Signing: The Allreds (all of them!) at Comix Experience, May 23

The Allreds (yep, Mike, Lee, and Laura) will visit Comix Experience, 305 Divisadero Street in San Francisco, on May 23 for a very special signing.

Bug the Adventures of Forager

The main focus of the event will be a signing of the deliciously bizarre DC title Bug! The Adventures of Forager (which also happens to be the stores Graphic Novel of the Month). The book is a true family effort with Lee Allred writing the story, Mike Allred doing the artwork, and Laura Allred providing the colors.

The signing is open to the public from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. After the signing, members of the stores Graphic Novel of the Month club can join in an exclusive Q&A session with the trio.

Here’s a description of the mini-series from DC:

An all-new Young Animal miniseries begins! Forager is just one of the Hive before he breaks out of his cocoon and finds himself in a mysterious house in an unknown realm. There he meets all kinds of strange creatures: a ghostly girl, a talking teddy bear and otherworldly weirdos that have literally jumped out of his worst nightmares. But these interdimensional oddballs are nothing compared to the evil General Electric, who is on the hunt for a reality-bending metal that could alter the fabric of life itself. To stay one step ahead of him and preserve the multiverse, Forager must travel through alternate dimensions to seek the metal and, hopefully, catch up with that cagey stuffed bear. If he does it, will he finally be able to distinguish himself as a New God?

Jesse Russell

Before Oakland, there was Madison, Wisconsin. In Madison, the hours that weren’t filled up by my day job were typically devoured by event planning and running the city’s popular arts and politics news site, Dane101. Some of the events I organized include an annual two-night cabaret/carnival/masquerade party called the Fire Ball Masquerade, Madison's biggest non-city sponsored Halloween party, the geek culture focused MadPubQuiz of Awesomeness, and the first Whedonesque Burlesque in the country. Having successfully reshaped the reality of Madison, Wisconsin I packed up and moved to the Bay Area in February of 2013. In addition to comics, I enjoy imbibing cocktails and beer, exploring foreign cities, consuming food of various temperatures, hearing music performed live, losing at board and card games, and getting caught in the rain.