The Road Is Rough, Rough Stuff
My pal Ward Sutton just blew through town for Tuesday and half of Wednesday on his Left Coast book tour supporting his first compilation of cartoons by a major publisher--Sutton Impact : The Political Cartoons of Ward Sutton. It's a great book in vibrant full color, and it includes some of the material he did for the Village Voice when he was covering the Republican convention in NYC last year. Great stuff, funny and sad, and thoroughly inspiring for anyone on the liberal/progressive tip. During his visit, I was chauffeuring him around, and one of our stops was at the local NPR station, KUOW, for the afternoon arts and entertainment show, The Beat. Visit this link, and you'll be able to listen to a Real Audio archive of the show--Ward's segment comes on about 30 minutes into the program.

His Left Coast tour continues down the coast--try to catch him if you can:

Friday July 8, 7 pm
San Francisco - A Clean, Well Lighted Place for Books, 601 Van Ness Ave.

Saturday July 9, 7 pm
Oakland - AK Party at 674-A 23rd. St b/t MLK and San Pablo - near 19th St. BART and West Grand Exit of 80/980.

Tuesday July 12, 7 pm
Los Angeles - Track 16 Gallery, 525 Michigan Ave. Bldg C-1 (Bergamot Station) - Co-Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Political Graphics

Thursday July 14, 7 pm
Palm Springs - Peppertree Books, 622 North Palm Canyon Dr.

Saturday July 16, 2 pm
San Diego Comic Con - 1 hour presentation at Convention Center, room 3

Also:
Friday July 15 - Sunday July 17
At San Diego Comic Con signing books