Busy times in puduland.  A few plugs:

Scott Bateman, a terrific cartoonist friend, has a new magazine/chapbook/buncha damn words called Unruly.  I just got it in the mail, and it’s a dark riot.  I’ve chipped in a bit, and you’ll also find stuff from Scott, Paul Scheer, and a bunch of other wicked fun folks.

Proud to be a Liberal, a new collection from Ig Publishing, features rabble-rousing essays from Eric Altermann, Will Durst, Ted Rall, Tom Tomorrow, Matt Iglesias, and a bunch of others.  I’m in there somewhere, too.

I just wrote a forward to Revelations, a collection of the six-issue series from Dark Horse Comics.  It’s a pretty cool book, so it was easy to praise.

Incidentally, the long-threatened original comic series now has an artist attached whom I really like.  So that’s finally about to go forward. 

Also, the book I’ve been working on has passed the copyediting stage and will be published in the fall.  More on that coming.  Way more.  The first blurbs are in, and I’m happy to say that so far, it appears not to suck much.

Finally — and I am not making this up — I have been asked by professors at Harvard and Cornell to contribute the “Historiography: African American” entry in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of African Thought, to be published by Routledge in 2008.

How this happened I have no idea.  I assume it is a case of mistaken identity, but they contacted me through this very website.  This is fabulous.  I don’t even know what “historiography” means.  How they came to think I am African — much less whether I can be accused of “thought” — I have no idea.  I will have to find a way to break the news to Harvard and Cornell.

Oh, and Tom Tomorrow’s new book (there he is again) is on the right.  I still guest-blog over at TMW,
and I was a huge fan for years before I was lucky enough to become a
friend and then (I still think this is cool as hell) the voice of
Sparky the penguin.  Book is good.  You will enjoy.

Plug-O-Rama concluded.