10:00am Chicago Zine Fest 1340 W Washington Blvd, 60607

Chicago, IL Saturday, June 2 to Sunday, June 3 CAKE Chicago 3656 N Halsted Ave, 60613

Columbus, OH Friday, September 28, to Sunday, September 30 Cartoon Crossroads Columbus - CXC 51 Jefferson Ave #204, 43215

Bill Boichel gives the fist Suzy & Cecil collection a thoughtful review on Copacetic Comics - and you can pick up a copy of the comic there too!

Bill sez:

“The Suzy & Cecil strip by Gabriella Tito and Sally Ingraham just recently celebrated it's first birthday, so it is now in its second year of appearing daily on Comics Workbook.   Here's a look at the first 30 strips, to get an idea of how it started out.  It's easy to see the strip improving, even in this brief period.  That this improvement continued is evidenced by the 44 strips in this collection. All the strips in the collection are full color, and color is a big part of the appeal.  A multitude of approaches to what can be accomplished in a daily strip are tried – all within the formal constraint of a square grid of four square panels – and it is clear that experimentation is a key component of this series.  And experimentation, after all, is a form of play, and playing is what Suzy & Cecil do best.  

Reading this strip on a daily basis on Comics Workbook, and then grouped together here in this collection, is a constant reminder that play is a crucial part of being.    We all live our lives within the formal constraints placed upon us by our family, work, relationships, finances, etc., – in a word, society – and beyond that by the limits placed on us by nature and biology.  The actual, physical play we engaged in as children becomes ever more channeled and rule bound as we age, as our constraints change from those placed upon us by our parents and schools to those placed upon us by the need to survive.  One of the keys to happiness is acknowledging these constraints and then working within them.  That might even serve as a working definition of fun.  In these Suzy & Cecil strips we see, within the diegesis, on the the level of content, the characters playing; having fun – with each other, by themselves, with others, going on adventures, experiencing nature, and more.  And, on the formal level, we see the artists playing, within the constraints of the grid; experimenting – with character portrayals, drawing techniques, color palettes, pacing, and more.  In this way the recollected play of childhood innocence merges with the adult play based on experience and the development of skills.“

Get a copy of the comic HERE!