Shhhhh, I’m on Masheka’s computer so I can give you a sneak preview of his book cover! Click to enlarge and see if you can find the tiny Masheka, Mikhaela and Riley (our cat) doodles.
Here’s a sneak preview of the cover of my first book. Preview copies available next weekend at APE in San Francisco!
Sorry I haven’t posted my new cartoons lately, but putting together a collection of cartoons like this in less than a week is no joke. When it’s all done I’m going to sleep for about two days then post all my cartoons for your viewing pleasure. Meantime, here are the front and back cover + spine of my soon-to-be-released book (click to enlarge, of course).
This is my last post for the night. I need some sleep! (See previous posts for sketch and earlier version of the drawing).
So after years of selling little black & white mini-comics xeroxed booklets of my cartoons, I’m finally graduating to a Real (albeit self=published) Book Collection. It’ll have a full-cover cover, perfect binding and nice interior grayscale printing. Content-wise, it will feature over 100 of my best cartoons, plus extra bonus cartoons, drawings and historical Mikhaela material never reproduced on this website or in my previous booklets. And an introduction by Ted Rall!
I decided to stick with the Attack of the 50-Foot Mikhaela concept I’ve been using for my website, but completely redrawing and retooling the image (still using the pretty hilarious photos my friend Stephanie took where I pretended a Beanie Babie alligator was a tiny George W.)
C.W.A. T’s and more!
Buy Men’s Hanes Beefy T for $18.00 + 3.99 cents S&H each via PayPal:
Buy Women’s Bella Baby Doll T for $18.00 + 3.99 cents S&H each via PayPal:
Attack of the 50-Foot Mikhaela (click to enlarge book image) is my fourth self-published cartoon collection, featuring 36 pages of my best cartoons. Available only from me–get your signed copies with cute little sketches while they last. Choose a blue or green cover (interior is black and white).
Buy now for $3.00 + 89 cents S&H each via PayPal:
Deranged cats love Not Just Knee Deep, Masheka Wood’s second self-published cartoon collection Green cover (no more gray copies left).
Buy now for $2.00 + 50 cents S&H each via PayPal:
Good News (click to enlarge book image) is my third self-published cartoon collection, featuring 40 pages of my best cartoons from the 2004 and 2005 (from “Operation Heterosexual Freedom” to “Let Them Eat Toxic Sludge”). Available only from me–get your signed copies with cute little sketches of me or the guitar-playing vacationer-in-chief while they last. Yellow cover (interior is black and white).
Buy now for $3.00 + 80 cents S&H each via PayPal:
And while you’re at it, why not buy a signed copy of Masheka’s first ever cartoon collection, What Masheka Did, a 16-pager featuring strips (like “New Fall Shows” and “Duh vs. Doy!”) and some gems and rarities from the Masheka archives not available online.
Buy now for $1.25 + 50 cents S&H each via PayPal:
(click above image for larger cover) I also still have one or two copies ofAtittude 2: The New Subversive Alternative Cartoonists, edited by Ted Rall. The work of 21 of America’s smartest and funniest alternative weekly cartoonists is collected in this 2004 anthology, which features interviews with each artist, examples of their work, and personal ephemera never before published elsewhere. Includes cartoons by and interviews with Keith Knight, Alison Bechdel, David Rees, and Aaron McGruder (of Boondocks fame. Not to mention Barry Deutsch, Emily S. Flake, Marian Henley, Tim Kreider, Kevin Moore, Stephen Notley, Eric Orner, Mikhaela Blake Reid (yeah, that’s me), Neil Swaab,Tak Toyoshima, Shannon Wheeler, Jennifer Berman, Max Cannon, Justin Jones, Greg Peters, Brian Sendelbach, Jason Yungbluth. Sadly, I can only sign for myself, but if you track these folks down I’m sure they’d be happy to add a drawing and signature.
Via MediaMail (2-9 days) Buy now for $14.00 + $2.50 S&H for first book, $1.00 for each additional:
P.S.We can also sell you lovely high-quality limited edition color archival prints at 8 1/2 x 11″ or 13″ x 19″ of any of our cartoons. Original cartoons also available from $100-$180 each. Email me for details.
P.P.S. Please join or rejoin my mailing list!
BIG PREMIER SPEECH AND DISCUSSION: Saturday 9/16 7:00 pm (doors open at 6:00 pm) – The Egyptian Theatre, 700 West Main Street, Boise, Idaho – Tickets are $20 in advance, $24 on the day of the show – on sale at the theatre box office or by calling 387-1273
Monday 9/25 Time TBD – The Strand bookstore, Broadway at 12th Street, New York City
Thursday 9/28, 7:30 pm – Barnes and Noble Greenwich Village, 396 Sixth Avenue at West 8th Street, New York City
Thursday 10/5, 7:30 pm – Elliott Bay Book Co., 101 South Main Street Street, Seattle
Thursday 10/12, Time TBD – Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC – this will be a joint appearance as part of Cartoonists with Attitude
Friday 10/13 & Saturday 10/14 – Small Press Expo, Marriott Bethesda North Hotel & Conference Center, 5701 Marinelli Road, North Bethesda, Maryland – I will be signing books at the NBM Publishing table.
DON’T SEE YOUR CITY LISTED?
Generally speaking I do signings in cities under one of two conditions: (1) it has a newspaper that regularly publishes my work and can be counted upon to publicize the event or (2) an organization can support my visit with paid publicity, an travel expenses and honorarium. So the best ways to get me to come to your city are to convince your local editor to publish my work or find a college, peace group, etc. to organize the shindig.
I am currently working on dates in San Francisco, Portland (OR) and Los Angeles. There are no plans at this time to come to any other city to support SILK ROAD, but if you’d like me to come and think you can hook up one of the two requisites to make my appearance worth the effort for everyone involved, drop me a line at chet@rall.com.
Amazon sold out of its order the first day the books became available; more are on their way but this is why pre-orders are always smart.
Non-New Yorkers should order from their local bookseller or online.
I will also be signing books, answering questions and unveiling my astonishing slide show of Central Asian despots and their deeds at The Strand on Monday, September 25.
A whole bunch of new products in the shop, get them while they’re hot!
