Big Shop And Article Updates

I'm pleased to announce that Colin's Comix Distro has finally grown into the Trees & Hills Comix Distro, an "official" organ of the group, with T&H cofounder Daniel Barlow of VT and cartoonist & columnist Anne Thalheimer of western MA coming on board - you can check it out via the 'Shop' link on the site menu. In honor of the changeover, I'm bringing the online stock up to date, starting with these comics by Marek Bennett:

The Making Of...24 Hour Comic, Mimi's Doughnuts #9 (Fall 2006), and Mimi's Doughnuts #10 (Winter 2006-7). Read an interview with Marek and a review of Mimi's Doughnuts #10 in our 'Articles' section. Marek will be at the Trees & Hills table (S32, upstairs) at MoCCA June 23-24 in NYC.

Also in the Shop, you can now acquire some comics by Matt Levin:

Matt takes the unique approach of mostly using and manipulating rubber stamp images to make his comics. We have Walking Man Comics Presents Special #34: Myths And Magic, WMCPS #7: New England Patriot, Musicomics #1: Sink Or Swim, Musicomics #7: You Know Who, and Musicomics #13: Saturday Dreams.

There are also more Articles: Stephen Bissette's interviews with Center For Cartoon Studies Fellow Gabby Schulz (aka "Ken Dahl") and CCS graduate Colleen Frakes, plus 2 more Fleen columns by Anne Thalheimer.

Monthly Drawing Party & More

The monthly Trees & Hills drawing party (always the 3rd Sat. of each month except under extenuating circumstances) will be happening this Saturday 2/17 at Tim Hulsizer's house in Keene, NH; email Tim (escapevelocity at gmail dot com) for directions and other info.

Anne Thalheimer has a guest column up at Fleen - check it out! She uses fellow Pioneer Valley cartoonist Bryant Paul Johnson's work to discuss reading comics in different formats.

The Granite State Comicon will happen in Concord, NH on March 18; tables are $25, and some T&H folk have applied.

The Boston Zine Fair will happen March 24-25 in (of course) Boston, MA - which is outside our "territory", but T&H folk are applying for tables (a mere $15!).

I have all the Hourly Comics by T&H folk that I'm aware of (by me, Tim Hulsizer, and Anne Thalheimer), so once I've scanned Anne's I'll add those to our comics section. If you've done one I don't know about, let me know! I also still have a batch of artists to add to the links page.