Hey y'all! I've spent the past two months blissfully avoiding conventions and signings, and instead basking in the divinity of summer (I have a lovely yard that makes food all summer long, and a grill and a hammock and a fire pit, so forgive me for being romantic about it. Aaahhh, summer).

So now that I've been mostly a hermit all summer, I'm really ready to get back to conventions. And lucky me, my September is full of them! If you'd like to see me and you live in the Maryland/DC area, you're in luck:

Baltimore Comic Con
September 8-9, Baltimore MD
(tickets range from $20 to $40+)

Small Press Expo (SPX)
September 15-16, Bethesda MD
($10 one day or $15 for a weekend pass, tickets at the door)

Intervention
September 21-23, Rockville MD
($40 for a weekend pass)

I'll be at all three of these, right in a row! I'll only be at Intervention on Saturday and Sunday, but I'll be there! (Have you never been to Intervention? Neither have I, let's pop our cherries together.)

Hope to see you locals at least once this September!

***Quick Note about Ads!!*** As most of you know, I make the majority of my income from ad revenue (so you can stop feeling guilty for reading my strip for free; every time you visit sans-ad blocker, you're helping to pay me, so thank you!).

I have a wonderful ad rep, but he needs help nixing bad ads when they come up, and for whatever reason, we've had a number of unsavory ads slip through the cracks lately. By "unsavory" I mean anything that automatically pops up and/or starts to play audio without first asking your permission. Also - I'll not shy away from this one - Mitt Romney ads, which for whatever reason have been the most appallingly intrusive ones thus far.

These ads should be blocked, but I guess advertisers are getting sneakier about ad network filters.

If you encounter an ad that fits this description, would you kindly shoot my ad rep an e-mail (<--- by clicking that hyperlink you just read)? He's a wonderful person who works very hard at his job (sometimes even on his vacation, when I'm really pissed about something!), and we'd appreciate your help. If you can find the URL that the ad links to (right click>copy link address), tell us your location, and tell us where on the site the bad ad touched you, that'd be majorly helpful.

Thanks in advance for your help, and sorry for any inconvenience/annoyance these ads have been causing! I hate it too, probably more than you do, because while I did not grow up Catholic or Jewish, I feel guilt like a burst hemorrhoid.

Wait, to hemorrhoids hurt? Well, anyway, look, they're  pretty gross, okay?