Here’s a (kind of) Halloween-themed comic for you all: “Touchfood,” a new comic by Jen Wang.

Nucleus will be hosting a new gallery show called “3 Flowers and 3 Trees,” featuring the work of ’3 Flowers’ Yoko Tanji, Icco Sasai and Wakako Katayama, and the returning group of the ’3 Trees,’ Tadahiro Uesugi, Ronnie Del Carmen and Enrico Casarosa. All six artists will be in attendance at the gallery opening on Saturday, November 4th.

It’s going to be a huge event, which includes new work by the artists, prints, t-shirts, signed & limited edition posters for pre-orders made at Nucleus for their new book, Three Trees Make a Forest (here’s an Amazon link to the book for those that won’t be able to make the show in person). Basically all I am saying is: do not miss this show!

Enrico and Ronnie have plenty more information about this show on each of their respective blogs, here and here. Details about the show itself is also on the Nucleus website.

Chris Appelhans, Khang Le and Simeon Wilkins will be at Nucleus on the Monday before Halloween (October 30th) from 7-11pm for a book signing of The Art of Monster House.

Full details of the signing are up at the Nucleus website. There will be free treats!!

For all you Aussies out there, our very own Doug Holgate will be exhibiting at this year’s Supanova Pop Culture Expo in Sydney, and he will be debuting a 52-page comic, featuring the very first story of Checkmate Wordsworth, and on the flip side, Spaghetti Western: Chupacabra Wears Purple Breeches. This comic alone would most definitely be worth the price of admission.

Supanova will be held at Sydney Olympic Park and runs from October 27 to 29. Full details can be had at the Supanova website.

(PS. did you know that Doug has illustrated the first two issues of Zack Proton? It features intergalactic mailboys and space chimps. What more could you possibly want in a comic?)

The third annual Stumptown Comics Fest will be held on Friday, October 27th and Saturday, October 28th in lovely Portland, OR.

Flight artists Vera Brosgol, Clio Chiang, Michel Gagné, Amy Kim Ganter, Kazu Kibuishi, Dylan Meconis, Erika Moen and Bill Mudron will be in attendance, alongside other artists such as Graham Annable, Scott Campbell, Ovi Nedelcu, Aaron Renier and many more!

For full details, visit the Stumptown website.

An interesting article on self-publishing, care of CBC’s Street Cents. Quite a few Canadian authors and artists — including Halifax-based Hope Larson — discuss their thoughts and experiences on self-publishing. Considering that we were fully prepared to self-publish the first Flight anthology at one point (before we were approached by Image Comics), this is an article that will probably be useful to other writers or artists interested in pursuing a similar sort of path.

Matt Forsythe was recently interviewed on CBC Montreal, and he has since posted an MP3 of this interview to his website. It’s a fascinating look into Matt’s work and his comic Ojingogo. Definitely worth a listen.

Congratulations to Hope Larson, who was awarded this year’s Ignatz Award for ‘Promising New Talent’! (via The Beat — follow the link for the full list of recipients!)

Comics in the Classroom has posted an early preview of Stuff: The Life of a Cool Demented Dude, a book by Jeremy Strong and Matthew Armstrong. The book is scheduled to be released by Harper Collins in February of 2007.

Comics in the Classroom also gave a short review of Flight 3 last month.

Raina Telgemeier reports that her latest Baby-Sitters Club graphic novel, The Truth About Stacey, has quietly slipped into bookstores, which means it’s time to run down to your nearest bookstore and grab yourselves a copy! In her Livejournal post, Raina says:

“Official release date for Stacey is still set as November 1, so I’m not sure if orders from places like Amazon will ship till then, or when comic stores will get it. I’ll keep you guys posted. I’m having an official ‘release party/signing’ at Rocketship in Brooklyn, on Sunday, November 12 at 4 PM. It’ll be a team signing with my friend Abby Denson, and this will be a super kid-friendly event, complete with free ice cream and cookies! Rocketship is one of the coolest comic stores I’ve ever been to, so you should come and check it out.”

Check out Raina’s post for more details!

There’s an interview with Dave Roman over at The Pulse. In it, he talks about the Agnes Quill graphic novel, which will be hitting comic book stores this coming Wednesday the 18th. For more information about Agnes Quill, check out our previous post.

Doug Holgate has embarked on a new weekly project: illustrating Kerouac’s “Silly Goofball Pomes,” one line at a time. Something to add to your bookmarks for sure.

Jacob Magraw-Mickelson’s latest solo exhibition, Tiny Island, is currently on display at Motel in Portland, OR until the end of October. From the Motel Gallery page:

“Magraw-Mickelson continues working in gouache on paper, expanding his series of deconstructed landscapes and affected flora, and introducing anatomical dissections. Playing with scale and perspective, Magraw-Mickelson’s candy-colored hyper-realities toy with the tensions of structure and chaos. Botanical and corporeal cross-sections reveal inner workings of cells, veins, hidden terrains and root tendrils. Densely layered topographies are spliced and peppered with miniscule flora. Combining free-flowing improvisation with detailed precision, these simulacra reference the systems and structures of the natural world while suggesting an uncontrollability and excess that is both fantasy and science fiction.”

Tomorrow evening (Saturday), Gallery Nucleus will be hosting the release party for Bliss Express, a new art book from Guu Media that features some very talented illustrators, including fellow Flight artist Bengal. The festivities begin at 7 pm. Some of the artists will be flying in from their respective countries to attend the show. Along with the new book for sale, they will have plenty of original art, prints, and free refreshments. (Link)

This coming October 5th, Pushdot Studio will be hosting a new gallery show, “One Shot,” a collection of art focusing on single images and panels taken from various comics. Artists featured in this gallery show include Chris Baldwin, Colleen Coover, and the entire Pants Press group together again — Bill, Clio, Dylan, Erika, Jen and Vera. It’s worth noting that Clio and Vera’s pieces in particular feature panels from each of their forthcoming Flight 4 stories.

The show is scheduled to run until early November, so if you’re in the Portland, OR area, stop by the gallery and check it out for yourselves. For the rest of us unfortunate souls, I suppose we’ll just have to make do with the online version of the gallery (don’t miss out on that second page!).