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Herman The Manatee

Herman The Manatee by Jason ViolaThis zine follows Herman through a series of absurd, tender, and slightly tragic moments, using humor as a

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from “Fear of Flowers” by Jason Viola

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Here is a map of Main Hall Floorplan at Boston Comic Con 2015: come see me and Jason Viola at table D825!!

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Today on Festival Season: The Mucha Sutra

"The notions that our relationships can head somewhere, that our lives can be controlled, and that we can attain perfection, are encouraged by our society’s consumerist attitude. After working towards and attaining fictional goals like grades, graduations, and quotas, we hope to gain all the promises of retirement. We pass this mentality onto our children, who will have 'better' lives than ours. Alan Watts describes this promise as a hoax, insisting, 'You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I’ve arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.'"

--Jason Viola on the resonance of mindfulness practice in the work of Corinne Mucha, and how she manages to turn anxiety, heartbreak, loss, doubt, and depression into unexpectedly delightful comics.

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Today on Festival Season: Jerel Dye's Suspect Narrator

"There is nothing that suggests the narrator is unreliable. But why should we trust him, her, or them? Why don’t we suspect the aliens are sinister? Why don’t we question the legitimacy of their “gifts” the way those doubting military tanks do? We accept it all because these aliens are awfully cute. And loveable."

--Jason Viola on Jerel Dye's From the Clouds

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My next zine, coming this fall, is a little anthology called PRATFALL. Yes, from the BRILLIANT MIND (i.e. me) that brought you Tablegeddon last year, comes this collection of stories by cartoonists recalling true painful and/or humiliating accidents. In this new collection of excerpts (from up top) there's a teenage Jason Viola fooling around on a class trip to Russia, only to take his fateful PRATFALL in "Student Ambassador,"  Gabrielle Gamboa has an unfortunate encounter with a cat's sharp claws (haven't we all?) in "Unibrow Summer," and Aron Nels Steinke suffers a nasty poke in the eye (one of my totally least favorite type of accidents). Other PRATFALL cartoonists include Cara Bean, Tony Breed, Max Clotfelter, Kelly Froh, Becky Hawkins, Rob Kirby (that's me), Carrie McNinch, MariNaomi, John Porcellino, and Noah Van Sciver.  Stay tuned for more of the exquisite pain! (Ordering info coming soon!) 

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I created this comic for my talented friend Jason Viola because he is putting to rest his web-comic Herman the Manatee after several dedicated years.   I feel very fortunate to have Jason and his wife Rebecca just up the street from me.  We try to get together often to plot out cartooning ambitions and adventures.  Jason is a clever guy whose comics are more funny than the one that I drew.  (Mine might be a little unsettling...  poor Herman.)