Tue 10 Feb 2009
I Saw You
Posted by Sina under Art, Comics, Craigslist
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What hasn’t Craigslist done for you lately?
As she wonderfully puts it on her blog Excellent Notion, my friend Camille says that on Craigslist: “You could find anything—a computer, free vegetables, furniture, housing, and meaningless sex.” As if a bed, friendship, and paid comic work weren’t enough, I’ve now been able to find my foot in the door thanks to the most useful website on all the Internet.
Two years ago, my friend Julia asked me and some other bay area folks to contribute to this funny little project she came up with based on the most interesting part of Craigslist: Missed Connections. like sharks might search for red meat, we have all hunted the Missed Connections for snippets of wit and debauchery, or even to find someone writing wistfully away about encountering us at a local coffee shop (oh BTW: the real-life Melissa from Books with Pictures got TWO missed connections when she worked at my APE booth. That bitch). Tangents aside, one thing led to another, and these little zines that l’il ol’ Fart Party Julia Wertz was DIYing got picked up by a sub-division of Random House. Effing kudos.
Please pick up the book, I have a two-page story in it. As much as I’d love to show you, part of signing up with the big boys is that you can’t display the artwork on your blog without permish or something. You’re just going to have to walk into a comic store (or a Barnes and Noble or Borders– zounds!) for your copy.
Now, I’m not a complete tyrant, here’s a bootleg copy of the first panel to get you interested:
