Mittenfest V: The "Our Married Life" Wrap-Up, AKA I SUPER LOVE Kim Deal, I Really Do (ESPECIALLY Pixies-era).

A few things happened to the Sumersquales at Mittenfest V. We were better behaved than we've been in the past. We suffered no mystery bruises, no hangovers. We were also reminded, often, of how old and out of touch we are. Oh, and how pretty my hair is. (But mostly how out of touch we are. Sixty bands later, it's all still a blur.)



I can't post this next comic without a few caveats. For starters, I LOVE chick drummers. I mean, I LOVE them. I get excited when I see one. My heart fills with admiration. (Picture me, then, at the Weezer show on Saturday night, when kids from the Chicago School of Rock sang two Weezer songs for the 3,000+ in attendance -- oh! my heart! wept! SO COOL! -- and there was a middle-school aged chick drummer. I wanted to travel back in time to be her BFF.)

Furthermore, I appreciate women musicians in every form. That is all.



I think at this point Jason's caught up to me with comics. Better get to work on a new one! Hmmm...

Marriage = Compromise

Another showing by my favorite artist, Jason DePasquale! Jason started student teaching this week (hooray!) at Ann Arbor Open (hooray!), and, so far, his days have looked like this:

- Coffee starts up via robot at 6:30am
- Up, showered, and out the door by 7:40am
- Student teaching all day
- Straight to Dawn Treader to work
- Home around 9pm

On Sundays, he works at Acme. Saturdays, I imagine, will become the day for sleeping. At any rate, his appearances on this blog for the next few months might be few and far between, and rightfully so. Enjoy him while you can get him, is what I'm saying. We've got a couple of Mittenfest posts in the wings. (Honestly, I thought we'd do a ton of comics behind the 826 booth, but we wound up talking to a lot of people and coloring all the awesome robot pictures people were drawing. Coming soon to the window of the Liberty Street Robot Supply & Repair!)

Ready? Here goes:


Furthermore, for those of you interested in DIY poetry wall hangings, you can still find a few in Press 34's shop. All the books sold out, within twenty-four hours, no less! (Press 34, for anyone I haven't told about it, is a new small publishing house I've started. Small runs, thirty-four, to be exact, of handmade books. The first one, The Lion by Catherine Calabro, is currently for sale. It's half books and half wall hangings. A book of photography triptychs and another poetry collection coming soon!)