Steven Sanders and I have a sequential art poem called "Little Tina Buckalew" in the new Kitchen Sink Magazine. Unless you're in the San Francisco bay area (in which case there are dozens of places you can pick it up), you're going to want to order Kitchen Sink Magazine #4 here.

THIS IS NOT YOUR STANDARD-ISSUE ZINE. Kitchen Sink is high-end, more literary/art journal than zine, perfect bound and beautifully printed on quality paper. It's easily worth the price ($7.95, shipping included) and I'd love it if those of you who know what I'm talking about would testify in the comments window.

The shoujo (click link for manga glossary) title that I mentioned a few weeks back had finally been announced by Tokyopop. It's called "Fruits Basket" and I believe it hits shelves in November. (Tokyopop announced it before SDCC, bu it's not up on their site yet.

The story is that of an orphan girl who's been taken in by the family of the handsomest and most mysterious boy in school. The whole Souma household is full of surprises -- not the least of which their tendency to transform into animals from the Chinese zodiac when embraced by a member of the opposite sex. As it happens, our orphan girl, Tohru, is big on embraces.

It's a situational comedy, sweet without being cloying, fun to read and adapt.

More info can be found here or through a google search of "fruits basket manga".

Amazon doesn't have their pre-order screen up yet for the manga, but the anime can be found for purchase here.

Killing Demons, by Peter Siegel and Brent White, is available for purchase and/or review here.

Free preview here.

Peter is a real prince of a human being and he's put together a fun read for horror fans. The bonus essay alone is worth the $8.95 cover price.

It's a beautiful book. Horrific, but lovely.

(Matt did the design for print and I did dialogue editing.)