New York is crazy this weekend. So much art to see and graphic novelists to come bother. Since Souther and Saelee are busy I'm going to make the last push here. Tonight: Jeffrey Brown signing at GRNY, which I'll drop by. I'm always amazed by how small NY really is. I gave Monsieur Gondry a bunch of Jeffrey's books for his birthday and they just bumped into each other this afternoon. I'll be over at the store around six to say hi to Jeff. Jeffrey's working on something called The Incredible Changebots that he's been telling us about for three years now, which I saw a bit of and I am dying to have it in my hands.

Then hopefully we'll head out to the wonderful neighborhood Rocketship Comics which has on a regular basis probably the best graphic novelist signings in NY. There Paul Hornschemeier is signing his new book, and I'm supposing like all of his books it's another essential graphic novel. Check out a a beautiful preview of pages here.



Paul has an awesome blog here, too.

Tomorrow night at the Jonathan Levine Gallery Souther Salazar has a new show and in the adjacent gallery Shepard Fairey has an installation going up. And then back to GRNY for the art opening there. Can't wait to see Anders Nilsen's stuff. Check out Souther's page here.

All the details on Giant Robot's shows are here. Then MOCCA on Sunday of all things...

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This weekend I went and caught Satoshi Kon's new movie Paprika on a late night whim. I urge you to see it before it's gone. I think Kon is underrated and this isn't as faultless and perfect as Millennium Actress but the visual invention on display is staggering. I am so going to rip off this credit sequence someday, somehow. He's garnered plenty of praise but what he's doing is so fundamentally unique in anime and the animation work by Madhouse is incredible.