Rare Bits

It’s a busy, busy week for Jen and I, what with having to complete our theses for the Center for Cartoon Studies and all…but I’ll lay this one on ya, real quick: This is part of my thesis package. Cartooning school is awesome. Share/Bookmark

A soon-to-be college graduate scours the streets of Austin, Texas, looking for a deal. A deal on shoes. The recent trend of kitten-heeled or wedge shoes made it possible for the said graduate (me) to drink a bit and still dance the fuck outta the night. These shoes fit the bill-too uncomfortable to wear for [...]

Many people don’t realize this, but I’m a bit of an amateur naturalist. You can often find me — palm frond in hand, pith helmet jauntily angled upon my pate — laying in wait along some deserted stretch of highway, crouching, coiled like a limp bedspring. Waiting. Waiting for what you ask? Why, Porcupines of [...]

Happy Earth Day everyone! I’m sitting in the kitechenette of our African themed hotelroom tapping this post out on my iPhone and have four blisters and a light sunburn. I had written a long thoughtful blog about nostalgia and Disney and creativity but my posting from an iPhone made me lose it all…for the love [...]

Thanks to everyone who stopped at our table this weekend! It was so good to see you, shake your hand and give you a button or a comic! If you are in the mood for some fun posts, read some past ones. This little one is a little on the heavy side. Over the weekend [...]

Rarebits rocked it at MoCCA! Besides giving out a hundred samplers out on Saturday, we had a couple of microphones and cameras in our faces (Sam talked with NPR at one point), sold a bunch of comics, gave a bunch out to the press, and ate some freakin’ great food. The curry puffs were a [...]

Table G3 along the back wall with all the Center for Cartoon Studies students. Come by to say hi and get some Rare Bits buttons! Jason has beautiful prints for sale and Billy the Dunce comics! Sam has Here Comes Everyone comics, These Things Happen 2-4 minicomics, and a new anthology called Tag Team! Jen [...]

Well, the big ol’ arty comic book convention MoCCA is on it’s way, and that means that we here at Rarebits are busy as shit. Really. I almost don’t have time to play Zelda II at half speed on an emulator so that I can feel like I’m all good at hard games and stuff. [...]

Sometimes I get in the old funk where I don’t really know the point of it all. This usually comes at the end of a long set of days or weeks where  sleep is short and work tremendous. It’s a trance state, like a spirit quest, only the wilderness I wander is between my ears and [...]