Run (to the) Forest, run!
Nearly a year ago, Dice Tsutsumi, Ronnie Del Carmen and Enrico Casarosa approached me at an event at the Cartoon Art Museum to discuss a project that they were working on, which they thought would make a fun exhibition.

Earlier in 2008, the first rumblings of the Totoro Forest Project hit the Internet, and word of the charity auction, the plight of the Sayama Forest, and Hayao Miyazaki's efforts to preserve Japan's endangered woodlands started to spread.

And now, after all that, we're now two days away from the official opening of the Totoro Forest Project original art exhibition (Part One) at the Cartoon Art Museum. I tried something a little bit different with the galleries this time, and you can get a sneak preview right here (featuring *my* artistic contribution to the Totoro Forest Fund):



And if you want a sneak preview at the exhibition, I'd suggest dropping by the Cartoon Art Museum tomorrow night for our special Keith Knight Opening Reception and Book Release Party, celebrating the release of The Complete K Chronicles, published by Dark Horse. If you want to see the whole magilla, drop by on Sunday afternoon, on your way to attend Keith's three-hour intensive workshop, which is pricey, yes, but well worth it for the cartoonist who's looking to take his or her career to the next level.

Next up--Gene Colan (but more on that later. I've still got 30 soot sprites to hide in the galleries...)